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9/20/2021 9:54:27 PM
156 / Cruise ships vs composting toilets: ways of alternative living
Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it. – Plato Featured artist: Scott Balmer Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 156! View/share online → One of the essays I read for
9/13/2021 10:24:27 PM
155 / Being a node for social contagion
See all human behaviour as one of two things: either love, or a call for love. – Marianne Williamson Featured artist: Andrei Nicolescu Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 155! View/share
9/27/2021 11:14:27 PM
157 / How to live more affordably, more sustainably – together
What others will mainly remember is our presence in their lives rather than the work we did. – Hugh Mackay Featured artist: Teo Georgiev Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 157! View/share
10/18/2021 9:44:29 PM
160 / Imagine crossing a road when it’s no longer a road 🤔
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. – Oscar Wilde Featured artist: 13chrisart Dense Discovery Dense
10/25/2021 8:54:27 PM
161 / Restarting real life
The triumph of culture is to overpower nationality. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Featured artist: Muhammed Sajid Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 161! View/share online → After more than 260
4/11/2022 10:14:27 PM
183 / The placeless generations
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there
4/4/2022 10:24:28 PM
182 / Time sovereignty – vs – society’s rhythms
You can swim all day in the sea of knowledge and not get wet. – Norton Juster Featured artist: Aleksey Kulinkovich Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 182! View/share online → In the book
4/25/2022 10:34:28 PM
185 / Indentured spiritual servitude in the ‘creator economy’
People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise. – Bill Murray Featured artist: Patrick Paulin Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 185! View/share online → Last
5/9/2022 10:44:27 PM
187 / Time for another ‘digital reset’
There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts. – Helen Fagin Featured artist: Linda Valere Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 187! View/share online → Especially since starting
5/23/2022 10:14:26 PM
189 / Fines, preferences and sausages
Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. – André Gide Featured artist: Oksana Drachkovska Dense Discovery Dense Discovery
6/27/2022 11:04:31 PM
194 / Moving out of the potentiality space
The problem today is that people don't cherish good people, they try to use them. – Bob Marley Featured artist: Julia Zinchenko Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 194! View/share
7/19/2022 12:44:30 AM
197 / On leisure travel and experience obesity
Change – real change – comes from the inside out. It doesn't come from hacking at the leaves of attitude and behaviour with quick fix personality ethic techniques. It comes from striking at the
7/25/2022 10:55:01 PM
198 / War-life balance in Kyiv
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. – Bertrand Russell Featured artist: Irina Kostyshina Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue
8/15/2022 10:04:27 PM
201 / The true cost of owning a car is just astounding
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. – Simone Weil Featured artist: Stephan Schmitz Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 201! View/share online → In The Insane Cost of
8/22/2022 10:14:29 PM
202 / How the Shifting Baseline Syndrome makes us see temples not ruins
To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don't mean me) or by despair (there's nothing we can do).
9/20/2022 8:24:27 AM
206 / A guest poem while I’m out on a hike...
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie Featured artist: Zach Hill Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 206! View/share online → After four
10/11/2022 8:34:28 AM
209 / France’s citizen-led climate experiment
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. – Bill Nye Featured artist: Adil Khanna Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 209! View/share online → I finally had time to catch
10/18/2022 10:14:28 AM
210 / How ‘ark head’ insulates us from the troubles of the world
To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see
10/25/2022 7:54:32 AM
211 / Prioritising & scaling individual action
People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle. – Paul Auster
11/21/2022 9:14:30 PM
215 / The lucrative scam of water in a bottle
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Featured artist: Ori Toor Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 215! View/share online → Like many
12/12/2022 9:54:45 PM
218 / Where to channel our climate protest outrage
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. – Elie Wiesel Featured artist: Juan Er Dense Discovery Dense Discovery
12/19/2022 9:54:32 PM
219 / Ending 2022 with a stadium full of DD readers
People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy. – Seneca Featured artist:
1/23/2023 9:34:26 PM
222 / The non-stop struggle to look ‘normal’
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions. – Anthony Jay Featured artist: Bruno Perrier Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 222!
1/20/2023 3:54:47 AM
221 / ‘Being nice’ as a form of oppression
Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same. – Heraclitus Featured artist: Ironmould Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 221! View/share online → Many of us think '
1/30/2023 9:04:29 PM
223 / Seeking solidarity with Gunda the pig
There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it. – Mr Rogers Featured artist:
1/9/2023 9:14:26 PM
220 / No more elections: democracy by lottery
The good listener: someone who has learnt how to find bits of themselves in the experiences of others. – Alain de Botton Featured artist: Julia Zinchenko Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to
2/6/2023 8:54:30 PM
224 / ‘What would happen if I do nothing?’
Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter. – Francis Chan Featured artist: Jordan Kay Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue
2/20/2023 9:04:28 PM
226 / Travelling with the English language bonus
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space. The rest is opinion. – Democritus Featured artist: Augusto Zambonato Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 226! View/share online → In the next
2/14/2023 3:14:29 AM
225 / Contemplating natural limits and boundaries
The ultimate form of preparation is not planning for a specific scenario, but a mindset that can handle uncertainty. – James Clear Featured artist: Liubov Dronova Dense Discovery Dense Discovery
2/27/2023 9:44:41 PM
227 / The return to human-scale architecture?
You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything. – Greg McKeown Featured artist: Magdalena Koźlicka Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 227! View/share online → I'm
3/6/2023 10:14:46 PM
228 / Ecovillages as a template for a regenerative way of life?
I'm not interested in whether the glass is half empty or half full. I'm interested in figuring out how to fill the glass. – Donal Kaberuka Featured artist: Ryan Swierczek Dense Discovery Dense
3/20/2023 9:24:39 PM
230 / How stupidly big cars make everything worse
In matters of style swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson Featured artist: Andreu Zaragoza Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 230! View/
3/13/2023 9:34:36 PM
229 / Getting personal with Friends of DD
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. – Serge Daney Featured artist: Arina Kokoreva Dense Discovery Dense
3/27/2023 9:14:28 PM
231 / Switching from consumption to connection
One should always be curious. Not a passive curiosity dependent upon information received, but an aggressive curiosity that compels one to seek things out and ascertain them for oneself. – Issey Miyake
12/5/2022 9:04:28 PM
217 / Alternatives to Retail Christmas
A great challenge of life: Knowing enough to think you are right, but not knowing enough to know you are wrong. – Neil deGrasse Tyson Featured artist: Coen Pohl Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome
4/4/2023 3:04:36 AM
232 / The transformational experience of being time rich
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. – David Viscott Featured artist: Marina Esmeraldo Dense Discovery Dense
11/28/2022 8:54:51 PM
216 / Every job can be a climate job
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves. – Marcel Proust Featured artist: Ozcar Aguilar Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to
11/14/2022 10:24:30 PM
214 / The thankless task of representing others
We must live with the ambiguity of partial freedom, partial power, and partial knowledge. All important decisions must be made on the basis of insufficient data. Yet we are responsible for everything
4/11/2023 4:14:30 AM
233 / The messiness of democratic progress
You can't justify a bridge by counting the number of people swimming across a river. – Brent Toderian Featured artist: Sam Peet Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 233! View/share
4/24/2023 11:04:28 PM
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
4/19/2023 5:25:21 AM
234 / The end of aesthetic individualism?
I like people who are not sure of themselves, the perplexed, the modest, those who try to understand. – Ettore Sottsass Featured artist: Erica Jacobson Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue
5/1/2023 10:14:30 PM
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
11/7/2022 9:44:27 PM
213 / The freedom drivers were promised and cyclists enjoy
I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see. – Agnes Varda Featured artist: Kristina Pedos Dense Discovery Dense Discovery Welcome to Issue 213! View/share online → In a small
5/22/2023 10:54:44 PM
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 10:04:30 PM
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
5/29/2023 8:56:07 PM
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
10/31/2022 8:44:28 PM
212 / The cure for jet lag?
The moment the real world is completely abstracted into the universal machine is when we lose our ability to care for it. – James Bridle Featured artist: Clint Hess Dense Discovery Dense Discovery
6/5/2023 10:25:11 PM
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
6/12/2023 10:34:27 PM
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!
6/26/2023 10:35:24 PM
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