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by Roberto Innocenti

It didn’t make any sense. One second they were sitting there playing their banjos and singing songs of oppression, civil liberties, and the inexplicable and eternal wrath of God. The next they were being pissed on, out of thin air more...

"Talking Hands" takes readers to a place like nowhere else on earth: the village of Al-Sayyid, a remote Bedouin community in Israel where everyone "speaks” sign language. There, scientists are discovering the essential ingredients of all human language - and more...

What if you could file-share someone's consciousness? Would it be a violation, or the ultimate communication therapy? A short story by Cory Doctorow.

designer community 設計人社群

We are all aware, I’m sure, of the steamy rumors concerning Bruce Wayne and his ‘ward’, Dick Grayson, but they are, at most, just rumors - there is no concrete evidence supporting these claims. We had no empirical evidence that more...

When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied. Well, what can't be copied? There are a number of qualities that can't be copied. Consider "trust." Trust cannot be copied. You can't purchase it. Trust more...

GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone more...

n December 2006, Michael Bierut of the design firm Pentagram moderated a Poetry Center Reading Series event called “The Art of the Book: Behind the Covers” with visual presentations by superstar designers Milton Glaser, Chip Kidd and Dave Eggers followed more...

“The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein returned time and again to The Golden Bough, often enough that his commentaries have been compiled as Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, edited by Rush Rhees, originally published in 1967, with the English edition following in more...