I stumbled across the book review by Rodrigo García in the Paris Review about his book: A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes, where he writes of “the ailing health and eventual passing of his father, the writer Gabriel García Márquez.” He would say, “I work with my memory. Memory is my tool and my raw… Continue reading One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived.
An evergreen comic/article by The Oatmeal. It’s both humorous, and educational about how truly amazing Tesla was, and, by contrast, how overrated Thomas Edison was/is. Tesla was known for discovering amazing things and then forgetting to write them down. Edison was known for rushing to the patent office as soon as one of his employees… Continue reading Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived.