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How Should We Celebrate Amazon’s 19th Anniversary?
How Should We Celebrate Amazon’s 19th Anniversary?
By Michelle King
July 16, 2014

On the anniversary of Amazon’s first sale — a book, nonetheless — a reader examines her relationship with the online retailer.

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WTF is QWERTY?
WTF is QWERTY?
By George Dobbs
July 02, 2014

A brief history explaining why your keyboard is so damn weird.

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A Summer (E)Reading List: 6 E-Books Worth Going Digital for
A Summer (E)Reading List: 6 E-Books Worth Going Digital for
By Adina Applebaum
June 16, 2014

Books that push so far beyond the written word, you’d be missing out if you didn’t read them digitally.

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Voices from the Past: Old-School Authors Reading on Youtube
Voices from the Past: Old-School Authors Reading on Youtube
By George Dobbs
June 03, 2014

Yeats, Tolkien, Woolf — YouTube is a time capsule of authors’ voices you probably never thought you’d ever hear.

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Grinders: Tomorrow's Cyberpunks are Here Today [NSFW]
Grinders: Tomorrow's Cyberpunks are Here Today [NSFW]
By David Forbes
May 23, 2014

Installing magnets, microchips and sensors in their own bodies — this is how cyberpunk biohackers went from fiction to reality.

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Green Roofs Around the World
Green Roofs Around the World
By Michelle King
April 29, 2014

Tap into your inner Frodo Baggins with these seven eco-friendly homes.

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Papercuts Welcome: 7 Books You Shouldn't Read as eBooks
Papercuts Welcome: 7 Books You Shouldn't Read as eBooks
By Alex Trivilino
April 23, 2014

Put down your iPhone, iPad, iWhatever for a second, and pick up one of these collections of printed sheets of paper bound together to tell a story. You know, books.

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How the Hell Did People Make Books During Medieval Times?
How the Hell Did People Make Books During Medieval Times?
By George Dobbs
April 16, 2014

Sadly, it wasn’t all dragon-skin parchment and unicorn pencils.

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Cue the Theremin: Five Prophetic Twilight Zone Episodes
Cue the Theremin: Five Prophetic Twilight Zone Episodes
By BBP Intern
March 11, 2013

Plastic surgery, youth obsession, technology overload climate change: all of these subjects havel been touched upon in the world of The Twilight Zone. Here is a compilation of episodes that were ahead of their time and served as a possible harbinger for modern America.

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