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The Geography of Bliss: The Secrets of the Happiest Places on Earth

From Iceland to India, or what medieval depictions of heaven have to do with the neuroscience of well-being.

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Digital Humanities Spotlight: 7 Important Digitization Projects

From Darwin’s marginalia to Voltaire’s correspondence, or what Dalí’s controversial World’s Fair pavilion has to do with digital myopia.

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Book of Ice: DJ Spooky’s Cross-Disciplinary Antarctica Project

What emancipated penguins have to do with digital archives, propaganda art and the future of remix culture.

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Andrew Bush’s Drive-By Portraits: A Meditation on Character

What a vintage Beetle has to do with speeding grannies and the challenges of family travel.

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7 Fundamental Meditations on Faith

What the magician Penn Gillette has to do with a ring of earth 700 miles north of the equator.

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1493: An Uncommon History of How Columbus Changed the World

What events from half a millennium ago can teach us about the globalization debate today.

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Comic Books for Grown-Ups: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction

Seeing the world in six-panel strips, or what Allen Ginsberg has to do with the wonders of zygotes.

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7 Obscure Children’s Books by Authors of Grown-Up Literature

What a moral cat has to do with a lost boy, a happy prince and the rules for little girls.

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Of Lamb: A Children’s Classic Retold for Contrarians

What baseball player Manny Ramirez has to do with the fourth-best-selling poetry book in America.

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Ordering the Heavens: A Visual History of Mapping the Universe

From Copernicus to Ancient Korea, or what the Chinese concept of change has to do with Aztec astrology.

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Search results for “time travel”

From Iceland to India, or what medieval depictions of heaven have to do with the neuroscience of well-being.

From Darwin’s marginalia to Voltaire’s correspondence, or what Dalí’s controversial World’s Fair pavilion has to do with digital myopia.

What emancipated penguins have to do with digital archives, propaganda art and the future of remix culture.

What a vintage Beetle has to do with speeding grannies and the challenges of family travel.

What the magician Penn Gillette has to do with a ring of earth 700 miles north of the equator.

What events from half a millennium ago can teach us about the globalization debate today.

Seeing the world in six-panel strips, or what Allen Ginsberg has to do with the wonders of zygotes.

What a moral cat has to do with a lost boy, a happy prince and the rules for little girls.

What baseball player Manny Ramirez has to do with the fourth-best-selling poetry book in America.

From Copernicus to Ancient Korea, or what the Chinese concept of change has to do with Aztec astrology.

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