The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “culture”

Art Pickings: Behold Our Brand New Art Portal
Art Pickings: Behold Our Brand New Art Portal

A big announcement and a small way to have more art in your life.

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Visualizing Divisions and Bridges in Cyberspace
Visualizing Divisions and Bridges in Cyberspace

What the Tea Party has to do with Twitter and the anxieties of dating.

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5 Seminal Vintage Russian Animation Short Films
5 Seminal Vintage Russian Animation Short Films

What dancing ballerinas and hungry kings have to do with the dawn of the digital age.

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Information Pioneers: The Unsung Heroes of the Information Age
Information Pioneers: The Unsung Heroes of the Information Age

What striking down Hitler has to do with laying the groundwork for the iPhone.

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Drainspotting: Japan’s Unique Visual Subculture
Drainspotting: Japan’s Unique Visual Subculture

What dragons have to do with civic identity and geolocation scavenger hunts.

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Waiting for “Superman”: Education by the Numbers
Waiting for “Superman”: Education by the Numbers

Why 26 seconds are enough to end up in prison, or what Superman has to do with the economy.

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Summer Reading: 5 Curated Recommendations
Summer Reading: 5 Curated Recommendations

19th-century adventures, secret societies, and what not watching TV has to do with Wikipedia.

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Press Pause Play: The Evolving Creative Landscape
Press Pause Play: The Evolving Creative Landscape

From basement art to media glory, or why ones and zeros are the new chalk.

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One Day On Earth: A Timecapsule of Humanity
One Day On Earth: A Timecapsule of Humanity

How to become a pixel in the collaborative portrait of the world.

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A Love Letter to New York, in HD
A Love Letter to New York, in HD

The beauty of surrender, or why a whole new color spectrum lives between black and white.

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