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Tokyoids: The Aesthetics of Dismemberment in Japan
Pain is integral to the structure of the Japanese language, and related to the particularity of local building design practices.

The Mysterious Deep Time Movements of Snails
How do organisms that are so sedentary end up being so incredibly widely dispersed?

The Tyranny of Science Over Mothers
How parenting became "optimized" and made mothers miserable.

If Walls Could Speak: Echoes as a Link to the Past
Both acoustic and metaphorical, echo evokes the void left by what had been and is no longer.
Spotlight: Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of forty books, including New York Times bestseller How the World Really Works and Energy and Civilization, published by the MIT Press. In 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. Bill Gates says, “there is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.”
With the publication of his latest and most readable book, Invention and Innovation, Smil offers an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention.
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