Louise Legrand
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5 days ago · WONDER of a different sort was afoot in Oxford while Traherne was there. The new Savile professors were offering lectures in astronomy; telescopes and Hevelius’s map of the moon were in circulation; and experimental science was in the air — almost, if not quite, literally, when Hooke and Wilkins tried to build a machine to go to the moon in Wadham College garden.
2 days ago · The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. The film is an adaptation of the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with ...
1 day ago · According to Hebrew Bible scholar Abraham Heschel, there is embedded within each of us a natural proclivity to wonder, a sense of “unmitigated innate surprise.”[1] A sense of wonder is constitutive of who we are as humans. Wonder, for Heschel, is not merely an emotion, but an existential experience, a fundamental orientation to the world. All religious
1 day ago · As our attention deepens, gratitude expands, and wonder multiplies. Some call it whimsy, others neuroscience, but either way, it reminds us that the more we notice, the more alive both the world and we become.
1 day ago · One of the frequent usages of this Hebrew verb appears with the semantic equivalence of “writhing” or “twisting” in pain from childbirth. If we were to consider this definition, one may wonder how we are to make sense of the wilderness/desert writhing or twisting. And what does the desert have anything to do with childbirth?
1 day ago · Science fiction is often said to inspire a "sense of wonder". Science fiction editor, publisher and critic David Hartwell wrote: "Science fiction's appeal lies in combination of the rational, the believable, with the miraculous.
5 days ago · How a Sense of Wonder Can Benefit Your Health. Posted: October 11, 2024 | Last updated: October 11, 2024. Experts say awe comes from sensing something vast beyond one's understanding.
