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Birds born in a cage don’t know how to fly

An anthropologist (let us call her Jane) visited an African tribe (let us call it Narash). The Narash had been in touch with civilization –...

Homo Sarcophilus

The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) is the largest carnivorous marsupial – after the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger in 1936. It’s not bigger than a small dog,...

Show us your Achilles’ heel

«You are invulnerable, you have no Achilles’ heel.» Portrait of a Lady, T.S.Eliot ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I don’t know what we choose in our lives; and what chooses us. Things...

Hamlet’s question

Some people say that man invented God as soon as they grasped their mortality. Some of our early anscestors perceived that death is the common...

Some will sell their dreams for small desires

“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.” A. Schopenhauer “The void exists for as long as you are not falling into...

Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins

A Doctor of Medicine and Philosophy, a biologist, ethologist and psychologist, Konrad Lorenz was the founder of the modern study of animal behavior. In 1973...