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The Art of Medicine: Mapping the Body in 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination
The Art of Medicine: Mapping the Body in 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination

From ancient etchings to electron microscopes, or what aspirin has to do with visualizing consciousness.

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Pasta by Design: Finding Whimsy in the Geometry of Food
Pasta by Design: Finding Whimsy in the Geometry of Food

Phylogeny of the pantry, or what architecture has to do with anellini.

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Paris vs. New York: Minimalist Illustrated Parallels of Culture
Paris vs. New York: Minimalist Illustrated Parallels of Culture

Macaron vs. cupcake, Proust vs. Salinger, bobo vs. hipster, bordeaux vs. cosmo.

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“Sincerity, Honesty, Conviction, Affection, Imagination, and Humor”: A Profile of Charles Eames, 1946
“Sincerity, Honesty, Conviction, Affection, Imagination, and Humor”: A Profile of Charles Eames, 1946

“You will not grasp how this furniture came into being or what it really means unless you understand this also about Charles Eames.”

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Architecture Without Architects: What Ancient Structures Reveal About Collaborative Design
Architecture Without Architects: What Ancient Structures Reveal About Collaborative Design

From Rome’s theater districts to China’s underground cities, or what pleasure has to do with utility.

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Three Primary Colors: OK Go and Sesame Street Explain Basic Color Theory in Stop-Motion
Three Primary Colors: OK Go and Sesame Street Explain Basic Color Theory in Stop-Motion

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The Dot and the Line: A 1965 Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster
The Dot and the Line: A 1965 Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster

On finding the girl who is perfect from every direction.

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Schematics: A Love Story in Geometric Diagrams
Schematics: A Love Story in Geometric Diagrams

The mathematical poetics of time, or what matrices reveal about the matters of the heart.

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Lewis Hyde on Work vs. Labor and the Pace of Creativity
Lewis Hyde on Work vs. Labor and the Pace of Creativity

On the osmosis of willful intention and flow.

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Visions of the Jinn: A Visual History of Arabian Nights
Visions of the Jinn: A Visual History of Arabian Nights

From Aladdin to Lewis Carroll, or what Buddhist deities have to do with understanding the Middle East.

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