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Reader/writer. Founder of @brainpickings. MIT Fellow.
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The most moving thing I’ve seen in a long time – this young man from Uganda has a modern-day Helen Keller moment http://buff.ly/1MnIDSx
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How to tell love from lust – E.B. White and James Thurber's playful, poignant 1929 litmus test http://buff.ly/1Kn5vSA pic.twitter.com/x9lt4tOA0x
12:09 PM - 23 Jul 2015 · Details -
Astronomer Vera Rubin, who was rejected by Princeton for being a woman but went on to confirm dark matter,is 87 today http://buff.ly/1IgtV9I
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“Writers…have to fight the impulse to live up to someone else’s idea of what they are.” Happy bday, Raymond Chandler http://buff.ly/1gQjfss
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20 intelligent and imaginative children’s books celebrating science http://buff.ly/1CSlc1O pic.twitter.com/CfuJcBsnce
10:02 AM - 23 Jul 2015 · Details -
A beautiful illustrated meditation on memory and its imperfections, inspired by Borges http://buff.ly/1HUNXri pic.twitter.com/4IpCZr1cpP
9:31 AM - 23 Jul 2015 · Details -
Aldous Huxley on mind-body integration and how to get out of your own light http://buff.ly/1TTRJIW pic.twitter.com/qEUu75rCqv
9:02 AM - 23 Jul 2015 · Details -
C.S. Lewis on why we read – so very wonderful http://buff.ly/1MKtxo9 pic.twitter.com/L3BUAgpoZP
8:35 AM - 23 Jul 2015 · Details -
"Sit. Feast on your life." Derek Walcott's poetic ode to being at home in ourselves http://buff.ly/1MmWetg pic.twitter.com/jtIRecbCYI
8:02 AM - 23 Jul 2015 · Details -
For Raymond Chandler’s birthday, the only surviving recording of his voice—a great BBC conversation with Ian Fleming http://buff.ly/1GGy0mJ
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"The names we give ourselves are a powerful form of self-determination, of declaring ourselves sovereign territory.” http://buff.ly/1gQ0x4g
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For Raymond Chandler’s birthday, his wisdom on writing culled from a lifetime of letters http://buff.ly/1KmvyXi pic.twitter.com/kCpHGDrKBz
6:31 AM - 23 Jul 2015 · Details -
Happy 87th birthday, Vera Rubin! The pioneering astronomer on science, stereotypes and success http://buff.ly/1IfLhDM pic.twitter.com/QpGtZl2PKu
6:02 AM - 23 Jul 2015 · Details -
How naming confers dignity upon life and gives meaning to existence – beautiful, unusual read http://buff.ly/1HLrxL5 pic.twitter.com/aM4dugQHgf
5:30 AM - 23 Jul 2015 · Details -
The rebellious and revolutionary life of Galileo, illustrated http://buff.ly/1eiqKGS pic.twitter.com/xUpAJ8HwHk
5:01 AM - 23 Jul 2015 · Details -
The sweet things beloved authors wrote about their pets in letters and journals http://buff.ly/1JgolcA pic.twitter.com/OEWlfLiSW1
8:32 PM - 22 Jul 2015 · Details -
A commemorative postage stamp celebrating Dante’s 750th birthday? Yes, please! (More than hypothetical, please.) http://buff.ly/1g73fCz
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T.S. Eliot reads the immeasurably delightful “The Naming of Cats” in a rare 1947 recording http://buff.ly/1g6NjQO pic.twitter.com/QlUmBzGem8
7:32 PM - 22 Jul 2015 · Details -
Chills. A teenage girl’s extraordinary letter to Mary Oliver about how a poem saved her life http://buff.ly/1Jg6faK
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Ounce Dice Trice—marvelous children’s book celebrating the whimsy of words with imaginative names for everyday things http://buff.ly/1JgaVxm
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