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Treasured objects lost in the Californian wildfires, a missed opportunity to grow up bilingual, what the “Nefertiti Hack” says about digital colonialism, the real Lord Of The Flies, and more.
Treasured objects lost in the Californian wildfires, a missed opportunity to grow up bilingual, what the “Nefertiti Hack” says about digital colonialism, the real Lord Of The Flies, and more.
A report on the increasingly murky world of "art-nappings", text of a commencement speech advising perpetual curiosity, how professional "sweepers" treat consumer competitions as a job, how to grow a human brain in the lab, and more.
How to speak Cicada, America’s forgotten filling stations, Ramallah's thriving artistic life, is the second-cheapest wine a rip-off, and more.
The hyphenated history of "New York", a conversation on the practice of science, how to start a novel, the myth of the Olympics, and more.
How breaking and then replacing a window might generate economic activity, consciousness and punctuation, an overview of depression, the best books on contemporary India, and more.
What the West gets wrong about China, the dream of long haul space travel, all Is Orwell, Thor Heyerdahl's expedition from Peru to Polynesia, and more.
Why scientific fraud persists in academia, interview with an ageing stuntman, commentary on The Hunt of the Unicorn, meditation on the plight of the American salesman, and more.
How birds build their nests, Covid in the Himalayas, notes on Franz Mesmer's invention of "animal magnetism", poor treatment of rape victims and destruction of evidence, and more.
The borders of the sari, the studies of straightness, what if Napoleon had conquered Britain, a letter for the world's crime bosses, and more.
Is God an old-fashioned liberal, a juror’s guide to going rogue, a polish system of history, a brief history of the past 100 years, and more.
Champagne Socialism, notes on D.H. Lawrence, on glass politics, mastering IBM’s Chinese typewriter, and more.
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What is philosophy, the appreciation of manhole and drain covers, how critical the filing cabinet was to the information infrastructure of the 20th-century, what makes a beautiful word, and more.
At lunch with Freeman Dyson, an anthology of Texan turns of phrase, construction projects measured against Adam Smith's platonic pin factory, a farmer discovers the pleasures of acquiring a peacock, and more.
Confessions of a hair-based hustler, how geography is the chessboard of history, the invisible injuries of soldiers, on the particular pleasures of walking through the Prado each day, and more.
The long history of skyjackings, novels, novellas and tomes, the anatomy of incarceration, the inexplicable world of dowsing, and more.
The biggest churches in the world, learning from a crossword AI, the Hume Paradox, the enemy as ociologist
Identity and self in Hamlet, the anatomy of victimhood, the life and times of Hugo Marcus, Jean Monnet the Guerilla bureaucrat, and more.
How to sell your soul to Satan, the basic urban services in India, the origin of Covid, trees that aren't trees, and more.
The troubling pursuit of human metrics, the travels of a master storyteller, the internet is a better metaphor, when is the revolution in architecture coming, and more.