His picks, with Amazon links:
How Not to be Wrong, by Jordan Ellenberg
The Vital Question, by Nick Lane
The Power to Compete, by Ryoichi Mikitani and Hiroshi Mikitani
Bill Gates suggests these 5 books to read over the summer
Malcolm X's former prison cell to be library for incarcerated people
The Boston Globe reports that Reginald Dwayne Betts, a MacArthur Award-winning poet who himself spent eight years in prison, plans to convert a prison cell at MCI-Norfolk into a new "Freedom Library," as part of a grant project through the Mellon Foundation. Betts wants to build library spaces in prisons around the country, and while… READ THE REST
Philip K. Dick's dystopian AI novel "Vulcan's Hammer" headed to the big screen
Surrealist science fiction author Philip K. Dick's 1960 novel Vulcan's Hammer will go Hollywood in a forthcoming film by director Francis Lawrence (Hunger Games and I Am Legend) with New Republic Pictures producers Brian Oliver and Bradley Fischer. From the Hollywood Reporter: Hammer is set after a devastating world war, when the nations of Earth form… READ THE REST
Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn't End
My friend Dave Pell is the managing editor of the Internet. No question, he's earned the title. Dave's been an indie publisher and media creator since the Web's weird wild west days of the 1990s and was a pioneer in what became blogging. (If you don't subscribe to his daily NextDraft free newsletter, click here… READ THE REST
It's not too late these Cyber Week deals on Dell, Lenovo, Acer, and HP computers are still on sale
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Use this Cyber Week coupon to save over $80 on these dog DNA and allergy test kits
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Save over $300 on this self-cleaning towel set, all part of this Cyber Week Sale
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