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Akihabara has Never Been This Exposed to the World Previously
Cheap transistors built the district and anime built its second life. Now the crowd photographing Chuo-dori is the product. Shop owners under the tracks…
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Closer Look on E-Sports Shows the Weird Results
A Malmo lab put 46 competitors, a 3,000fps camera and 12,000 logged clicks against the received wisdom of esports. The panel came out fine.…
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Travelling Around the World in Less Than 80 Days
No aircraft, three oceans, one bad stick-and-poke per crossing. Nadia Ferreiro reached home in Vigo on day 76 and says the hard part was…
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The Rose That Grew From Concrete and Sidewalks
Maya Okonjo has photographed the same twelve blocks of East Vernon every month for six years. Her free zine is now the only visual…
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The Classic Hanamura Cherry Tree in Japan
A four-hundred-year-old weeping cherry draws forty thousand visitors to a village of eighteen hundred. Keeping it standing takes eleven cedar crutches, a roped boardwalk…
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No Man’s Sky, Star Citizen and Elite: Dangerous are allies
A decade of forum warfare has obscured the obvious: these three games keep each other alive, each covering the ground the other two abandoned,…
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The Brainstorming Process is Invaluable to the Silicon Valley Hot Shots
The sticky notes and the talking ball are not generating ideas, and the research has said so for years. What the ritual actually buys…
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The Greatest Thing About Reading is Your Imagination’s Potential
Some readers see faces, some see nothing at all, and both finish the same novel with the same comprehension. New work on mental imagery…
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Most Anticipated Space Engine: Breath of Wild, to be Released This Year
A forty-second descent from orbit to a beach, with no cut, has made a rendering engine the year’s most anticipated release. The hard part…
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Thermodynamic Unpredictability at the Core of Entropy Studies at MIT
At the scale of a single molecular motor, the second law stops being a wall and becomes a probability. An MIT group is measuring…
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