Annika Bansal
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Annika Bansal
Beauty, or our idea of it, is always rooted in deep desires, capitulations, and pathologies. It makes certain things so obvious. How we spend the present trying to secure the future, and thus squander what’s in front of us. How we fail to appreciate what we may later understand as an experience of unbelievable plenty: unlined skin, spare time on Sa
... See morebjörk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
"Yoga is not on ancient myth buried in oblivion. It is the most valuable inheritance of the present. It is the essential need of today and the culture of tomorrow." Swami Satyananda Saraswati
How to Be Lucky¶
You make your own luck. There's a great experiment that I can't cite, but it has stuck in my mind since I was a child. They identified people as lucky and unlucky, and asked them to count the number of photographs in a newspaper. The unlucky people took a long time to count the photographs, while the lucky people took a very short ... See more
You make your own luck. There's a great experiment that I can't cite, but it has stuck in my mind since I was a child. They identified people as lucky and unlucky, and asked them to count the number of photographs in a newspaper. The unlucky people took a long time to count the photographs, while the lucky people took a very short ... See more
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On Beauty and Being Just
Exploring the relationship between beauty, consciousness, errors in perception, and the role of beauty in education, using examples from art, literature, and philosophy.
attachments.are.nathe simplest manifestation of the phenomenon is the everyday fact of staring. The ®rst ¯ash of the bird incites the desire to duplicate not by translating the glimpsed image into a drawing or a poem or a6 art One photograph but simply by continuing to see her ®ve seconds, twenty-®ve seconds, forty-®ve seconds laterÐas long as the bird is there to be beheld.
journalism becomes most effective when it prompts public awareness, inspires reflection and spurs dialogue.
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
“A camera is a device for learning how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange
