Stories
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The Architecture of the Inner Life
Category : StoriesThe philosophical legacies of Marcus Aurelius, Socrates, and Zhuangzi form a triptych of the human search for meaning. Separated by centuries and civilizations, they nevertheless converge on a shared concern: how should a human being live? Each articulates a distinct discipline of the inner life. One teaches mastery, another examination, the third release. Together they
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Fun to Imagine: A Dialogue on Quantum Electrodynamics
Category : Stories[Some of my favorite Physicists – Feynman, Dirac and Landau, “imagined together” sometime in the early 1960s ] FEYNMAN: You know, Dau, I’ve been thinking about your problem with my diagrams. I think I finally understand what bothers you about them. LANDAU: I doubt you do, or you would have fixed it. But please, enlighten
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THE VAN AERTRYCKE CHRONICLES
[ A historical fiction ] The winter wind howled off the North Sea, cutting through the stone ramparts of Bruges with a cruelty that no man who had not endured it could properly describe to another. But inside the great square, the cold was forgotten. Twenty thousand souls had gathered, merchants from Venice, bankers from