Curious Correspondence with Edward Gorey
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“You Are My Friend”: Early Androids and Artificial Speech
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Frederic Tudor in 1806 brings cocktails and ice cream to the rest of the world
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Emilie (2010)
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The Universal Structure of Storytelling
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In praise of defensive football
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Effective altruism is not effective
philosophersbeard.org152 points·by animalcule··240 comments
How New York became a metropolis of stoops
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The Boundless Banality of Beige
commonedge.org32 points·by animalcule··14 comments
The School of Athens: A detail hidden in a masterpiece
bbc.com41 points·by animalcule··14 comments
Dvořák in Iowa
plough.com74 points·by animalcule··34 comments
The Junk Mail Men: Selling Your Data for over a Century (2019)
saturdayeveningpost.com109 points·by animalcule··14 comments
The Art of City Walking
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Mexican mammoth trap provides first evidence of prehistoric hunting pits
theguardian.com69 points·by animalcule··61 comments
E. M. Forster, The Art of Fiction No. 1 (1953)
theparisreview.org10 points·by animalcule··1 comments
Books Won't Die
theparisreview.org95 points·by animalcule··88 comments
A dream of an ultimate OS (1995)
okmij.org246 points·by animalcule··175 comments
Dancing Days
vqronline.org5 points·by animalcule··0 comments
When Everything That Counts Can’t Be Counted
thereformedbroker.com80 points·by animalcule··51 comments