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Created by Ben Waber
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We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks …
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Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands …
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A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is – from Science Book …
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A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation
Menstruation is something half the world …
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The Measure of Progress by Diane Coyle
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The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were …
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The other slavery by Andrés Reséndez
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A landmark history: the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time …
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The Franklin Stove by Joyce Chaplin
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The biggest revolution in Benjamin Franklin’s lifetime was made to fit in a fireplace. Assembled from iron plates like a …
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A Myriad of Tongues by Caleb Everett
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We tend to assume that all languages categorize ideas and objects similarly, reflecting our common human experience. But this isn’t …














