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They were new gypsies, young men and women who knew only their own language, handsome specimens with oily skins and intelligent hands, whose dances and music sowed a panic of uproarious joy through the streets, with parrots painted all colors reciting Italian arias, and a hen who laid a hundred golden eggs to the sound…
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nevver: Again
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Gene Wolfe on my book “Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town”
mostlysignssomeportents: SOMEONE COMES TO TOWN, SOMEONE LEAVES TOWN is a glorious book, but there are hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read. – Gene Wolfe Read the rest… It gave me wonderfully strange dreams. Read it!
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The man who brought us the lithium-ion battery at the age of 57 has an idea for a new one at 92
The man who brought us the lithium-ion battery at the age of 57 has an idea for a new one at 92 In 1980, Goodenough, a whip-smart physicist then aged 57, invented lithium-ion’s nervous system. His brainchild was the cobalt-oxide cathode, the single most important component of every lithium-ion battery. From Mogadishu to Pago Pago,…
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carryonsimon: This just in: JK Rowling plays Minecraft and I’m crying about it just a lil bit
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realmikkipedia: Hi it just took me and @lalevine to make Anne Hathaway happy. @refinery29 !
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panicinthestudio: Michelangelo Pistoletto – “The labyrinth”, 1969-2007 2100 m of corrugated cardboard at Galleria Continua, Beijing, 2008 Photo credit: Michael Reynolds/EPA
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thinkvr: Rocket Fuel Brings Artificial Intelligence to Marketing EffectivenessBruce Rogers, forbes.com A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape. Data-driven digital marketing is big business. According to eMarketer some 55% of all digital advertising dollars will be driven by programmatic…
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brucesterling: https://www.gov.uk/design-principles *They’re just the British government, what the heck do they know