wired
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The Private Words of Newton
Do we think that the things a person says in public or the things a person writes in private say more about them? I think that’s an interesting question, especially for our moment of Twitter and Facebook. We tend to…
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Camping Out at Walmart
Because Walmart has a company policy letting people park their cars in its lots overnight, it’s possible to find travelers, long-term campers, and even small communities of people living there. Wired highlights a series of portraits of people staying in…
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The Passage of Ideas
Every day, we collectively produce millions of books’ worth of writing. Globally we send 154.6 billion emails, more than 400 million tweets, and over 1 million blog posts and around 2 million blog comments on WordPress. On Facebook, we post…
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A New Way to Read Comics
Only a small percentage of blind people commonly use Braille—and that number drops even further when it comes to reading comic books. With a new Braille-based comic book, Danish designer Phillipp Meyer may have overcome some of the limitations that…
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250-year-old Secret Text Decoded
New technological advances have allowed researchers into an ancient world of secret texts that once seemed nearly impossible to decode. Noah Shachtman’s article in Wired, titled “They Cracked This 250-Year-Old Code, and Found a Secret Society Inside,” explores how new computer generated…
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The Silent History and the Evolution of the E-Book
At Wired, Shoshana Berger profiles designer, programmer, and Rumpus contributor Russell Quinn, whose new project, The Silent History, will begin its serial publication soon. The e-book is divided into six parts, each part then divided into smaller, ten to fifteen minute “episodes”,…
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Letters for Kids Love
Wired wrote about Letters for Kids, our newly-launched subscription service akin to Letters in the Mail — but for youngsters. We agree wholeheartedly with Wired’s endorsement: “If your child has bookish tendencies, or if you’d like to encourage the development…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jonah Lehrer
If you listened to Radiolab or read the New Yorker in the last three years, you’ve probably encountered the science journalist Jonah Lehrer.
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Our Brains On Art
“While Rembrandt was an astonishingly talented artist, our response to his art is conditioned by all sorts of variables that have nothing to do with oil paint. Many of these variables are capable of distorting our perceptions, so that we…
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Guillermo del Toro Interview
Wired interviews Guillermo del Toro, whose co-authored vampire book trilogy concluded with last month’s publication of Night Eternal. Del Toro discusses science and religion; vampire myths and folklore; and his current projects, one of which is a video game. “I…
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New School
Wired’s got an article on technologically-informed education—Khan Academy, an educational website in which, “Students, or anyone interested enough to surf by, can watch some 2,400 videos in which the site’s founder, Salman Khan, chattily discusses principles of math, science, and…
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Alan Moore on Superheroes
Actually, there’s a lot more to this interview with Alan Moore than just his view on superheroes–it’s largely about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1969, which should be released next month–but I really enjoyed this bit on the problem with…