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The ill-mannered use of mobile phones in public is infuriating. Here’s what you can do about it.
And having network of social support is great medicine.
Words of wisdom from the late, great Maya Angelou: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said; people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“When I think of art, I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life,” minimalist artist Agnes Martin once explained. “It is not in the eye; it is in my mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.” In the first comprehensive survey of her art at the Tate Modern, in London, England, the exhibition Agnes Martin strives to guide viewers to that “awareness of perfection” Martin strove to embody in her minimalist, geometrically founded art. Rather than the cold, person-less brand of modernist minimalism, Martin’s work personifies the warm humanity of Buddhist editing down to essentials. At the same time, surveying Martin’s art and thinking allows us to revisit the feminist critiques of minimalism and shows how Martin’s stepping back from the bustle of the New York art scene freed her to find “a beautiful mind” — not just for women, but for everyone.
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Tavis Smiley dictates a letter to a young American with inspiration from his late friend, Maya Angelou. No matter how much you seek the answers to life from external sources, the truth you seek can only be found within you.
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Tavis Smiley, author of “My Journey With Maya,” recalls many of the topics he and author Maya Angelou debated — notably the use of the N-word — during their long friendship.
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Researchers find that brand loyalty isn’t the same as romantic love; the feelings they evoke would be better compared to a good friendship.
The late Maya Angelou taught Tavis Smiley an important lesson about the respective values of art and entertainment.
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It’s difficult to make friends out in the “real world.” But some people have managed to forge those special bonds through hook-up apps, like Grindr and Tinder.
What do you get when the Death Star meets LEGO friends? “The regional governors now have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear […]
Research suggests that making a new friend doesn’t have to be anxiety-inducing, just bond over your shared social anxiety.
Words of wisdom from Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues: “In order to achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.”
Most small-business owners or entrepreneurs avoid hiring friends or family because the professional and personal rarely mix well. If it can’t be avoided, the best course of action is to be firm in your dealings.
The intensity of sports rivalry is justified if it helps us develop morally praiseworthy attitudes that transfer from the sporting arena into real life.
“The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.”
When the Whitney Museum of American Art decided to stage in 1948 their first exhibition of a living American artist, they chose someone who wasn’t even an American citizen, but only legally could become one just before his death. Painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi came to America as a teenager and immersed himself in American culture and art while rising to the top of his profession, all while facing discrimination based on his Japanese heritage. The exhibition The Artistic Journey of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, which runs through August 30, 2015 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, unveils an amazing story of an artist who lived between two worlds — East and West — while bridging them in his art that not only synthesized different traditions, but also mirrored the joys and cruelties of them.
Some anxieties are indicators of healthy curiosity and strong moral fiber, while others are a source of severe stress.
A study of various chimps housed together in Edinburgh reveals that the apes alter their grunts to better communicate with new neighbors.
The key to making valuable connections involves conveying to others a sense of having truly noticed and listened to them.
The most powerful telescope in history will never see the farthest galaxy. “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded […]
Asking thirty-six specific questions plus four minutes of sustained eye contact is a recipe for falling in love, or at least creating intimacy among complete strangers.
Mariam Sultana became her country’s first woman with a Ph.D. in astrophysics. This is her story, with an update on where she is now. Mariam Sultana, Pakistan’s very first woman […]
How “faith” in the Universe destroyed two brilliant men of genius. “I don’t like it, and I’m sorry I ever had anything to do with it.” –Schrödinger The idea that […]
“Frenemies” play an inevitable role in our extended social network. But our interactions with them pose real threats to our wellbeing, say researchers at the University of Utah.
150, 50, 15, 5. Those are the magic numbers in the sociology of friendship, according to University of Oxford professor Robin Dunbar.
Be honest. Nobody’s listening. How happy are you?
“I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don’t trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.” – John Cusack
I’ve been thoroughly dismayed by Facebook the past couple of years. Maybe it’s a quirk of memory, but I don’t remember my feed being so full of political sparring and […]