It's not just the intermittent reward-driven addictiveness of modern user experiences. These simply leverage facets of our own nature that existed long ago. In the village, we perked up our ears to ...

I have been studying phenomena of ghosts for over 25 years; I have been hunting ghost for over 10 of these years. I still cannot say my any means that I am an expert, truthfully no one can. There ...

But is this always a good thing? In The Digital Human: Bliss Aleks Krotoski asks, are there some things that we'd be better off not knowing? Is ignorance bliss? Is it better to be uninformed if ...

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In “Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know,” he argues that “we are creatures who want to know and not to know.” The repudiation of knowledge is every bit as central to human ...

Rick McKee provides a context for the quote, “Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise,” by Thomas Gray, who wrote a ...

“Our knowledge is such a small thing, but our ignorance is boundless,” he said. “It is better to identify with the ignorant than the knowledgeable, because knowledge implies a boundar ...

Ignorance is bliss, according to Nicolas Philibert, director of BAFTA nominee "To Be and to Have" and Berlin best film winner "On the Adamant," discussing his approach to documentary filmmaking at ...

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest city administrator of them all? Litchfield city councilors didn’t resort to sorcery during their last meeting, but asking a mirror for ...

I am thankful to my grandma for artifacting such a special memory for us. Living in ignorance was a blessing. Every Christmas, I pack my bags disregarding the inexistent sheep that might be waiting ...

In “Ignorance and Bliss,” Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University, suggests that our passionate quest for knowledge is inextricable from our anxious retreat from ignorance.