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Diatoms and the Meaning of Life

In 1703, the world’s most esteemed scientific journal published a surprising letter from an anonymous correspondent. (At the time, until well into the twentieth century, anonymity often meant the scientist writing was a woman, though the word “scientist” itself was more than a

Empathy and good advice

Focus groups and informal feedback offer a trap: Asking someone in the target audience if they like something might get you useful feedback. But most of the time, the people you’re asking aren’t actually in the group of early adopters that are going to make your rollout work.

How to Cook Like Frida Kahlo & Georgia O’Keeffe

It’s a myth that starving artists don’t eat. They do, just not often or well. Their meals rarely rate recipes, let alone cookbooks. Those cookbooks do exist though.… The mostly conceptual Starving Artist Cookbook put together by EIDIA (aka artists Paul Lamarre and Melissa Wolf)