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A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away

The lost civic life of movie rental stores

The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory

The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters

The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers

A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity

How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]

The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA

'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic

'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025)

Meditation and Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist (2022)

The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into

In Praise of Useless Robots

Returning to Church won't save us from nihilism

Is life a form of computation?

The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding

When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe?

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy

The Pleasure of Patterns in Art

The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes

Gaming cancer: How citizen science games could help cure disease

The Wet History of Media in the Bathroom

The Business of Betting on Catastrophe

The Many Sides of Erik Satie

The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards

Buying a Robot Cat and Falling into the Weird World of Animal-Robot Research

How Nintendo bled Atari games to death

Read the Obits

Emily Dickinson's Playful Letterlocking

Masters of None: The Flawed Logic of One-Size-Fits-All Education

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