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From the current New Yorker  —

"Bostrom has a reinvented man’s sense of lost time.
An only child, he grew up—as Niklas Boström—in
Helsingborg, on the southern coast of Sweden.
Like many exceptionally bright children, he hated
school, and as a teen-ager he developed a listless,
romantic persona. In 1989, he wandered into a library
and stumbled onto an anthology of nineteenth-century
German philosophy, containing works by Nietzsche
and Schopenhauer. He read it in a nearby forest, in
a clearing that he often visited to think and to write
poetry, and experienced a euphoric insight into the
possibilities of learning and achievement. 'It’s hard to
convey in words what that was like,' Bostrom told me…."

— Raffi Khatchadourian 

Continued from the previous post (June 27),
about the death of the founder of the 
Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at Oxford…

From Oxford Today , June 26, 2013—

(See also a June 11 Independent  story on the same topic.)

Update of 6:42 PM ET June 29:

Any similarity between the FHI logo and Plato's diamond
is of course purely coincidental—

The body of James Martin, 79, founder of the Oxford Martin School,
was reportedly found floating in the sea near his private island
off Bermuda on Monday, June 24, 2013.

In his memory— A Log24 post from last December.