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  See-through fish reminds us that nature is way, way weirder than we can cope with

  grist.org - Sarah Laskow

  Those dark circles on the front of its face? Those aren't eyes ... The Pacific barreleye fish has a has a see-through head. And that’s not just so it …

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  Young vs. Old, Male vs. Female, Intuition vs. Intellect: Susan Sontag on How the Stereotypes and Polarities of Culture Imprison Us

  brainpickings.org - By Maria Popova

  “Identity is something that you are constantly earning,” Joss Whedon observed in his fantastic Wesleyan commencement address on our inner …

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  Ray Bradbury on How List-Making Can Boost Your Creativity

  brainpickings.org - By Maria Popova

  Susan Sontag argued that lists confer value and guarantee our existence. Umberto Eco saw in them “the origin of culture.” But lists, it turns out, …

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  The Art of Thought: A Pioneering 1926 Model of the Four Stages of Creativity

  brainpickings.org - By Maria Popova

  In 1926, thirteen years before James Webb Young’s Technique for Producing Ideas and more than three decades before Arthur Koestler’s seminal …

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  Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to the Book”

  brainpickings.org - By Maria Popova

  “A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic,” cosmic sage Carl Sagan memorably proclaimed. Books, indeed, are worthy of the deepest …

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  marie m

  Jul 7, 2013