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The cover of the book You Can Learn to Remember by Dominic O’Brien

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You Can Learn to Remember

The cover of the book Bigger Leaner Stronger by Michael Matthews

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Bigger Leaner Stronger

The cover of the DVD for The Animatrix, a set of short films detailing the back story to The Matrix

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The Animatrix

The ruins of an Ancient Greek building, perhaps a gymnasium

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The Gymnasium

The cover of the book The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

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The Tao of Pooh

A screen capture from Adam Curtis' documentary HyperNormalisation

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HyperNormalisation

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Evernote

Murray Gell-Mann presenting his TED talk on the ancestor of language

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The Ancestor of Language

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

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Love in the Time of Cholera

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

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The Art of Learning

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NPR Tiny Desk Concerts

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

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Feats of memory anyone can do

Rajesh Rao presenting his TED talk on a Rosetta Stone for a lost language — deciphering the ancient Indus script

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A Rosetta Stone for a Lost Language

An interactive page from The Guardian showing all the flights worldwide in a 24-hour period

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All the world’s connections

The cover of The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

A family tree showing how closely related George V, Wilhelm II and Nicholas II were.

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World War One — a family affair.

The cover of the DVD of One More Time with Feeling, the documentary tracking the creation of the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album Skeleton Cave

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One More Time with Feeling

The cover of the book Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

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Moonwalking with Einstein

A screenshot from an animation showing the distance from Earth to Mars

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Distance to Mars

A photo of the sunset in Koh Phangan, taken from the beach

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Putting things into perspective