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2/20/2023
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Name Conspiracies
Here's a conspiracy theory... Name Conspiracies By Sylvia Bishop – 20 Feb 2023 – View online → Things, Names, And Numbers James Propp | Mathematical Enchantments | 17th February 2023 What real
2/19/2023
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Wiser Children
Are plants intelligent? // Children of the Ice Age Wiser Children By Sylvia Bishop – 19 Feb 2023 – View online → A Wiser Sympathy Mary Kuhn | Lapham's Quarterly | 15th February 2023 Are plants
2/17/2023
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Enlightenment happened
Has enlightenment happened to you? Enlightenment happened By Sylvia Bishop – 17 Feb 2023 – View online → The Enlightenment As Reading Project David Wootton | The Critic | 15th February 2023 What we can
2/17/2023
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Inside Creatures
Inside Flipkart // Creatures That Don't Conform Inside Creatures By Sylvia Bishop – 15 Feb 2023 – View online → Inside Flipkart Mihir Dalal | Rest Of World | 14th February 2023 Profile of a
2/17/2023
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Write A Book, Run A Country
A weekly letter from the founding editor of The Browser. Topics may vary. Correspondence and criticism welcome: robert@thebrowser.com. This week: Novels by presidents and prime ministers; preceded by a
2/10/2023
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Also China's
China's Policy Reversals // Also Italian Also China's By Sylvia Bishop – 10 Feb 2023 – View online → China's Policy Reversals Andrew Batson | Tangled Woof | 8th February 2023 China is
2/8/2023
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Make Paint
Watching Paint Dry // How Do I Make Up For My Lost Years? Make Paint By Sylvia Bishop – 8 Feb 2023 – View online → Watching Paint Dry Ed Conway | Material World | 3rd February 2023 History of car paint
2/7/2023
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Paris Radical
Subterranean Paris // The Radical Idea That People Aren't Stupid Paris Radical By Sylvia Bishop – 7 Feb 2023 – View online → Subterranean Paris Félix Nadar | MIT Press Reader | 6th February 2023
2/5/2023
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Revenge Doctor
Yamagami Tetsuya's Revenge // The Violin Doctor Revenge Doctor By Sylvia Bishop – 5 Feb 2023 – View online → Yamagami Tetsuya's Revenge Dylan Levi King | Palladium | 2nd February 2023 A journey
2/2/2023
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States, Films, Wars, Nerves, Tumblr
Civilisation States Shashi Tharoor | Noema | 2nd February 2023 | U A useful contribution to the central geopolitical debate of our time: Is the essential and enduring unit of society the nation-state,
2/1/2023
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Altruistic Violence
A weekly letter from the founding editor of The Browser. Topics may vary. Correspondence and criticism welcome: robert@thebrowser.com This week: Doctors as writers, doctors in literature. Preceded by a
1/31/2023
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Garden Thieves
The Oil Thieves of Nigeria // Battle Of The Botanic Garden Garden Thieves By Sylvia Bishop – 31 Jan 2023 – View online → The Oil Thieves Of Nigeria James Barnett | New Lines | 26th January 2023 Steady
1/29/2023
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Marriage Pulse
Pulse // Is There Hope For Marriage? Marriage Pulse By Sylvia Bishop – 29 Jan 2023 – View online → Pulse Nell Stevens | London Magazine | 18th January 2023 Short story about learning the piano,
1/27/2023
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Book Mafia
The Business of Book Styling // The Montreal Mafia Murders Book Mafia By Sylvia Bishop – 27 Jan 2023 – View online → The Business Of Book Styling Chiara Dello Joio | LitHub | 24th January 2023 Books
1/24/2023
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TikTok Craft
The 'Enshittification' of TikTok // Notes On Craft TikTok Craft By Sylvia Bishop – 24 Jan 2023 – View online → The 'Enshittification' of TikTok Cory Doctorow | Wired | 23rd January 2023
1/20/2023
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Powerful Sentence
The most powerful Uber driver, and the winters of a life sentence Powerful Sentence By Sylvia Bishop – 11 Jan 2023 – View online → The Most Powerful Uber Driver In India Varsha Bansal | Rest Of World |
1/20/2023
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Bingo Baggins
A weekly letter from the founding editor of The Browser. Topics may vary. Comments and correspondence welcomed: robert@thebrowser.com This week: Yet more names, and Thomas Pynchon My thanks to Browser
1/20/2023
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Thinking Ship
What Were We Thinking? // What Happens When A Huge Ship Sinks? Thinking Ship By Sylvia Bishop – 12 Jan 2023 – View online → What Were We Thinking? George Scialabba | Commonweal | 11th January 2023 How
1/20/2023
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ATMs Paradox
The Infrastructure Behind ATMs // Zeno's Paradox ATMs Paradox By Sylvia Bishop – 13 Jan 2023 – View online → The Infrastructure Behind ATMs Patrick McKenzie | Bits About Money | 2nd January 2023
1/20/2023
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World Sound
Ending World History In... 1763? // The Sound Of The Dialup World Sound By Sylvia Bishop – 17 Jan 2023 – View online → Ending World History In... 1763? Rob Taber | Age Of Revolutions | 12th December