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March reading

From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives by Jeffrey E. Garten Globalization is nothing new.  Garten points out that it began 60,000 years ago when 150,000 people left Africa and migrated all over the world, spreading … Continue reading

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Writing as metaphor

This is an excerpt from In Other Words, by Jhumpa Lahiri’s linguistic autobiography: Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence.  To tolerate myself.  To get closer to everything that is outside of me. If I want to understand … Continue reading

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