From How to Travel Like Anthony Bourdain: “In my carry-on, I’ll have a notebook, yellow legal pads, good headphones. Imodium is important. The necessity for Imodium will probably present itself, and you don’t want to be caught without it.”

“Aristotle … defines our ultimate goal, the very purpose of being alive, the thing we’re shooting for … as happiness.

“Technically, in the original Greek, Aristotle actually uses the nebulous word ‘eudaimonia,’ which sometimes gets translated as ‘happiness’ and sometimes as ‘flourishing.’ I prefer “flourishing,” because that feels like a bigger deal than ‘happiness.’ We’re talking about the ultimate objective for humans here, and a flourishing person sounds like she’s more fulfilled, complete, and impressive than a ‘happy’ person.”

How to be Perfect, by Michael Schur

The Office’s Last Stand: It’s either the end of the era of flexibility around where work takes place — or the beginning of outright rebellion.

Octopuses Don’t Have Backbones — or Rights: As cephalopods become more important in neuroscience and other fields, scientists and welfare advocates seek to give the smart animals the same protections as mice and monkeys.

The head of design at a newspaper where I once worked always said there are many right ways to do things. If you want something to be done differently, you need to ask yourself if you are trying to change from a wrong way to a right way or if you’re simply trying to change from one right way to another right way. If the later, leave it alone.

“The most dificult thing in the world is to listen, to see. We don’t want to see. Do you think a capitalist wants to see what is good in the communist system? Do you think a communist wants to see what is good and healthy in the capitalist system? Do you think a rich man wants to look at poor people?

“We don’t want to look, because if we do, we may change. We don’t want to look. If you look, you lose control of the life that you are so precariously holding together. And so in order to wake up, the one thing you need the most is not energy, or strength, or youthfulness, or even great intelligence. The one thing you need most of all is the readiness to learn something new“

Awareness, by Anthony De Mello

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Watch insects take to the air in video recorded at 6,000 frames per second and then slowed down to show the take offs in amazing detail.