24th November 1859 – Charles Darwin Publishes ‘On The Origin Of Species’
24th November 1859 – Charles Darwin Publishes ‘On The Origin Of Species’
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A Message from Paris: An Edge Special Event
A MESSAGE FROM PARIS An Edge Special Event! by Ian McEwan [11.14.15] ED. NOTE: Ian McEwan, who is living in Paris this month, sent a deep and moving email this afternoon which he asked us to share with Edge community. JB Reality Club discussion: Scott Atran , Daniel L. Everett , Dan Sperber , James J. O'Donnell IAN MCEWAN, the award-winning British novelist, is the author of The Child in Time (winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, 1987), Amsterdam (winner of the Booker Prize, 1998), Atonement, Sweet Tooth , and The Children Act . He lives in London. Ian McEwan's Edge Bio Page . The death cult chose its city well—Paris, secular capital of the world, as hospitable, diverse and charming a metropolis as was ever devised. And the death cult chose its targets in the city with ghoulish, self-damning accuracy—everything they loathed stood plainly before them on a happy Friday evening: men and women in easy as...
A Last-Minute Breakthrough
A Last-Minute Breakthrough By Muriel Dimen November 3, 2015 3:30 am November 3, 2015 3:30 am 122 Comments Couch Couch is a series about psychotherapy. Julia returned after the August vacation that we New York psychoanalysts customarily take. Well, not right after. She missed the first session. A family obligation, she said. Were I a traditional analyst, I might have wondered to myself: “Is there ambivalence here? Perhaps she doesn’t want to come back?” But I didn’t think that, or rather I ignored that flicker of doubt. I should have trusted my suspicions. When she did show up, Julia told me that she wanted to end the therapy. Very forthrightly, too. Cordially. She asked me about my summer and then said that this session would be her last. I felt that slight bump, the one you feel when a patient wants to stop treatment and you’re not exactly expecting it, or maybe you’ve been denying what in fact you know. Julia explained her decision. She reminded me that she had never f...
My life without gender: A non-binary expression
Please click on the link below. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/07/my-life-without-gender-strangers-are-desperate-to-know-what-genitalia-i-have#_=_