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Before Walt Disney: 5 Animations by Early Cinema Pioneers
Before Walt Disney: 5 Animations by Early Cinema Pioneers

What a shape-shifting egg has to do with racehorses and the science of facial expressions.

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Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo: The First True Animation, 1911
Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo: The First True Animation, 1911

What the dawn of animation has to do with progressive microfuding for creativity.

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The Ego Trick: Julian Baggini in Search of the Self
The Ego Trick: Julian Baggini in Search of the Self

Why “I” is a verb, or what the building blocks of identity have to do with developing compassion.

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Kurt Vonnegut Interviewed on NPR Inside Second Life
Kurt Vonnegut Interviewed on NPR Inside Second Life

What it means to be a man without a country, or what Marx has to do with improving life through technology.

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Hume at 300: Timeless Philosophy for Timely Thinking
Hume at 300: Timeless Philosophy for Timely Thinking

Why imagination is at the root of the mind, or how to become a bestselling historian.

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Nabokov’s Legacy: Bequeathing Butterfly Theory
Nabokov’s Legacy: Bequeathing Butterfly Theory

Getting schooled in the arts and sciences, or what literature has to do with lepidoptery.

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7 Essential Books on Data Visualization & Computational Art
7 Essential Books on Data Visualization & Computational Art

What 12 million human emotions have to do with civilian air traffic and the order of the universe.

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BBC’s The Romantics: The Birth of the Individual in Modern Society
BBC’s The Romantics: The Birth of the Individual in Modern Society

What The French Revolution has to do with the love of nature and the birth of the modern individual.

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Happy Birthday, George Orwell: BBC’s 1954 1984 Adaptation
Happy Birthday, George Orwell: BBC’s 1954 1984 Adaptation

From Big Brother to Little Brother, or what Newspeak has to do with the API economy.

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The Beekepers: Artful Documentary about Colony Collapse Disorder
The Beekepers: Artful Documentary about Colony Collapse Disorder

What Aristotle’s hobby has to do with the future of agriculture and our best defense against disaster.

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