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The Last Lions: NatGeo Photographers Tell an Urgent Story
The Last Lions: NatGeo Photographers Tell an Urgent Story

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Reality Is Broken: How Games Make Us Better
Reality Is Broken: How Games Make Us Better

Becoming better versions of ourselves, or how the basic paradigms of gaming culture foster social change.

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Jane McGonigal on Gaming for Productivity
Jane McGonigal on Gaming for Productivity

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Visualizing Divisions and Bridges in Cyberspace
Visualizing Divisions and Bridges in Cyberspace

What the Tea Party has to do with Twitter and the anxieties of dating.

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Strange Sounds: 7 Experimental Projects Making Music from Natural Elements
Strange Sounds: 7 Experimental Projects Making Music from Natural Elements

Solar-powered guitars, salty vocals, and what bonsai has to do with liquid music for the deaf.

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Bohemian Rhapsody 5 Ways
Bohemian Rhapsody 5 Ways

What The Muppets have to do with hearing disabilities, self-cloning and TED.

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Creative Cartography: 7 Magnificent Books on Maps
Creative Cartography: 7 Magnificent Books on Maps

From tattoos to Thomas More’s Utopia, or what Moby Dick has to do with the nature of time.

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5 Cross-Disciplinary Cookbooks
5 Cross-Disciplinary Cookbooks

What Dracula, liquid nitrogen and hackers have to do with IKEA furniture.

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5 (More) Places to Buy (and Sell) Affordable Art
5 (More) Places to Buy (and Sell) Affordable Art

How to get excited about art without letting your wallet get depressed.

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The Beauty of Maps: Seeing Art in Cartography
The Beauty of Maps: Seeing Art in Cartography

What 13th-century astronomy has to do with the shape of the internet and the British Library.

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