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Not Your Mama’s Guidebook: The Zinester’s Guide to NYC
Not Your Mama’s Guidebook: The Zinester’s Guide to NYC

What Chinatown fishmarkets have to do with the astrology of Brooklyn.

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3 Ways to Visualize the David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
3 Ways to Visualize the David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest

What dotted lines have to do with telenovelas, pop culture reverence and analog GPS.

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Denis Dutton’s Provocative Darwinian Theory of Beauty
Denis Dutton’s Provocative Darwinian Theory of Beauty

Why the cultural conditioning of your eye has nothing on the evolutionary biology of it.

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A Short Illustrated History of Nearly Everything
A Short Illustrated History of Nearly Everything

What charcoal has to do with democracy, equality and the cultural necessity for absurdity.

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5 Essential Books and Talks on the Psychology of Choice
5 Essential Books and Talks on the Psychology of Choice

The psychology of spaghetti sauce and why too many jams make you lose your appetite.

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