Cinema Scope

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With his first two features, Tower (2012) and How Heavy This Hammer (2015), Toronto-based director and MDFF co-founder Kazik Radwanski established something of a recurring archetype: sad, lonely, and horny men whose unpleasant or uninteresting qualit

NZBusiness and Management

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I am somewhat addicted to code cracker puzzles and whenever I hit a problem where I can’t see a solution, I duck out for a few mental moments – complete a puzzle – and then come back to the task at hand. Initially it felt as if I was merely avoiding

Womankind

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Telling someone to “grow up” is often taken badly. No one likes to be told that they’re acting like a child. But to ‘grow up’ is part of the constantly evolving human condition. We always should be, in a sense, growing up. Psychologists prefer to cal

WellBeing

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As Steve Jobs said in his 2005 Stanford University commencement speech, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking back.” You don’t know when things will come around to benefit you later on in life, so it’s importa

The Paris Review

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René Magritte, The Empire of Light, II, 1950. We are in the midst of a cynical self-reckoning as the not too illustrious children of a not too illustrious epoch that will consider itself truly fulfilled only when every individual writhing within it,

WellBeing Being

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noun 1 existence 2 the nature or essence of a person ■

PC Gamer

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This tenet makes deceit a blessed art form – snake oil salesmen are considered pious and honesty is forbidden. Time for holy fake news. Party like the world is coming to an end with the Hedonism tenet. With gluttony now a virtue, you can get down wi

PEARL

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There can hardly be any human being left on earth who will not acknowledge that the unprecedented number and concentration of extreme upheavals in all areas that are dragging the world into the vortex of destruction and hardship, with misery and deat

New Philosopher

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For choices involving dramatically new experiences, we are confronted by the brute fact that we can know very little about our subjective futures. This has serious implications for our decisions. If we make life choices in the way we naturally and in

New Philosopher

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Even the simple act which we describe as ‘seeing someone we know’ is, to some extent, an intellectual process. We pack the physical outline of the creature we see with all the ideas we already formed about him, and in the complete picture of him whic

PEARL

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Uncertainty and unrest have come over many people, but rather than abating, uncertainty has continued to increase. If one follows current events attentively, one cannot help but perceive this clearly. This development is not restricted to the people

Harper's Bazaar India

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When I sat down to describe this month’s book, I had to start with Pavana Reddy’s specially composed poem for Bazaar. This verse opens our special section, titled ‘Unfold The Future’, and in these pages we explore the relationship between fashion and

Techfastly

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It seems that we eagerly embraced the not so long ago future - like technologies entering our everyday lives in the forms of phones, unnecessarily diverse home devices, etc. But the truth is that maybe the world has immersed far too easily into creat

BBC Science Focus Magazine

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According to data from the company Statista, just 11 per cent of us consider death in our daily lives. Most of us are clearly busy with the subject of life, perhaps only considering the subject three or four times a year. We in the West are, in the w

PEARL

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THE THREE VOLUMES of In the Light of Truth contain a total of 168 lectures whose contents, building upon one another, give a picture of Creation in entirety. The Author’s all-embracing view is based on well-known natural laws, which reveal the hidden

New Philosopher

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1 Online at https://www.newphilosopher.com/subscribe/ 2 Email us: subscribe@newphilosopher.com Extraordinary quality in all respects. New Philosopher is one of the best things happening. I love how the writing reminds me that the types of issues we

WellBeing Being

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noun 1 existence 2 the nature or essence of a person ■

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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If you’ve been drawn to the self-care revolution, you may have come across the Japanese concept of ikigai (pronounced ‘ick-ee-guy’). Ikigai is about the importance of having a purpose in life that brings you happiness and meaning. It’s the thing that

Chat It's Fate

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Dreaming of darkness seems pretty symbolic and of course associated with the unknown, hidden or unacknowledged fears, and the subconscious in general. Although ignorance, ideas of ‘evil’ and even death are key themes, it’s not all gloom and doom. Let

PEARL

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Ours is a high-tech age. There seems to be no end to man’s capacity to discover new truths about himself and the world he lives in. Scientific knowledge has sky-rocketed and technological progress is breathtaking. No other creature has the urge or th

Dance Australia

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If I am honest, I don’t consider it a passion: I consider it my life – my reason for existence– my reason for being. When I am in performance, dance is the settling of my “self”. I’m in harmony; I’m truthful; I am complete. Now, in my role as an arti

Woman's Own

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It’s hard to believe we’re already halfway through April (and that 2020 actually happened at all!) but if last year showed us anything it’s that we’re all more capable than we think, in all aspects of life. Our feature on page 38, about women thrivin

WellBeing Being

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In order to cultivate acceptance, two precursory things need to occur. Firstly, there must be awareness of what is arising or occurring, which is mindfulness in practice. Secondly, there needs to be a willingness to acknowledge what is there with hon

Fairlady

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Gorgeous gals need pals – people who ‘get’ you and won’t leave you eating their dust as they exit stage left. The significance of building a bestie network hinges on the share-care principle: what you put in, you’ll get back. This simple theory works

You South Africa

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CHILDREN are constantly wrestling with questions about metaphysics and morality. But most adults in their lives don’t notice or, even worse, discourage them when they do. I’m a philosopher and a father. I’ve got two boys, Rex and Hank. They’ve been a

C Magazine

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Darling Foundry, Montreal June 21–August 19, 2018 Preserving a memory is an active process, one that requires its keeper to isolate—or inevitably dislocate—its constituent fragments. Berlin-based Canadian conceptual artist Joshua Schwebel grapples wi

VWt

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It’s easy to have an idea in mind when it comes to interior layouts and what will work for you, etc. But the problem is that no one really knows if an idea will work in practice when it’s all finished. Michael knows this from bitter experience, havin

Home Design

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Words Stephanie Russo From blank canvases to established homes, Enigma Interiors’ chief designer and owner, Lee Hardcastle, knows how to create beautiful designs. “From a young age, I was always interested in knowing how things worked and the mechani

PEARL

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‘In the knowledge of Creation which I have given in my Message, and in the related explanation of all the Laws automatically working in Creation, which may also be called the Laws of Nature, the whole weaving of Creation is displayed without a gap; i

PEARL

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But God does not at all directly intervene in all these small and great cares of men, such as wars, misery and other earthly matters! From the very beginning He has woven into Creation His perfect Laws, which automatically carry out their incorruptib