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A man dies in a car accident, then has a conversation with God about the meaning of life. | Re-Entry
Re-Entry is used with permission from Ben Brand and Interfilm Berlin. Learn more at http://omele.to/3tIQtQk and http://omele.to/2P5JxgO.
Getting in the groove | Aeon
Music reminds us that the mind is more than a calculator. We are resonant bodies as much as representing machines Ella Fitzgerald performing at Mister Kelly’s nightclub in Chicago in 1958. Photo by Yale Joel Jenny Judge is a … Continue reading
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Book Club, June 2017)
This is the wrap-up video for the first month of the book club. This month we read, Robert Pirsig’s classic philosophical road trip, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. This month I’m joined by Kalid Azad of BetterExplained.com to … Continue reading
NPR Pirsing Interview 1991
This interview with Robert Prisig was done just after the publication of Lila, Robert’s 2nd book.
Philosopher Queens: Discovering forgotten female thinkers
Plato, Aristotle and Socrates are just a few well-known ancient philosophers. But what about their female counterparts? What about the woman who taught Socrates? Or the sage said to be behind Plato’s theory on love? Their names are often lacking … Continue reading
Sitting by the fire with a nomadic tribe, a physicist ponders the many shapes of wisdom | Aeon
The Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli is a pioneer in the field of quantum gravity, and often thought of as one of the world’s foremost scientific thinkers. In this brief animation by James Siewert, which features narration from the Swazi-English … Continue reading
Welcome to The Kindness Economy
How do you connect human kindness with commerce? Rising through the ranks of the retail sector in the late 1980s and 90s, Mary Portas learned to put profit first and people second. By the time she was 31, she was … Continue reading
Shakespeare & Post-Structuralism | Unemployed Philosopher
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