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If you strive for the best in others. If you give your life for the happiness of those around you. If you desire a bright future for humanity. If you make everything for others to fulfill their dreams. Others are standing in the shoulder of a giant. You. Whatever you...

What does element 115 produces?

This is the chemical element physicist Bob Lazar shares as the essential fuel for alien propulsion systems he worked on in the 1980s. I saw today Jeremy’s Netflix documentary on Bob Lazar. What fascinated me was not the existence of aliens, but the sorrow this man...

Who cares about Mona Lisa?

I’m not sure if we still care about beauty through art when most of our attention aims at taking a picture to fill up a bucket list. In a recent article for the New York Times about overtourism, Farah Nayeri observes that “People don’t just want to see the...

Limitations are opportunities

  We think about limitations as barriers, stopping us from accomplishing what we desire for our learning minds. Is this true? Lisa Fittipaldi was born in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1948. She received a Bachelors of Art in 1970 and attended nursing school at the...

Why should we read?

Reading is more than leisure or an obligation. It is an opportunity to sharpen the mind. If we don’t eat our body weakens. Similarly, if we don’t read our mind becomes unfocused and underdeveloped. Reading stimulates thinking. Thinking generates culture....

What is exercise?

We climb stairs, sweep the floor, replace a swimming pool liner (this one is hard, did it today), wash the dishes, everything we do which moves our body is exercise. We spend money on gym stuff, but neglect that exercise is moving your body – a lot. Living our...

Learn with flowers

I’m reading an interesting book entitled “Brilliant Green” by Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola, which shows the hidden intellectual world of plants. Surprising! One of the book’s arguments is the hard way plant biologists take to get credit...

Trees might save us

An article published in Science suggests we might capture large quantities of CO2 to battle global warming by planting enough trees. I thought about this when I contemplated the trees planted by my father-in-law in the backyard of his country house. As these majestic...

The walk

It’s true we walk to exercise and be healthier. But is that the true meaning of walking? As I walk and think about this I find myself walking for its own sake. I no longer know if I’m choosing the path or if the path chooses me. I walk and wonder. I...

Was Plato a XXI century prophet?

“…here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads.” (Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave”)...