be* yourself

be* is a new site from General Eclectic, it is designed to support and archive content ideas for an upcoming magazine, first edition due NY25

‘Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.’

 Cleopatra / Shakespeare


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Humanity is trippin’ on junk intelligence

Why is it that very sophisticated societies have been as susceptible as stone age tribes to mass delusion and the rise of destructive ideologies?” Subscribe to Be at https://grev.eu
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What is Consciousness?

Is consciousness an illusion? 5 experts explain Published on YouTube January 2024 – Big Think 7.45M subscribers “If science aims to describe everything, how can it not describe the simple fact of our existence?” On this episode of Dispatches, Kmele speaks with the scientists, mathematicians, and spiritual leaders trying to do just that: This video […]

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The Mental State of the World

The fourth annual Mental State of the World Report that provides a perspective on the Internet-enabled global population.

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Requiem for the American Dream

REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time – the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few.

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Learning from Japanese education practices

Character is the foundation of learning. Up to 10 years old there are no examinations but character and discipline is encouraged through example and teamwork.

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Be careful what you wish for

Read transcript We can’t know what our future selves wants 4,303,383 views | Shankar Vedantam | TED • April 2022   “You are constantly becoming a new person,” says journalist Shankar Vedantam. In a talk full of beautiful storytelling, he explains the profound impact of something he calls the “illusion of continuity” — the belief […]

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The Marginalian

Hello. My name is Maria Popova and The Marginalian is a record of my reading and reckoning with our search for meaning: sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children’s books, always through the lens of wonder. Founded in 2006 as an email to seven friends under the outgrown name Brain Pickings and […]

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Trashtopia – Michael Goldrei Photography

Trashtopia Trashtopia is my series of street photography of the street itself. While travelling through Cuba at the end of 2016, I started noticing discarded items in the street that looked very different to those back home in England. I decided to see whether you can tell the character of a place by its waste. […]

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge

Charles Darwin

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Wisdom begins with Wonder

Socrates – ergo…

Enlightenment begins with Experience – Consciousness begins with Curiosity
Awareness begins with Appreciation