Not sure what “oblivion” means? Take a minute and look it up. Your response to that suggestion reveals a lot. Some of you will already know what it means. Some of you won’t look it up because you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ignorance may sometimes be bliss, but in general it gets a bad rap - which is why the latest book from Peter Burke comes as a ...

Knowledge can be a source of power and pleasure, but it also can be unsettling, humiliating, even terrifying. In “Ignorance and Bliss,” Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University, ...

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In 1961, renowned German novelist Günter Grass openly criticized communist East Germany for building the Berlin Wall ostensibly to prevent West Germans from infiltrating the country. In reality, the ...

As we approach a post-presidency impeachment trial, my mind returns to what we witnessed during the past few weeks, during the past four years, raising the question of how we have become so divided as ...

When James Watson, one of the discoverers of DNA structure, had his own genome sequenced in 2007, there was one piece of information he dediced not to seek out: whether he possessed a specific genetic ...

As Buddhism teaches us, ignorance is an emotion. And this would give us hope that, being in an emotional world, it can be managed, transformed and maybe even quickly evolve into a more constructive ...