Andrew Sontag Andrew Sontag

Does Uncertainty Make Room for Choice?

Soon after, people began to realize that, as far as anyone could prove, they too were just systems of moving objects--which implied that all of their thoughts, words, and actions could be deterministically predicted by Newton’s equations.

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Joseph Wilbur Joseph Wilbur

Yesterday’s Lessons for Today’s Learning

Among those epochs of education, is there one that is superior? One that may be closer to the perfect educational process? Are we as a society veering closer or further away from that ideal model?

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Madison A. Weiss Madison A. Weiss

Andy Warhol's Skull as a Memento Vivere

We live in a world wherein we treat death paradoxically: it is to be ignored if at all possible, yet when it is faced, it is done so to the highest extent, in scenes of gruesome loss and mournful tragedy

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Sophie Qi Sophie Qi

Living with Death II: Memento Mori

One way this expression spread was through visual symbols like skulls. These images were meant to remind viewers of their mortality, and that no matter their lot in life, whether they were the pope, a lord or a peasant, death would come for them

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Sophie Qi Sophie Qi

Living with Death I: On Mortality

They instinctively considered the extension of life to this extent unnatural, and believed that it is the impermanence of life that gives it value.

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