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Damien Meyer / AFP / Getty Everything Is Overcomplicated
An internet outage exposes the gap between how we think technology might work and how it actually does.
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Pictures Ltd. / Corbis / Getty The Human Body Is Too Complex for Easy Fixes
You don’t need to be hacked.
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Wikimedia Commons Lessons About the iPhone, Courtesy of a Depression-Era Children's Book
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and other classics by Virginia Lee Burton capture a bias in the way people look at technological innovation.
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Nigel Treblin / Reuters What Kind of Sorcery Is This?
Why code is so often compared to magic.
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The Importance of Computational Discoveries in Health
Maximizing the potential of our increasingly vast base of scientific knowledge
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The Social Networks of Superheroes
The characters of our imaginary worlds link together in some surprisingly realistic ways
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Mutated Manuscripts: The Evolution of Genes and Texts
Scribes of all types seem to make the same mistakes, which means we can analyze texts like DNA
