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If you can, you should take one too
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I'm in a box talking to invisible people
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February 2021

What a stone-age dilemma can teach us about the future of tech
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Sustainable cities of tomorrow will be for everyone, including non-human lifeforms.
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Here are the science, culture, and gossip shows that help me escape pandemic blues.
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January 2021

From the importance of hats to the unresolved history of colonialism
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Civilization as we know it emerged from the tropics in the global south.
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9,000 years ago, Çatalhöyük was the place to be
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Though we usually study the lives of rich Romans like Cicero, the Roman Empire was mostly made up of service workers who didn’t give a crap about…
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December 2020

Looking back on the year when it felt like I was trapped in the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, where rooms changed shape and skeletons dangled from the…
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In the early 1600s, Europeans were fur crazy. They’d killed off most of the European beavers, whose pelts were used to make fashionable felt hats, and…
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