Useless, useful, and you
Maria Popover’s essay ”The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge” (in her blog Brain Pickings) uses the usefulness of Abraham Flexner’s 1939 essay “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge” (in Harper’s magazine) as a way to introduce or re-introduce you to all sorts of ideas about the uselessness and usefulness of ideas.
No comments have been added yet.
Marc Abrahams's Blog
- Marc Abrahams's profile
- 14 followers
Marc Abrahams isn't a Goodreads Author
(yet),
but they
do have a blog,
so here are some recent posts imported from
their feed.
