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The world is full of specialists: historians, scientists, and researchers of all kinds. This makes sense. Our world is complex; we need specialists to delve deeply. But all of us still live in the complex world.
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The book arcade
Around the end of the 19th century, Melbourne, Australia, hosted one of the biggest - and certainly the most carnivalesque - bookstores in the world: Cole's Book Arcade. Cole's Book ArcadeSpencer Shier, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Content warning: discussi
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Wordless novels and motionless movies
Novels have words and films move. But some creators have resisted even these conventions, creating novels without writing and films without motion. Orly Airport, one of the settings of La JetéeHZ, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I have long been an a
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Buddha's teeth
After Gautama Buddha died (around 500 years BCE) he was cremated and his ashes divided up and distributed to stupas across northern India. But some relics purportedly survived, including a surprising number of teeth. Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Kand
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From the archives: Roads
The very first spaghetti junction; the borders where you must switch which side of the road you drive on; the countries that switched which side of the road everyone drove on; and the arterial road that crosses an airport runway. The first spaghetti junct
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Own-goal football
In a 1994 qualifying match for the Caribbean Cup, both Barbados and Grenada attempted to score deliberate own goals - because it was the best strategy available.
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