Articles by bryanrasmussen
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Curating a Show on My Ineffable Mother, Ursula K. Le Guin (hyperallergic.com)

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The Marvel Cinematic Multiverse and How It Works (medium.com/luminasticity)

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CT scans unwrap secrets of ancient Egyptian life (keckmedicine.org)

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After the Spike: What Slow and Steady Depopulation Means for the World (lithub.com)

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The Critic (2024) (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Propositions about the New Romanticism (honest-broker.com)

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The Gods Are Restless for the Original Fantasy Lit of Lord Dunsany (printmag.com)

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Shakespeare and Mathematics (folger.edu)

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Thomas Nagel: What is it like to be a Bat? [pdf] (1974) (upenn.edu)

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The Brackish Pool: Towards a Critical Practice of Reading Weird Fiction (strangehorizons.com)

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Charles Tillman transformed football, then joined the FBI (nytimes.com)

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Board Games in Ancient Fiction: Egypt, Iran, Greece (reference-global.com)

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David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest at 30 (theconversation.com)

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Mysterious Artifacts Donated to Thrift Shop Might Be Medieval (smithsonianmag.com)

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The shape of the Universe – revealed through Algebraic Geometry (mpg.de)

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The cold war maps that can help us rethink today's Arctic conflict (theconversation.com)

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QGIS Expression Language as a Tool for Procedural Cartography (geoawesome.com)

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Landholder vs. Stockholder (aeon.co)

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Press RELEASE: It is 85 seconds to midnight (thebulletin.org)

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Mail Art Didn't End with the Digital Age (finebooksmagazine.com)

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Unpublished Louisa May Alcott Letters and Manuscript (finebooksmagazine.com)

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Who You Gotta Watch Out For (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Is It Dangerous to Let Kids Be Free? (thewalrus.ca)

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The Next Thing Will Not Be Big (glyph.im)

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Two Twisty Shapes Resolve a Centuries-Old Topology Puzzle (quantamagazine.org)

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The First Full-Scale Cyber War: 4 Years of Lessons (techtrenches.dev)

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Oops, Someone Is Wrong on the Internet (2023) (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Playing the Percentages (leancrew.com)

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Subject of Unique Interest: Mary Freeman Heuston Lewis and William Dean Howells (commonplace.online)

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Peter Thiel's New Model Army (broligarchy.substack.com)

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The Art of Persuasion in Cartography: Why Design Makes Maps Powerful (esri.com)

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Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime's Nuclear Program (nytimes.com)

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Landscape beneath Antarctica's icy surface revealed in unprecedented detail (bbc.com)

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I am worried about these newest Captchas (medium.com/the-haven)

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Weirdnet – 20 years ago: Spiritual Visualizations (medium.com/luminasticity)

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The Moral Authority of Animals (noemamag.com)

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Emergent topological semimetal from quantum criticality (nature.com)

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Premature Optimization in Entertainment Development (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Made in Europe: managing payment risk in a fragmented world (db.com)

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Topology-Aware Machine Learning Enables Better Graph Classification (quantumzeitgeist.com)

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Dear Marjorie, a Delayed Holiday Message from Satan (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Goblin SuperMarket Part I (medium.com/luminasticity)

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China mandates 50% domestic equipment rule for chipmakers, sources say (reuters.com)

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Open Veins of Latin America Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent [pdf] (1971) (wphna.org)

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Saints of the Middlebrow (lareviewofbooks.org)

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Racism and Its Modes – One Drop Stains the Whole (medium.com/luminasticity)

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See the whole Universe at once in this unique logarithmic view (bigthink.com)

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You Can Look It Up: A Threnody for the Dictionary (commentary.org)

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In Ukraine, an Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born in War Against Russia (nytimes.com)

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Mitigation needed to avoid unprecedented multi-decade North Atlantic Oscillation (nature.com)

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Cultural Appropriation (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Graffiti Garden: build a wide variety of custom social apps with front end code (graffiti.garden)

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How We Found Out About COINTELPRO (2014) (monthlyreview.org)

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Relatively open vegetation landscapes promoted early Pleistocene human evolution (nature.com)

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A Veteran of the Pusspenesian Wars (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Blue Marble: Next Generation Base Map with Topography and Bathymetry (nasa.gov)

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The Superposition of St. Nicholas (medium.com/luminasticity)

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The Christmas Tree that came in from the Cold (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Contextualizing descent in Neolithic northern Europe (openedition.org)

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Human-specific genes regulate key gene mutated in autism spectrum (2024) (europa.eu)

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Candleloriam: The Cursed Tree (medium.com/luminasticity)

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The Fate of Flight 2069 - the cost of a disaster that didn’t happen (newstatesman.com)

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Geolocated Lightning Network topology snapshots: A dataset covering 2019–2023 (nature.com)

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Fowles Wine's BatNav system could save millions (diningandcooking.com)

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The Graffiti Question (guernicamag.com)

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Sold – A Bill of Goods (medium.com/luminasticity)

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The Hallway of the Mountain King (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Neural and molecular changes during placebo healing intervention (nature.com)

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Monumental snake engravings of the Orinoco River (2024) (cambridge.org)

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Rethinking armed group control (2022) (odi.org)

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The Farthest Christmas Tree (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Library of Time (libraryoftime.xyz)

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Mycenaean roads in Peloponnese: Least-cost path modelling using R and Movecost (sciencedirect.com)

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Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) (historians.org)

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Are most sentences unique? An empirical examination of Chomskyan claims (arxiv.org)

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Horsepower: Interactions between China, Mongolia and the steppe 2000-0 BCE (horsepowerproject.org)

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Alternate Reality Christmas Gifts (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Power Outage: On the Thermodynamics of History (laphamsquarterly.org)

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Motif – Draw Tile Patterns (motif.works)

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Hardness of observing strong-to-weak symmetry breaking (arxiv.org)

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A Highway Is Crumbling. New York Can't Agree on How to Fix It (nytimes.com)

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Predicting the Worst and Stupidest (medium.com/luminasticity)

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NASA's Tess Spacecraft Triples Size of Pleiades Star Cluster (nasa.gov)

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Everyone Is Invited to Jane Austen's Birthday Party (nytimes.com)

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A New Blueprint: House of Leaves and AI (oxonianreview.com)

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The Thanksgiving Special (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Topological turning points across the human lifespan (nature.com)

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Necromodernist Architectures in Contemporary Writing (3ammagazine.com)

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The Many – and Contradictory – Histories of Mt. Rushmore (lithub.com)

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Picky – A Judgemental Trashcan Robot (creativeapplications.net)

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Picturing a Voice: Margaret Watts Hughes and the Eidophone (publicdomainreview.org)

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Louvre Robbery: Could a 50-year-old maths problem have kept the museum safe? (bbc.com)

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What Most Americans Don't Know About NAFTA's Wreckage South of the Border (conradkottak.substack.com)

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Can a Time Capsule Outlast Geology? (scientificamerican.com)

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Agile is Out, Architecture is Back (medium.com/craig_32726)

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A Revised Three-Dimensional Visualization of the Local Group of Galaxies (iop.org)

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It's Getting Crowded in Here (medium.com/luminasticity)

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Mathematics in Movies (math.harvard.edu)

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5k Years of Climate Fiction (2017) (publicbooks.org)

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New book shows how questioning the alphabet can push typography further (creativeboom.com)