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Surveillance and the history of 19th-century wearable tech

How We Sort the World

'The Cheese and the Worms': Carlo Ginzburg Launches Microhistory

The Rich History of Ham Radio Culture

The Man Who Invented Times Square

The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism

Data-fueled neurotargeting could kill democracy

How actors remember their lines

On English Melancholy

Daniel Dennett: 'Where Am I?'

How deep does life go?

For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter

A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret

The Deep and Enduring History of Universal Basic Income

The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud

J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books

An illustrated guide to post-Orwellian censorship (2021)

An untold story of LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia

Lake Tanganyika's Scale Eating Fish

Stanisław Lem's vision of artificial life

"Hallucinating" AIs sound creative, but let's not celebrate being wrong

Aldous Huxley's Deep Reflection

How might life migrate through the universe?

Piranesi, Borges, and the Labyrinths of Time

Mouth gestures and their meanings around the world (2005)

The two-century quest to quantify our senses

The Tyranny of Science over Mothers

The myth of a wilderness without humans

The Blunders of a 16th-Century Physician-Astrologer

Subterranean Paris: Félix Nadar’s Descent into the Parisian Underground

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