The full title should give you a good idea of the mood of this book: The Know It All: One Man’s Humble Quest To Become The Smartest Person In The World. Author A.J. Jacobs (also the editor of Esquire magazine) spent a year reading all 32 volumes of the Encyclopedia Brittanica. Broken down into page [...]
October 16, 2010
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This is a guest post from Laura Cococcia from The Journal Of Cultural Conversation. Laura is a genius who used to work for Google. Today she has saved you from the unformed half-wittery I was about to publish this morning. Someone please ask her about her singing group. I wasn’t brave enough. Mental Floss Presents [...]
August 13, 2009
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