Cain challenges us to respect the power of introverts instead of expecting or worse, pushing, them to be extroverts.
Category: Notes
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
I was recently watching some old Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes and watched a highly acclaimed (though not particularly liked by me) episode called “Darmok”. In this episode, Darmok (the alien) is trying to teach Picard how to converse. Darmok’s people use stories to communicate everything which makes it very difficult for Picard to understand because the stories mean nothing to him. To overcome this, they tell each other cultural stories:
I used to hate this episode… then Picard mentioned Gilgamesh. Then I read several versions of The Epic of Gilgamesh. Then I decided that this episode was alright. -
“The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs” by Dougal Dixon
Dixon’s book is a very tastefully illustrated and fairly modern book about dinosaurs.
Interesting tidbit: T-Rex had long arms compared to many of its cousins.
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“The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs” by Gregory S Paul
Dinosauria is such a fascinating subject. This book opens with a rather in-depth overview of what we know (and what we are guessing) about dinosaurs and attempts to catalog most of the better know dinosaurs.
Interesting tidbit: We have actual preserved impressions of dinosaur skin (in “mummified” samples). In some case, we even know what colors it was.
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Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel: What we learned from 5 million books (TED)
Aiden and Michel used data made available from the Google Books project to explore the changes in our published books and thus our culture over time.