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Bioregioning - Future Observatory Journal
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Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
London Review of Books
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The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
The document explores the significance of pursuing knowledge for its own sake, emphasizing the value of intellectual freedom and the unexpected benefits that can arise from curiosity-driven research.
ias.eduAlbert K. Harris
labs.bio.unc.eduBy 1932, the historian Henry E. Sigerist had noted that medicine’s systemizing impulses were “no longer concerned with man but with disease,” as Anderson and Mackay point out.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
Columbia University neuroscientist Carl Hart also makes this argument but takes it a step further. By banning Americans’ ability to decide what to put into their own bodies, he asserts, the U.S. government is actually violating the fundamental rights of its citizens.60 As the Declaration of Independence states, the government’s purpose is to secure
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Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
James Williams analyzes the impact of digital technologies on human attention in the "attention economy," arguing that they often undermine individual freedom and self-regulation by prioritizing engagement over meaningful goals.
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