“Buddhist psychology and Western psychotherapy both hold out hope for a more flexible ego, one that does not pit the individual against everyone else in a futile attempt to gain total surety.”
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Your mindset can rewind aging, physically and mentally, as these jaw-dropping experiments show.
From an evolutionary perspective, religious practices and rituals are a form of play.
When novelists and poets reveal their writing process we learn a great deal about our own development.
Science makes the heart grow fonder. Want proof? Just watch Bill Nye as he remembers time spent with the legendary cosmologist Carl Sagan.
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The KIND foundation discovers seven people doing inspiring things for others.
Skepticism has a place, but it’s optimists who decide the future, says Kevin Kelly.
Bill Nye is the CEO of The Planetary Society, has his own Netflix show, flew on Air Force One with President Obama, and has at least six honorary doctorate degrees. But there’s one thing that makes him prouder than all that combined.
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