The Marginalian
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Reads by Maria Popova

Best of Bike Culture: Innovation Top 5
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
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
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
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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The Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff

How much a $4.99 radio actually costs and what 7 football fields are doing in the Amazon jungle.

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Monday Music Muse: Rachael Cantu
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
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
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
Vintage Russian Ads

What Dostoevsky has to do with sausage art and bicycles.

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Monday Music Muse: Lionel Neykov
Monday Music Muse: Lionel Neykov

How to dodge mediocrity every Monday and boost your music street cred with the next big thing.

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