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Public Library 12.02

The Chess Master and the Computer. Garry Kasparov on the history of the chess player’s nemesis, the chess computer. Via New York Review of Books. Pound’s Collected Poetry Recordings. PennSound’s complete collection of Ezra Pound recordings. Includes a good interview with Richard Sieburth, the page’s editor. A nation of racist dwarfs. “Kim Jong-il’s regime is even weirder [...]
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Public Library 2.10

Video of fire ants building a boat – using themselves – in the Amazon. The perplexing life of Erno Rubik, creator of the Cube. From Discover Magazine, 1986. Did chess make Bobby Fischer crazy? Article from a few years ago, when Fischer was still alive in fact, by Charles Krauthammer for TIME. I’d also be interested in reading about [...]
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