How to Reset Your Energy and Realign Your Brand
There’s something sacred about Walden Pond.
It’s where Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau wrote about simplicity, truth, and legacy.
It’s also where I made one of the most pivotal decisions of my life 11 years ago, naming my daughter Emerson.
And recently, as I walked those wooded trails agai…
On Patriotism: Truth, Courage, and the Conscience of a Nation
What does it mean to love your country?
To wave its flag, or to challenge its failures?
To march in step — or to speak when others fall silent?
Tonight on International Flavor: Where the Truth Just Tastes Better, we explore the raw, complicated, often dangerous idea of patriotism. Not the kind tha…
Politics on Trial: John Brown vs Slavery
Today’s great political trial concerns the prosecution and execution of John Brown in 1859 for his raid on Harper’s Ferry in the attempt to free America’s slaves, an event that helped precipitate the American Civil War. It was also a trial that produced three of the greatest speeches in American hi…
Episode 12: James Marcus on Emerson and Melville
“In this part of the essay, Emerson is talking about walking a lot, you know, sort of walking through nature, taking a stroll,” says James Marcus in this week’s episode of The World in Time. “He has this rather sublime experience, and he describes it in this way: ‘Standing on the bare ground, my he…
Real Life Friedrich Bhaer (Louisa May Alcott and Henry Thoreau)
There was a real-life Friedrich Bhaer. In fact, Louisa May Alcott wanted to marry him and even start a school with him. This man appears in literal disguises in all of her novels. He is Friedrich in Little Women, Mac in Rose in Bloom and David in Work and many more. Henry and Louisa shared a deep f…
The Risks and Benefits of Taking a Break From Cancer Treatment
Dr. Shaalan Beg and Dr. Arjun Gupta discuss the rationale behind treatment breaks and assess the pros and cons based on feedback and data from patients with advanced-stage gastrointestinal cancers.
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Dr. Shaalan Beg: Hello and welcome to the ASCO Daily News Podcast. I'm Dr. Shaalan Beg,…
The Rooted Body of Awakening
The Rooted Body of Awakening
The opening lines of the central early Buddhist Sati Patthana Sutta read
The intent one goes to the wilderness, to the shade of a tree, sits down, folding their legs crosswise, holding their body erect, and setting mindfulness to the fore.
We hear that, at the b…
Richard Wilbur, "Hamlen Brook"
There's nothing Andrew likes more than a good nature poem, so Tim indulges him with "Hamlen Brook" by former American Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur. A lovely little celebration of the natural world with debts to Wordsworth, Clare, the metaphysical poets and possibly a touch of Henry Thoreau as well.…
How Do New Words Get Added to the Dictionary? | Interview with Fiona McPherson
In this episode, Ray and OED editor Fiona McPherson examine the tension between linguistic change and lexicographical authority. Rather than treating the dictionary as a static canon, they explore how expanding archives, quarterly updates, and human editorial judgment continuously reshape our under…
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