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Can Art Teach Patience?
Have you ever noticed how long people look at a painting in a museum or gallery? Surveys have clocked view times anywhere between 10 and 17 seconds. The Louvre estimated that visitors studied the Mona Lisa, the most famous painting in the world, for an astoundingly low average of 15 seconds. Our increasingly online, instantaneous existence accounts for […]
The Dalai Lama’s Views on Marriage in the West
The Dalai Lama’s Views on Marriage in the West Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce — that’s the statistic that’s frequently pointed to when discussing marriage in the US. However, this is a misleading statistic. For those living above the poverty line, the divorce rate is much lower. For those who are college educated, […]