Strange Maps — July 23, 2010

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Scott Britton, in business attire, sits cross-legged on a desk meditating, while blurred figures move in the background.

The Long Game

How to be ambitious without losing your soul

Former tech founder Scott Britton wants to shatter the binary myth that separates driving ambition from inner development.

A bald man in a blue suit and white shirt stands outdoors in Silicon Oasis, smiling, with autumn leaves and a blurred building in the background.

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Silicon Oasis? How a northern English tech startup went global

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Books

More than a game: How play helps wire our social brains

In this excerpt from “Playful,” Cas Holman surveys the research that brought the neuroscience of play into the mainstream.

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Books

How neuroscience is rewriting the art of war

In “Warhead,” neuroscientist and national security adviser Nicholas Wright explains how the brain navigates warfare and why it is our ultimate weapon (and instrument for peace).

A coastal landscape with rugged cliffs shaped by seaflooding and calm water at sunset, with mountains in the background and soft orange and purple hues in the sky.

The Present

Seaflooding: How we could engineer the next Mediterranean

Bold megaprojects could turn dry depressions into thriving new hubs of life.

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