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Lessons for the Living from the Brink of Death
Lessons for the Living from the Brink of Death

How to take life one ephemeral dinner party at a time, or why hope is a gift of the hopeless.

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The Bippolo Seed: Seven Rare Dr. Seuss Stories Brought to Light
The Bippolo Seed: Seven Rare Dr. Seuss Stories Brought to Light

How eBay uncovered a buried literary treasure, or what a Massachusetts dentist has to do with vintage magazines.

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The Toaster Project: A DIY Quest for the Origins of Stuff
The Toaster Project: A DIY Quest for the Origins of Stuff

A nine-month journey to find what we lost between fifteenth-century smelting and China’s factories.

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Austin Kleon on Cultivating Creativity in the Digital Age
Austin Kleon on Cultivating Creativity in the Digital Age

The genealogy of ideas, why everything is a remix, or what T.S. Eliot can teach us about creativity.

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