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#teamreadabook Brain Bugs: The Glorious Imperfections of Our Brains

via TheAtlantic - A new book examines the fact that our heads contain the most advanced device in the known universe—a device that isn’t perfect. more here

sidethought: o.k. this might have been my psychology major peeking out a lil too much. o well. still looks interesting to me! and go.

7 essential books on optimism

thesmithian:

Barack Obama Sr. left behind his young son, Barack Obama Jr., and divorced wife in Hawaii, and an unfinished economics degree from Harvard. He returned to a Kenya that had just achieved independence after a lengthy and violent contest.

an excerpt from the book, here.

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thesmithian:

Women’s enormous progress since the second-wave feminist movement in breaking down educational and workplace barriers facilitates this unjustified, hyperbolic concern with a female “takeover.” On this view, we are experiencing a reversal of traditional society in which men ruled. Now women rule, or will be ruling in the near future, and men are becoming “the second sex,” the losers. All this even though many women still earn less for the same work, very few make it to the top of the corporate hierarchy, and Congress is more than 80 percent male.

bold, mine. more.

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#teamreadabook The Power of Open by Creative Commons

via thepowerofopen The world has experienced an explosion of openness. From individual artists opening their creations for input from others, to governments requiring publicly funded works be available to the public, both the spirit and practice of sharing is gaining momentum and producing results. Creative Commons began providing licenses for the open sharing of content only a decade ago. …millions of creators took advantage of that infrastructure to share work that enriches the global commons for all humanity.  The Power of Open collects the stories of those creators

thanx brainpicker and download this pdf here

coverspy:

The Laws of Thinking, Bishop Jordan (F, 30s, red/black dreads, gold jewelry, turquoise jeans, Atlantic Center DMV) http://bit.ly/mfMgvS

#teamreadabook (link)Kindle Ownership Has Doubled Since November—hmph, and iPad’s were supposed to be Kindle killers…

thesmithian:

What if Princess Diana had faked her own death and eventually gone to live under an assumed name in America?

more.

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Shapes for Sounds - A book uses lavish illustrations and typography to tell how cultures transformed sounds into letters, why letters look the way they do, and why they’ll never change.

finish the interesting read here

Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou make Forbes’ The 10 Most Powerful Women Authors List

see full list here