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“The little boy in him was crestfallen that he wasn’t going on the adventure. Then he reminded himself that he was already part of the biggest adventure ever, and that, so far, it had been altogether miserable.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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“His job on TV was to explain science to the general public and, as such, to act as a lightning for people who could not accept all the things that science implied about their worldview and their way of life, and who showed a kind of harebrained ingenuity in finding ways to refute it.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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“and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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“it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”
― Rupi Kaur

tags: awakening, awareness, grounded, life, spiritual, wholeness

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“We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

tags: athletes, athleticism, brainiac, brains, bravery, breed, caveman, complexity, future, gatherer, geeks, genius, hospital, humanity, hunter, hunter-gatherer, intelligence, intensive-care, mastery, nerds, patients, society, technology

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Audiobooks — 16297 members — last activity 7 hours, 38 min ago
Audio & audiobooks are getting more and more popular for commuters & those wanting to squeeze in another book or two a month while doing other activit ...more

Amazon Kindle — 11697 members — last activity 18 hours, 21 min ago
For readers using the Amazon Kindle ebook device.

SciFi and Fantasy Book Club — 41958 members — last activity 29 minutes ago
Hi there! SFFBC is a welcoming place for readers to share their love of speculative fiction through group reads, buddy reads, challenges, ...more

Sci-fi and Heroic Fantasy — 8752 members — last activity 4 hours, 12 min ago
A place for those who walk the green forests of Middle Earth, cross the pale sands of Arrakis, sail the blue waters of Earthsea, slip among the shadow ...more