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Interestingness hunter-gatherer obsessed with combinatorial creativity. Editor of @brainpickings & @explorer. Bylines for @WiredUK & @TheAtlantic. MIT Fellow.
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Why Tolstoy is 11.6% better than Shakespeare – the greatest books of all time, voted by 125 famous contemporary authors http://t.co/XFmN12Ub
Freddie Mercury would've been 65 today – celebrate with 5 unusual covers of Bohemian Rhapsody http://j.mp/fikkPV
Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, The Ugly Duckling, and other classic children's stories as minimalist posters http://t.co/zsr54jp8
Animals like you've never seen them before, through the eyes of 5 fine art photographers http://t.co/a4Tft8KU
"They're not looking for liquids, they're not looking at your shoes. They just look at you." How Israel does airports http://is.gd/hef0X
If you missed this treasure trove ☞ Gorgeous vintage posters from The Golden Age of Travel, 1910-1959 http://t.co/H7mrvtnd
The best thing I've seen so far this year: John Steinbeck's 1958 letter of advice on falling in love to his teenage son http://t.co/WNfOHoAH
"Less time separates us from Tyrannosaurus rex than separated T. rex from Stegosaurus." A lesson in time scales http://t.co/X00n6Rre
Wow. Vintage propaganda ads against the terrible menace of recorded sound, seen as a threat to musicians in the 1930s http://t.co/aJV9l7Y2
"You don’t stop doing things because you get old. You get old because you stop doing things.” ~ Rosamunde Pilcher http://t.co/FnkpxT9C
So great. The White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" recreated with sounds from a working science lab http://t.co/BEzlRBge
‘Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.’ And John Cleese has 5 secrets to mastering it http://t.co/PUSCSBrK
If you missed it last month, it's a gem: Paris vs. New York, in minimalist illustrated portraits of cultural difference http://t.co/FWkYGWvk
This took my breath away – ballet dancers in ultra-slow-motion, at 1000 fps, to the sound of Radiohead http://t.co/SqC4XyYK