Explore
We spent the spring and summer of 2021 exploring the idea of progress—what it means, what it doesn’t mean, and, importantly, what it could mean. The sources below are ones we found along the way. They led us near and far, from the edges of the known universe to the center spiral of a rose garden. Here are places to wander and from which to wonder, what is progress?
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Radiolab
“The Cataclysm Sentence”
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ZZ Packer
“Brownies”
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Jenny Odell
“how to do nothing”
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Aesop’s Fables
“The Hare & The Tortoise”
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Natasha Trethewey
“Theories of Time and Space”
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Undocumented Migration Project
Hostile Terrain
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Anne Applebaum
“The New Puritans”
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Bertrand Russell
“In Praise of Idleness”
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NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency
Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope