The Marginalian
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Redirect: A New Way to Think About Psychological Change
Redirect: A New Way to Think About Psychological Change

How Aristotle went about cultivating virtue, or what Susan Sontag can teach us about self-improvement.

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World Science Festival: Scents and Sensibilities, or How Smell Works
World Science Festival: Scents and Sensibilities, or How Smell Works

From pheromones to disease detection via smell, or what your nose has to do with the neurochemistry of nostalgia.

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Ray: A Life Underwater
Ray: A Life Underwater

What antique cannon balls have to do with walking on the moon and life on the bottom of the world.

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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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Al Jaffee’s Iconic MAD Fold-Ins: The Definitive Collection, 1964-2010
Al Jaffee’s Iconic MAD Fold-Ins: The Definitive Collection, 1964-2010

Half a century of clever visual satire from pop culture to politics, or what Warhol had to do with Whitewater.

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This Must Be The Place: Poetic Short Films Explore ‘Home’
This Must Be The Place: Poetic Short Films Explore ‘Home’

What 19th-century farming has to do with solar panels and the creative losses of digital photography.

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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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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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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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Metropopular: If Cities Could Speak
Metropopular: If Cities Could Speak

Charming animated short film explores city stereotypes.

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