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There are moments in human history when the most arbitrary of numbers take on the weight of divine commandment, and few examples serve this truth better than our modern obsession with ten thousand ste...

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I find myself returning, again and again, to this question that has haunted philosophers since time immemorial: what constitutes a meaningful life? Not happiness, mind you—though happiness may follow—...

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I find myself thinking often about the curious phenomenon of career change, this peculiar modern anxiety that seems to grip us when we consider abandoning one path for another. It strikes me as odd th...

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I find myself, at this very moment, contemplating the curious nature of anger—that most human of emotions which visits us all, yet which we so poorly understand. Just yesterday, I observed my neighbor...

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I find myself drawn to contemplate this curious notion that has captured the imagination of our age: the idea that every citizen might receive money from the state without condition, without labor, wi...

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I was examining my monthly salary statement the other day, that peculiar document which arrives with such regularity that we have grown accustomed to its presence, much like the changing of seasons or...

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When I first heard tell of Philip Zimbardo's famous prison experiment at Stanford, conducted in the summer of 1971, I confess I was much impressed by its dramatic revelations about human nature. Here,...

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I find myself, at this peculiar moment in human history, contemplating the strange phenomenon of digital coins that exist nowhere and everywhere at once. What curious creatures we are, to have invente...

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