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People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30 Juiciest Ones

Henry David Thoreau summarized his two years of simple living in the conclusion of Walden: "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." But do we always want to know the truth? The post People Are Sharing The Things They Regret Finding Out, And Here Are The 30…

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Campus protests are part of an enduring legacy of civil disobedience improving American democracy

They didn’t illegally camp out in local parks or on college campuses, as many protesters did across the U.S. recently. But back in 1773, the Boston Tea Partiers broke the law when they protested British Colonial taxes by throwing tea into Boston Harbor.

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‘You play the cards you’re dealt’: is Viggo Mortensen Hollywood’s most versatile star?

Actor, director, poet, musician, photographer, publisher – there is nary a creative endeavour to which the American hasn’t turned his hand. He discusses his ‘strange’ work with Lisandro Alonso – and accidentally starring in his own film

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'Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds' – the Bhagavad Gita explained

In our Guide to the Classics series, experts explain key works of literature.

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What is National Simplicity Day and who is Henry David Thoreau?

Fancy a carefree and laidback life? Try your hand at taking a step back and finding inspiration in the 19th-century American thinker

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On International Yoga Day, lessons from the first American yogi – Henry David Thoreau

International Yoga Day, dedicated to celebrating yoga as part of the “intangible cultural heritage of humanity,” has proved controversial since its inception in 2015.

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Unabomber dead: Ted Kaczynski's cause of death REVEALED after killer found in cell

Ted Kaczynski, 81, was discovered unresponsive at a federal prison in North Carolina on Saturday decades after he terrorised the US with a series of targeted bombings

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Who was Unabomber Ted Kaczynski? Criminal mastermind and pathetic loner who terrorised US

The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, has been depicted in various artistic works, and inspired popular culture, with movies and TV series centred around his criminal mastermind

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‘Unabomber’ dies in US prison at age 81

Theodore Kaczynski committed 16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, killing 3 and permanently maiming several of his victims.

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‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski, a Chicago native, dies in federal prison at 81

Years before the Sept. 11 attacks and the anthrax mailing, the “Unabomber’s” deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans mailed packages and boarded airplanes, even virtually shutting down air travel on the West Coast in July 1995.

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Ted Kaczynski, known as the 'Unabomber,' has died in prison at age 81

Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday.

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Stream of knowledge

Book of Books is different from any other I had come across. It is a fascinating treasure trove of literary delights with many illustrations, and a guided tour of rare books, manuscripts and historical artefacts in a single collection.

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'Courage is contagious': Daniel Ellsberg's decision to release the Pentagon Papers didn't happen in a vacuum

In 1971, when Daniel Ellsberg arrived at a federal court in Boston, a journalist asked if he was concerned about the prospect of going to prison for leaking a 7,000-page top-secret history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg responded with a question of his own: “Wouldn’t you go to prison to…

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5 wintry books to read during long nights

Winter solstice brings the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s a great night to spend reading.

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Fact-checking Thoreau’s observations

How do scientists know that historical data is appropriate to use?

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By fact-checking Thoreau's observations at Walden Pond, we showed how old diaries and specimens can inform modern research

Henry David Thoreau, the environmental philosopher and author of “Walden”, was a keen observer of seasonal change. In 1862, for example, he wrote in the Atlantic Monthly:

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From Elizabeth Strout to Stephen King, how Maine took over the literary map

Maine is the most isolated state in the continental US. Here, Amanda Whiting writes about how a place so small came to cast such an imposing shadow over American fiction

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A flourishing ecology and a healthy economy? Henry David Thoreau thought you couldn't have one without the other

Australians have just decided another “climate election”. What this meant, basically, was that we had to choose between two difficult futures. The result has yielded a new mandate for meaningful work on climate policy.

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‘I yearned for a deeper, slower, more useful existence’: dispatches from the Great Resignation

From the ad executive turned charcoal burner to the woman who built a new life in the woods, a new genre of books about radical reinventions is proving a runaway success

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It's not all nomadland: how #vanlife made mobile living a middle-class aspiration

Announce to your friends and family that you’re choosing to live in your vehicle and you’re likely to raise some concern.

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