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Culture	Epigenetics and Speculative Research: In Conversation With Larissa Sansour The Palestinian artist reflects on how inherited trauma can be used as a tool to shape the future in the image of the past. Anthony Downey \| Apr 6
Culture	“Murder Most Foul” and the Haunting of America Bob Dylan’s epic new song isn't just about the assassination of JFK. It's about how an event takes on meaning beyond itself, and the role of spirit in the national life. Timothy Hampton \| Apr 3
Culture	The Essential Guide to Mobile Games for Social-Distancing Non-Gamers From the literary to the weird, here are some of my favorite games to help distract you while you’re stuck inside. Shira Chess \| Mar 23
Culture	Ten Tips for Cultivating Creativity, From the Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT The challenge is not how to “teach creativity” to children, but rather how to create a fertile environment in which their creativity will take root, grow, and flourish. Mitchel Resnick \| Mar 19
Culture	The Uncanny Keyboard Lin Yutang's MingKwai typewriter is perhaps the most well-known — and most poorly understood — Chinese typewriter in history. Thomas Mullaney \| Mar 12
Culture	Long Live the Wonderful and Ridiculous Electronic Signature Pad Even if they disappear into the dustbin of payment arcana tomorrow, signature pads should not escape our notice. Bill Maurer \| Mar 9
Culture	Leonard Cohen and the Concert That Never Was Artist Michael Rakowitz charts the historical context and aftermath of a concert — at the Ramallah Cultural Palace in Palestine — that never happened. Anthony Downey \| Feb 24
Culture	Cinema and Cycling, Technological Twins A harbinger of the ways in which modern life would become dominated by mechanical motion, the bicycle was a fitting subject for the first motion picture. Bruce Bennett \| Feb 13
Culture	How the Resistance of Materials Opens the Space of Reverie The creative process demands openness to the unexpected and a recognition that what we “have in mind” may not be at all what is beginning to transpire before us. Christopher Bardt \| Feb 10
Culture	Using Pornography to Rewrite the Script for Consent Anti-pornography feminists see porn as inherently degrading and exploitative, but for some viewers it can be hugely empowering and even a challenge to rape culture. Milena Popova \| Feb 3