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Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Aberration of Starlight
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
we cannot assume that everything interesting is at the same scale as ourselves.
John Brockman • This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)
In the three-dimensional world of the deep ocean, above and below matter as much as in front and behind.
Ed Yong • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Joshua Foer, “Moonwalking with Einstein” (2011)
Michael Nielsen • Augmenting Long-Term Memory
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