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An Illustrated Guide to Mouth Gestures and Their Meanings Around the World
An excerpt from François Caradec’s book “Dictionary of Gestures.”

‘It’s very likely you won’t be electrocuted’: On Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik’s ‘TV Bra’
As an object, “TV Bra” perfectly encapsulates Paik’s artistic goals, Moorman’s brilliance as a performer, their personal history, and its cultural context.

The Two-Century Quest to Quantify Our Senses
The quantification of bodies, senses, and experience did not begin with surveillance capitalism but can be traced back to mathematical and statistical techniques of the 19th century.

Inside Alec Baldwin’s Crusade to Take Down a Nobel Prize-Winning Lab
Twenty-five years before our era of fake news and celebrity pseudoscience, the star actor teamed up with Montel Williams to promote an unfounded conspiracy.
Spotlight: Management on the Cutting Edge

Books in the Management on the Cutting Edge series present original research from leading lights in academia and industry, providing practical advice to business leaders on how to prepare for the exciting—and challenging—future that awaits us. The series is edited by Robert Holland and published through a collaboration between MIT Sloan Management Review and the MIT Press.
The newest title in the series—Workforce Ecosystems by Elizabeth J. Altman, David Kiron, Jeff Schwartz, and Robin Jones—is a pioneering guide to understanding and leading workforce ecosystems to accomplish enterprise and individual goals.
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