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The essential bond.

List are my thing. Since my earliest times in life I have made lists for different purposes: To Do lists, Goal lists, Shopping lists, contact lists, music (play)lists, and -of course- reading lists. There's a secret desire implicit in all this, and it's the idea of knowing it all. Not only having a vast knowledge, also the gift of clarity and pragmatism. Needless to say, that it was -and still is- too much. But Life-long learning isn't a bad philosophy of life. In fact, there are many reasons to believe that the possibility of knowing-it-all is more accessible in the internet era. At the same time, just by appraising the task on the screen, we can clearly see how unreachable that is. Still, many people like me can't just get rid of their secret ambition. And, when browsing the web, sooner or later we run into sites that give us the sense of empowerment: "this is possible!", we say again innocently. Wikipedia started it for me, then places like Khan Aca...