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Reads from 2012

The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager
The Death of the Editor and the Rise of the Circulation Manager

A 1923 critique of everything that’s wrong with media today.

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An Animated History of Human Communication: 1965 Educational Film about the Telephone
An Animated History of Human Communication: 1965 Educational Film about the Telephone

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: A Story of Passion and Possibility
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: A Story of Passion and Possibility

What bamboo poles and bicycle chains have to do with sparking the spirit of entrepreneurship.

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Laconia: An Architecture of Thinking
Laconia: An Architecture of Thinking

Multimedia landscape as a language pattern, or what Ezra Pound has to do with Twitter.

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The Ice Balloon: The Story of the Disastrous 1897 Expedition to the North Pole by Air
The Ice Balloon: The Story of the Disastrous 1897 Expedition to the North Pole by Air

A summertime jaunt to the Arctic Circle, spoiled.

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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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From Mark Twain to Ray Bradbury, Iconic Writers on Truth vs. Fiction
From Mark Twain to Ray Bradbury, Iconic Writers on Truth vs. Fiction

Why art exists, or what a stage magician can teach us about the fine points of literary make-believe.

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Time Piece: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Experimental 1965 Film on Time-Keeping
Time Piece: Muppets Creator Jim Henson’s Experimental 1965 Film on Time-Keeping

An Oscar-nominated abstract meditation on how we experience time.

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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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What It’s Like to Live in a Universe of Ten Dimensions
What It’s Like to Live in a Universe of Ten Dimensions

What songwriting has to do with string theory.

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