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A Fruit Fly Brain on a Laptop
What 139,255 neurons tell us about the future of compute In October 2024, a team at UC Berkeley published something quietly remarkable in Nature: a complete sim…
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A Pavilion Grown, Not Built
In November 2025, on the campus of Seoul National University of Science and Technology, an architecture studio finished a small public pavilion. The pavilion is…
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A 16-Foot Sculpture That Listens to AI Music
In September 2024, on a stage at the MIT Media Lab, the GRAMMY-winning keyboardist *Jordan Rudess* sat down at a piano to perform a sold-out concert. Next to hi…
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Building Panels from Old T-Shirts
In Jakarta, in 2025, a team of designers presented a wall panel made entirely of discarded fast-fashion clothing. The panel is the interior cladding for a "fash…
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A 40-Minute Album About a Digital Consciousness Dying
In October 2025, in Bogotá, a composer named *Pablo E. Peña P.* premiered a 40-minute piece that is at once a concept album and a generative audiovisual perform…
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Everyone Hates Elon stages London protest over Meta smart glasses
Everyone Hates Elon stages London protest over Meta smart glasses Field Notes · 2026-07-22 this is crazy. The protest featured eye-catching spoof ads Everyone H…
Read articleTen Proposals for a Shared Identity: The New Euro Banknotes
Ten Proposals for a Shared Identity: The New Euro Banknotes Field Notes · 2026-07-27 The euro banknotes are being redesigned to reflect Europe's shared identity…
Read articleTurin's Three Weeks as a Laboratory for the Future of Structures
Turin's Three Weeks as a Laboratory for the Future of Structures Field Notes · 2026-07-27 For three weeks, from 13 to 31 July 2026, Politecnico di Torino become…
Read articleA Map of Every Theory of Consciousness
A Map of Every Theory of Consciousness Field Notes · 2026-07-27 What if, beneath the noise of the world, there is something within us that has never been lost?…
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