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Bertrand Russell

An excerpt from the beginning of "The Conquest of Happiness" by Bertrand Russell. This piece is on the pursuit of sin, and reconciling your values with your actions. My pleasures are not my vices, but the outward world doesn't quite agree.

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Bertrand Russell on the Pursuit of Sin

Context: Early 1900s

Source: P.45 The Conquest of Happiness

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Bertrand Russell on the Intellectual Pleasures

Source: P.56 The Conquest of Happiness

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Bertrand Russell On Boredom

Amid a popular debate over whether today’s young women embrace or reject the word feminist, bestselling author and trans women’s rights activist Janet Mock, Joy Reid, host of MSNBC’s The Reid Report, and Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and head of Lady Parts Justice, join Mic senior editor Elizabeth Plank for a look at women, advocacy and the millennial generation. What constitutes modern feminism and how is it changing the world? Is celebrity feminism helping or hindering the cause? How has social media shaped the movement into a more equal and democratic space for young women to express themselves? Recorded December 10, 2014 at 92nd Street Y.

Pass the Mic - Millennial Feminism: 92Y Talks Episode 26

Mary Oliver reads from her exquisite collection 'Blue Horses.' Background, poem text, and context here: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/09/mary-oliver-blue-horses-fourth-sign-of-the-zodiac/

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Mary Oliver reads from Blue Horses

Bill Nye is a mechanical engineer, science educator and CEO of the Planetary Society, who hosted the Emmy award-winning show "Bill Nye the Science Guy." After a widely viewed debate in Kentucky with an avowed Bible literalist, Nye has written a primer on the fundamentals of evolution. Emmy-award winning journalist Tom Foreman moderates the discussion on evolution and the science of creation. Recorded December 7, 2014 at 92nd Street Y.

Bill Nye with Tom Foreman: 92Y Talks Episode 29

Aired on All Things Considered, January 28, 2015.

'Little House,' Big Demand: Never Underestimate Laura Ingalls Wilder

Details and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/16/mark-strand-dreams-collected-poems/

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"Dreams" by Mark Strand read by Maria Popova

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The inaugural Reith Lecturer is the philosopher, mathematician, and social reformer Bertrand Russell. One of the founders of analytic philosophy and a Nobel Laureate, he is the author of Principia Mathematica, and the bestselling History of Western Philosophy, written in 1946. His Reith lecture series is entitled 'Authority and the Individual'.

In his third lecture, entitled 'The Role of Individuality', he considers the importance of individual initiative to a community, and argues for flexibility, local autonomy, and less centralisation in society. Modern organisations, he says, must be more flexible and less oppressive to the human spirit if life is to be saved from boredom.

BBC Archives Bertrand Russell The Role of the Individual 1948

This week, we celebrate legendary film director Werner Herzog’s birthday with a thrilling conversation from the archives. In 2012, Herzog came to the Library to discuss his most recent film, “Into the Abyss,” as well as his four-part television series, “Death Row.” In this conversation with NYPL’s Paul Holdengraber, Herzog talks about crime, human nature, and why he stands so firmly against capital punishment.


Werner Herzog on Death, Executioners, and Advice for Filmmakers

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Werner Herzog on Death, Executioners, and Advice for Filmmakers

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