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Annie Dillard on How to Live

Suppose we answer the most important question of existence in the affirmative. There is then only one question remaining: How shall we live this life? Despite all the technologies of thought and feeling we have invented to divine an answer — philosophy and poetry, scripture and

A House of Dynamite

From director Kathryn Bigelow comes A House of Dynamite ( trailer ), starring Rebecca Ferguson, Idris Elba, and Greta Lee. When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond. A House of

What sleep is

It is our biggest blind spot, a bizarre experience that befalls us every day, and can’t be explained by our need for rest - by Vladyslav Vyazovskiy Read on Aeon

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Toward obvious

Most people do the obvious thing, that’s why we call it obvious. A new product, idea or technology is rarely obvious, at least at first. So the work of scale is to be seen as inevitable. The stepwise process of becoming the obvious choice. Skipping steps requires insisting that