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Max Fleischer’s Original 1947 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Animation
Max Fleischer’s Original 1947 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Animation

How Santa’s ninth reindeer made his on-screen debut.

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The 11 Best History Books of 2011
The 11 Best History Books of 2011

What African drum languages have to do with women’s emancipation, radioactivity, and the future of the web.

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Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Eames: The Architect and the Painter

From fiberglass to James Franco, or what Ice Cube has to do with designing the American imagination.

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What Does It Mean To Be Human? 300 Years of Definitions and Reflections
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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The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: 100 Years of Polar Mystery
The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: 100 Years of Polar Mystery

What ponies and glaciers have to do with London bars.

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Umberto Eco on Lists and Making Infinity Comprehensible
Umberto Eco on Lists and Making Infinity Comprehensible

What Don Giovanni’s lovers have to do with the poetics of catalogues.

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No Ordinary Genius: BBC Captures Richard Feynman’s Legacy
No Ordinary Genius: BBC Captures Richard Feynman’s Legacy

Explaining the scientific process with chess, or why childlike wonder is key to getting unstuck in science.

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From Jack Kerouac to Ayn Rand: Iconic Writers on Symbolism, 1963
From Jack Kerouac to Ayn Rand: Iconic Writers on Symbolism, 1963

A Rorschach Test with a spine, or what the art of fluid writing has to do with salt.

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How “the Most Beautiful Woman in the World” Invented a System for Remote-Controlling Torpedoes That Laid the Groundwork for Wifi
How “the Most Beautiful Woman in the World” Invented a System for Remote-Controlling Torpedoes That Laid the Groundwork for Wifi

“When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age and experience disappear completely.”

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