100 Books

via Ian. 100 books The Big Read, an initiative by the National Endowment for the Arts, has estimated that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. How do you do? 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.2) Italicize those you intend to read.3) Underline

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Diamond Age

It’s always interesting to see how long it takes the world to catch up with Neal Stephenson. Maybe that’s why he’s been writing about the past – to give us time. Diamonds that Fool Experts Grown in the Lab – Smithsonian Magazine It’s because of these admittedly unglamorous properties that lab-produced diamonds have the potential

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JK Rowling’s Harvard Commencement Address.

Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can’t remember

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