May 2012
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free range eggs | The Truth About Your Eggs |... →
Incredibly useful.
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What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with...
– Carl Sagan, on books
There is something about holding an organized pile of wood pulp and dried ink that gives the reader a shared stake in the author’s experience, some small part-ownership of a piece of information. “This is mine, and although the words in it are not, the experience is purely...
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“Do you prefer a book that makes you laugh or makes you cry? One that teaches...
– I answer questions in the New York Times Sunday Book Review (via neil-gaiman)
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[The] average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and [we] have about two...
– The Storytelling Animal – the science of how we came to live and breathe stories. (via explore-blog)
Some interesting science pointing to daydreams as a crucible of creativity. (via jtotheizzoe)
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Too Soon Gilbert Gottfried - watch more funny videos
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An excerpt from an email from my friend Lauren,...
“Everything Wants to Eat my Plants. EVERYTHING. When I first arrived in the country the lizards were one of my favorite things about Burkina. I love how their thick leathery skin reminds me of Halloween, fading from spray tan orange to stormy gray and inky black. I love watching them scurry up walls, stopping every few seconds to bob up and down as though doing push-ups. They look...
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W. W. Norton: Don't make the world worse →
wwnorton:
I know that I’m supposed to tell you to aspire to great things. But I’m going to lower the bar here: Just don’t use your prodigious talents to mess things up. Too many smart people are doing that already. And if you really want to cause social mayhem, it helps to have an Ivy League degree. You are smart and motivated and creative. Everyone will tell you that you can change the world....
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Rhetological Fallacies →
Bookmark this bitch.
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