The goal of life, for Pascal, is not happiness, peace, or fulfillment, but aliveness.
– Sean Kelly, an unattributed quotation in his lecture notes
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- Art for a Frozen Day
- Thought for the New Year
- More Amazing Finds from the Siberian Bronze Age
- A Window
- Men Polled about Sexual Harassment
- Things that Matter
- The Emperor's Quest for Immortality
- Me on Powers Hill, Gettysburg
- Crime Falling in New York
- Jochen Bittner Explains the Decline of Social Demo...
- Is the Liberal Order in Terminal Decline?
- Oskar Bergman
- Private Bureaucracy
- Pondering
- Is Bamboo Blight?
- A Bestiary in Stone
- The Goal of Life
- The Nativity
- Klyuchevskaya sopka, Kamchatka
- Christmas Eve Sunrise, Catonsville, Maryland
- Château de la Mothe-Chandeniers
- We Fear the Wrong Things
- Grundtvig's Church
- The Regalia of Queen Puabi
- The Land of Death
- 4,000-Year-Old Footprint from Ancient Ur
- The Power of Polarization
- Holme Cardwell, Diana, 1862
- Happy Solstice
- Economists not Concerned about the End of Net Neut...
- Le Château du Hénan
- Department of Irony
- The Hunter-Gatherer Romance
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Gettysburg, Snow Falling
- What Divides the Parties? Feminism
- How to Distinguish the Effect of Schooling from th...
- Tom Friedman Thanks the People of Alabama
- Our Strange, Agenda-Free Radicalism
- Philip Beesley, Astrocyte
- Irish Genes
- Iraq Declares Victory over the Islamic State
- A Skull from Colonial Delaware
- Peter Gardiner, Things on Fire
- Jo Walton, Among Others
- Ippolito Caffi, the Colosseum
- Shower Thought
- Gay Marriage and Party Loyalty in Australia
- On Feeling like an Outsider
- Soviet Bus Stops
- The Robots are Coming, at Least for Your Chess Tro...
- Little Foot
- The Foremost Preoccupation of the City's Rulers
- Remember Shaken Baby Syndrome?
- The World's Coolest Aerosol Simulation
- Vilhelm Hammershoi
- Amazing if True: Spiders Spinning Graphene Webs
- The Roman Economy
- A Catalan for Spain
- Wonders and Oddities from Classics Week at Christie's
- Boom Times at Dollar General
- A Murmuration of Starlings Filmed by Jan van Ijken
- The Skeletons of Roopkund Lake, or, Greeks Lost in...
- US Fertility Still Falling
- Steppes Invaders, the Indo-European Languages, and...
- Phage Therapy
- Medieval Sculpture from Classics Week at Christie's
- The Ambivalence of Upward Mobility
- Two Hundred Pterosaur Eggs
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published three novels and is writing a fourth.
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