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Divorced After 20 Years Together, Remarried After 1 Month Apart

After 20 years being married, Jan and Lee Jones decided to get divorced. A month later, they decided that they though married life was tough, they couldn’t live apart … so they got remarried! They decided to separate after nearly 20 years of marriage in January 2009. Mr Jones said: “We had a lot of problems, like [...]

John Cleese: Create a Tortoise Enclosure for Your Mind

“I want to be as well-informed as I can possibly be before I die” -John Cleese, in a speech on creativity, sleeping on problems, rewrites, and creating “tortoise enclosures” for your mind by creating boundaries of space and time. This is a brilliant little ten-minute talk for anyone who’s interested in writing or any other [...]

The Quick 10: 10 Famous Color Blind People

You know that scene in Little Miss Sunshine when Dwayne finds out he’s color blind and can’t achieve his lifelong dream of becoming a jet pilot? That may have had some real-life inspiration (see #3 below). Here are 10 famous people who suffered from the same problem as Dwayne. 1. Mr. Rogers was totally red-green color [...]