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The Emerging Oil Crisis and Player One
Douglas Coupland on the psychological fallout As today’s oil crisis unfolds, Douglas Coupland’s […]
The Molecule of More by Daniel Lieberman and Michael Long
Dopamine makes promises that it is in no position to keep Three books have profoundly shaped my […]
The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham
Spiritual Enlightenment is Post-Literate The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham is the story of […]
For Ted Smith, and for his Children, now Adults
Divine is a short work with a larger story before its publication — and a tender real-life epilogue […]
Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt
Our universe may have started as a hack in a physicist’s lab Why is there something rather than […]