Interesting reads about a variety of topics
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Kevin Kelly: The Case for Optimism
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We’re going to need a lot of solar panels
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Antifragility
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Transcending capitalism: three different ways?
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Transcending capitalism: three different ways?
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The importance of Taleb’s system: from the Fourth Quadrant to the Skin in the Game
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How Mushrooms Can Save the World
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Ergodicity – The odd word with important implications for investors
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The Art of Research – A History by Vi Hart
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How language shapes the way we think
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Joshua Foer: Step Outside Your Comfort Zone and Study Yourself Failing
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How to speak so that people want to listen | Julian Treasure
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Learning from dirty jobs | Mike Rowe
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How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory
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Evolving Floorplans
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How China Plans to Feed 1.4 Billion Growing Appetites
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This Tiny Country Feeds the World
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Don’t Eat Before Reading This
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Why Men Love War
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Isaac Asimov Asks, How Do People Get New Ideas?
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The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges
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The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it
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Reality has a surprising amount of detail
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The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority
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Deep dive: What we are learning from the language of whales | James Nestor
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A Five Minutes Guide to Better Typography
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How to Simulate the Universe in 134 Easy Steps
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Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’
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How language can affect the way we think
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Why We Are Self Publishing the Aviary Cookbook
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Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
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Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting biodegradable solution to plastic pollution
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Why the Industrial Revolution didn’t happen in China
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Argentina On Two Steaks A Day
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The Jelly Bean Problem
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Why Japan’s Rail Workers Can’t Stop Pointing at Things
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Software Engineer Starts Unlikely Business: A Weekly Newspaper
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They Used To Last 50 Years
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How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains
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The story of a designer conquering mathematics.
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Let's Colonize Titan
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Horizontal History by Wait But Why
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Music Theory - An Interactive Guide from First Principles
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The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
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Oceans and Clay
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When A Stranger’s Heart Beats Inside You: A Heart Transplant Patient Gains Perspective After His Surgery
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The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothing Ever Again
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How frigatebirds cross entire oceans without ever needing to rest
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Religion for the Nonreligious
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These Students Are Developing Bacteria That Eats Our Plastic Pollution
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The New World Order Is Ruled By Global Corporations And Megacities—Not Countries
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Why Cash Is Worth Fighting For
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Zebra vs Horses
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Today’s teens are better than you, and we can prove it
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From Muhammad to ISIS: Iraq’s Full Story
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How to Raise a Creative Child
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How These Young Rwandan Architects Are Redesigning Their Country
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Basic Income
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This Design For A Dense City Lets You Walk From Roof To Roof
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When Philosophy Lost Its Way
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Engineering A Vegan Steak Even A Carnivore Would Love
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The Deal With the Hyperloop
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The Deal With Solar
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How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars
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How Tesla Will Change The World
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Humans should learn maths
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How to Beat Procrastination
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Why Procrastinators Procrastinate
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What You Can Do About Climate Change
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The Lowline, New York's First Underground Park, Is Taking Shape (Slowly)
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This Apartment Is Designed To Pop Up In Parking Lots Or Abandoned Buildings
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Losing sight
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Protecting the Last Homes of the Giants
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Meet The (Other) Musk Brother, Who Wants To Change The World Of Food
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Jeong Kwan, the Philosopher Chef
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It’s Not Climate Change — It’s Everything Change
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The Reign of Recycling
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What Are Traffic Waves and Why Do They Happen So Much?
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These Beautiful Photos Are Fighting Old Stereotypes About Africa
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The Philosopher Who Says We Should Play God
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A Game of Shark and Minnow
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Off the Grid, But Still Online
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This Robot-Run Indoor Farm Can Grow 10 Million Heads Of Lettuce A Year
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Google Is Planning For A Zero-Waste, Circular Economy
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Why Is Art Expensive?
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Schopenhauer on the art of not reading
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The Fermi Paradox — Where Are All The Aliens?
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What Is Life? Is Death Real?
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This London Underground Farm Grows Salad In A WWII Bomb Shelter
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Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man
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The Socratic Method
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When the End of Human Civilization Is Your Day Job
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Meditation: Why Bother?
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How Giving Up Refined Sugar Changed My Brain
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This Startup Is Reimagining Shower Design
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The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
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Ryan Estrada — Learn to Read Korean in 15 Minutes
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Why can’t we readanymore?
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An introduction to economics under capitalism
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Burma's bizarre capital: a super-sized slice of post-apocalypse suburbia
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What is Meditation and How It Affects Our Brains
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How to walk through walls using the 4th Dimension
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The truth behind China’s Underground Wholesale Markets.
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The Day I Stopped Saying 'Hurry Up'
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Lessons from working 6 months on a math problem (and failing)
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News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier