Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas, fueling the associations that lead to unexpected breakthroughs.

Historian Ramsay Cook’s obituary clinched it for me – I decided I would start with the obituaries first when I read the newspaper, in paper or online. Though I’ve become more interested in history, I didn’t study it and hadn’t heard of Ramsay Cook. Then this: "we see Canada today through Ramsay

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‘Tips from Dead People’ shares lessons learned from the deceased. Mary McGreevy is the creator behind the account on TikTok.

On May 26, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signs into law the highly restrictive Immigration Act of 1924. Under the new law, immigration remained open to those with a college education and/or special skills, but entry was denied disproportionately to Eastern and Southern Europeans and Japanese. At the same time, the legislation allowed for more immigration from Northern European nations such as Britain, Ireland and Scandinavian countries..

an intricate problem; especially : a problem insoluble in its own terms —often used in the phrase cut the Gordian knot; a knot tied by Gordius, king of Phrygia, held to be capable of being untied only by the future ruler of Asia, and cut by Alexander the Great with his sword…

The subtitle could be keeping secrets - A story about The Things We Never Say as the title infers, As always, characters that you can’t help but like - with Strout’s signature prose.

Rosamund Pike, Fiona Show and Sacha Baron Cohen headline this remake of the French Film I am not an Easy Man. Male Chauvinists are transported to a matriarchal society. streaming on Netflix

A fun read from the local obituary writer and social columnist of the paper in Haines, Alaska. It was published twenty years ago - 2006 - but it’s timeless.

A light hearted look at the history of the ultimate human interest story. David Halberstam called it a wonderful surprise.

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