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How to Become an Intellectual is at once a
how-to manual and a glib walk through several thousand years of science and culture, complete with cameo appearances by everyone from Plato and Socrates to Freud and Marie Curie.
Available April 2012 in bookstores, as well as
on-line.
Great Moments in Intellectual Discourse #5
April 4, 2012
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of “Frankenstein,” and someone who (thanks to her life among the Romantics) knew much about inventiveness and chaos.
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