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Reads from 2012

Pedaling Progress: The Dutch Queen Juliana Riding a Bike, 1967
Pedaling Progress: The Dutch Queen Juliana Riding a Bike, 1967

The pursuit of national happiness on two wheels.

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The Science of Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
The Science of Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

What the greatest mystery of science has to do with this moment we share, right now.

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A.A. Milne on Happiness and How Winnie-the-Pooh Was Born
A.A. Milne on Happiness and How Winnie-the-Pooh Was Born

On rainy days and the simplicity of happiness.

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The Solar System Set to Music: A Near-Perpetual Homage to Bach
The Solar System Set to Music: A Near-Perpetual Homage to Bach

532.25 septendecillion years of fugue, or what Pluto has to do with the longest palindrome in existence.

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The Letters of Greats: From Ernest Hemingway to Georgia O’Keeffe, a Glimpse of Famous Correspondence
The Letters of Greats: From Ernest Hemingway to Georgia O’Keeffe, a Glimpse of Famous Correspondence

Lessons in love via post, or what Hemingway’s soft side has to do with Maurice Sendak’s early genius.

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Gorgeous Vintage Swiss Stamps from the 1940s-1970s
Gorgeous Vintage Swiss Stamps from the 1940s-1970s

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Woz on Creativity: Work Alone
Woz on Creativity: Work Alone

Groupthink, the origin of originality, and why most inventors are like artists.

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The Greatest Grid: How Manhattan’s Famous Street Map Came to Be
The Greatest Grid: How Manhattan’s Famous Street Map Came to Be

What Edgar Allan Poe, the Dead Rabbits, and Charles Dickens have to do with New York’s defining feature.

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Babel No More: Inside the Secrets of Superhuman Language-Learners
Babel No More: Inside the Secrets of Superhuman Language-Learners

What a Chilean YouTube disaster and a busy Manhattan restaurant have to do with the limits of the human brain.

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Manuel Lima on the Power of Knowledge Networks in the Age of Infinite Connectivity
Manuel Lima on the Power of Knowledge Networks in the Age of Infinite Connectivity

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