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Further Reading

Albert-László Barabási on the 5 universal laws of success. Ocean warming is accelerating. Steven Strogatz on the future of AI. The conceptual limits of machine learning. Tickets in London's West End are not a rip-off. Tattoos are copyrighted. How radical 1960s architecture got it so wrong. And more.
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The Best Books of 2018

The books of the year in a number of categories: biggest book of the year; best fiction; best book I wish I had read years ago; best book about dinosaurs; best physics; best book about Wittgenstein that is(n't) about Wittgenstein; most useful, most disappointing and more.
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Further Reading

How to be an artist. The Burgess shale. Spider silk is stronger than steel. Humpback whale songs undergo a cultural revolution every few years. The insect apocalypse. René Girard. The US opioid crisis. Understanding Russia’s two hybrid wars. Global warming will happen faster than we think. And more.
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Further Reading

Quantifying reputation and success in art. Transforming the global food system. Tales from the Warhol Factory. What if the placebo effect isn’t a trick? Interview with David Foster Wallace. The Art Institute of Chicago has uploaded 50,000 high-resolution images from their collection. And more.
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Further Reading

How the urban jungle drives evolution. The big meltdown. Repackaging Stoicism for the 21st Century. Shred the Love: The Director's Cut. Interview with Bruno Latour. The world’s strongest MRI machines are pushing human imaging to new limits. Can optical illusions fool AI? And more.
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Further Reading

Interview with Jürgen Habermas. Machine learning confronts the elephant in the room. A new kind of neuron. Rick Owens. A new way to capture the brain’s electrical symphony. Andy Warhol's photography archive is online. Your gut is directly connected to your brain. William Eggleston. And more.
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Further Reading

Physics needs philosophy. CRISPR. An alternative interpretation of the gorillas in our midst experiment. The big melt. There is more to behavioral economics than biases and fallacies. Michael Freeden on the contemporary role of political theory. Chris Marker’s playful aesthetics. And more.