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Reads by Maria Popova

Lights, Camera, Ticket

Time-lapsing across the Atlantic, or what airline bankruptcy has to do with ethereal photography.

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Best of Bike Culture: Innovation Top 5

Brainwear for smart people, going Dutch on trash, backpack to downhill in 60 seconds, documenting the two-wheel lifestyle, and how to get yourself a private bike lane.

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Animation Spotlight: Big Buck Bunny

Seven months in Amsterdam, a very fat rabbit, and some really, really mean rodents.

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Famous Designers on Design: 5 Beautiful Book Covers

What the hate of Helvetica has to do with Nine Inch Nails and a three-legged lemon juicer.

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Word-of-Mouths

Salt mines, German sanatoriums, and how a social media rescue mission saved one lovable photographic underdog.

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Artist Spotlight: Volkan Ergen

Immersive urban avant-garde film, or what a tabby cat has to do with the Bosphorus at night.

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Monday Music Muse: Rachael Cantu

Cross-country coolness and how to go down with the devil’s thunder.

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Show & Tell: Mapping Obama’s Speech

Obama’s inauguration speech, graphically facilitated in (almost) real time.

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Monday Music Muse: The Midnight Show

A stride-stopping hit from Brooklyn’s notoriously hit-or-miss indie music scene.

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Vintage Russian Ads

What Dostoevsky has to do with sausage art and bicycles.

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Reads by Maria Popova

Time-lapsing across the Atlantic, or what airline bankruptcy has to do with ethereal photography.

Brainwear for smart people, going Dutch on trash, backpack to downhill in 60 seconds, documenting the two-wheel lifestyle, and how to get yourself a private bike lane.

Seven months in Amsterdam, a very fat rabbit, and some really, really mean rodents.

What the hate of Helvetica has to do with Nine Inch Nails and a three-legged lemon juicer.

Salt mines, German sanatoriums, and how a social media rescue mission saved one lovable photographic underdog.

Immersive urban avant-garde film, or what a tabby cat has to do with the Bosphorus at night.

Cross-country coolness and how to go down with the devil’s thunder.

Obama’s inauguration speech, graphically facilitated in (almost) real time.

A stride-stopping hit from Brooklyn’s notoriously hit-or-miss indie music scene.

What Dostoevsky has to do with sausage art and bicycles.

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