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Mechanical revolution, now in your office

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Martin Turczynowicz
Many innovations are now available to the enterprising businessman due to the many technological advances of the past few years. Every time-consuming office process can now be made efficient with the help of time-saving...
Arts & Culture

We’ve still got the blues

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Martin Turczynowicz
“NEW.” It was written in thick black letters across the neon green sticker, covering parts of the psychedelic smoke trails left by a vintage six-shooter. Whoever placed that small adhesive ad was either a...
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The science of Phrenology

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Martin Turczynowicz
Man, of course, is the only creature given divine rationality. These, and other traits, are housed in the brain, the central organ that differentiates us from the beasts. Scientists and philosophers have long pondered...
Features

Becoming something I could never be

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Martin Turczynowicz
I had almost become one of them, a Keeper of the Copper Trace. It comes back to me sometimes, deep in a djembe-drumming trance; the air takes on the telltale tang of ozone and...
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Networks without the ’net

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Martin Turczynowicz
Point and click, launch a program and watch as the green bar fills itself up. Do you think it’s always been this easy to share files? Before the advent of standardized and near universal...
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Pills smarter than the patients

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Martin Turczynowicz
Complicated processes, specialized machines and the trained professionals that operate them: these are the hallmarks of modern medicine. Technology tends to isolate the afflicted through the one-way doctor-patient interaction. Exact, universal procedures dominate the...
Arts & Culture

A message from a painting in Walmart’s art section

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Martin Turczynowicz
Hey! Hey you there! Look this way for a second, no down here, right next to the big yellow smiling face and guaranteed lowest prices. You like art, don’t you? Of course you do....
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