Samuel Arbesman's Cabinet of Wonders

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Making an Impact via Mental Hooks and Conceptual Frameworks
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My daughter used to pay very careful attention to my driving. But it wasn’t really just about road safety or even sightseeing—it was about information…
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Ephemerality vs. Impact
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Alchemy, Computation, and the Complexity of Modeling the World
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In the first half of the Twentieth Century, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius began publishing Little Blue Books in a small town in southeastern Kansas. These…
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In recent years, there has been lots of writing about the idea of progress, including within a burgeoning field of “progress studies.” One aspect of…
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Embracing Errors in Technology
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Finding the misfit research + tech organizations
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Bringing back the tastes of Food of the Ancients
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There is a certain delight to finding facts and bits of information that don’t quite make sense. Whether it’s the discovery of a weird signal from…
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I’m a sucker for generative analogies when it comes to computer programming: the kinds of analogies or metaphors that get you to think about code in a…
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How do you demonstrate that you know something—or discovered something first—without giving away your secret? This was an issue that loomed large in the…
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