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The Problem of the Chair
Designer Niels Diffrient was the latest in a line of masters finding new ways to adapt the material world to our bodies.
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Designer Niels Diffrient was the latest in a line of masters finding new ways to adapt the material world to our bodies.
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We can thank the Vatican's 16th-century fresco painters for a food-history find.
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The world is fascinated by the king's remains, found under a parking lot in Leicester. But some academics have mixed feelings about the discovery.
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An old, but beautiful imaging technique preserves a lost Paris, and is itself preserved online.
Lessons from Saint Augustine and other scholars
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It may turn out that electronic degree programs designed to make education democratic will actually only work for the elite.
As software plays a larger and larger role in science, can we trust its output?
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A very brief history of adaptive design
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Turbulence in the company's design wing may be good news for users.
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Millennium-old books on parchment may soon become more accessible than vital scientific writings and data from early computers.
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At least one entrepreneur sells positive book reviews to Amazon authors. How an apparently unreliable customer-review system might finally eat itself.
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Even as he contributed to theoretical physics, Bill's work was proof that the most abstract math can have gorgeous practical applications.
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In the age of apps, it's easy to forget how many of our systems depend on complex code -- creating hidden, and potentially dangerous, risks.
Our emergency phone systems need to be reevaluated.
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Counterfeiting techniques have become so advanced that even the most sophisticated numismatists cannot detect fakes.
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The new Apple laptop is one of the most difficult-to-repair computers ever made.
Drivers in New Jersey and other states are facing longer lines in the Federal government's efforts to require still more proofs of identity in order to obtain a license.
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Experiments with computer-modeled towns demonstrate the difficulties of separating technological innovation from human interaction.
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Postal services were at their zenith when the Titanic and the Hindenberg went down.
Ernest "Chick" Callenbach's 1977 novel reminds us how the medium of print shaped the books and culture of an era.
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