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The group selection debate, the best evolutionary science brawl in some time – Pinker, Dawkins, Haidt, and more http://t.co/cW7JZET6

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130 years ago today, the Brooklyn Bridge opened to the public – this is its fascinating and tumultuous story http://t.co/cQFClCEa70

Fantastic, necessary read on what gay couples can teach us about healthy, happy marriages http://t.co/vtQ8PobGY6

A heart-warming memo of appreciation the great David Ogilvy sent a veteran copywriter in 1971 http://t.co/pTwWxuyaIV

"A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules." http://t.co/J5pMbQE9hn

"I’m always trying to see a pattern in this forest and I’m tickled that I can do that." Creativity = connections http://t.co/kZpES45jaS

"Only by talking about our mortality can we understand the lives we’re leading and why we’re leading them that way." http://t.co/KESVac3qm2

RT @MiaFarrow: The greatest books of all time, as voted by 125 famous authors http://t.co/BCvZZZ1UKK via @brainpicker

"The grand scheme of a life, maybe (just maybe), is not about knowing or not knowing, choosing or not choosing…" http://t.co/VdUaPXKz8N

Stunning, artful, surprising vintage black-and-white photo of a NASA-predecessor pressure wind tunnel http://t.co/hw7iV32Qke

Ambiverts, problem-finders, and the counterintuitive science of selling your ideas http://t.co/b0CPNq2ZTO

“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” http://t.co/sGLGp7RRaG

"First we feel. Then we fall." Stunning http://t.co/rbZorWVZos

The science of why big egos bomb – Australian study confirms that entitlement is the enemy of excellence http://t.co/GGEdbB77dk

"Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know." A timeless lesson in humility from Lao Tzu http://t.co/CVOehtLl5C #LitJuke

This is absolutely amazing: Id-Grids and Ego-Graphs – a vintage typographic confabulation with Finnegans Wake http://t.co/bDRXf1FHKh

How to praise like original "Mad Man" David Ogilvy http://t.co/D6IdLpBZPx

The philosophy of immortality http://t.co/1D8sXyAdYe

Salvador Dali's little-known and beautiful 1969 Alice in Wonderland illustrations http://t.co/CVMdDiRUl6

"Our emotional life maps our incompleteness: A creature without any needs wouldn't have reasons for fear,grief,hope…" http://t.co/aMcPSbEnoL

Hidden Treasure – 10 centuries of visualizing the body in rare archival illustrations http://t.co/wkNa1C2TYa

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