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Awkward to Awesome
Bill Sullivan interviews Dr. Ty Tashiro on the science of being awkward.
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Fake News by Algorithm
The choice between artificial intelligence and artificial stupidity comes down to the same old motive: profit. Silvia Swinden writes.
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Free Thing of the Week: Eveleen – Falling Rain
Back to the grind of August? Let Eveleen take you away with this wonderful music release.
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Encounters with Anonymous: The Leaning Child
Omar Willey returns with a piece on photography and the problem of uncritical inferences.
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Slow Science, Slow Food, Slow Down
Pancho Ramos-Stierle encourages you to think a little about the proverb “Fools rush in.”
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The Governor is Busy
No matter how large or crowded Istanbul becomes, the centralized government structure does not change. There is always a single governor… Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu investigates the broken links in Turkish democracy in this three-part series. Part one of three.
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Sunday Comics
It’s so deep, it’s so wide, you’re inside synchronicity/Effect without a cause, subatomic laws, Sunday Comics y’all, synchronicity!
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Three Decades After Dictatorship, Theater Aids the Search for Identity and Truth in Argentina
Romina Navarro explores identity in Latin American theater.
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Giant Bone-Crushing Croc was Top Predator of Its Time
Jon Tennant gets excited by a 160,000,000 year old giant crocodile — and who wouldn’t?
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Encounters with Anonymous: A New Feature about Photography
A new column on looking at anonymous photographs, from our publisher dude.