Pass on what you have learned.
— Yoda, to Luke on Ahch-To as the Jedi tree and its texts burn (The Last Jedi)
A private reading room
Humanities
Things worth sitting with
A bar of chocolate, a sitcom — followed far enough that you start thinking about something else.
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Business
How companies come to be
Company histories, founders, and the counterintuitive calls — from the Acquired podcast.
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Science
Science in fifteen minutes
From how a horse remembers to whether we could ever live on Mars.
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The Shelf
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
— Borges, newly head of the National Library, and going blind as he wrote it
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For younger readers · 9–16
All grown-ups were once children — although few of them remember it.
— the closing line of The Little Prince's dedication, to a grown-up friend