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coronavirus How the coronavirus response reveals the arbitrary bullshit of so many US policies Thom Dunn

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WWII "How to Behave in a British Pub" — 1943 film for U.S. soldiers Mark Frauenfelder

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if it wasn't for those meddling kids Millennials kill Amtrak's dining car Jason Weisberger

fixed it for you Scholar finds John Milton's copy of Shakespeare, marked up with corrections and improvements Clive Thompson

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china How China ingests and adapts western culture Cory Doctorow

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Business Creative Adversarial Networks: GANs that make art Cory Doctorow

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