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Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive Author Philipp Dettmer is the founder and head writer of Kurzgesagt, one of the largest science channels on Youtube with over fifteen million subscribers and one billion views. After dropping out of high school at age fifteen, Philipp met a remarkable teacher who inspired in him a passion for learning and understanding the world. The authors goal is to give an overview of the immune system and the tools it uses to protect the body. The author starts by contextualizing the size of the body in cell count and the size of the body vs cells and the size of cells vs most intruders. The scale of the body’s READ MORE

The Heart Sutra belongs to Prajnaparamita literature which illuminates true nature of reality which is beyond the reach of language. The essence of the Heart Sutra is contained in the well-known phrase: “form is emptiness and emptiness is form. form is no other than emptiness, and emptiness is no other than form.” Because of the depth of its insight, traditional wording of the Heart Sutra has obscured its true meaning, leading to countless misunderstandings concerning the existence or nonexistence of phenomena, and causing many generations to lose their way in 1500 years. Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s The Other Shore , which is a new translation of the Heart Sutra with commentaries, illustrates the point with a story: A novice tried READ MORE

The Banking System all over the world is taking the route of printing money to fulfill a fantasy that economy will forever booming and going up. Since the end of WWII, United States has playing the role of helping its allies and countries all over the world to maintain peace by organizing an economic collaboration with organization like WTO, World Bank and IMF. U.S play the role of trade deficit country to absorb the exports from most other countries. But as time goes, US has outsourced most of the factories and jobs oversea. Its harrowed out economy, and with its $37+ trillion debts can no longer have the capacity to take on the role as trade deficit country. United State READ MORE