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3/2/2022
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Crypto Diaries
Crypto, The Left, And Techno-Feudalism Evgeny Morozov | Crypto Syllabus | 26th January 2022 Transcript of a conversation with Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister. Interesting
3/1/2022
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Classical Britain
The Last Classical Music Store Brian Reinhart | Texas Monthly | 25th February 2022 Bittersweet account of a visit to one of the last known music shops to specialise entirely in classical music on CD.
2/28/2022
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Ukraine and Girard
Serhii Plokhy On Ukraine and Russia Sophie Roell | Five Books | 24th February Discussion of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and its historical roots. "What we see is the process of disintegration of
2/24/2022
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Mr Bennett's Ideas
Mr Bennett And Mrs Brown Virginia Woolf | Berfrois | 22nd February 2022 Woolf's rebuttal to fellow novelist Arnold Bennett, who had published a review of Jacob's Room under the title "Is
2/23/2022
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Bread Bird
The Curse Of Sliced Bread Mary Harrington | Unherd | 18th February 2022 Musings on productivity, explained as a failed baking experiment. The writer's bread collapsed because she tried to eliminate
2/22/2022
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Mass Montreal
The Masses, Not The Classes Bob Stanley | 21st February 2022 Vignette about Irving Berlin's breakthrough 1912 song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" from an upcoming history of popular music
2/21/2022
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Trip Leopard
The Trip To Rose Cottage Cal Flyn | Granta | 17th February 2022 Letter from Swona, a small island off the northern tip of of Scotland which has been uninhabited for almost 50 years, and for the
2/18/2022
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Olympic Murder
Designing Olympic Sports For Spectators Brad Templeton | Brad Ideas | 11th February 2022 The 100m sprint is the ideal spectator sport. "You can watch it, and understand it, and see who is winning
2/17/2022
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Paper Poets
A Paper Archaeology Susan Stewart | Public Domain Review | 9th February 2022 Piranesi, the 18C engraver-architect, was outraged and saddened by the cavalier attitude to Roman ruins he observed in his
2/15/2022
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Picasso's Trials
Picasso's Secret Lover Jeffrey Meyers | London Magazine | 4th February 2022 Geneviève Laporte is the "most shadowy and elusive lover" in Picasso's long list of conquests. She met him
2/11/2022
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Language Game
The Logical Mystic Peter Salmon | New Humanist | 7th February 2022 Notes on the centenary of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, drafted on the battlefields of World War One and completed in a prison camp
2/10/2022
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Pigeon Discoveries
The Waddling Wood Pigeon Derek Niemann | Guardian | 9th February 2022 Stellar instalment of the daily Country Diary, a column debuted in 1906. In a few hundred words, the writer sketches a complete and
2/9/2022
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Driveling Worms
An Experiment In Following A Worm William Davis | The Collation | 5th August 2021 Archive photographer explains how tracking the path of a worm through a 17C letter helped to reveal the folding habits
2/8/2022
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Opera Talk
She Used To Sing Opera Imogen Crimp | Granta | 3rd February 2022 On the complicated welter of emotions evoked by a failed attempt at becoming an opera singer. The training is hellish and the prize upon
2/7/2022
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Different Ulysses
Why Mathematics Is Different Jay Daigle | Jay's Blog | 2nd February 2022 Why doesn't mathematics have a "replication crisis"? Mainly because maths papers are being "replicated
2/4/2022
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Supplying Wordle
How We Broke the Supply Chain David Dayen & Rakeen Mabud | American Prospect | 31st January 2022 One day you can't find bicycle parts; the next it's luxury watches or cream cheese. You
2/3/2022
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Zoom Witches
Should I Ask Over Zoom? M. Mahdi Roghanizad and Vanessa K. Bohns | Social Psychological and Personality Science | 27th December 2021 | PDF Paper detailing a study into whether asking for help via
2/1/2022
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Luxury Rivers
A View From Across The River Samprati Pani | Chiragh Dilli | 29th January 2022 On the process of "homing" and of becoming at home in the Delhi neighbourhood of Patparganj. Situated on the
1/31/2022
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Peace And Catfish
Life Stories From Death Row Amanda Abrams | Plough | 27th January 2022 Gripping review of Right Here, Right Now, an anthology of life-stories written by American prisoners awaiting execution. They tell
1/28/2022
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Walking Centaurs
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