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Phylomon: The Game of Life
Phylomon: The Game of Life

Pokemon meets Mother Earth, or what preschoolers have to do with the life of life.

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Death by Design
Death by Design

Minimizing your mortal footprint, or how to write a shopping list — literally — with the dead.

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Tom Waits Reads “The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski
Tom Waits Reads “The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski

On finding light in darkness, knowing chances and the ownership of life.

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The Bookshelf Rethought: 5 Innovative Designs
The Bookshelf Rethought: 5 Innovative Designs

Earthquakes, minimalism, and how to reconcile your inner bookworm with your design fetish.

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The Jazz Loft Project
The Jazz Loft Project

Wired lofts, 1,447 rolls of film, and what pimps and Salvador Dalí have in common.

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Chart Wars: The Steering Power of Data Visualization
Chart Wars: The Steering Power of Data Visualization

Data-washing, why designers are not to be messed with, and how seeing really is believing.

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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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Gift Guide Part 3: Free
Gift Guide Part 3: Free

DIY goodness, intellectual enrichment, and how to go cheap without being cheap.

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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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Social Justice with a Twist: Ctrl.Alt.Shift
Social Justice with a Twist: Ctrl.Alt.Shift

Blurring the boundaries between activism, advertisement, and art, or how you can get hand grenades to hang on your Christmas tree.

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