Be Honest and Unmerciful: Philip Seymour’s All-Time Scenes Top 5 and Why
This is a special Top 5, equipped with a Top 5 right behind. In other words, this could have easily been a Top 10, but no…
Top 5 and Why: Best Bob Dylan Songs
If a song moves you, that’s all that’s important… I don’t have to know what a song means. All Top 5 and Whys are tough, but…
Top 5 and Why: Jack Black
Thomas Jacob “Jack” Black is where it’s at. He’s funny, a better singer than you might think, and has morphed into a gifted character-actor as well. He has…
5 Takeaways from ‘Daily Rituals’: Serious Creatives and How They Make it Happen
“It’s no easy business to be simple.” Gustave Flaubert had a terrible time keeping his life and art simple in the ways he wanted them. Of…
Charles Wright: The Poet Laureate without a Program
“History handles our past like spoiled fruit.” If you haven’t discovered Charles Wright until now, he’s a great choice for U.S. poet laureate, and as an…
Italo Calvino Reading from Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities is Calvino at his thematic and structural best. For more about this amazing book check out his Top 5 and Why. The following excerpt was recorded…
One of the Best Fiction Works of All Time? The Book of Disquiet
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” The Book of Disquiet stays with you, doesn’t want to be consumed all in a rush, and is…
1 Scientific Discovery +1 Social Satire = In Search of Lost Neanderthal Genomes
“Neanderthals are the closest extinct relative of contemporary humans.” Has Svante Pääbo found the Neanderthal in all of us, and turned paleontology on its head? In 2010, researchers…
Daniel Pink on the Science Behind Motivation
“There is a mismatch between what science knows and what business does.” Daniel Pink, author of Drive and To Sell Is Human, makes a strong case for what…
Brian Christian’s The Most Human Human
“Today’s person spends way more time in front of screens. In fluorescent-lit rooms, in cubicles, being on one end or the other of an electronic data…
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