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She’d once called her autism her special asset—“my microscope, telescope, and laser, put together.”
Richard Powers • Bewilderment: A Novel
What we believe is, in large part, how we are.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
How Sleep No More Changed Theater Forever, for Better and for Worse
Patients often ask me about matters not within my expertise.
Suzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
Annie Murphy Paul • Opinion | Your Brain on Fiction (Published 2012)
Flynn’s conclusion: “There is no sign that any department attempts to develop [anything] other than narrow critical competence.”
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
These incidents of “political correctness,” amplified by right-wing media, whipped up hatred of elites out in Real America. The culture wars raged on, as bloody-minded and durable as the Thirty Years’ War, a full-employment program for pundits of every type. Some worried about a generation of ultra-sensitive children coddled by ultra-indulgent adul
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
“Probably fine” is not a number. The books were the same way.