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The Future of First-Response Environments
The Future of First-Response Environments

Displays for disasters, or what sensors have to do with survival.

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Magazines: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Magazines: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Robin-Hooding print, vintage infographics, and what organ music has to do with the iPad.

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Brain-picking CurrentTV’s Max Lugavere & Jason Silva
Brain-picking CurrentTV’s Max Lugavere & Jason Silva

The art of wow, transcendent interconnectedness, and why science is a creative lubricant.

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Top 10 Contemporary Cross-Disciplinary Conferences
Top 10 Contemporary Cross-Disciplinary Conferences

Ideas in real life, or how to increase the statistical probability of finding a clown, Malcolm Gladwell, and a rocket scientist in the same room.

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Collaborative Creation: PSST!
Collaborative Creation: PSST!

Transcending the ego, or why the future of storytelling is in its past.

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The Beauty of Maps: Seeing Art in Cartography
The Beauty of Maps: Seeing Art in Cartography

What 13th-century astronomy has to do with the shape of the internet and the British Library.

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AnthroPosts: Analog Post-It Found Art, Digitized
AnthroPosts: Analog Post-It Found Art, Digitized

Voyeurism, organic apricots, and indulging the human penchant for patternicity.

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Brain Pickings Redux: Best of 2009
Brain Pickings Redux: Best of 2009

A year’s worth of ideas, inspiration and innovation from culture’s collective brain.

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Introducing the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts
Introducing the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts

What liquor stores have to do with the advancement of the digital arts.

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Technofuturism: La Vitrine
Technofuturism: La Vitrine

How 35,000 light bulbs are beaming our way into the human-algorithm future.

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