Author: Lauri Gwilt / Source: Good News Network “I’ve had two profoundly humbling days in my life. The first was the day my son was born. The second was that unforgettable day at the Auction House.” This is how David, one of the participants in a session I recently facilitated, answered the

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings “This is a participatory universe,” physicist John Archibald Wheeler, who popularized the term black hole, wrote in his influential theory known as It from Bit, asserting that “physics gives rise to observer-participancy; observer-participancy gives

Author: Harry Guinness / Source: howtogeek.com Unlike with older feature phones, your iPhone’s alarm won’t sound if your phone is turned of or out of battery. The alarm will sound if your iPhone’s on silent or Do Not Disturb. Old Nokia and other dumb phones had a great feature: the alarm would

Author: Michael Waters / Source: The Hollywood Reporter Silence means survival in the new John Krasinski-directed horror film A Quiet Place. Krasinski also stars alongside Emily Blunt in the thriller that takes place after a group of nimble creatures have taken over Earth, killing the vast

Source: Atlas Obscura In 1084 AD, St. Bruno of Cologne formed an order of silent monks called the Carthusians. They resided in a valley of the Chartreuse Mountains, a region of the French Alps, near Voiron. By 1605, they were a large, well-respected order, and King Henri IV’s Marshal of Artillery