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“Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and...”
– Paul Ricœur
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Roya Hakakian on Being Jewish in Iran
The interview is with Scott Simon: HAKAKIAN: When I talk to friends inside Iran, I get the sense that the early post-revolutionary years, when Iran was first placed under sanctions and the war between Iran and Iraq had just started, are back. You know, there is a great deal of pressure. The value of the Iranian currency has dropped to the lowest its been in 33 years. And all of that has created...
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The Collective Intelligence of Bees
Carl Zimmer on the work of biologist Thomas Seeley: The architectural tastes of honeybees are not mere whims. If honeybees live in an undersized cavity, they won’t be able to store enough honey to survive the winter. If the opening is too wide, the bees won’t be able to fight off invaders. He took his research to Appledore Island because no native honeybees live here, and it has no big trees...
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On Books
Leon Wieseltier: The oldest book in my library was published in 1538. It is Sefer Hasidim, or The Book of the Pious, the first edition, from Bologna, of the vast trove of precepts and stories, at once severe and wild, of the Jewish pietists of Germany in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Next to it, and towering over it, which is as it should be, stands Moreh Nevuchim, or The Guide of the...
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