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The Slogan-Industrial Complex
Higher education in the United States has largely embraced the business model. One highly visible example of this is the brand merchandizing of schools. Schools have licensed their names and logos for billions of dollars. Inspired by these brand-based profits, schools trademarked their slogans. Impressively, there are over 10,000 trademarked slogans. Trademarked school slogans include…
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The 12 Kinds of Time and How to Be More Fully Alive
“I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska wrote in her lovely poem “Possibilities.” Our preferences, of course, hardly matter to time — we live here suspended between the time of insects and the time of stars, our transient lives bookended by not yet and never again. Time…
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Pythagoras on the Purpose of Life and the Meaning of Wisdom
Abiding insight into the aim of human existence from the man who revolutionized science and coined the word “philosopher.” The Greek polymath Pythagoras (c. 570–c. 495 BC) ignited the golden age of mathematics with the development of numerical logic and the discovery of his namesake theorem of geometry, which furnished the world’s first foothold toward…
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3 Things That No Longer Get My Time or Energy
If it seems like you never have enough time and energy, think about protecting it. You can decide what no longer gets your time and energy. The list below will offer some inspiration. Creating rules around your… The post 3 Things That No Longer Get My Time or Energy appeared first on Be More with…
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