The Marginalian
The Marginalian

Reads by Maria Popova

Retrospective on Futurism: N55
Retrospective on Futurism: N55

What snail shells and walking houses have to do with 13 years of art-science.

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Animation Spotlight: Invent
Animation Spotlight: Invent

The frontiers of creativity, the art of printing, and the beauty of not printing.

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Mapping Big Ideas: BIGVIZ
Mapping Big Ideas: BIGVIZ

200 pages of world-changing thinking, or what a sheep and a dog have to do with universal compassion.

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Focus on Focus: Rapt
Focus on Focus: Rapt

Happiness, ADD, and why multitasking doesn’t work but denial might.

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Revolutionary Fringe-Think: Sputnik Observatory
Revolutionary Fringe-Think: Sputnik Observatory

Why big minds play in small spaces, or what bacteria and architecture have in common.

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Digital Choreography: Synchronous Objects
Digital Choreography: Synchronous Objects

Twenty desks, one python, and what the human body has to do with lines of code.

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Photography Spotlight: <em>Things</em>
Photography Spotlight: Things

The cultural anthropology of things, or what Hitler’s head has to do with Barbie.

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Cinematic Enlightenment: The Auteurs Project
Cinematic Enlightenment: The Auteurs Project

The long tail of film culture, or why content curation really is the future of everything.

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Illustration Spotlight: Plan 9.001
Illustration Spotlight: Plan 9.001

The 1’s and 0’s of home, or what the Olsen twins have to do with John Locke and God.

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The Human Face, Up Close and Personal
The Human Face, Up Close and Personal

What the CIA has to do narcissism, attractiveness and Autistic children.

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