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Charts & Graphs

Charts & Graphs spies

The Spy Who Works for Me

Fifteen hundred years of industrial espionage.

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Charts & Graphs energy

Cool Cats and Lounge Lizards

Animal strategies for saving energy.

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Charts & Graphs technology

Deus in Machina

Deus in Machina

Religious technologies past and present.

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Charts & Graphs climate

Weather-Bound Books

Storms and squalls as literary devices.

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Charts & Graphs arts & letters

Day Jobs

Authors and their employment.

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Charts & Graphs water

Dead Lakes

Rest in peace.

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Charts & Graphs philanthropy

Naming Rights

Donors who want their names etched in stone.

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Charts & Graphs flesh

Mr. and Miss Universe

Bodies building worlds.

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Charts & Graphs comedy

a list of people who literally died laughing through history, from 450 BC to 2013

I Died Laughing

Comedians and jokes that just killed it, literally.

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Charts & Graphs animals

Men’s Best Friends

Men’s Best Friends

Kings, politicians, authors—and their pets.

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Charts & Graphs states of mind

Psychical Research 101

ESP, telekinesis, and communication with spirits.

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Charts & Graphs philanthropy

Detail of list of quotes

Earthly Reasons

Donors explain why they give.

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Charts & Graphs trade

Green Deals

Fair (and not so fair) exchanges in the natural world.

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Charts & Graphs medicine

Tools of the Trade

Medical implements from the past.

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Charts & Graphs medicine

Pandora’s Box

The medicinal origins of illegal synthetic drugs.

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