Stories by howrude

Air Is Full of DNA

Donald Knuth’s 2023 Christmas Lecture: Making the Cells Dance

Inside Outside: on the significance of the Trips Festival (2020)

Decorating the Alps with mathematical drawings (2014)

Rowing, Steering, Anchoring, Equity, Mutiny

In praise of the novelization, pop fiction’s least reputable genre

José Epita Mbomo, a Spanish electrician who sabotaged the Nazis

The Year in Volcanic Activity

A History of the Russian Bathhouse

Understanding Our Wants

XB-1's wings are officially closed out

What the death of iTunes says about digital habits

Repetition Makes Music Beautiful [video]

The Vanishing Library

‘Out here, it’s just me’: one doctor for 11,000 square miles

Last German kaiser's heirs fight for riches lost behind Iron Curtain

Bagehot: A new biography of the ‘Greatest Victorian’

Poverty leaves a mark on our genes

The Achievement of Vasily Grossman

Argenteuil: the Parisian commune beloved by the Impressionists

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