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For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, written for a wide audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award-winning mathematician and educator weaves parables, puzzles, and personal reflections to show how mathematics meets basic human desires - such as for play, beauty, freedom, justice, and love. 

A podcast that explores what human flourishing is, looks like, and how people from all backgrounds can work together to achieve it as best as possible hosted by Africanist/Humanities graduate student at Duke University, tech ethicist, and Secular Franciscan Eyram Klu, OFS otherwise known as "The Afrociscan."

What is human happiness and how can we promote it? These questions are central to human existence and Happiness Explained draws on scientific research from economics, psychology, and philosophy, as well as a range of other disciplines, to outline a new paradigm in which human flourishing plays a central role in the assessment of national and global progress. It shows why the traditional national income approach is limited as a measure of human wellbeing.

The ancient philosopher Aristotle often points to the idea that everything one does must move toward what he calls a “telos,” what we might call an “end goal.” To live well, he says, we must always be paying attention to the telos of what we are doing, and according to him, there is no higher telos than human flourishing. But how does one learn to flourish in a culture that often seems to care more about being right than being good, more about being loud than being loving, and more about being successful than being happy? We've featured a variety of Most Outstanding people, from poets ...

Welcome to Futures of Education! We're an inter-generational podcast - in collaboration with Harvard's Human Flourishing Program - and at the forefront of collaborations to co-create new visions for the future of education. Each month is based on one of 5 themes from a pioneering futures framework by Professor Keri Facer (2022): 1. Education about the future. E.G. what is futures thinking and how can we use it to enhance our capacities in the present? 2. Education for the Future. E.G. What sort of education to we need to prepare us for imagined futures? 3. Education in the future. E.G. What ...