My Friend
The dearest friend that I have is Jake from my times at The Evergreen State College. Not only did I find a friend in him,…
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The Life of William Blake
William Blake—poet, engraver, painter, and philosopher—was a true iconoclast. Though he is often regarded as a seminal figure of the Romantic Age, many scholars believe…
The Most Famous Person of All Time
Your first guess for the most famous person of all time is probably correct: Jesus Christ, though Prophet Muhammad, Buddha, and John Lennon are close…
John Adams
John Adams (1735-1826) was the second president of the United States. But how much does an average person know about him? In the following paragraphs,…
George Washington’s Life
We know him as the first president of the United States, and as an honored general, but what else should we know about him? I…
Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath
By Bernd Brunner Ernst Haeckel and his sixteen steamer trunks arrived at the harbor of Colombo “in the glorious light of a cloudless tropical morning”…
First as Tragedy, Then As Farce, by Slavoj Žižek
By Mark Carrigan It has now been a year and a half since the onset of the financial crisis, and the original dearth of literature…
Jean Baudrillard
By Patrick West The late Jean Baudrillard was often described, not always approvingly, as ‘the high priest of postmodernism’. The philosopher and sociologist depicted a…
The Reward Society by Tom Manion
By Dave Clements Public services cannot be sustained at their current level. They are under unprecedented pressure from the global financial crisis, slow growth of…
Nostalgia and Newness: David Bowie Is, V&A, London
By Nicky Charlish Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke, The Man Who Fell to Earth, the man of seemingly endless identity changes. David…
Elon Musk’s Human 2.0 Initiative
Recently, there has been a lot of speculation regarding artificial intelligence (AI). Artificial neural networks currently being developed by several big companies including Google, and…
The Power of the Playful
By Nicky Charlish Imagination and precision are two attributes that we might think are in conflict, with the former being a product of freedom and…
John Muir’s Literary Science
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Ernst Haeckel and the Unity of Culture
This article [Ernst Haeckel and the Unity of Culture] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/01/24/ernst-haeckel-and-the-unity-of-culture/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If…
Frederick Perls
When talking about psychoanalysis, psychology, and mentioning other topics connected to the human psyche, people mostly remember Sigmund Freud, and sometimes Alfred Adler, or even…
Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon: Idylls of Freshwater vs. Idylls of Rathoongodde
This article [Julia Margaret Cameron in Ceylon: Idylls of Freshwater] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2014/07/09/julia-margaret-cameron-in-ceylon-idylls-of-freshwater-vs-idylls-of-rathoongodde/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.…
Astral Travels with Jack London
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Newton’s Law of Gravity
Kepler’s laws were a beautifully simple explanation of what the planets did, but they did not address why they moved as they did. Did the…
Newton’s Second Law
What about cases where the total force on an object is not zero, so that Newton’s first law does not apply? The object will have…
Newton’s Third Law
Newton created the modern concept of force starting from his insight that all the effects that govern motion are interactions between two objects: unlike the…
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