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29 OCTOBER, 2013

Codex Seraphinianus: History’s Most Bizarre and Beautiful Encyclopedia, Brought Back to Life

“You see what you want to see. You might think it’s speaking to you, but it’s just your imagination.”

13 SEPTEMBER, 2013

“Tip-of-the-Tongue Syndrome,” Transactive Memory, and How the Internet Is Making Us Smarter

“A public library keeps no intentional secrets about its mechanisms; a search engine keeps many.”

12 AUGUST, 2013

The Art of Looking: What 11 Experts Teach Us about Seeing Our Familiar City Block with New Eyes

“Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that.”

08 AUGUST, 2013

The Comic Book Universe, Distilled in Infographics

What a physical history of saying “Good Grief” has to do with superhero undergarments and the pizza toppings of the Ninja Turtles.