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The first tractors had few advantages over the best horses, but they did have one enormous benefit as far as the world was concerned: they did not need land to grow their fuel. America’s horse population peaked at twenty-one million animals in 1915; at the time about one-third of all agricultural land was devoted to feeding them. So the replacement of draught animals by machines released an enormous acreage of land to grow food for human consumption.

The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley

Question #1: What does the party cost? Question #2: And who is the party for?

Snow Leopard

Category Pirates, Nicolas Cole, Christopher Lochhead, and Eddie Yoon

There’s a science of happiness now (such a phrase!). Researchers tell us that happiness is driven by factors like gratitude, using one’s strengths, a sense of social connection, striving for goals, and optimism.* These sound a lot like what games do at their best, and that may be the most important closure of all.

Theory of Fun for Game Design

Raph Koster

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