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RIP Noam Chomsky.
He’s contributed so much (formal grammars ftw!) but his Manufacturing Consent model of media is severely underrated and is crucial to understanding how the world works. https://t.co/1BVKkxZkux
Amjad Masadx.com
“What our readers hunger for,” I was told by Clifton Fadiman, a pillar of the club’s board of judges from 1944 until his death in 1999, “is books that explain. William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich explained a whole age to us.” A majority of the club’s biggest sellers, Fadiman pointed out, have been books that readers found
... See moreWilliam Zinsser • Writing Places: The Life Journey of a Writer and Teacher
YouTube EDU blows almost all TV out of the water. But James Burke makes us all look like amateurs.
Hank Greenx.com
Audiences would have never suspected that Proteus and the Sphinx were the same trick.
Teller Jim Steinmeyer • Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
At a time when the Victorians prided themselveson science and rationality, the two quiet young men from Buffalo, New York began a confusing debate about just how honest a magician needed to be or could afford to be.