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Borges and $: The Parable of the Literary Master and the Coin (2016) (longreads.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | longreads.com | best

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The Decline and Fall of the Hit Instrumental Song (tedgioia.substack.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | substack.com | frontpage

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An Autobiography of a Holiday Home Built in the North of Sardinia in the 1960s (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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The Anatomy of Panic: A personal history of anxiety (harpers.org)

a year ago | anarbadalov | harpers.org | newest

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The Myth of Objective Data (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence (lithub.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | lithub.com | newest

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At the World’s Edge on Easter Island (departures.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | departures.com | newest

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Jorge Luis Borges extolling the joys of writing in English (twitter.com/bfcarlson)

a year ago | anarbadalov | twitter.com | newest

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Dave Eggers: Sketches from Ukraine (thebeliever.net)

a year ago | anarbadalov | thebeliever.net | frontpage

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America’s First Plane Bomber, and His Intended Victim (popula.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | popula.com | newest

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The Extraordinary Ways Rhythm Shapes Our Lives (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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MIT’s Barry Duncan demonstrates the power of writing in reverse (news.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | best

3

The Mysterious Deep Time Movements of Snails (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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How to Be a Better Loser (psyche.co)

a year ago | anarbadalov | psyche.co | newest

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The scientist who lost his dad – and resolved to travel to 1955 to save him (theguardian.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | theguardian.com | newest

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[flagged] Do Non-Profits Drive Social Change? (comment.org)

a year ago | anarbadalov | comment.org | frontpage

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On the Trail of the Fentanyl King (wired.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | wired.com | newest

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The Blunders of a 16th-Century Physician-Astrologer (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | frontpage

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Medieval Babycare (aeon.co)

a year ago | anarbadalov | aeon.co | newest

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What People Say Before They Die (2019) (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | theatlantic.com | frontpage

2

HG Wells and the perils of a techno-centric long view (longviewer.substack.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | substack.com | newest

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Charles Bernstein's list of poetic experiments (upenn.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | upenn.edu | newest

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The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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SingSong: Generating Musical Accompaniments from Singing (storage.googleapis.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | googleapis.com | newest

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How telepathy might work outside the realm of sci-fi (aeon.co)

a year ago | anarbadalov | aeon.co | newest

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Subterranean Paris: Félix Nadar’s Descent into the Parisian Underground (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

2

Notes on the Fourth Dimension (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | anarbadalov | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

2

How Has Music Changed Since the 1950s? A Statistical Analysis (statsignificant.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | statsignificant.com | newest

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400 years of timelines from 1606 to 2005 (davidrumsey.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | davidrumsey.com | newest

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Mad World: On the Psychotic Experience of Time (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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The Homeric Parallel in Ulysses: Joyce, Nabokov, and Homer in Maps (culturedarm.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | culturedarm.com | newest

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Spherical Descent: On the Bathysphere and Voyages into the Abyss (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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More Than Just an Object: A Collector’s Reading List (longreads.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | longreads.com | newest

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The Strangely Beautiful Experience of Google Reviews (longreads.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | longreads.com | newest

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The politics of pain (aeon.co)

a year ago | anarbadalov | aeon.co | frontpage

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Strange Things About the Evolution of Childhood (sapiens.org)

a year ago | anarbadalov | sapiens.org | newest

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Tinsel and Gore: On Holiday Horror Films (galerie.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | galerie.com | newest

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The Upsides of Feeling Small (bbc.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | bbc.com | newest

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Can AI Write Authentic Poetry? (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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Mark Lombardi: The Artist Who Obsessed the FBI (thedailybeast.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | thedailybeast.com | newest

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A Brief History of Disengagement, from Couch Potatoes to Users (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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A Board-Game Auteur Makes His Next Move (newyorker.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | newyorker.com | newest

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The Secret Life of Videocassettes in Iran (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | frontpage

2

Wanderlust of the Ancients (aeon.co)

a year ago | anarbadalov | aeon.co | newest

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Bipedalism and Other Tales of Evolutionary Oddities (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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“Spontaneous Revolutions”: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement (publicdomainreview.org)

a year ago | anarbadalov | publicdomainreview.org | newest

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Grandma’s ‘Bawena’: On the Kinship of Plants and People (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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Corner Club Cathedral Cocoon: Audiophilia and Its Discontents (harpers.org)

a year ago | anarbadalov | harpers.org | newest

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The elite, underpaid, and weird world of crossword writers (newrepublic.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | newrepublic.com | best

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Writers, be wary of Throat-Clearers and Wan Intensifiers (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Freeman Dyson and me (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | best

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Furniture as Comrade: Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione (dispatchesmag.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | dispatchesmag.com | best

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Losing Count: The Sordid Business of Bookkeeping (thedriftmag.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | thedriftmag.com | newest

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In Oaxaca, an Unlikely Union Between Hackers and Indigenous Peoples (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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The Rise and Fall of the Pioneering Laboratory for Computer Graphics (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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Furniture as Comrade: Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione (dispatchesmag.com)

a year ago | anarbadalov | dispatchesmag.com | newest

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Everything Gets Worse: An Antarctica Story (creativenonfiction.org)

a year ago | anarbadalov | creativenonfiction.org | newest

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Peggy Guggenheim, Morris Hirshfield, and the Story of “Nude at the Window” (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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The Curious Case of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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No More Baubles: Post-Plague Consumption (lrb.co.uk)

a year ago | anarbadalov | lrb.co.uk | newest

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How to Fix Climate Change (A Sneaky Policy Guide) (mitpress.mit.edu)

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | frontpage

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Rattling the Cage

a year ago | anarbadalov | thebaffler.com | newest

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An end-of-life doula’s advice on how to make the most of your time on earth

a year ago | anarbadalov | vox.com | newest

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‘That was our beach’: Notes on Fred Conrad’s Iconic 1977 Photograph

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | best

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Legendary Film Critic Serge Daney on Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat

a year ago | anarbadalov | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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The Civilizing of Laughter

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man

a year ago | anarbadalov | publicdomainreview.org | newest

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The Great Long Opening Sentences of World Literature

a year ago | anarbadalov | culturedarm.com | newest

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The Elite, Underpaid, and Weird World of Crossword Writers

a year ago | anarbadalov | newrepublic.com | newest

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How Bad Is Crime?

a year ago | anarbadalov | substack.com | newest

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Frescoes in the Desert: Alois Musil and the Rewriting of Islamic Pasts

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest

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Care Tactics: Hacking an ableist world

a year ago | anarbadalov | thebaffler.com | newest

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The Contingency of Listening: The MoFi Kerfuffle

a year ago | anarbadalov | substack.com | frontpage

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Bohumil Hrabal – King of Palaverers

a year ago | anarbadalov | engelsbergideas.com | newest

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Living closer together: How urban density can make our neighborhoods better

a year ago | anarbadalov | aeon.co | newest

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Technology and Humanity: Making Healthy Music

a year ago | anarbadalov | wordsonsounds.com | frontpage

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Stalin’s Architect: The Remarkable Life of Boris Iofan

a year ago | anarbadalov | mit.edu | newest