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A title image for the This Is Water video from David Foster Wallace's Kenyon College commencement speech

Video

This is Water

The cover of the film Food, Inc. — a documentary about the US food industry.

Film

Food, Inc.

A screen grab from the Garbage Island documentary by Vice

Video

Garbage Island

A roadsign with the place names 'Usefull' and 'Useless' on it, representing effectiveness and ineffectiveness

Blog Post

Efficiency and effectiveness

Josh Foer presenting his TED talk on feats of memory anyone can do

Video

Feats of memory anyone can do

The cover of the DVD for Waking Life, an exploration of the boundary between sleep and being awake

Film

Waking Life

How to remember any name — a Find A Spark memory hack resource

Hack

How to remember any name

A screen grab from the Refugee Project interactive map of refugee migration from 1975 to 2015

Website

The Refugee Project

An infographic from Information is Beautiful showing the size of the codebases of different types of software

Infographic

Million Lines of Code

The cover of the book The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin

Book

The Art of Learning

A birthday cake with candles

Blog Post

5 things that being 25 taught me

The cover of the book Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Book

Love in the Time of Cholera

A still from the film Waltz with Bashir

Film

Waltz with Bashir

The cover of the DVD for Human Planet, the BBC series on the incredible environments in which people manage to live

TV Series

Human Planet

A book, magnifying glass and pen with a globe in the background - tools for language learning

Guide

Language learning: Quick start guide

The cover of the book Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

Book

Moonwalking with Einstein

A screen grab from the Music and Life Youtube video

Video

Music and Life

The cover of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Book

Siddhartha

The cover of the book Southeast Asia: An introductory history by Milton Osborne

Book

Southeast Asia: An Introductory History

A map showing the last time that each European country was occupied

Infographic

The last time each European country was occupied