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Recall a time in your life when you thought to yourself, "I can't do this." Obviously, you got through it: you're here! What pulled you through that seemingly impossible moment? This episode is meant to offer you ammunition for overcoming your next daunting moment. Links Winged Victory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_Victory_of_Samothrace Michelangelo's David: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_(Michelangelo) Luc Travers's Touching the Art: www.luctravers.com

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Why do we work to promote a philosophy of Objectivism? Part of it is to help usher in a new cultural and technological Renaissance, including space exploration! What's the latest? Links: https://www.popsci.com/how-to-become-a-space-tourist

Meal Train for Corey and his family: https://www.mealtrain.com/trains/20q617/updates/ Free the Healtcare Market: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqsoWxJ-qmMvIQy08C_I3B6BXFiyedQ5L Ayn Rand on the Biggest Threat to America: https://youtu.be/5aa9KDsL4-I

Links “Isabella and the Pot of Basil” by John White Alexander: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Isabella_and_the_Pot_of_Basil.jpg “The Kiss” by Rodin http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/wm/live/1280_640/images/live/p0/38/hp/p038hp6g.jpg “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil” by John Keats https://www.bartleby.com/126/38.html Luc Travers’s “Touching the Art” approach https://www.luctravers.com/ Lisa Van Damme’s “Falling in Love with Poetry” http://fallinginlovewithpoetry.com/...

Links Van Damme Academy Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/VanDammeAcademy Lisa Van Damme’s blog, “Pygmalion of the Soul”: http://lisavandamme.com Lisa Van Damme’s reading group, “Read With Me”: https://readwithmebookgroup.com David Brook’s article, “Love Story”: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/opinion/brooks-love-story.html “To You, Remembering the Past” by Christopher Morley: WHEN we were parted, sweet, and darkness came, I used to strike a match, and hold the flame Before...

Here are the links to which I refer in the episode: "Campus Speech: Why Reason When I Can Riot?" http://newideal.aynrand.org/campus-speech-why-reason-when-i-can-riot/ "THE STUDENT “REBELLION” AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY" https://campus.aynrand.org/works/1968/01/01/the-student-rebellion-at-columbia-university/page1 "POV: AYN RAND INTERVIEWED ON THE VALUE OF EDUCATION"...

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Let's hop into the Way-Back Machine and revisit our episode on entertainment from an Objectivist perspective

Most don't think of "Atlas Shrugged" as a romance, yet the love relationships offer the most unique, life-affirming, exaltant scenes in fiction. In this episode, these scenes are contrasted to similar scenes in popular "romance" novels to underscore the prevailing views of romance and sex, and the unique vision Ayn Rand offers for both.

How did Ayn Rand regard NASA and space exploration? How has the landscape of space exploration changed since she wrote about it? How might space exploration evolve, and for what should we advocate?

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In their attacks on the validity of patents and copyrights, Rothbardian anarchist libertarians and even the Chicago school of economics claim that such IP rights are invalid because private property rights only apply to resources that are tangible and therefore "scarce," scarce" meaning that there is a finite number of units of that resource on the market at any given time. Since intellectual property is intangible, they claim, patents and copyrights protect creations that are not "scarce."...

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What are some of the hottest medical innovation? Where does the US figure in these advancements? How does the innovation landscape look going forward?

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