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The smelly baby problem
Benjamin Spock told mothers in the mid-twentieth century to buy six dozen cloth diapers and a covered pail. Within a decade, both were obsolete.
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Time's Arrow and the Drive to Matter
Or, entropy and the meanings—yes, plural—of life. Plus, TV and disposable diapers in Works in Progress, good news, and nerdy fun.
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From the Archives: Must Love Dogs? If You Want the Job
This is one culture war that crosses party lines.
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From the Archives: Gothic Revival Architecture Is Like Dreadlocks
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Why the Anti-Promethean Backlash?
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From the Archives: Joel Mokyr on the Industrial Enlightenment
The great economic historian Joel Mokyr has won the Nobel Prize. Here I reprint a column on his book The Gifts of Athena.
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From the Archives: How Job-Killing Technologies Liberated Women
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