Wanting to live in the present is something many people find frustrating. They are told that life renews itself in the present moment and that the burden of the past disguises the joy that is always ...

OK, SO TODAY we’re going to talk about a great mystery, the way things (sometimes) work in how to know things. First, there’s this description of Wisdom from the Hebrew Scriptures: “Wisdom is radiant ...

Recently the NPR program "Science Friday" featured a young biologist named Danielle Lee. In the course of talking about the excitement of her career, she commented that individual curiosity is the ...

Woman with wax tablets and stylus (so-called "Sappho") fresco from Pompeii ca. 55-70 CE. Source: Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Naples/Public Domain In his journal of 1836, the great American poet, ...

Nearly seven centuries ago, the poet we know as Petrarch, a hero of the early Italian Renaissance, scaled a minor Western alp. So the story goes. Even if he wasn’t the first to ascend Mont Ventoux as ...