Is That All There Is? Rugged Indvidualism
It's a good thing that, when push comes to shove, we're really not rugged individualists. I'm thinking that it's almost time for us to accept who we are.
It's a good thing that, when push comes to shove, we're really not rugged individualists. I'm thinking that it's almost time for us to accept who we are.
Posted 03.12.2012
By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/09/2012 12:11 PM EST on LiveScience Springtime in Concord, Mass., has changed since the t...
David Wilson | Posted 04.29.2012
Have you found yourself in a valley pursuing another elusive dream? It overwhelms me to consider how deep one man can go, when the world around us says, "Give up, quit, stop digging; there is no way this will ever come true."
Meryl Davids Landau | Posted 02.13.2012
I didn't realize what I was missing until I recently stumbled on the work of journalist Stefanie Syman. A New York yogi and writer, Syman spent seven years researching how yoga, this somewhat minor part of Hinduism, became something millions of us adore.
Michael Roth | Posted 01.15.2012
Berkeley, like Wesleyan, has a long and proud tradition of protest. The peaceful efforts of students, staff and faculty protesting the dismantling of a once great university deserve our respect. The violent response to these efforts deserves our condemnation.
Jimmy Demers | Posted 09.13.2011
Whenever I come to NY I feel the energy of the city surround me in profound ways. As my heart beats a little faster, I am reminded that scenes and moments are everywhere I look.
Posted 06.22.2011
It's Earth Day, and in order to celebrate, we asked you what you'd be reading, or recommend reading, to recognize the day. We got a wide range of ...
The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011
It is absolutely horrible to go unappreciated. Unfortunately for these authors, most of them remained completely unrecognized during life, and did not...
Wallace J Nichols | Posted 05.25.2011
If you decide to travel, consider doing it in a way that flips your switch, helps an endangered species and supports the conservation efforts in communities near those animals.
Tamsin Smith | Posted 11.17.2011
Less categorizing, parsing, and debating will do me good. Living in the possible, not because of what has been or what should be, but because it's simply a place where incredible things can happen with and through a permeable mind.
Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama predicts the American-India relationship would be "one of the defining partnerships of the twenty-first century." No doubt. But our two nations have already been trading ideas for over two centuries.
Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011
Why aren't there more visionary organizations and leaders? How can a leader find a clear, compelling vision?
Farryn Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Poetry is a thing of the past, unless you include rap as poetic play-on-prose. But there's one man out there keeping the literature alive. Walter Skol...
Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
According to biocentrism, the mind transcends space and time in that they're its tools, and not the other way around. This conception of reality dissolves human individuality.
Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Do conservative Christian clergy think so little of their flock as to fear that they'll convert to Hinduism because they chant some Sanskrit mantras, or say "Namaste," or hear some tidbits of Vedic philosophy while stretching?
Philip Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011
The powerful forces of celebrity and popular culture have thrust India's Vedic heritage into the spotlight. All the media attention inspires some to cynicism and others to a genuine spiritual enquiry.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011
Thoreau was so much more than a political philosopher. He was an activist who embodied the revolutionary, freedom-loving, independent-minded spirit that was once the hallmark of every American.
Posted 05.25.2011
This Land Is Your Land David Biespiel Poetry Magazine In the squares of the city--in the shadow of the steeple Near the relief office--I see my peopl...
Robert Lanza, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
We scientists have looked at the world for so long that we no longer challenge its reality. Here is the Universe: our sense organs perceive atoms and galaxies to some 14 billion light-years.
Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011
Damion Searls has found and freed the lean, shapely and modern American classic inside the very definition of a "baggy monster." Henry David Thoreau'...
Jane S. Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
On a bright, mild winter day, I find myself eating a Signature Salad at Cosi®, a chain of casual restaurants which puts a little emblem next to its n...
Scientific American | John Platt | Posted 05.25.2011
Henry David Thoreau famously catalogued the plants around Walden Pond more than 150 years ago, and the information he gathered then is helping to illu...
Deborah Blum | Posted 11.17.2011
In 1854, the essayist Henry David Thoreau published an ode to a morning fire: "Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird... Lark without song, and messenger o...
Heather Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011
Human beings have great power over ourselves and our life's direction through the exercise of free will. "We create our realities by where we focus our attention," Trask writes.
Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011
Will the new world consciousness, due to arrive in 2012, be the vision of Roland Emmerich or James Cameron?
Dimitri Hamlin | Posted 05.14.2012