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Emily Anthes is the author of The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape...
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Galileo tried to teach us that adding more and more layers to a system intended to avert disaster...
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When confronted with trash piling up on a median in front of their home in Oakland, Dan and Lu...
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Men are often the default subjects of design, which can have a huge impact on big and critical...
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Sand is so tiny and ubiquitous that it's easy to take for granted. But in his book The World in a...
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348- Three Things That Made the Modern Economy
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347- The Many Deaths of a Painting
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Frank Lloyd Wright changed the field of architecture, and not just through his big, famous...
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340- The Secret Lives of Color
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The battlefield has always been at the mercy of the climate, but there was a time in U.S....
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