It must be encoded there, in the childhood memories of our synapses and our cells — how we came out of the ocean 35 trillion yesterdays ago, small and slippery, gills trembling with the shock…

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Blink Twice to Quell a Quasar: Carl Sagan on Superstition – The Marginalian

Growing up in Bulgaria, in a city teeming in stray dogs and cars, I was deeply distressed by the sight of each dead animal in the streets between home and school — deaths I could not prevent …

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Things Become Other Things: Walking, Forgiveness, and Belonging in the Mountains of Japan – The Marginalian

Steps are events, experiments, miniature rebellions against gravity and chance. With each step, we fall and then we catch ourselves, we choose to go one way and not another. The foot falls and worl…

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Wonder, Play, and How to Be More Alive – The Marginalian

We build our lives around structures of certainty — houses to live in, marriages to love in, ideologies to think in — and yet some primal part of us knows that none abides, knows that w…

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