The question of the duration of life is not in the foreground, it waits on the prior question of the quality of life. There is a mere greed of existence which is pronounced unworthy, as if when one ...

For the next few weeks, the Endless Thread team will be sharing stories about the rise of bots. How are these pieces of software — which are meant to imitate human behavior and language — influencing ...

Sometime in the nineties, when I was visiting Berlin, the writer Stan Persky took me to see Lucas Cranach the Elder’s painting of the Fountain of Youth at the Gemäldegalerie. It is a medium-sized ...

It's so easy today to get dragged down by all the negativity and darkness hanging over us like an ominous cloud. The economy. Unemployment. Terrorism. High gas prices. I could fill up a blog with bad ...

It's time for Sister Gilchrist Cottrill's confession, time to talk about her call. Only she never has time. The 59-year-old nun is calm as she explains how she ran away from home to be with God. " ...

Texas is one of the leading biotech and life sciences states in the U.S., with a growing workforce of more than 116,000 employees at 7,462 companies. The Dallas-Fort Worth area, in particular, employs ...

Imagine you're sitting in a meeting at work, or at home eating dinner with your family, when suddenly you feel the need to walk. Not to stretch your legs or get some air, but to walk compulsively, ...

If every Harvard student were required to watch Alejandro Jodorowsky's “Poesía Sin Fin (Endless Poetry),” one imagines that the number of students pursuing art might triple. The veteran Chilean ...

‘A Life of Endless Summers,’ Eugene Levy on top for abbreviated-so-far Newport Beach Film Festival Bruce Brown, center, pauses to reflect at “The Endless Summer” book launch party and celebration of ...

Whitechapel's Phil Bozeman was the guest on Full Metal Jackie's radio show this past weekend. The rocker spoke with Jackie about the band's latest album, 'Our Endless War,' opening up about the ...

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It's so easy today to get dragged down by all the negativity and darkness hanging over us like an ominous cloud. The economy. Unemployment. Terrorism. High gas prices. I could fill up a blog with bad ...