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The best essays here simultaneously engage with like-minded scholars and inform casual readers of 3D’s importance in filmmaking.
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16 Apr 2014
What Is Permissible in the Name of Science, Wartime Expediency, and National Security?
"Our Germans beat their Germans," someone quipped when Wernher von Braun's team of rocketeers put Americans on the Moon, but Operation Paperclip reveals that US involvement with ex-Nazi scientists was far deeper, and far darker.
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The Industrial Revolution 2.0
We live in a world filled with powerful, compact, networked computers -- a world that those computers are about to transform.
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Modernity, Rising: 'Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator'
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