Sandra Lopez-Monsalve 🌻

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. "There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. "If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice! "Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

New Yorkers retelling how they survived the earthquake

Best pitch ever! DeepMind's cofounder Demis Hassabis is a chess champion who landed funding from Peter Thiel by talking about a key tension in the game businessinsider.com/deepmind-found… via @businessinsider

Updated for #WorldBookDay 2024, here's our list of the essential books on sound and field recording, featuring @dada_drummer @DavidjHendy @bellabathurst @sethshorowitz @trevor_cox @casparhenderson and many more 📚

A treat for the ears 🎶🎵🎶

@gguerreromusic A treat for the ears! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

My new record, Gabriel Guerrero & QUΔΠTUM "EQUILIBRIO" will be released this Friday, November 17th, on all digital platforms as well as physical CDs on Origin Records!

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The good news keeps coming! We're proud to share another major win for #MoreLatinosInNews! 👏 Eva Rodriguez will begin her role as @NPR’s Vice President & Executive Editor on September 11. She will be the first Latina to hold this position! 🙌 Read more: npr.org/about-npr/1194…

🦇A happy bat, found in a 13th-century manuscript.

Queen legend Sir Brian May and NASA's OSIRIS-REx chief scientist Dante Lauretta challenge Space.com readers to photograph objects in the solar system. The prize? A signed copy of their new book about asteroid Bennu! Find out how to enter here ⬇️ space.com/brian-may-laun…

Indigenous Peoples are unsung conservation heroes. Yet, throughout history, their rights have been violated. We must protect their rights and way of life for the good of our planet.

Sony Walkman Commercial (1983)

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An opera about the penultimate ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan and sung in the ancient Nahuatl language pleases audiences in Mexico City reut.rs/44z8Da2

Freddie Mercury leading the crowd at Live Aid.

This! 💯 Music deserves better than @SpotifyUSA

And just consider that this industry has better support than the music industry for example! Art is necessary, artists should be respected and supported! 💪🏽

RIP 🕯️

”The famous Italian diver Enzo Maiorca dove into the sea of ​​Syracuse and was talking to his daughter Rossana who was aboard the boat. Ready to go in, he felt something slightly hit his back. He turned and saw a dolphin. Then he realized that the dolphin did not want to play but to express something. The animal dove and Enzo followed. At a depth of about 12 meters, trapped in an abandoned net, there was another dolphin. Enzo quickly asked his daughter to grab the diving knives. Soon, the two of them managed to free the dolphin, which, at the end of the ordeal, emerged, issued an "almost human cry" (describes Enzo). (A dolphin can stay under water for up to 10 minutes, then it drowns.) The released dolphin was helped to the surface by Enzo, Rosana and the other dolphin. That’s when the surprise came: she was pregnant! The male circled them, and then stopped in front of Enzo, touched his cheek (like a kiss), in a gesture of gratitude and then they both swam off. Enzo Maiorca ended his speech by saying: “Until man learns to respect and speak to the animal world, he can never know his true role on Earth.”