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When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

February 23, 20206 min read

What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away?

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A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time

April 25, 2018April 5, 20193 min read

“A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”― Madeleine L’Engle

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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

February 24, 2018April 5, 20195 min read

The Rwandan genocide did not involve tanks, airplanes, dropping bombs or shelling at civilians. There were no concentration camps. No transport trains. No Zyklon-B. There was no bureaucratic banality of evil. There were hardly even many guns.

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Countdown: Our Last Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

Countdown: Our Last Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

January 14, 20184 min read

“Whether we accept it or not, this will likely be the century that determines what the optimal human population is for our planet. It will

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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

April 3, 2017April 10, 20184 min read

“Sapiens rule the world because only they can weave an intersubjective web of meaning: a web of laws, forces, entities and places that exist purely

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