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The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study... Inspiration
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The Seamstress Who Solved the Ancient Mystery of the Argonaut, Pioneered the Aquarium, and Laid the Groundwork for the Study...

Jeanne Villepreux-Power walked more than 300 kilometers to Paris at seventeen after being assaulted and robbed of her papers en route - and kept walking anyway, a seamstress who would eventually become the scientist who solved a mystery that had baffled naturalists since...

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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life – the Marginalian
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What We Misunderstand About Absent Fathers
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Tanzania's Electric Blue Gecko Comes Back Nature
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Tanzania's Electric Blue Gecko Comes Back

In the forests of central Tanzania, a gecko so vivid it seems painted exists on just 34 square kilometers of earth --...

Necessary Losses: the Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go – the Marginalian Inspiration
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Necessary Losses: the Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go – the Marginalian

Maria Popova's meditation on Judith Viorst's *Necessary Losses* offers something quietly radical: the idea that loss...

The Moment Meditation Could Change the Brain by Dr. Richard J. Davidson Science Wait, Science is not in the valid categor
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The Moment Meditation Could Change the Brain by Dr. Richard J. Davidson

For decades, neuroscience assumed that core human capacities - attention, compassion, emotional resilience - were...

How Student Art Is Helping Fund Change Youth
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How Student Art Is Helping Fund Change

Through a program called Students Rebuild, more than 114,000 young people have turned drawings, quilts, dances, and...

The 'Civic Hour' Is Reinventing Volunteering Community
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The 'Civic Hour' Is Reinventing Volunteering

When a French civil servant read that an elderly Parisian woman had lain dead in her apartment for four months before...

An Experiment Gave Homeless People a Lump Sum of cash, No strings. Most Went to Rent and food. Community
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An Experiment Gave Homeless People a Lump Sum of cash, No strings. Most Went to Rent and food.

When a Vancouver charity handed 50 recently homeless people $7,500 each with no conditions attached, the results...