Articles by anarbadalov
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The Books That Blew These Scientists' Minds (nautil.us)

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'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (2025) (mitpress.mit.edu)

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The Symphony of Silence: An Exploration of the Sound of Absence (3quarksdaily.com)

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Haruki Murakami Isn't Afraid of the Dark (nytimes.com)

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A Role Model for How to Die (nytimes.com)

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Daydreamers and Sleepwalkers: Crossing the Borderlands of the Unconscious (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Notes on Nabokov (Nabokov's Map of Ulysses) (drawingmatter.org)

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The Quiet Power of Reflective Games (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Why Keeping Score Isn't Fun Anymore (nytimes.com)

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Manifesto for a Disinterested Artistic Self (pablohelguera.substack.com)

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How Smell Guides Our Inner World (quantamagazine.org)

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Chasing the Mirage of "Ethical" AI (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Sleep Is Delicious (aeon.co)

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How DMT Converted Terence McKenna into a Psychedelic Edge Runner (mitpress.mit.edu)

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What You Can Learn from 4k Conversations Between Israelis and Palestinians (betterconflictbulletin.org)

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In Praise of Useless Robots (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Thomas Pynchon's Books: A Guide (nytimes.com)

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The 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years (slate.com)

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Is Life a Form of Computation? (mitpress.mit.edu)

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"Mirror life" and the recurring nightmare of scientific apocalypse (bigthink.com)

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When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children's Book Writer (nytimes.com)

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Harvard Data Science Review: Call for papers for Issue on Digital Twins [pdf] (pubpub.org)

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Why the 21st century could bring a new "consciousness winter" (bigthink.com)

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How A Gratitude Journal Can Help with Anxiety and Depression (esquire.com)

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What's in a Name?: Reflections of an Irrepressible Name Collector (book) (archive.org)

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Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Their Last Love Token: A Dinosaur Rebuilt from Its Excavated Bones (nytimes.com)

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My Side of the Mountain (orionmagazine.org)

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The Ancient Art and Intimate Craft of Artificial Eyes (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Existential Technologies (A Close Reading of Stanisław Lem's Summa Technologiae) (antikythera.org)

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I'm done with social media – Or: why I have a blog now (carolinecrampton.com)

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Large CO2 removal potential of woody debris preservation in managed forests (nature.com)

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The Business of Betting on Catastrophe (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Will the Fear of Being Confused for AI Mean That We Will Now Write Differently? (3quarksdaily.com)

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The Many Sides of Erik Satie (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Pirates of the Ayahuasca (nplusonemag.com)

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How Accurately Are Asian Americans Cast in Hollywood? (pudding.cool)

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The Weird World of Animal-Robot Research (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Alone and Adrift in the Pacific (theatlantic.com)

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The History of Now (antikythera.org)

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'My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog': On Life with Nonfluent Aphasia (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Our narrative prison (aeon.co)

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'The Silver Bridge': Gray Barker's Psychic Travelogue (mitpress.mit.edu)

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The End of Roadside Attractions (theparisreview.org)

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The Long History of the Human Aura (mitpress.mit.edu)

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I Made a Video Game of "The Artist Is Present." Marina Abramović Walked Out (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Suffused with Causality (aeon.co)

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The Last Drops of Mexico City (longlead.com)

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Flagellomania and Fatherhood: Roald Dahl, My Father, and Me (mitpress.mit.edu)

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The city that forgot itself (thecritic.co.uk)

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Coming up with an alternative Silicon Valley canon (programmablemutter.com)

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The highly sensitive person (aeon.co)

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'Event Scripts' Structure Our Personal Memories (quantamagazine.org)

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Otto Dix: The painter who captured the true hell of war (faroutmagazine.co.uk)

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Lifetimes of the Soviet Union (granta.com)

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The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind (mitpress.mit.edu)

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The Late 2020s Survival Guide (1234kyle5678.substack.com)

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Hackers Claim Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data (404media.co)

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The Plagiarism Plot Is Having a Moment. Copy That (nytimes.com)

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It's Time to End Our Subscription Addiction (futureproofnews.substack.com)

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Making friends with your past and future selves (knowablemagazine.org)

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Consider the Shipwreck: Ten Books on Maritime Disasters and Ecological Collapse (lithub.com)

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Kafka's Screwball Tragedy: Investigations of a Philosophical Dog (mitpress.mit.edu)

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A cultural history of McGruff the Crime Dog (thebaffler.com)

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When it comes to life expectancy, there are 10 Americas (bigthink.com)

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Signed Away: Against the commodification of deaf communication (thebaffler.com)

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Alexander Bogdanov: Immortality Day (1912) (mitpress.mit.edu)

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The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK's fastest thrill-ride (theguardian.com)

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Statistical Significance–and Why It Matters for Parenting (parentdata.org)

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17th Century Death Roulette (vole.wtf)

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Teeth (thepointmag.com)

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'Eliminate the Nonessential' and Other Advice for Artists (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Is Discovery Inevitable or Serendipitous? (mitpress.mit.edu)

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My Life with the Horror (on the author vanquishing motion sickness) (1987) (outsideonline.com)

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Plato's Cave and the Stubborn Persistence of Ignorance (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Complete Delete: In Practice, Clicking 'Delete' Rarely Deletes. Should It? (pubpub.org)

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The Harms of CPR (newyorker.com)

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The Deep Religious Roots of American Economics (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Where Inflation Comes From (worksinprogress.co)

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A Texas "moth man" photographed 550 species in his own yard (texasmonthly.com)

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Billionaires and the Evolution of Overconfidence (forkingpaths.co)

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Welcome to the Anderscene (On Günther Anders) (brooklynrail.org)

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The Psychology of the Psychic (mitpress.mit.edu)

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An Abundance of Beasts (accumulationofthings.com)

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The Rich History of Ham Radio Culture (mitpress.mit.edu)

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An introduction to philosophy through The Twilight Zone (fulcrum.org)

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A.S. Hamrah on reality TV, "Cue the Sun!," and working in television branding (bookforum.com)

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Ismail Kadare Obituary (theguardian.com)

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The impact of Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" on Noam Chomsky's path to anarchism (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Moshe Safdie: My Steps and Gardens and Bees (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Dad Brain Is Real, and It's a Good Thing (nytimes.com)

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Compensating Compassion (worksinprogress.co)

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How David Bohm and Hugh Everett changed quantum theory (jstor.org)

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Alone Again, Unnaturally: Thoughts on Solitude (commentary.org)

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How to Craft a Eulogy When All You Want to Do Is Crawl in a Hole (mcsweeneys.net)

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Hidden letters reveal love, lust, scandal in 1920s Baltimore society (thebaltimorebanner.com)

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Sci-fi writer JG Ballard's computer poems predicted ChatGPT (bbc.com)

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The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? (Peter Watts and Dan Brooks Convo) (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Last Hours of an Organ Donor (aeon.co)

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Daniel Dennett: 'Where Am I?' (mitpress.mit.edu)