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Drawings by Sirin Thada.
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
"Steve Jobs, Stanford University commencement speech, 2005.
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“Dear Borders Customer”: B&N buys Borders Rewards
In a “Dear Borders Customer” e-mail about Barnes & Noble’s purchase of Borders loyalty program, B&N CEO William Lynch wrote in part, “First of all let me say Barnes & Noble uniquely appreciates the importance bookstores play within local communities, and we’re very sorry your Borders store closed.”
He continued: “Our intent in buying the Borders customer list is simply to try and earn your business. The majority of our stores are within close proximity to former Borders store locations, and for those that aren’t, we offer our award-winning Nook digital reading devices that provide a bookstore in your pocket. We are readers like you, and hope that through our stores, Nook devices, and our bn.com online bookstore we can win your trust and provide you with a place to read and shop.”
Lynch told Borders customers that before October 15 they may opt out of having B&N transfer their information. If they do opt out, “we will ensure all your data we receive from Borders is disposed of in a secure and confidential manner.” If not, all data will be covered under B&N’s privacy policy.(this article originally appeared on Shelf-Awareness.com)
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Where did the word dyslexia come from? →
Letters are the most ubiquitous symbols around us. When we learn to read, we train our brains to transform these symbols into sounds and meanings. However, doctors estimate that at least 10% of the population has dyslexia. The term “dyslexia” was invented in 1887 by the German ophthalmologist Rudolf Berlin. It comes from the Greek roots dys meaning difficult and lexia meaning reading. (It is likely that the symptoms were not identified until then because before that era, the general population did not read. Rather, only the educated few could read. As more and more people became literate, the brain abnormality underlying dyslexia was discovered.)People with dyslexia do not recognize and process certain symbols, like letters, but it has nothing to do with understanding complex ideas. As Dr. Sally Shaywitz, a director of the Center for Dyslexia and Creativity at Yale University, put it, students with dyslexia struggle with word retrieval, not with knowledge retention.
Many famous writers – from F. Scott Fitzgerald to W. B. Yeats – had dyslexia. Today, celebrities, including Tom Cruise and Kiera Knightly, have also been open about the challenges they faced learning to read. Recently in the New York Times, poet and dyslexic Phillip Schultz discussed his early troubles with words. He did not learn to read until he was 11, but his difficulty gave him the gift of appreciation. He says, “I didn’t know that I was to become a poet, that in many ways the very thing that caused me so much confusion and frustration, my belabored relationship with words, had created in me a deep appreciation of language and its music.”
Have you ever struggled to read or comprehend words?
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"Medication isn’t a crutch, it’s a bridge between feeling awful and feeling better. You still have to move your legs to get across the bridge, and that’s the work of therapy."
Dr. Ronald Pies, professor of psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University and Tufts University School of Medicine, on how he responds to those who view antidepressants as merely “covering up the real problem” or as “a crutch”. (via psychotherapy)
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
