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#1 The IBM team that designed Deep Blue made the brilliant decision to design the machine to appear more uncertain than it was. During the six-game match, the machine would occasionally hold off from declaring its move for several minutes. From Kasparov's end of the table, the delays made it look as if the machine was struggling.
#2 The story of Deep Blue defeating the...
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#1 I used to come out to Colorado to hike and explore, but in the year of the pandemic I mostly stayed close to home. I moved back to this part of Colorado as a single father with two kids, and I was excited to see some rock art.
#2 I would go to the petroglyphs every season, snow-swept and rippled in summer heat. I would take my joys and sadnesses to them, or talk about...
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Get the Summary of Mo Rocca's Mobituaries in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries - reading about the remarkable lives of global leaders, Hollywood heavyweights, and innovators who changed the world. But not every notable life has gotten the send-off it deserves. His quest to right that wrong inspired Mobituaries, his number one hit podcast. Now with Mobituaries,...
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#1 My father, Ralph Everett Dudley, was born in 1955. He went by a lot of aliases, including Gucci Mane, because his father, George Dudley, had always loved fancy clothes. He had spent time in Italy during his years in the military, and fell in love with the Gucci brand.
#2 My father, James Mane, was a hustler and an alley cat. He was always ahead of his time, and I...
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#1 Levon Helm, the drummer, was born in 1940 in the Arkansas Delta. He recalled going to see a late-night show called the midnight ramble, where the jokes were spicier and the girls did a little hoochie-coochie dance.
#2 Arkansas was a state that had never fully recovered from the Civil War. The economy had been devastated by the Great Depression, and slavery was replaced...
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Get the Summary of Walter Isaacson's Leonardo da Vinci in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: The author of the acclaimed best sellers Benjamin Franklin, Einstein, and Steve Jobs delivers an engrossing biography of Leonardo da Vinci, the world's most creative genius.
Leonardo da Vinci created the two most famous paintings in history, The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. But, in his own mind,...
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Get the Summary of Carlo M. Cipolla's The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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Throughout history, a powerful force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world's most powerful boardrooms to your local bar.
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Get the Summary of Stormy Daniels's Full Disclosure in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: In this book, Stormy Daniels tells her whole story for the first time: what it's like to be a leading actress and director in the adult film business, the full truth about her journey from a rough childhood in Louisiana onto the national stage, and everything about her interaction with Donald Trump...
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#1 I wanted to teach other rappers how to rhyme, so I wrote a song called How to Emcee in 2009. It explained how to mix words, and it had a sarcastic flow. I was having fun with the syllables.
#2 I consider wordplay to be playing drums with words. I will take multi-syllable words and place them in a certain order to make them sound different, or I will move words up...
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Get the Summary of David Sedaris's The Best of Me in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: But if all you expect to find in Sedaris's work is the deft and sharply observed comedy for which he became renowned, you may be surprised to discover that his words bring more warmth than mockery, more fellow-feeling than derision. Nowhere is this clearer than in his writing about his loved ones. In...
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#1 I was on the phone with an old friend when I saw the burning Notre Dame Cathedral on television. I knew the building well, having visited it many times as a child. I understood what was burning and how the fire was gathering strength, but the journalists commenting did not.
#2 The burning of Notre-Dame was a heart-stopping moment for the crowds on the streets and...
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#1 I grew up in El Cerrito, California, before rapid transit. I was a little kid who could walk around by himself, head over to the market with a nickel in his pocket, and buy an apple. I remember going over to talk to the butcher to get bones for my dog.
#2 I had a close connection with my community as a child. I loved going to the drugstore near my house, where I would...
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#1 Rock stars were extremely popular in the 1960s, and teenage girls like Pamela were obsessed with them. She was especially fond of the Beatles' Paul McCartney, and she began daydreaming about him sexually.
#2 The rules of this world had been codified by the 1980s, and MTV was thriving. Rock stars outlived the Los Angeles scene that Des Barres chronicled, and they outlived...
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#1 God can get tiny if we are not careful. We all have an image of God that becomes the touchstone, the controlling principle, to which we return when we stray.
#2 I was told that I would get Good Mike on the show, but instead, I was subjected to the insensitivity of Mike Wallace, a 60 Minutes film crew, and a parishioner who was there to interview me. In the end, Wallace turned to...
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#1 I was born in 1976 in New York. My parents, Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, loved me, or at least they grew to love me. My father told me when I was a teenager that he didn't want me at first, but my mother insisted on having me.
#2 My mother and her sisters were performers, and I was brought up in the music business. I was never baptized, but I went to...
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#1 In 1969, the Stooges released the definitive collection of punk classics with their eponymous debut album. The Stooges' songs punched, spat, and kicked against the pricks, but above all, they pointed an accusatory finger at the middle-class indulgences of the West Coast's hippy scenesters and the arty habits of Warhol's Factory fops.
#2 Following the divorce, Virginia...
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Get the Summary of Cicely Tyson's Just As I Am in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: "Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought...
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#1 The two questions that should be asked at a reading are: Am I in the light. And can I be heard. The auditors will always be happy to tell you where the light is, since it's a lot easier for them to see you than search for you in darkness.
#2 The two legitimate questions an actor may ask at an audition are: If you are asked to read cold, should you have time to go...
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#1 The oldest cemetery in the country is in Salem, and it's also where the town's ghosts tend to gather. However, the city's cemeteries aren't necessarily the most active places.
#2 The most active graveyard in Salem is St. Mary's Cemetery in Peabody, which has a reputation for being haunted. Visitors have reported seeing faint white lights that move around and experienced...
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#1 A Christie's auctioneer, Christopher Burge, is doing a sound check. He lists prices into the void, and then hits everyone but the highest bidder with a stick. His book is a secret script for the sale, with 64 pages for each lot of art.
#2 Christie's and Sotheby's, two of the biggest auction houses, hold their major sales of contemporary art twice a year in New York...
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