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Love in the Age of Data: How One Woman Hacked Her Way to Happily Ever After

Reverse-engineering the algorithms of romance, one picky data point at a time.

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How Lantern Slides Revolutionized Education: A Protein Story

When an old entertainment technology brought the world to the lecture hall, bridging science and art.

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What Is Love? Great Definitions from 400 Years of Great Literature

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.”

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100 Diagrams That Changed the World

A visual history of human sensemaking, from cave paintings to the world wide web.

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The Best History Books of 2012

From Mark Twain’s diary to the visual history of evolution, by way of Vonnegut, Sontag, and Klimt.

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This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers on the Most Elegant Theory of How the World Works

“The greatest pleasure in science comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way.”

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The Art of Richard Feynman: The Great Physicist’s Little-Known Sketches and Drawings, Collected by His Daughter

“I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world…this feeling about the glories of the universe.”

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The Best Books of 2012: Your 10 Overall Favorites

From children’s existential questions to 100 ideas that changed graphic design, by way of Yayoi Kusama and illustrated scientific mysteries.

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How to Give a Great Presentation: Timeless Advice from a Legendary Adman, 1981

“No speech was ever too short.”

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The Best Illustrated Children’s Books and Picture Books of 2012

From Indian folk art to neuroscience, by way of Saul Bass, James Joyce, and die-cut Cold War allegories.

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Search results for “math”

Reverse-engineering the algorithms of romance, one picky data point at a time.

When an old entertainment technology brought the world to the lecture hall, bridging science and art.

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only with what you are expecting to give — which is everything.”

A visual history of human sensemaking, from cave paintings to the world wide web.

From Mark Twain’s diary to the visual history of evolution, by way of Vonnegut, Sontag, and Klimt.

“The greatest pleasure in science comes from theories that derive the solution to some deep puzzle from a small set of simple principles in a surprising way.”

“I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world…this feeling about the glories of the universe.”

From children’s existential questions to 100 ideas that changed graphic design, by way of Yayoi Kusama and illustrated scientific mysteries.

“No speech was ever too short.”

From Indian folk art to neuroscience, by way of Saul Bass, James Joyce, and die-cut Cold War allegories.

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