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Tweeting With the Stars Volume 8: Derek Mears
This is Derek Mears: He was a predator in Predators, is Kickpuncher, and is best known as the latest Jason Voorhees. He is a badass. Derek Mears is also hilarious on Twitter. There is something amusing and encouraging about people who don’t seem normal actually being really normal. Like when 50 Cent used to chatter…
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Book Review: Moonwalking with Einstein, by Joshua Foer
Memory is often taken for granted in a world where paper and transistors store information better than neurons ever could. Moonwalking With Einstein shines a much-needed light on the art of memorization. It could have been a dry collection of basic science and light philosophy on the subject, but Foer makes it riveting by telling…
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One Thousand Posts
This is my one thousandth post here.1 With every post at a few hundred words, that is several textbooks’ worth of rambling. When I invented blogging circa 1995, I never thought it would go this far. Of course, blogging has also taken a step back. We now have a word for a whole category of…
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