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Schematics: A Love Story in Geometric Diagrams

The mathematical poetics of time, or what matrices reveal about the matters of the heart.

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Maurice Sendak on Passion, the Risk of Art, and Never Having Written for Children

What Herman Melville has to do with the artist’s gauntlet and the sacrilege of sequels.

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The 11 Best Psychology and Philosophy Books of 2011

What it means to be human, how pronouns are secretly shaping our lives, and why we believe.

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Maira Kalman + Daniel Handler Illustrate a Breakup Through Significant Objects

What sugar and a pinhole camera have to do with the ephemeral ephemera of impossible love.

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What Does It Mean To Be Human? 300 Years of Definitions and Reflections

What Aristotle has to do with the women’s suffrage movement, Darwin, and M. C. Escher.

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Babel No More: Inside the Secrets of Superhuman Language-Learners

What a Chilean YouTube disaster and a busy Manhattan restaurant have to do with the limits of the human brain.

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The 11 Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2011

Illustrated correspondence, rock’n’roll, and what an old Kurt Vonnegut has to do with a young Hemingway.

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Steve Jobs on Why Computers Are Like a Bicycle for the Mind (1990)

A 20-year-old antidote to modern-day digital pessimism.

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The 11 Best Science Books of 2011

From Infinity to Fibonacci, or what religious mythology has to do with the inner workings of field science.

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Tantra Song: Rare 17th-Century Indian Paintings That Look Like 20th-Century Western Art

What a deadly bus accident has to do with Paul Klee, Paris, and the poetry of abstraction.

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Search results for “memory”

The mathematical poetics of time, or what matrices reveal about the matters of the heart.

What Herman Melville has to do with the artist’s gauntlet and the sacrilege of sequels.

What it means to be human, how pronouns are secretly shaping our lives, and why we believe.

What sugar and a pinhole camera have to do with the ephemeral ephemera of impossible love.

What Aristotle has to do with the women’s suffrage movement, Darwin, and M. C. Escher.

What a Chilean YouTube disaster and a busy Manhattan restaurant have to do with the limits of the human brain.

Illustrated correspondence, rock’n’roll, and what an old Kurt Vonnegut has to do with a young Hemingway.

A 20-year-old antidote to modern-day digital pessimism.

From Infinity to Fibonacci, or what religious mythology has to do with the inner workings of field science.

What a deadly bus accident has to do with Paul Klee, Paris, and the poetry of abstraction.

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