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There were days when universities were the only way to acquire knowledge and meet people. Today the university is outdated both as a concept and as an individual institution. In most cases, the best teacher is looking at you from the mirror.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the Truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken” ― Carl Sagan   “Extraordinary claims req...

“Your Intuition knows what to do. The trick is getting your head to shut up so you can hear.” — Louise Smith “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” —Albert Einstein We have this popular notion that Success in life re...

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos - Mary Shelley (This article is written from the standpoint of a single person. In this context, Chaos means unpredictability in your personal life, not world anarchy.)     In life, you have billions of potential axes of improvement.   &...

Deal with the world as it is, not how you’d like it to be. Jack Welch What is Social Justice?   The Social Justice movement is a massive one. Its idealistic goals are a fair and equal treatment of all people, regardless of class, race, gender and sexual orientation. Historically this was not the case. Poor, non-white, female and LGBTQ pe...