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Charles Darwin’s Thinking Path
I love this image from Wikipedia Commons. It’s the path that Charles Darwin frequently trod at the grounds of Down House, his home. Darwin called this his “Thinking Path.”
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Tagged Charles Darwin, critical thinking, evolution, natural selection, nature, reason, saints, science, solitude, thinking, walking
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Are You Sitting Down?
Maybe you shouldn’t be. The below chart was at Andrew Sullivan’s blog this morning, but I don’t know how accurate it is. It claims that long hours of sitting is deadly. Intuitively, this seems plausible. The information—if it is information and not, … Continue reading
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Tagged death, disease, exercise, fitness, health, life, meditation, running, sitting, spring, walking, yoga
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Solitude: How to Expose Yourself to the Twilight Zone for Real
This past weekend I was thinking about the importance of solitude to the life of the mind, and it occurred to me that it is useful to think of solitude as a place of exposure. Solitude, in other words, is where we … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, imagination, inspiration, Isaac Newton, meditation, Nietzsche, percy shelley, philosophy, solitude, the twilight zone, twilight zone, walking
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Does walking outdoors, even for just five minutes a day, improve health and well being?
Startlingly, a new British study, as reported by the BBC, suggests that just five minutes of outdoor exercise provides a measurable health benefit: UK researchers looked at evidence from 1,250 people in 10 studies and found fast improvements in mood and self-esteem. … Continue reading
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Tagged diabetes, exercise, fitness, health, meditation, mental health, psychology, running, walking, well being, yoga
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With Regard to the Internet, What Would Gandhi Do?
I found this Gandhi quote several years back while perusing an undated letter of his that I found in volume 49 of his Collected Works. At least that’s what I wrote down. My local branch library in Lancaster, Ca. just happened to … Continue reading
Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: Prisoners on a Death March from Dachau, April 29, 1945
More information on this photo can be found at the U.S. Holocaust Museum photo archives here.
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Tagged dachau, death, death march, death marches, horror, life, lines, marching, the Holocaust, walking
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California Gay Marriage Hysteria Watch: Dennis Prager Suggests That Gay Marriage Is Worse Than Anything in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”
On May 20, 2008, radio celebrity Dennis Prager, in an article posted on his website titled “California Decision Will Radically Change Society,” asserted that gay marriage is something even worse than the things described by Aldous Huxley in his distopian novel Brave New … Continue reading
Doubters of the World Unite: Peter Ustinov on Belief and Doubt
The British actor Peter Ustinov, who died in 2004, made this rather astute observation: Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. The quote is taken from Jack Huberman’s The Quotable Atheist, p.306. The way I read the quote is that … Continue reading
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Tagged religion, Santi Tafarella, science, skepticism, Socrates, socratic school, St. Paul, the apostle Paul, theater, walking, walking in the shoes of others
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Prometheus Unbound 