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9/4/2023
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254 / To be less climate anxious, become a person of place
I can forgive ignorance but I can't forgive a staunch commitment to it. – Unknown Featured artist: Adara Sánchez Anguiano Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 254! View/share online →
8/28/2023
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253 / Do we travel for transformation or validation?
People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. – Dagobert D. Runes Featured artist: Olga Aleksandrova Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue
8/21/2023
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252 / Why we’re increasingly allergic to modern life
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair Featured artist: Spencer Gabor Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to
8/14/2023
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251 / “Optimistic but dissatisfied is the road to progress.”
The problem is that we cannot imagine a future where we possess less but are more. – Charles Bowden Featured artist: Stephan Schmitz Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 251! View/share
8/7/2023
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250 / 🎉 My favourite issues of DD
You're not a perfectionist. You're insecure about how your best effort will be received. – Unknown Featured artist: Meredith Schomburg Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 250! View
7/31/2023
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249 / What are men for in the modern world?
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolf Featured artist: Yeti
7/24/2023
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248 / Tips on how to read well
Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past. – Tryon Edwards Featured artist: Avalon Nuovo Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 248! View/share online → I
7/17/2023
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247 / Can we calculate our way into love for nature?
Misfortune weighs most heavily on those who expect nothing but good fortune. – Seneca Featured artist: Danae Diaz Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 247! View/share online → I've
7/10/2023
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246 / “The West makes good design while the rest do crafts.”
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence. – Jiddu Krishnamurti Featured artist: Debby Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 246! View/share online → I
7/3/2023
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245 / Imagine rent costing only 4% of your income
In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. – Rollo May Featured artist: Zac Fay Dense Discovery Dense
6/26/2023
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244 / A suburbia of human scale and speed
There will always be people whose ambition is greater than their pride and they will always curry favour with anyone closer to power than they are. – Jacob T Levy Featured artist: Nash Dense Discovery
6/20/2023
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243 / Human interaction - vs - self-service tech
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. – Susan Sontag
6/12/2023
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242 / Housing that fosters belonging
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. – Denis Diderot Featured artist: Brolga Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 242!
6/5/2023
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241 / The emergence of ‘the global standard diet’
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. – Max Frisch Featured artist: Alev Neto Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 241! View/share
5/29/2023
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240 / The stupefying power of convenience
Feminism isn't about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It's about changing the way the world perceives that strength. – Indra Nooyi Featured artist: Miriam Martincic Dense
5/22/2023
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239 / On our innate affinity for living things
No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you. – Carl Jung Featured artist: Philip Lindeman Dense
5/15/2023
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238 / The joy of ‘angles’ and ‘demons’ reclaiming our streets
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. – Isaac Asimov Featured artist: Sofia Romagnolo Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to
5/8/2023
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237 / Embracing a future of less
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate. – Carl Jung Featured artist: Darren Espin Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 237! View/share
5/1/2023
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236 / The mind-boggling complexity of making silicon wafers
Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination. – Dan Miller Featured artist: Sciencewerk Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to
4/24/2023
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235 / The family unit upgraded: friends included
Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going? – Tennessee Williams Featured artist: Negib Kesrouani Dense