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How New Ideas Arise

Finding Language in the Brain

The Organ-on-a-Chip Revolution Is Here

The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran

The New Art of Making Books

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The Enduring Genius of ‘The Craft of Dying’

Scratch Cyborgs: The Hip-Hop DJ as Technology

Legendary Film Critic Serge Daney on Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’

‘That was our beach’: Notes on Fred Conrad’s Iconic 1977 Photograph

The Czech Play That Gave Us the Word ‘Robot’

When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders

A Master Perfumer's Reflections on Patchouli and Vetiver

Why Punish?

Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly

Artificial Lives: On the Occult Origins of Chemistry and the Stuff of Life

Of War and Electric Death: A Brief History of Push-Button Anxiety

Birthing Furniture: An Illustrated History

Scientific integrity and the ethics of 'utter honesty'

The weird, wonderful history of fairground photography

The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud

Did HAL Commit Murder?

Meditation and the Unconscious

The perils of being Paul Ehrenfest

Atlas of Poetic Zoology

When Aldous Huxley Opened the Doors of Perception

Waltzmania in the Paris Pleasure Gardens

The Ancient History of Intelligent Machines

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