The Marginalian
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Susan Sontag: A Trifecta Remembrance
Susan Sontag: A Trifecta Remembrance

What frontpage news has to do with graphic design and the craftsmanship of the self.

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The Best Apps of 2010
The Best Apps of 2010

Social magazines, Victorian tablets, and what 100-year-old educational traditions have to do with analog photography.

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Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas

What Victorian anxieties have to do with Coke, candy canes and mythbusting the Bible.

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James Burke’s <em>Connections</em>: A BBC History of Innovation
James Burke’s Connections: A BBC History of Innovation

What the sociology of the Industrial Revolution has to do with combinatorial creativity.

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Len Kendall Sketchnotes the Best of <em>Brain Pickings</em> 2010
Len Kendall Sketchnotes the Best of Brain Pickings 2010

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