Maria Popova on George Schaller, the field biologist whose decades of patient observation changed how we see pandas — and what humility looks like in science.
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Get Linkwise — free on iPhoneThe Mexican embrace of uncertainty, forged in the crucible of history, captures a truer vulnerability of human existence than Western certitudes offer.
Cal NewportBefore smartphones, there was another attention crisis: Newport reads the 19th-century fear of cheap novels and the modern fear of feeds as the same underlying pattern.
A provocative essay arguing that humans weren't given souls by God or genes — we made them ourselves with language, turning sentience into something sacred.