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Monday Music Muse: First Aid Kit

How two Swedish teenagers are redefining indie-folk rock, or what mountain peasants have to do with Fiona Apple.

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Vintage Design: Innovation Lessons from the Past

Bleeding-edge art direction, what Obama’s agricultural policy has to do with vintage graphic design, and why 2009 is exactly like 1939.

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Revisiting the Retail Experience: BBlessing

Absinthe, portraiture, and where a hipster-elitist can finally feel at home.

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Perroquet: Photography, Science, Slow-Motion Beauty

How three worlds of fascination collide through negative space and positive brilliance.

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TED 2009 Highlights: Day 2

Lots and lots (and lots) of brilliance, wrapped in fascination and tied with a shiny ribbon of sheer jaw-droppingness.

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TEDify: Ideas Worth Connecting

Connecting the cultural dots one 65-second audio-visual experiment at a time.

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Monday Music Muse: Peter Buffett

Something delightfully different.

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Art of The Cover: Book Cover Design Inspiration

Shepard Fairey on George Orwell, where we live, 8 decades of iconic cover designs, and what Banksy and a tranny have in common. Oh my!

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Monday Music Muse: Keren Ann

Melancholy, fresh familiarity, and a geography lesson in a soft mezzo-soprano.

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TED 2009 Highlights: Day 1

A cultural dialogue on sex, Bill Gates releases more bugs into the world, and lots of caffeine.

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Reads by Maria Popova

How two Swedish teenagers are redefining indie-folk rock, or what mountain peasants have to do with Fiona Apple.

Bleeding-edge art direction, what Obama’s agricultural policy has to do with vintage graphic design, and why 2009 is exactly like 1939.

Absinthe, portraiture, and where a hipster-elitist can finally feel at home.

How three worlds of fascination collide through negative space and positive brilliance.

Lots and lots (and lots) of brilliance, wrapped in fascination and tied with a shiny ribbon of sheer jaw-droppingness.

Connecting the cultural dots one 65-second audio-visual experiment at a time.

Something delightfully different.

Shepard Fairey on George Orwell, where we live, 8 decades of iconic cover designs, and what Banksy and a tranny have in common. Oh my!

Melancholy, fresh familiarity, and a geography lesson in a soft mezzo-soprano.

A cultural dialogue on sex, Bill Gates releases more bugs into the world, and lots of caffeine.

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