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http://moreintelligentlife.com/ 
“More Intelligent Life (moreintelligentlife.com) is the online version of Intelligent Life, a lifestyle and culture magazine from The Economist. The website offers not only content from the print edition, trickled out over the course of its shelf-life, but also the Editors' Blog, which carries daily posts from the editorial team—quickfire observations and opinions that allow readers to eavesdrop on the conversation in the office. Access is entirely free.”

BEST OF WEB
The future of the book shouldn’t be skeuomorphic
We should replace books with something different and better
By Tom Abba
“This is a huge missed opportunity, because the digital medium itself is full of opportunities for literary content. Tablet computers can provide much more than a flat surface on which to read typed words. They afford a whole new platform that draws on the contract between the author and the reader, but needn’t restrict itself to physical analogues. The possibilities aren't bound to the book.”
To read more, click:
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/02/future-book-shouldnt-be-skeuomorphic 

Splendid Visions
A meditation on the childhood sublime
BY WILLIAM GIRALDI
“Cities are not entirely devoid of nature, I know, but their parks and reserves make it difficult to achieve what Thoreau named “a constant intercourse with nature,” one that leads to “the contemplation of natural phenomenon” and thus to “the preservation of moral & intellectual health.” For Thoreau, that constancy was not negotiable. If he thought he could have achieved the sublime in the Boston Common—the oldest park in the nation—he might have tried, but he didn’t believe it was possible. Consummate immersion in the deep green of Concord was the only method of obtaining the particular brand of clarity that had become so necessary for his sustained contentment.”
To read more, click:
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/7376

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