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Here’s your listing of free and discounted Kindle book offers in a variety of genres for Saturday: for those books listed as being free in this post – while the pricing of the free status is valid at the time of this posting, please make sure you check...

Pioneering neurologist and author Oliver Sacks died Sunday, August 30 at age 82. In his writings about patients’ sometimes bizarre case studies—which he would call “neurological novels”—Sacks was able to draw out the humanity in pathology. Steve Silberman...

William Watts of MarketWatch reports, Look who is crashing the list of the world’s greatest hedge-fund managers: Want more proof that the quants are taking over the world? Take a gander at this chart of the world’s top 10 hedge-fund managers released...

Reposted from THE ATLANTIC   As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the...

From: WAR AND THE SOCIAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES (1935) by S. Herman (scroll down link for item). [JB note: My article, "Janus-Faced Public Diplomacy: Creel and Lippmann during the Great War" will appear in what I hope the not too-distant future; I missed...