October 12, 2013

The Art of Surviving Prison

Jeff Grant tells the powerful story of his incarceration in Federal prison for a white-collar crime.

Jeff Grant is a minister, activist, social ethicist and author who earned a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in NYC after his incarceration in Federal prison for a white-collar crime.

Selected by The Nantucket Project as a 2012 TNP Fellow – he gave the kick-off speech at the 2012 Fellows Academy luncheon, a talk that was so powerful Grant was asked to return in 2013 to share his story on the main stage.

Watch the video here.

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Thinking

The great free will debate featuring Michio Kaku and Steven Pinker

Who — or what — really controls your mind?

Building destroyed by the Halifax Explosion. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

The Past

The largest accidental explosion of all time

More than a century ago, Halifax suffered an accidental blast one-fifth the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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High Culture

6 great books with wildly unreliable narrators

Dive into the twisted truths and concealed realities told by literature’s most unreliable narrators.

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The Well

Signs you’re burned out — and how to bounce back

If you don’t feel better after the weekend, the “burnout paradox” could explain why.

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Laurie Santos

Starts With A Bang

The trick to instantly identifying JWST images

If you can identify a foreground star, the spike patterns are a dead giveaway as to whether it’s a JWST image or any other observatory.

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