11/27 Destination: Bruges, Belgium

This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading

“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil,” Bill Gates wrote this summer. That’s quite an endorsement—and it gave a jolt of fame to Smil, a professor emeritus of environment and geography at the University of Manitoba. In a world of specialized intellectuals, Smil is an ambitious and astonishing […]

The Literal Meaning Of Every State Name In The U.S.

  Click and zoom to see the literal meaning of the name of your home state…..

David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_pogue_10_top_time_saving_tech_tips.html A short TED talk on saving time with technology.