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In Praise of Idleness — Bertrand Russell on Misguided Action and Topsy-Turvy Economics
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What’s Eating the Universe? Paul Davies on Cosmic Eggs and Blundering Atoms
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The Trusted Advisor — David Maister on Credibility and Self-Orientation
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How We Learn — Stanislas Dehaene on Education and the Brain
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Catching the Big Fish — David Lynch on Creativity and Cinema
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Guns, Germs, and Steel — Jared Diamond on the Axis of History
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Sculpting in Time — Andrei Tarkovsky on Art, Cinema and Society
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The Dragons of Eden — Carl Sagan on Limbic Doctrines and Our Bargain with Nature
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Musical Chairs, Ski Lifts, Thermostats, and Other Mental Models — Thomas Schelling
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Terror, Love, and Brainwashing — Alexandra Stein on Cults and Totalist Systems
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The Unexpected Universe — Loren Eiseley on Star Throwers and Incidental Triumphs
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On Humbug, Bullshit and Hot Air — Notes from Max Black and Harry Frankfurt
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Donald Murray on the Apprentice Mindset and Return to Discovery
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Walden — Henry David Thoreau on Simplicity and Home-Cosmography
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Micromotives and Macrobehavior — Thomas Schelling on the Locks and Meshes of Economics
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The Hidden Half — Michael Blastland on the Unexpected Anomalies of Life
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At the Center of All Beauty — Fenton Johnson on the Solitary and Creative Life
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Arguing with Zombies — Paul Krugman on Bad Models and False Idols
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Bridges to Infinity — Michael Guillen on the Boundlessness of Life and Discovery
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Status Anxiety — Alain de Botton on Ego and Our Place in Society
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Raghuram Rajan on Financial Development and the Making of a Riskier World