The Times collects the final tweets of a number of celebrities who died this year. They are generally banal but the context turns them poignant.
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Stanford Online Courses
Stanford's next round of free online courses includes Cryptography, Human-Computer Interaction, and Game Theory.
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The Twelfth What?
Who knew? Here's a handy infographic from Electric Literature that highlights seventeen films you probably didn't know were based off of books.
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Interview With a Bookseller
“We have a customer who eats Bibles. She’s very nice, but she will walk up to a section, rip out a page, and eat it. She much prefers Catholic versions—she won’t touch King James Bibles.” This interview with the owner of Brattle Book Shop in Boston illustrates the peculiar idiosyncrasies of daily bookstore life. For all you romantics out there, here is a love letter to the brick-and-mortar bookstore.
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