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The evolution of fire and the mythopoetic mind.

Imagination in the age of the machine mind

Wrestling, television and the boundary collapse of fact and fiction.

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The Soviets believed that to control language was to reshape reality. All it did was blind them to it.

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The inaugural issue of Long Now’s new annual print journal synthesizes the most important learnings of our first quarter-century.