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Stories by arbesman

Zildjian, a 400-year-old cymbal-making company in Massachusetts (wbur.org)
Darwin's children drew all over the “On the Origin of Species” manuscript (2014) (theappendix.net)
“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading slumps (smithsonianmag.com)
Show HN: The Magic of Code – book about the wonders and weirdness of computation (themagicofcode.com)
I recently published a book called “The Magic of Code” which is about the delights of the computational world, examining computing as a kind of “humanistic liberal art” that connects to so many topics, from art and biology to philosophy and language. The link I’ve shared is to a page on my book’s we...
The Weight of a Cell (asimov.press)
Prince's special custom-font symbol floppy disks (2016) (nymag.com)
Curious George and the case of the unconscious culture (theintrinsicperspective.com)
"The Phantom Tollbooth" Was Supposed to Be a Nonfiction Book About Cities (arbesman.substack.com)
Redshifted civilizations, galactic empires, and the Fermi paradox (arxiv.org)
Have Appliances Declined in Durability? (marginalrevolution.com)
Tomoya Ikeda – Macintosh Artist (blog.gingerbeardman.com)
The Handoff to Bots (kk.org)
The Decline in Writing About Progress (mattsclancy.substack.com)
Jonbar Hinge (en.wikipedia.org)
The Magic of Code (themagicofcode.com)
What Limits a Cell's Size? (asimov.press)
The iPhone and the Wonder of Computing (arbesman.substack.com)
PBS of the Internet (pbsoftheinternet.org)
Maxis Software Toys (arbesman.substack.com)
The Conspiratorial Mindset and AI's Latent Spaces (arbesman.substack.com)
Diegetic Music and Its Delights (arbesman.substack.com)
The weird zombie existence of the Family Circus [video] (youtube.com)
The Magic of Code (themagicofcode.com)
The Magic of Code (themagicofcode.com)
The Humanistic Computation Project (arbesman.net)
Order and Disorder in Stories and Reality (arbesman.substack.com)
Measuring the Black Death (asimov.press)
Dwellers in the Deep: Biological Consequences of Dark Oxygen (arxiv.org)
The Archaeology of Biology and Software (arbesman.substack.com)
Interview with Susan Kare (2000) (web.stanford.edu)