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These examples show that in different contextsColombian politicians apply different standardsand rules of behavior. Sometimes, when nationallyadvocati

Indeed, the famousdrug lord Pablo Escobar started his criminal careersmuggling cigarettes and other consumer goodsbefore switching to cocaine. Thus th

All of this implies that if the FARC and maybe theELN do decide to demobilize, though this will be agood thing, the country’s problems will be far fro

Dissecting the Dissector - A piece profiling Cole Cuchna creator of the Dissect podcast “I didn’t move an inch for the next 78 minutes. No work got

New York Observations - Reflections upon my return to New York for the Thesis Conference in 2023 and not hating it. I’ve finally understood the fran

Diego Saez Gil: The Zen Tree Hugger - Piece profiling the CEO of Pachama, Diego Saez Gil “In his own variation of Eat, Pray, Love, Diego went to th

Duolingo Duel - My intense weekend of Duolingo competition with some random dude “Friday comes and I decide that beating Harrow984306 in the Duolingo

In the 1960s, Irwin Altman, a psychologist at the Naval Medical Research Institute, in Bethesda, Maryland, co-developed a friendship formula character

The media theorist Marshall McLuhan once said of technology that every augmentation is also an amputation. We chose our digitally enhanced world. We d

But some participants seemed drawn to any conspiracy theory so long as it was intended to destroy the established order. Members of this cohort common

All it did was marginally improve the experience of one 15-minute block of time. But life is just a long set of 15-minute blocks, one after another. T

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone to poor neighborhoods in big cities, and the community leaders tell me the real crisis for poor teenagers i

The media theorist Marshall McLuhan once said of technology that every augmentation is also an amputation. We chose our digitally enhanced world. We d

If the Amish approach to technology is radical in its application, it recognizes something plain and true: Although technology does not have values of

Our smallest actions create norms. Our norms create values. Our values drive behavior. And our behaviors cascade.

Addiction is really about the relationship between the person and the experience.” It isn’t enough to ply someone with a drug or a behavior—that perso

“Maybe the first step in the a real break with the past should be—in the era of the web and YouPorn—a female story that, while its subject is sex, isn

“I have no liking for the throne we have assigned ourselves by declaring that we are beloved children of God and lords of the universe.” -Trembling, 2

“Friendship isn’t constantly put at risk by sexual practices, by how much danger there is in the mixture of lofty emotions and the pressure of bodies

“And the skill of the writer is best displayed when what she suggests is much more than what she says… I’m interested in the ordinary or, rather, what

I completed an assignment for a job I’m interviewing for. Usually people hate these assignments: “free labor,” they say. I loved it. It reminded me I

Familiar trends tend to be beautiful…beautiful things are usually associated with fire and water, which have been around us since the beginning of our

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder for human-made things. But natural things may be objectively more beautiful.

https://www.amazon.com/Beauty-Short-Introduction-Roger-Scruton/dp/0199229759 Books related to beauty

Post-it Notes on Beauty There is a type of beauty where the beauty is derived from the action. People think more creative people are more ethical. Bea

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.” —Charles Bukowski