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Mashup Score: 0How J. Robert Oppenheimer Was Influenced by the Bhagavad Gita - 10 month(s) ago
My mother read the Bhagavad Gita every day as part of her morning rituals. Belonging to the last generation of Indians born into colonialism, she had trained as a clinical psychologist but learned …
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Mashup Score: 0The Most-Rejected Books of All Time - 10 month(s) ago
Tis (almost) the season for resolutions. If you’re a writer, here’s an idea: resolve to get rejected. 100 times this year, if you’re lucky. After all, some very famous books (and …
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Did you know that the 1st books by Robert Pirsig, Elmore Leonard, Samuel Beckett, James Patterson, Stephen King, John Grisham, Joseph Heller, and Anne Frank were rejected respectively 121, 84, 40, 31, 30, 28, 22, and 15 times before getting published? https://t.co/t3kohaf6Co https://t.co/nO0q67a9Wa
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Mashup Score: 0What to Do If Your House is Overflowing with Books - 10 month(s) ago
As a feng shui consultant and design magazine editor and lifelong book obsessive, I am often asked by clients what to do when a collection of books moves from a state of abundance into what feels l…
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What to Do If Your House is Overflowing with Books https://t.co/EHIzGv0hNB via @lithub
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Mashup Score: 0The Ultimate Summer 2023 Reading List - 10 month(s) ago
This summer’s Official Online Brand may be up in the air (may I suggest “Long Nap Summer”?), but one thing is for sure: there are many, many books coming out. Which one deserves s…
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The Ultimate Summer 2023 Reading List https://t.co/h1SgqsD1MX via @lithub
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When the gentleman-scholar Francis Galton inspected his fellow men of Victorian Britain, he found them wanting: “We want abler commanders, statesmen, thinkers, inventors, and artists,” he wrote in…
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Francis Galton’s efforts to understand human differences were rooted in eugenics. The impact of his approach can be seen in more recent efforts to understand individuals through aggregated Internet data. @nescioquid @chrishwiggins https://t.co/rY2P6Yk7k1
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Mashup Score: 18If AI, Web3.0, and the Metaverse Are Utopian Pipe Dreams, What Internet Innovation Can Actually Help Save the World? - 1 year(s) ago
Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, righ…
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RT @Xbond49: [Video] If #AI, #Web3, and the #Metaverse are #utopian pipe #dreams https://t.co/bss23RdURo #fintech #MachineLearning #Blockch…
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Mashup Score: 1Crypto nerd Sam Bankman-Fried, who just lost $16 billion, “would never read a book.” - 1 year(s) ago
Look, it’s easy to dunk on nerd-bro crypto evangelists… So let’s! In a September profile of brand new poor person Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, he makes it pretty c…
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“I’m very skeptical of books. I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that. I think, if you wrote a book, you f… up, it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.” See: Wittgenstein’s ruler! https://t.co/ojZAgTQbYY
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Mashup Score: 0Meet the 2022 National Book Award Finalists - 1 year(s) ago
The winners of the 73rd National Book Awards—given every year in Young People’s Literature, Translation, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction—will be announced next week in a ceremony hosted by Padma La…
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Meet the 2022 National Book Award Finalists https://t.co/rpiKloBOWw via @lithub
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Mashup Score: 30How Humans Came To Discover the Unseen World of Cells - 2 year(s) ago
“In the sum of the parts, there are only the parts. The world must be measured by eye.” –Wallace Stevens * “The world must be measured by eye.” Modern genetics was launched by the practice of agric…
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And another excerpt: https://t.co/cxOlZUOYls
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Mashup Score: 1How Modern is The Waste Land, After All? - 2 year(s) ago
I was not expecting to learn anything new about Van Gogh when one sunny summer afternoon, along with my family, I joined the throngs of tourists at the eponymous museum in Amsterdam. Half an hour i…
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My thoughts on what critics keep missing about The Waste Land 100 years later. Thanks Emily Firetog & @lithub! How Modern is The Waste Land, After All? https://t.co/uwGSfY5bjJ via @lithub
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My thoughts on Oppenheimer + dharma, in anticipation of the movie. Thanks, @lithub, for publishing! https://t.co/dTmG9mD2If via @lithub