The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “environment”

TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 2
TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 2

Optical illusions, aquatic apes, and the sweat of genius.

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Retrospective on Futurism: N55
Retrospective on Futurism: N55

What snail shells and walking houses have to do with 13 years of art-science.

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The Open_Sailing Project
The Open_Sailing Project

Drifting villages, or what the Apocalypse has to do with your social life.

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Life, Visually Dissected
Life, Visually Dissected

An owl, a worm and a lizard walk into a bar…

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Truth, Beauty, Math and Crocheting
Truth, Beauty, Math and Crocheting

Why your grandmother’s favorite pastime proves mathematicians are a bunch of clueless hacks.

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TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 1
TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 1

Tiny objects, supermassive holes, and everything in between.

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Animation Spotlight: Invent
Animation Spotlight: Invent

The frontiers of creativity, the art of printing, and the beauty of not printing.

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Independent Film Spotlight: Future Weather
Independent Film Spotlight: Future Weather

How a 13-year-old is giving Al Gore a run for his money, or why indie is alive and well.

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Running The Numbers: Oceanographic Visualization
Running The Numbers: Oceanographic Visualization

What 20,500 tuna have to do with your old toothbrush, or how a plastic comb ended up on top of Japan’s most iconic volcano.

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Earth Day The Reel Way
Earth Day The Reel Way

Just how stupid we really are, or what James Earl Jones and a giant humpback whale have in common.

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