1+ hour, 50+ min ago  (342+ words) Humans have been dreaming of perfect places (e.g., Heaven, Jannah, Nirvana) and their opposites (Hell, Jahannam, Samsara) for centuries. Thomas More gave us "Utopia" in 1516 and its opposite, dystopia, entered the language about 300 years later. It describes a society or movement…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (932+ words) Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist and impassioned advocate for nature, founded in her later years an institute through which she launched Roots and Shoots. Young people in more than 60 countries were taught about preserving nature and how to work for…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (704+ words) The World Keeps Turning: Social amnesia'Greenfield Recorder In 1905, George Santayana wrote that "Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." In the 1970s, historian Russell Jacoby reexamined the American reluctance and rejection of remembering, and learning from, past…...