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Perspective: Great Thinkers

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Charles de Lint. Over My Head is available outside of Canada in trade paper and as an ebook in the Amazon stores.

Charles de Lint

For non-Kindle users, you can get a free Kindle app for many devices (like the iPad or iPhone, Blackberry, Android devices, Windows or Apple desktops, etc.) which will give you the same reading experience. Canadian readers can purchase Penguin Canada's Razorbill edition as a hardcover in Canadian stores, or at amazon.ca as a print or ebook. Print editions beyond Canada are available from Triskell Press. Life is complicated in the once-quiet beach town of Santa Feliz. Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action.

Einstein-The World As I See It. "How strange is the lot of us mortals!

Einstein-The World As I See It

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving... "I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived. Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla.

Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived

Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life.