Annika Bansal
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Annika Bansal
How to Be Lucky¶
You make your own luck. There's a great experiment that I can't cite, but it has stuck in my mind since I was a child. They identified people as lucky and unlucky, and asked them to count the number of photographs in a newspaper. The unlucky people took a long time to count the photographs, while the lucky people took a very short ... See more
You make your own luck. There's a great experiment that I can't cite, but it has stuck in my mind since I was a child. They identified people as lucky and unlucky, and asked them to count the number of photographs in a newspaper. The unlucky people took a long time to count the photographs, while the lucky people took a very short ... See more
Jason Liu • Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself
The Sentinelese : Pandit, T. N : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
On Beauty and Being Just
Exploring the relationship between beauty, consciousness, errors in perception, and the role of beauty in education, using examples from art, literature, and philosophy.
attachments.are.nathe simplest manifestation of the phenomenon is the everyday fact of staring. The ®rst ¯ash of the bird incites the desire to duplicate not by translating the glimpsed image into a drawing or a poem or a6 art One photograph but simply by continuing to see her ®ve seconds, twenty-®ve seconds, forty-®ve seconds laterÐas long as the bird is there to be beheld.
Indian village midwives make a shocking confession - BBC World Service Documentaries
youtube.comReal beauty has all kinds of deep shadows, it is not just bright flickers of color. Go and look at a Rodin sculpture and you will feel the gravity of beauty.
Andrew Sweeny • Beauty
“As for me, seeker after truth and student of life as I am… I take from life the movements I observe, but it is not I who impose them. Even when a subject which I’m working on compels me to ask a model for a certain fixed pose, I indicate it to him, but I carefully avoid touching him to place him in the position, for I will reproduce only what reality spontaneously offers me. I obey Nature in everything, and I never pretend to command her. My only ambition is to be servilely faithful to her.” (Gsell, p. 11).