Wabi-sabi house

Wabi and sabi are, strictly speaking, aesthetic principles, but because ultimately they originate in the aesthetic experience of the Japanese hermits, these pri...

Nietzsche’s Jesus

Nietzsche is identified as the arch-atheist of the culminating 19th century, the prophet of the Death of God and of Christianity. Like like many thinkers, Nietz...

Thought-worms

Popular psychologist Oliver Sacks did not coin the phrase “earworm” — the snippets of popular music that repeat themselves over and over in on...