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Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in our work.
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In the developing world, access to incubators is limited by cost and distance, and millions of premature babies die each year. Jane Chen shows us an invention that could keep millions of these infants warm, a design that’s safe, portable, low-cost and life-saving.
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