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Brain Pickings: a website that makes you think
为你推荐一道精神大餐. 如果你喜欢英文, 喜欢阅读,这是一个不容错过的“a curiosity guide”.
http://www.brainpickings.org/
由Maria Popova创建的"Brain Pickings" － 分享阅读和启迪积极的思考. 如果你注册网站上的newsletter, 每周日你就会收到一期“趣味阅读”(weekly interestingness digest): 经典阅读笔记,有关哲学,艺术. 例如 “加缪眼中的喜怒哀乐,画地为牢”(Albert Camus: the legendary philosopher on happiness,unhappiness, and our self-imposed prisons.)
除了Newsletter之外, Bookshelf 有作者推荐的书籍. 豆瓣上有一个“旅行读书会”貌似就是模仿的这个网站,而且更加 “中国化”, 如果你喜欢读书不妨看一看: http://www.douban.com/group/hra/
Literary jukebox -- 配着音乐读一段文摘，实在是阅读一乐趣
以下是网站创办者自己的介绍, 非常棒的英文. 同时你也可以感觉到她对阅读, 思考和分享的热情: how to live, and how to live well.
谁是Maria Popova?
Hey there. My name is Maria Popova and I’m a reader, writer, interestingness hunter-gatherer, and curious mind at large. I’ve previously written for Wired UK, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab, among others, and am an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow.
Brain Pickings is my one-woman labor of love — a subjective lens on what matters in the world and why. Mostly, it’s a record of my own becoming as a person — intellectually, creatively, spiritually — and an inquiry into how to live and what it means to lead a good life.
The core ethos behind Brain Pickings is that creativity is a combinatorial force: it’s our ability to tap into our mental pool of resources — knowledge, insight, information, inspiration, and all the fragments populating our minds — that we’ve accumulated over the years just by being present and alive and awake to the world, and to combine them in extraordinary new ways. In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these pieces and build new ideas.
I think of it as LEGOs — if the bricks we have are of only one shape, size, and color, we can build things, but there’s a limit to how imaginative and interesting they will be. The richer and more diverse that pool of resources, that mental library of building blocks, the more visionary and compelling our combinatorial ideas can be.
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Brain Pickings — which remains ad-free and supported by readers — is a cross-disciplinary LEGO treasure chest, full of pieces spanning art, science, psychology, design, philosophy, history, politics, anthropology, and more; pieces that enrich our mental pool of resources and empower combinatorial ideas that are stronger, smarter, richer, deeper and more impactful. Above all, it’s about how these different disciplines illuminate one another to glean some insight, directly or indirectly, into that grand question of how to live, and how to live well.
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