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I repeat that Edison tested 6,000 plant materials till he found the right kind of bamboo for the filament of a light bulb.
Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome
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Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
In fact, he was a romantic in the strict sense of the term, one who believed that music should be composed and played through the “addition of strangeness to beauty.”
John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
