How Aristotle Created the Computer

The philosophers he influenced set the stage for the technological revolution that remade our world.
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Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva of Compassion

Chinese Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe
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The History of Comic Book Films: Part 11 (2007)

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Are e-books a waste of money? The surprising winner when it comes to reading

In a win for old-fashioned paper books, new research has found children with access to a range of e-reading devices are less likely to read.
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Images show dilapidated Olympic venues in Rio just SEVEN MONTHS later

A drained pool filled with mud, crumbled roads and overgrown plots of grass. These eerie images aren't from a post-apocalyptic movie, they are photographs of several Olympic venues in Rio - just seven months after the games finished. Despite promises from the organisers that the billion-dollar site would be used to benefit Brazil's citizens, it remains deserted and dilapidated.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4328456/Haunting-images-dilapidated-Olympic-venues-Rio.html?source=Snapzu

How Smart Women Got the Chance

Nancy Weiss Malkiel’s “Keep the Damned Women Out”, a painstakingly detailed account of how coeducation came to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, is an invaluable antidote to the amnesia that has come to envelop the subject. More than that, it is an important work of cultural history. It seems a truism to observe that so profound a change could not have occurred in a vacuum, and Malkiel takes full account of the social and political revolutions that were convulsing the country in the 1960s.
Read more: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/04/06/coeducation-how-smart-women-got-chance/?source=Snapzu

Wellcome Book Prize reveals shortlist for 2017

Wellcome Book Prize has announced their shortlist for 2017, commending excellent exceptional works of fiction and non-fiction which have penetrated the health and medicine areas. The shortlist comprises of six books, two are fiction and four are non-fiction. A judging panel chose the list was chosen and it was chaired by celebrated Scottish crime writer Val McDermid, alongside Simon Baron-Cohen, Gemma Cairney, Tim Lewens, and Di Speirs.
Read more: http://hiase.com/2017-shortlist-for-wellcome-book-prize/?source=Snapzu