The Marginalian
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Reads by Maria Popova

Dreaming of Lucid Living: Enchanted Entertainment
Dreaming of Lucid Living: Enchanted Entertainment

Touching pixels, or how digital animation and analog performance converge into magic.

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Opening Up the Hitchcock and Lang Archives
Opening Up the Hitchcock and Lang Archives

What silent film has to do with sci-fi classics and the democratization of media.

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The War Prayer: Mark Twain on War and Morality, Animated
The War Prayer: Mark Twain on War and Morality, Animated

“None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.”

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7 Quirky & Creative Playing Card Deck Designs
7 Quirky & Creative Playing Card Deck Designs

Soviet Mayans, typographic treats, and what mathematical functions have to do with the sexism of the sixties.

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Versions: The Purpose and Repurposing of Images
Versions: The Purpose and Repurposing of Images

Originality, recycling, and why everyone is stealing from Disney.

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Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, Animated
Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, Animated

What the speed of light has to do with the reinvention of agriculture and our fear of tininess.

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Winners of IDEO’s Living Climate Change Challenge
Winners of IDEO’s Living Climate Change Challenge

Design-thinking our way out of the climate crisis, or why 2.5 billion kids may hold the key to a sustainable future.

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Life in a Day: Google Crowdsources Humanity
Life in a Day: Google Crowdsources Humanity

Documenting the world, or how to take one of 6.7 billion pathways to Sundance.

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Blu is Back: The Story of Evolution, Told in Graffiti
Blu is Back: The Story of Evolution, Told in Graffiti

Lo-fi Darwinism, or why art and algorithm don’t hold hands on Buenos Aires sidewalks.

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We’re Getting On: The Book That Grows Trees
We’re Getting On: The Book That Grows Trees

Life without Twitter, luddite literature, and why judging a book by its cover may at last be okay.

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