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    20 Nov 2018

    Thrilled to announce a labor of love 8 years (!!) in the making: "A Velocity of Being" — a collection of illustrated letters to children about why we read and how books shape our character by 121 of the most inspiring people in our world:

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    Oh Camus. He was married. Had a two week long affair with a woman who he wrote regular love letters to for 12 years, only to finally one day decide he didn't want to live another day without her. He died en route to her. Lesson: Don't wait

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  3. Louis Braille was born 210 years ago today. The illustrated story of his extraordinary life, his legacy, and how he changed millions of other lives when he was only a child

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  4. Albert Camus—who died 59 years ago today in a car crash, with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket—on our search for meaning and why happiness is our moral obligation

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  5. On Louis Braille's birthday, "The Black Book of Colors" – a lyrical empathy tool for the sighted to experience the world as the blind do

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  6. “If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them … they could perceive what they have made of us.” Remembering Camus, who died on this day in 1960

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  7. Albert Camus died on this day in 1960 in a car crash. Four years earlier, after becoming the second-youngest Nobel laureate, he sent his childhood teacher this touching letter of gratitude:

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  8. “Some books are toolkits you take up to fix things, from the most practical to the most mysterious, from your house to your heart, or to make things, from cakes to ships. Some books are wings… Some books are medicine, bitter but clarifying.”

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  9. Albert Camus – who died 59 years ago today in a car crash, with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket – on our search for meaning and why happiness is our moral obligation

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  10. I Regard With Compassion, Therefore I Am – Descartes on the key to nobility of character and the crucial difference between pride and self-esteem

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  11. We are terribly bad at predicting our most transformative experiences. And that's good news.

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  13. Camus died on this day in 1960, only four years after becoming the second-youngest Nobel laureate. His undying wisdom on the only antidote to violence:

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    Jan 2

    Looking at this collage, it's easy to imagine how planetesimals coalesce and build up to the size of planetary cores. Curious about the role of ices. Do we know the ice-to-rock fraction for each of these objects? Also, I had no idea 67P was so much smaller than Ultima Thule!

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  15. "Standing on the shoulders of giants." On Newton's birthday, the real story behind the famous metaphor he popularized (but didn't, maybe, exactly, originate)

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  16. “To create today is to create dangerously… The question, for all those who cannot live without art…, is merely to find out how, among the police forces of so many ideologies… the strange liberty of creation is possible.” Camus died on this day in 1960:

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  17. Rebecca Solnit's lovely letter to children about how books solace, empower, and transform us

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  18. Albert Camus died on this day in 1960 in a car crash, with an unused train ticket in his pocket, and left us his timeless, increasingly timely wisdom on strength of character through difficult times:

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  19. Jan 3

    “Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.”

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  20. Jan 3

    Tolkien was born on this day in 1892. Before he wrote "The Lord of the Rings," he wrote and illustrated this little-known and lovely children's book for his own kids, inspired by his first car, then used two of the names from it in LoTR

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  21. Jan 3

    How do you hold on to your creative vision and conviction in the face of criticism, even by people you respect, without coming undone by self-doubt? Here is how Whitman did it in his encounter with his greatest hero, Emerson:

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