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Making Sense: Seven Movements, Curry Hackett, Shannon Mattern, 2026

Writing in his seminal work, “The Outermost House,” naturalist Henry Beston presciently intuited that, far from being background players in Earth’s vast cultural landscape, other animals are “gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.” They are neither brethren nor underlings, he wrote — “they are other nations.” Animals Have Culture, Too, Ryan Huling, 2026

An echoborg is a person whose words and actions are determined, in whole or in part, by an AI. The echoborg method allows one to investigate how people behave and make attributions toward an AI when their psychological state is fully primed for human-human interaction.

Fifteen of my Fifty with Tiffany & Co, Elsa Peretti, 1990

The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2015

Corum wristwatch with UBS 15 g platinum ingot dial, 1980

Full-body ultrasound scanner, Midjourney Medical, 2026

A year with swollen appendices, Brian Eno’s Diary, 1996

Having extraordinary experiences can sometimes spoil our interactions with those who did not share them, and that we cannot always predict when this will happen. It is easier to imagine the rocket that will take us into space, it seems, than the people who will bring us down to earth. The Unforeseen Costs of Extraordinary Experience, Harvard University and the University of Virginia, 2014

“People are getting very … bossy. There’s an awful lot of bossy people about now. They’re little Hitlers, aren’t they? And there’s lots of them. Bossy bossy boots.” He shows me a badge he’s produced in response to the little Hitlers. It says “End bossiness soon”. David Hockney, interviewed by Waldemar Januszczak, 2025

How do you know what you like anymore, Tobias van Schneider, 2023

The Treatment, Alexander Krack, 2016

L’Arche de pont (also known as “Arch of Hysteria”), Paul Regnard, 1887

Issey Miyake, Spring Ready-To-Wear Collection, 1997

Flash Drives for Freedom aims to fill spare USB drives with subversive media and information, and then smuggle them to North Korea.

A digital archive of IKEA catalogues from 1951 to 2021

Amano Labs is a student-founded startup building a low-cost hearing aid. Its design uses the outer ear’s natural ability to amplify speech frequencies, costing about $20 versus $4,700 for a conventional device.

In the English-speaking world, referring to someone as silver-tongued suggests a smooth and cunning speaker. More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians went one better by placing a golden tongue in the mouth of the deceased so that they would be able to speak in the afterlife.

Witches' Flight, Francisco de Goya, 1797

Research in computer science has identified self-preference bias — the tendency of LLMs to favor their own generated content. Using a large-scale controlled resume correspondence experiment, it is shown that LLMs consistently prefer resumes generated by themselves over those written by humans or produced by alternative models, even when content quality is controlled.