#Yuval Noah Harari

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “All truth is comprised in music and mathematics,” Margaret Fuller proclaimed as she transfigured the cultural and political face of the 19th century. Her contemporary and admirer Walt Whitman considered music the profoundest expression of nature,

Author: Derek Beres / Source: Big Think Belief systems arise to address the time and social conditions of each era and culture. Your relationship to your community and environment is very influential in what you believe. Neuroscience explains many of the questions as to why we believe in the

Author: Nellie Bowles / Source: New York Times The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari worries about a lot. He worries that Silicon Valley is undermining democracy and ushering in a dystopian hellscape in which voting is obsolete. He worries that by creating powerful influence machines to

Author: Derek Beres / Source: Big Think “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth,” wrote Albert Camus. It remains an important social and political tool. Reading fiction has been shown to increase empathy and understanding. In the Instagram age, novels are still a necessary form of

Author: J.D. Roth / Source: Get Rich Slowly I read a lot of books. Nearly every book has some nugget of wisdom I can take from it, but it’s rare indeed when I read a book and feel like I’ve hit the mother lode. In 2018, I’ve been fortunate enough to read two books that I’ll be mining for years to