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Digital Humanities Spotlight: 7 Important Digitization Projects
Digital Humanities Spotlight: 7 Important Digitization Projects

From Darwin’s marginalia to Voltaire’s correspondence, or what Dalí’s controversial World’s Fair pavilion has to do with digital myopia.

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Paleo-Pundit: 1963 Educational Film about Lasers
Paleo-Pundit: 1963 Educational Film about Lasers

What microwave oscillators have to do with ray guns and the fundamentals of creativity.

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Words To Live By: 5 Timeless Commencement Addresses
Words To Live By: 5 Timeless Commencement Addresses

Gifts vs. choices, the benefits of failure, and what calligraphy has to do with Apple’s success.

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Summer Reading List: 10 Essential Books for Cognitive Sunshine
Summer Reading List: 10 Essential Books for Cognitive Sunshine

The history and future of the Internet, algorithms vs. curators, reinventing education, and how to live with optimism.

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Skillshare: Decentralized Education for All
Skillshare: Decentralized Education for All

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Comic Books for Grown-Ups: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction
Comic Books for Grown-Ups: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction

Seeing the world in six-panel strips, or what Allen Ginsberg has to do with the wonders of zygotes.

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BBC’s The Romantics: The Birth of the Individual in Modern Society
BBC’s The Romantics: The Birth of the Individual in Modern Society

What The French Revolution has to do with the love of nature and the birth of the modern individual.

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Geometry of Circles: Philip Glass + Sesame Street (1979)
Geometry of Circles: Philip Glass + Sesame Street (1979)

What the greatest composer alive has to do with The Muppets and the foundations of visual thinking.

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7 Must-Read Books on Education
7 Must-Read Books on Education

What the free speech movement of the 1960s has to do with digital learning and The Beatles.

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Climate Kid: UNICEF’s Platform for Preparedness
Climate Kid: UNICEF’s Platform for Preparedness

What evolutionary fantasies have to do with the future of practical education.

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