The Hunt for Something Interesting on Twitterxy

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The hunt for something interesting on twitterxy, exactly. That's why i'm always trying to figure out, how does this apply to me? So last question, actually, complete change from this. How do you compile the scientific with the readable, enjoyable with the like the jackson pollock story, or the how do you compile all those into a book? Yes. And for your listeners, to jackson polick stories about how he painted a certain way when he lived in downtown new york city, and then he moved out to springs, long island,. which was, at the time, very verdant and very unspoiled.

Annie Murphy Paul is an acclaimed science writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, and The Best American Science Writing. She is the author of Origins, selected by the New York Times Book Review as a “Notable Book,” and The Cult of Personality. Her TED Talk has been viewed more than 2.6 million times. Annie is a recipient of the Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Fellowship, the Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship, and the Bernard L. Schwartz Fellowship at New America.

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