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A collection of 31 conversations Hans Ulrich Obrist has held with thinkers and scientists on art, science and philosophyIn 2014, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Fondation Cartier, Hans...

"The students enjoyed it very much. It was difficult enough to keep a history calss challenged, but easy enough for them to enjoy it."--Stephen Miller, University of Connecticut"Ideally suited for...

Imagined by one of the world's leading experts on Einstein, this fictionalized conversation presents the essential biography of history's most famous mathematicianBy power of thought alone, Albert...

Fate of the Earth: When Jonathan Schell heard all that loose talk about attainment of objectives in a limited nuclear war, it was too much for him. He did what all of us would like to do: he wrote a...

A search for traces of the voice before the phonograph, reconstructing a series of ancient soundscapes from Aristotle to Augustine.Long before the invention of musical notation, and long before that...

They mastermind our lives, shaping our features, our health, and our behavior, even in the sacrosanct realms of love and sex, religion, aging, and death. Yet we are the ones who house, perpetuate,...

One of the major ambitions of medieval alchemists was to discover the elixir of life, a sovereign remedy capable not only of healing the body but transforming it. Given the widespread belief that...