Space travel seems hard to justify when we have so many problems to solve here on Earth. Sister Mary Jucunda, a Zambian-based nun, wrote a letter to NASA’s then-associate director of science Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger to address exactly that justification: How can you suggest spending billions of dollars on such a project at a time when so many children were starving on Earth? Here is an excerpt from Stuhlinger’s response:
Read MoreThe following is an excerpt from an article titled ‘Tragic Sense of Life’ that draws an interesting connection between a cup of coffee and the meaning of life:
Read MoreIn the following talk, holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl speaks on why we should believe in the best capabilities of other people and the importance of finding meaning.
Read MoreHere is a letter that F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, wrote to his daughter. The letter was originally published in the New York Times Magazine back in 1958.
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