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For millennia, architecture has tried to keep disease at bay — from lazarettos to sewage systems to sanatoriums. But as architectural historian Beatriz Colomina writes, architecture also “created its own monsters.”
Always an honor to have a story picked up by @longreads.com 🙏
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In which Elizabeth Gregory argues that battles over abortion, LGBTQ bans, pronatalism, & DEI are economic: conservatives seek to push women out of civic life through forced childbearing to preserve cheap domestic labor & a supply of low-wage workers.
Out Aug 4th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205168...
Honored to have published what may be Gordon Wood’s final essay in The New England Quarterly. In it, he explored a profound transformation set in motion by the American Revolution: the gradual end of the private ownership of public power. Read it open access here: direct.mit.edu/tneq/article...
Design has long promised to protect us from disease. But its cures have a way of becoming new sources of harm.
Thanks to Nick Montfort for his support on this project, including hosting us at MIT and his own writing about ELIZA!
Inventing ELIZA stands in great company beside 10 PRINT, Output, and Racing the Beam.
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"Also visible from space is a thin, blue line that seems to hover just above our planet’s surface: the atmosphere. It’s a reminder that there is only a narrow zone that allows life on Earth to flourish, and that we must protect it."
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JONATHAN Boucher was an Anglican clergyman who served parishes in Maryland and Virginia and was a tutor to Washington's stepson before he fled to England in 1775 as a frightened loyalist. By 1797, whe...
In case you missed it, “Conjuring the Void” is a beauty. It traces scientific visualizations of black holes and artists’ imaginative responses to ideas of darkness and void. Surely our only book with blurbs from Xu Bing and Brian Greene. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204996...
"Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read."
—Xu Bing
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Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean.
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From high-speed battering rams to gravity tractors, the technology exists to protect the planet. The question is whether humanity will act in time — and in concert.
Gordon S. Wood, whose books helped shape modern thinking on America's founding, died after being struck by a car. He was 92.
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How the concept of a pattern, as understood in information science and applied in contemporary AI, can address deep questions in science and philosophy.The
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood has died. He was 92. Police say Wood died Sunday after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island.
