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Understanding Urbanity: 7 Must-Read Books About Cities
Understanding Urbanity: 7 Must-Read Books About Cities

What airports have to do with Medieval towns, Brooklyn’s bookstores and Le Corbusier.

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How a Book is Made: AD 400 vs. 1947 vs. 1961 vs. 2011
How a Book is Made: AD 400 vs. 1947 vs. 1961 vs. 2011

A brief history of the bound page and our evolving collective narrative about its craftsmanship.

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How Music and Language Mimicked Nature to Evolve Us
How Music and Language Mimicked Nature to Evolve Us

How auditory cheesecake was made with mother nature’s milk, or why our brains were not designed for reading.

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Visualizing the Expansion of the Universe: The Most Accurate Measurement Yet
Visualizing the Expansion of the Universe: The Most Accurate Measurement Yet

What 120,000 galaxies have to do with understanding our place in the universe.

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The Man of Numbers: How Fibonacci Changed the World
The Man of Numbers: How Fibonacci Changed the World

What Medieval mathematics have to do with remix culture, publishing entrepreneurship, and gamification.

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The Stanford Prison Experiment: History’s Most Controversial Psychology Study Turns 40
The Stanford Prison Experiment: History’s Most Controversial Psychology Study Turns 40

Insights on identity and the aberrations of authority from the most notorious psychology experiment of all time.

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Do You See What I See? BBC on the Subjectivity of Color Perception
Do You See What I See? BBC on the Subjectivity of Color Perception

Why you should wear red on your next date, or what an African tribe can teach us about the color of water.

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Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity

Why creativity is like LEGO, or what Richard Dawkins has to do with Susan Sontag and Gandhi.

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Aftercrimes, Geoslavery & Thermogeddon: Lexicographer Erin McKean’s TEDBook on New Words
Aftercrimes, Geoslavery & Thermogeddon: Lexicographer Erin McKean’s TEDBook on New Words

How to spot wordishness when you see it, or what serendipity has to do with digital publishing.

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How Alex Steinweiss Invented the Album Cover
How Alex Steinweiss Invented the Album Cover

A brief history of music for the eyes, or how to go from brown paper to design revolution in 7 pounds.

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