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Cartograms: Making a Point with Distorted Maps
Cartograms: Making a Point with Distorted Maps

Why space is relative and how popular media are making entire continents disappear.

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Leave Your Sleep: Natalie Merchant Sets Victorian Children’s Poetry to Song
Leave Your Sleep: Natalie Merchant Sets Victorian Children’s Poetry to Song

Musty libraries, otherworldly storytelling, and how dead poets wrote the year’s most moving album.

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The 2020 Project: Visions of the Connected Future
The 2020 Project: Visions of the Connected Future

What Scandinavian luminaries have to do with LEGO and the future of humanity.

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Art for the Age of Transparency: BBC DataArt
Art for the Age of Transparency: BBC DataArt

Layman geekery, or what documentary footage has to do with 3D and Brian Eno.

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