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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: the Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – the Marginalian Arts
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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: the Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” – the Marginalian

Beethoven composed the "Ode to Joy" almost entirely deaf, arrested once as a tramp, estranged from loved ones, bludgeoned by war and grief - and yet he never abandoned the dream he had carried since adolescence, when Schiller's poem first convinced him that freedom and human...

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Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss – the Marginalian Arts
themarginalian.org 3 hours ago

Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss – the Marginalian

Hannah Arendt spent fifty years returning to a doctoral thesis she wrote at twenty-two - obsessively revising,...

Swimming and the Meaning of Life – the Marginalian Inspiration
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Swimming and the Meaning of Life – the Marginalian

Maria Popova traces a lifelong arc - from a transcendent childhood swim in a Bulgarian mountain river, through the...

A Little Boy's Joy Over a Box of Froot Loops Inspired One Man to Change His Community Everyday Heroes
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A Little Boy's Joy Over a Box of Froot Loops Inspired One Man to Change His Community

A two-minute dance over a box of Froot Loops doesn't sound like the beginning of a community movement - but for Alan...

How Biogas Plants Changed Life in Zakariyapura Village, Gujarat Environment
The Better India 19 hours ago

How Biogas Plants Changed Life in Zakariyapura Village, Gujarat

When Madhuben returned from a neighboring village having seen a biogas plant in action, she carried home something...

The Tiger Returns to Kazakhstan in First-in-the-World Rewilding Project a Decade in the Making Environment
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The Tiger Returns to Kazakhstan in First-in-the-World Rewilding Project a Decade in the Making

For the first time in over 70 years, a tiger has set foot in Kazakhstan - a female named "hope" in the Kazakh...

A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings – the Marginalian Inspiration
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A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings – the Marginalian

Maria Popova draws on the final work of Irish poet and philosopher John O'Donohue to explore why beginnings frighten...