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What Phones Are Doing to Reading
For the past five years or so, I’ve read books on my phone. The practice started...
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The Art of Decision-Making
In July of 1838, Charles Darwin was twenty-nine years old and single. Two years earlier, he...
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Houdini and the Art of Escape (2020)
In 1908, Harry Houdini—“The World’s Handcuff King and Prison Breaker”—needed a new act. He was thirty-four...
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The Deep Sea Is Filled with Treasure, but It Comes at a Price
The International Seabed Authority is headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica, in a building that looks a bit...
