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New Philanthropy: End Malaria and Boost Your Own Creative Process
New Philanthropy: End Malaria and Boost Your Own Creative Process

Altruism by way of self-improvement, or what optimizing your workflow has to do with saving children.

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Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens, Possibly His Last
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens, Possibly His Last

From Ben Franklin to Qadafi, or what the Egyptian Revolution has to do with Harry Potter.

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Sentics: Emotional Healing Through Music and Touch
Sentics: Emotional Healing Through Music and Touch

A sensory antidote to addiction and depression, or what artificial intelligence has to do with poetry.

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Lewis Mumford on the City: Rare Footage from 1963
Lewis Mumford on the City: Rare Footage from 1963

What Dutch highways have to do with Canadian documentaries and the psychology of protests.

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Arnold Schoenberg’s Music Notation Based on Tennis: A Tribute to George Gershwin
Arnold Schoenberg’s Music Notation Based on Tennis: A Tribute to George Gershwin

What the U.S. Open has to do with atonality and one of the great losses of twentieth-century music.

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Everything Sings: Countercultural Cartography of the Invisible Life of a Neighborhood
Everything Sings: Countercultural Cartography of the Invisible Life of a Neighborhood

What Ira Glass has to do with atlas antagonism, or what plotting carved pumpkins reveals about place.

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Spitting in the Face of Creativity?
Spitting in the Face of Creativity?

Lessons in plagiarism from Polish magazine Przekrój.

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Doyald Young: The Self-Made Typography Icon in His Own Words
Doyald Young: The Self-Made Typography Icon in His Own Words

From high school dropout to design legend, or what the Oxford English Dictionary has to do with iconic logos.

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Monoculture: How Our Era’s Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives
Monoculture: How Our Era’s Dominant Story Shapes Our Lives

What Galileo has to do with the economy, or how Wall Street is moulding your taste in art.

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The Secret Life of Pronouns: Computational Linguistics and What Our Word Choices Reveal About Us
The Secret Life of Pronouns: Computational Linguistics and What Our Word Choices Reveal About Us

What the pronouns you use reveal about your thoughts and emotions, or how to liespot your everyday email.

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