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8 September 2016

Remembering “Chris Marker”

Ben Lerner's appreciation for "Chris Marker, whose name was not 'Chris Marker' ... "

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30 June 2016

The Discovery of Time

What was the "most characteristic feature of the thought" of the early 20th century?

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12 April 2016

Let Twitter Be Twitter

These people threaten to destroy one of the internet’s nicest things. Twitter is a happy accident, a fortuity, a...

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10 February 2016

Not Negligible After All

"Gravity is weak," Feynman said. "In fact, it's damned weak."

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Time Travel

About the book.

To order it.

Archives & Anachronisms

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Today’s Dead End Kids

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Who can “claim the name” of Anonymous? Anyone. The lack of identity may not be ideal for organizing a political philosophy or program, but that is not seen as...

28 December 2014
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Total Noise, Only Louder

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Kids used to ask each other: If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears, does it make a sound? Now there’s a microphone in every tree...

20 March 2014
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Wikipedia’s Women Problem (2013)

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There is consternation at Wikipedia over the discovery that hundreds of novelists who happen to be female were being systematically removed from the category “American novelists” and assigned to...

29 April 2013
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How Google Dominates Us (2011)

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How thoroughly and how radically Google has already transformed the information economy has not been well understood. The merchandise of the information economy is not information; it is attention....

20 August 2011
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Touching History

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I got a thrill in December 1999 in the Reading Room of the Morgan Library in New York when the librarian, Sylvie Merian, brought me, after I had completed an...

31 July 2011
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Autocorrect, Unexpurgated

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I mention a certain writer in an email, and the reply comes back: “Comcast McCarthy??? Phoner novelist???” Oops. Did I really call him “Comcast”? No. The great god Autocorrect...

5 April 2011
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Patently Absurd (2000)

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W hen 21st-century historians look back at the breakdown of the United States patent system, they will see a turning point in the case of Jeff Bezos and Amazon.com...

20 March 2000
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Watch This Space (1995)

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WHERE HUMAN ANATOMY meets data processing, there are just two important devices: the brain and the wristwatch. The brain is nice, but it doesn’t tell time very well. So,...

9 July 1995
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    A conversation with Alexis Madrigal

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About James Gleick

21 March 2010

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Other Books

Chaos: Making a New Science
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Chaos

Chaos: Making a New Science (Viking 1987) “An awe-inspiring book. Reading it gave me that sensation that someone had just found the light switch.” —Douglas Adams “This is a stunning...

20 March 2001
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
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Genius

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Pantheon 1992). A rare, jewel-like biography… terrifically readable. It achieves an almost perfect balance between the physicist’s work and his life. —Washington Post...

19 March 2001
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Faster

Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything (Pantheon 1999). “In years to come Faster will tell people what we were like as clearly as Dickens or Tom Wolfe.” —Patricia Volk, The New York Times.

19 March 2001
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Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton (Pantheon 2003). "A masterpiece of brevity and concentration. Isaac Newton sees its angular subject in the round, presenting him as scientist and magician, believer and heretic, monster and man.... It will...

19 March 2001
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The Information

“So ambitious, illuminating and sexily theoretical that it will amount to aspirational reading for many of those who have the mettle to tackle it. Don’t make the mistake of...

19 March 2001
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