bibliotech
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Inside The Song Machine: How Today’s Hits Are Manufactured
Who are the hit makers? They are enormously influential culture shapers — the Spielbergs and Lucases of our national headphones — and yet they are mostly anonymous.
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RIP Oliver Sacks: 7 Must-Read Works About Our Beautiful Brains
In the past day you may have seen the internet lighting up with appreciations for the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks. He died earlier this week at age 82, leaving behind a lifetime of illuminating writing that helped us to understand our own brains as beautiful, imperfect machines. Here are a few of our favourite…
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Read The First Chapter Of Neal Stephenson’s New Novel, Seveneves
The following excerpt is chapter one from Neal Stephenson’s new novel, Seveneves. Stephenson is also the author of the novels Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and Anathem.
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Why Is The Paper Clip Shaped Like It Is?
When you think of paper clips, you immediately think of a specific form — the familiar round-ended, double-loop design. The wire trombone shape. But that’s only one variety of clip; the “Gem,” which gets its name from a British company called Gem Manufacturing Limited, which, even if it wasn’t directly involved with the development of…