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Culture	‘It’s very likely you won’t be electrocuted’: On Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik’s ‘TV Bra’ As an object, “TV Bra” perfectly encapsulates Paik’s artistic goals, Moorman’s brilliance as a performer, their personal history, and its cultural context. Joan Rothfuss \| May 22
Science & Tech	The Two-Century Quest to Quantify Our Senses The quantification of bodies, senses, and experience did not begin with surveillance capitalism but can be traced back to mathematical and statistical techniques of the 19th century. Chris Salter \| May 17
Science & Tech	Inside Alec Baldwin’s Crusade to Take Down a Nobel Prize-Winning Lab Twenty-five years before our era of fake news and celebrity pseudoscience, the star actor teamed up with Montel Williams to promote an unfounded conspiracy. Robert P. Crease \| May 15
Economics	The War on Poverty Didn’t Fail A track record of successful progressive investments has been refracted through decades of bad data, bad statistics, bad analysis, and propaganda. Nate G. Hilger \| May 8
Science & Tech	The Plant-Inspired Robots That Could Colonize Mars Barbara Mazzolai’s roboplants could analyze and enrich soil, search for water and other chemicals, or even be used to grow infrastructure from scratch. Dario Floreano and Nicola Nosengo \| May 1
Culture	Injuries of Assimilation: The Hidden Toll of Military Labor on Noncitizen Soldiers For immigrants, linking citizenship to using up one’s body and mind exerts an additional pressure to downplay damage and push through pain. Sofya Aptekar \| Apr 27
Culture	A Sentimental Autobiography of a Holiday Home Built in the North of Sardinia in the 1960s "Usually, those who do seem to understand the essence of the house begin to behave a little strangely, as if they were under its spell." Sebastiano Brandolini \| Apr 24
Science & Tech	A Brief History of Secret Communication Methods, From Invisible Ink to Tattooed Heads Despite the dangers, secret communication is at the heart of espionage operations and essential for spy work. Kristie Macrakis \| Apr 20
Science & Tech	The Myth of Objective Data When we view objectivity and subjectivity as opposites rather than complements, we distort the empirical realities of data collection. Melanie Feinberg \| Apr 17
Environment	The Fascist Dictionary of Nature The nature that Mussolini and other fascists love and admire is one that is created by the regime and subjugated to its design. Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg \| Apr 13