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The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
Alan Schoenfeld, a math professor at Berkeley,
Malcolm Gladwell • Outliers
The internet is no omniscient library, but the parallels between Borges’ story are apparent. The web is a boundless compendium of information and data scattered across billions of pages—content, as we’ve loathed to call it. In this virtual information library, Google may be the closest thing we have to a librarian.
Terry Nguyen • The Future of Search
intro library science
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Well, it turns out most of the school stuff is exaggerated or apocryphal, and Einstein had multiple tutors growing up in subjects like mathematics and philosophy, such as his uncle, Jakob Einstein, who taught him algebra. In fact, there was a family tutor of the Einsteins who went by the name Max Talmud (possibly the best name of a tutor ever), and... See more
Erik Hoel • Why We Stopped Making Einsteins
never guessed his stature in the field