Surendra Chaplot

Mostly Books. Curious. Learner. Photos. Cinema. Product @Wise. Ex - Founder Fool @21fools.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

New @EmpirePodUK episode:

The Balfour Declaration & the Origins of the Palestine-Israel Conflict

https://t.co/f3kgSF0W7d

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@mrbrown why not use @Wise :) you can take money out to any bank account / or keep it there - earn 3.22% on interest and keep using it whenever you want it with instant access.

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@DivyanshuAsopa 🥲🥲

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“The problem is that certain kinds of stuff simply attract more stuff. The home is an obvious one: It craves sofas, sweaters, buffet cabinets, chandeliers. Computers are another; they grow USB tendrils. Smartphones beget earbuds, cloud backup… https://t.co/yvrSgcJjkA

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If you were an elephant …
… the world would be a brighter, smellier, noisier place – and you would be a better, wiser, kinder person. https://t.co/yv6YmHNf7l

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Story of the hot water bottle

Via ⁦@TheBrowser⁩ https://t.co/uwEdkfUuov

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MicroWiki about all the microNations https://t.co/sNDiYlkFkp

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Soap bubbles freeze in the snow, a macro 4K video | The Kid Should See This https://t.co/pLnoVizMo6

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Who would have thought -

“All the growth in the music business now comes from old songs”

https://t.co/OcmTmCf54y

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Marked as to-read: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng https://t.co/ZgE8al638T

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There is also a very cool little test to find out if you are one of the super recognizers.

https://t.co/mUxZnMXqrU

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1% of us are super-humans https://t.co/QrrZUSc2uc

[Andy Matuschak @andy_matuschak]

The design agency Bureau has been working on a fascinating format for ebooks, trying for the benefits of high-craft fixed page layout in a scroll-driven, flexible-layout context.

Essay on their format (videos 2/3 through): https://t.co/vz8q0NhQBA

Demo: https://t.co/e8TIeuNqou

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Marked as to-read: Enemy of All Mankind by Steven Johnson https://t.co/ZqEmOUYY1M

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200 years before Mexico’s Independence - The City of Yanga was founded after a group of enslaved Africans, led by Gaspar Yanga, rebelled against colonial rule.
https://t.co/oxrjJNLnPn

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Fascinating and depressing -
“The case of the Banda Islands is very revealing. What happened there is entirely brought about by a product, by a gift of the earth; because the Bandanese had this extraordinary tree, they were essentially wiped out.” https://t.co/V10URsIAwb

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Marked as to-read: Disoriental by Négar Djavadi https://t.co/eZqZTbYXM2

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A Tree a Minute: planting 1440 trees in a day https://t.co/5HWoHhAfm1

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And a passionate lover of strange Tshirts 😀

https://t.co/REjxzx8Rt4

[Ted Gioia @tedgioia]

Happy birthday to Haruki Murakami, a fiercely creative writer and passionate lover of jazz vinyl.

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A Tree a Minute: planting 1440 trees in a day https://t.co/5HWoHhAfm1