Books
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Everybody wishes they were a kid again sometimes, and that feeling only gets stronger when you look at how cool toys are nowadays. New Atlas rounds up some of the best and most high-tech toys to help you spoil the kids this festive season (or yourself – we won’t tell anybody).
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Tiny houses don't only serve as, well, houses, and we've previously seen the small living movement produce a chapel, office and a pub with tiny house-like designs. Now we can add a traveling bookstore to the list too, courtesy of recently-launched French firm La Maison Qui Chemine.
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A significant work in the history of science changed hands last week when the dedication copy of Galileo Galilei's last great work, "Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche" was sold in Paris for €727,919 (US$791,190), putting it among the 50 Most Valuable Scientific Documents of all-time.
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Mardles upcoming storybooks offer a modern take on the classic pop-up book. Using a smart-device running the Mardles app, users can interact with characters and scenes using augmented reality. We recently tried the books to see how they could change story time.
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In the third installment of our series covering the most valuable scientific documents of all-time we encounter works from Aristotle and one of history's greatest female scientists, along with the first "accurate and complete" map of the world.
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ScienceIf you have a mathematical inclination, or a bent for probabilities, this book might well catalyze a turning point in your life. This book explains how simple algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems.
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Using terahertz radiation, a new prototype device from MIT researchers can accurately identify letters written in a stack of paper up to nine pages in depth.
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There's something fascinating about the mechanical puzzles faced by action heroes and explorers in novels and movies. To let average Joes experience a similar challenge, a startup has created Codex Silenda, a wooden puzzle book that requires each page to be solved before the next is unlocked.
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The auction of a scientific document by Aristotle on Wednesday will make compelling viewing for those who value scientific heritage. The 1476 vellum edition of Aristotle's "de Animabilis" is expected to break auction records, being the most important source of zoological information for 2,000 years.
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A town near Toronto, Canada, is home to a new community-supported lending library with a compelling design. Newmarket's Story Pod is an unstaffed kiosk that's opened up like a book during the day to allow visitors to borrow and donate books and sit on the benches inside to read.
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Our increasingly hectic lifestyles mean even the keenest bibliophiles are often forced to ration their reading. What many people need is a dedicated space where their books are ready and waiting to be picked up and read whenever the opportunity arises. LiliLite may just fulfill those requirements.
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We communicate with stories, and now we're training our computers to do the same. By writing sets of rules and instructions of varying complexity, artificial intelligence experts can enable computers to write stories both real and fictional – with big implications for the future.
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