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Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline
Cartographies of Time: A Visual History of the Timeline

A chronology of one of our most inescapable metaphors, or what Macbeth has to do with Galileo.

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The Art of Medicine: Mapping the Body in 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination
The Art of Medicine: Mapping the Body in 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination

From ancient etchings to electron microscopes, or what aspirin has to do with visualizing consciousness.

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Pasta by Design: Finding Whimsy in the Geometry of Food
Pasta by Design: Finding Whimsy in the Geometry of Food

Phylogeny of the pantry, or what architecture has to do with anellini.

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The Ice Balloon: The Story of the Disastrous 1897 Expedition to the North Pole by Air
The Ice Balloon: The Story of the Disastrous 1897 Expedition to the North Pole by Air

A summertime jaunt to the Arctic Circle, spoiled.

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The Science of Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
The Science of Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

What the greatest mystery of science has to do with this moment we share, right now.

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Why Pink Doesn’t Exist: An Illustrated Stop-Motion Science Explanation in 60 Seconds
Why Pink Doesn’t Exist: An Illustrated Stop-Motion Science Explanation in 60 Seconds

Pretty in minus-green.

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This Is Your Brain on Comedy
This Is Your Brain on Comedy

The laugh track as cultural currency, or what David Letterman has to do with the dopamine circuit.

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Christopher Sykes, the Filmmaker Behind the Beloved Richard Feynman Documentaries
Christopher Sykes, the Filmmaker Behind the Beloved Richard Feynman Documentaries

Storytelling meets the pleasure of finding things out.

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What It’s Like to Live in a Universe of Ten Dimensions
What It’s Like to Live in a Universe of Ten Dimensions

What songwriting has to do with string theory.

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Manuel Lima on the Power of Knowledge Networks in the Age of Infinite Connectivity
Manuel Lima on the Power of Knowledge Networks in the Age of Infinite Connectivity

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