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  Oliver Sacks Promotes the Healing Power of Gardens: They’re “More Powerful Than Any Medication”

  

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  Early European explorers left the continent with visions of gardens in their heads: The Garden of Eden, the Garden of the Hesperides, and other mythic realms of abundance, ease, and endless repose. Those same explorers left sickness, war, and death only to find sickness, war, and death—much of it exported by themselves. The garden became […]

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  Over the half-millennium since Hieronymus Bosch painted it, The Garden of Earthly Delights has produced an ever-widening array of interpretations. Is it “a painting about sexual freedom”? A “medieval acid trip”? An “erotic fantasy”? A “heretical attack on the church”? The work of “a member of an obscure free-love cult”? James Payne, the London curator behind the […] The Meaning of Hieronymus Bosch’s <i>The Garden of...

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  Watch Footage from the Psychology Experiment That Shocked the World: Milgram’s Obedience Study (1961)

  

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