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- Does Oil Come from Dinosaurs? https://www.powells.com/post/original-essays/does-oil-come-from-dinosaurs 150 comments
- Life in the age of noise http://www.powells.com/post/original-essays/life-in-the-age-of-noise 65 comments
- First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process http://www.powells.com/review/2010_05_11.html?PID=18 2 comments
- Is Science As Important As Football? http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=6721 48 comments
- Powell's bookstore sells Unisex Fragrance that smells like books... https://www.powells.com/book/-1110000347670 3 comments nottheonion
- If you are looking to order books during quarantine, please consider supporting Powells Books from Portland, or if there are local booksellers in your town see if they are still shipping books. https://www.powells.com/ 103 comments books
- Gift idea: Rick Ankiel has a memoir out. The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life http://www.powells.com/book/the-phenomenon-9781610396868 48 comments baseball
- 25 Books to Read Before You Die: World Edition http://www.powells.com/post/lists/25-books-to-read-before-you-die-world-edition 13 comments books
- The Best Books of 2016 So Far - Powell’s Midyear Roundup http://www.powells.com/best-books-of-2016-midyear-roundup 8 comments books
- English: Losing inflection as a trade language? http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780340829936-4 29 comments linguistics
- Required Reading: Books Scarier Than the Movies They Inspired http://www.powells.com/blog/required-reading/required-reading-books-scarier-than-the-movies-they-inspired-by-required-reading/ 20 comments books
- Jack Kerouac's personal copy of Keats' "Complete Poems and Selected Letters" - Only $8000 http://www.powells.com/biblio/2221161589054 3 comments books
- Looking for a good Thomas Jefferson bio. Anyone read this one by Bernstein? http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9780195181302-0 3 comments books
- "Ready Player One" by Ernest Cline - A Winning, Geeked-Out Page-Turner [review] http://www.powells.com/blog/review-a-day/player-one-a-winning-geeked-out-page-turner-by-review-a-day/?p=36839?utm_source=review-a-day 17 comments books
- "The Information"...a history-explaining, paradigm-altering look at the evolution of the human capacity to process data. [book review] http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=31530?utm_source=review-a-day 3 comments books
- The real use of gunpowder, essayist Thomas Carlyle wrote, is "that it makes all men tall." As far as inventions go, none have had as democratizing an effect as the rifle. [book review] http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=25956?utm_source=review-a-day 4 comments history
- No single days, 5 score days, and 8 stones passed after she was born, and meanwhile the era was closed on 4 Lord 8 Kiln, completing 13 bundles of stones, 2 and 9 score days and 1 stone after the hearth was measured at the edge of the sky...there in the sky was Corn Silk at the Tip of a Single Ear. http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=23077?utm_source=review-a-day 4 comments linguistics
- I just bought the new David Mitchell book, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Two chapters in, and I'm hooked. http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781400065455-42 7 comments books
- As the tale progresses, the science at the root of Erasmas's worldview comes into contact (and conflict) with religious authorities, violent aggressors, and otherworldly beings -- sometimes all at once. [book review - "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson] http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=17844?utm_source=review-a-day 40 comments books
- What is the biggest book store in the US? http://www.powells.com/ 27 comments books
- Dave Eggers is, I think, my favorite author. Anybody read Zeitoun yet? http://www.powells.com/biblio/18-9781934781630-0 8 comments books
- Has anyone read this book ("Amulet" by Roberto Bolano)? http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780811217460-0 3 comments books
- Is Science As Important As Football? http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=6721 13 comments science
- Most expensive new science book on the web: List price: $8539.00 [Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Silicon-29] http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-9783540452775-1 14 comments science
- Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal http://www.powells.com/review/2008_08_14.html 15 comments philosophy
- Powell's tech cat passes on, RIP FUP http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=2568 13 comments programming
- Capitalism, having defeated Communism, now seems to be about to do the same to democracy. http://www.powells.com/rezexcerpta.html 33 comments reddit.com
- Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why http://www.powells.com/review/2007_07_14 158 comments reddit.com
- Why the French Don't Like Headscarves http://www.powells.com/review/2007_03_08 4 comments reddit.com
- Of Sex and Marriage, on "Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic + the Domestic" http://www.powells.com/review/2006_11_28 8 comments reddit.com
- Blowjob Nation: reflections on the growth of oral sex http://www.powells.com/review/2006_01_17.html? 6 comments reddit.com