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  1. The most moving thing I’ve seen in a long time – this young man from Uganda has a modern-day Helen Keller moment

  2. How to tell love from lust – E.B. White and James Thurber's playful, poignant 1929 litmus test

  3. Astronomer Vera Rubin, who was rejected by Princeton for being a woman but went on to confirm dark matter,is 87 today

  4. “Writers…have to fight the impulse to live up to someone else’s idea of what they are.” Happy bday, Raymond Chandler

  5. 20 intelligent and imaginative children’s books celebrating science

  6. A beautiful illustrated meditation on memory and its imperfections, inspired by Borges

  7. Aldous Huxley on mind-body integration and how to get out of your own light

  8. C.S. Lewis on why we read – so very wonderful

  9. "Sit. Feast on your life." Derek Walcott's poetic ode to being at home in ourselves

  10. For Raymond Chandler’s birthday, the only surviving recording of his voice—a great BBC conversation with Ian Fleming

  11. "The names we give ourselves are a powerful form of self-determination, of declaring ourselves sovereign territory.”

  12. For Raymond Chandler’s birthday, his wisdom on writing culled from a lifetime of letters

  13. Happy 87th birthday, Vera Rubin! The pioneering astronomer on science, stereotypes and success

  14. How naming confers dignity upon life and gives meaning to existence – beautiful, unusual read

  15. The rebellious and revolutionary life of Galileo, illustrated

  16. The sweet things beloved authors wrote about their pets in letters and journals

  17. A commemorative postage stamp celebrating Dante’s 750th birthday? Yes, please! (More than hypothetical, please.)

  18. T.S. Eliot reads the immeasurably delightful “The Naming of Cats” in a rare 1947 recording

  19. Chills. A teenage girl’s extraordinary letter to Mary Oliver about how a poem saved her life

  20. Ounce Dice Trice—marvelous children’s book celebrating the whimsy of words with imaginative names for everyday things

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