The Great Beauty
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The Great Beauty

"La Grande Bellezza" (The Great Beauty) is one of those films that I want to watch again and again because of its beautiful cinematography and its memorable monologues and dialogues not to mention the beautiful soundtrack.
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Further Reading

Social networks can create the illusion that something is common when it is actually rare. Yale University will receive 136.20 euros in interest on a perpetual bond issued in 1648 from a Dutch water authority. The Mouse of Wall Street. Duration of urination. Oliver Sacks has passed away. And more.
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Further Reading

John Conway’s life in games. What happens to your checked luggage. Obituary for John Holland. Ten reforms the Troika would impose on Germany. Mathematicians have discovered a new type of pentagon that can tile the plane. Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid. Earth view. And more.
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Further Reading

Interview with Alvin Roth on matching theory. A debate on effective altruism. The LHCb Experiment at CERN discovers a new type of particle made up of 5 quarks. Kim Kardashian explains why marginal propensity to consume decreases as income rises. FAO Schwarz is closing. And more.
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Further Reading

What the textbooks don't tell you about psychology's most famous case study. A profile Maryam Mirzakhani. Marina Warner reviews old and new editions of the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. The best time to post on social networks. Who needs CGI when you've got more than 20,000 extras? And more.
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Further Reading

What is code? One of the oldest problems in combinatorics has been solved. Calculate your risk of dying in the next 5 years. The mathematical legacy of John Nash. The Atlantic has republished Host by David Foster Wallace. Karl Ove Knausgaard on Anders Breivik. Profile of Marc Andreessen. And more.
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Further Reading

Rem Koolhaas on the danger of turning cities into historical Disneylands. Peter Pomerantsev on information-psychological war. Why Dutch people are so tall. Smart people worry more. The evolution of American popular music between 1960–2010. Interview with Slavoj Zizek. And more.
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Further Reading

Why real interest rates are low. Gerhard Richter on the art market bubble. Interview with Rem Koolhaas. Part 2 of Knausgaard’s passage through America. Abhijit Banerjee on what we know and don’t know about microcredit. A strange connection between number theory, algebra and string theory. And more.
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Further Reading

Karl Ove Knausgaard is traveling across America. Interview with John Ioannidis. Interview with Yasmina Reza. The selfish ribosome. In Balanchine’s beautiful forest. Art as an asset class. The idea of two sexes is simplistic. The problem with action movies today. In search of authenticity. And more.