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Writer’s Block in Stop-Motion, Shakespeare-Style
Writer’s Block in Stop-Motion, Shakespeare-Style

What Romeo and Juliette have to do with William Shatner and modern justice.

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Tweets from Tahrir: Rare Record of a Revoltuion
Tweets from Tahrir: Rare Record of a Revoltuion

What Gladwell’s fallacies have to do with changing media models and political paradigms.

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Symmetry: A Wordless Split-Screen Meditation on Duality
Symmetry: A Wordless Split-Screen Meditation on Duality

What the origin of the universe has to do with gender identity, binary parallels and anatomy.

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How Cancer Became Cancer and What Its Future Holds: A Pulitzer-Winning Biography of the Dreaded Disease
How Cancer Became Cancer and What Its Future Holds: A Pulitzer-Winning Biography of the Dreaded Disease

A comprehensive and eloquent scientific and sociocultural history of the ubiquitous disease wins the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.

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Quakebook: Twitter-Sourced Anthology for and by Japan
Quakebook: Twitter-Sourced Anthology for and by Japan

What Yoko Ono, William Gibson and Kings of Leon have in common.

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The Language of Graphic Design
The Language of Graphic Design

100 years of visual communication on a silver platter.

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something: An Open-Story Plot Device for Life
something: An Open-Story Plot Device for Life

An antidote to friend buttons, or what Shakira, Seth Godin and JJ Abrams have in common.

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Bompas & Parr, Jelly Architects
Bompas & Parr, Jelly Architects

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NASA + William Shatner: Space Shuttle’s Legacy
NASA + William Shatner: Space Shuttle’s Legacy

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The Ancient Book of Myth and War
The Ancient Book of Myth and War

What Roman warriors have to do with Pixar and medieval Middle-Eastern legends.

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