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We need only explain changes in motion, not motion itself. Aristotle’s ideas about the causes of motion were completely wrong, just like all his other…

This article [Out of Their Love They Made It: A Visual History of Buraq] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2016/09/21/out-of-their-love-they-made-it-a-visual-history-of-buraq/] under a…

Physical effects relate only to a change in velocity Consider two statements of a kind that was at one time made with the utmost seriousness:…

Definition of acceleration for linear v−t graphs Galileo’s experiment with dropping heavy and light objects from a tower showed that all falling objects have the…

The Inca Trail is one of the most popular treks in Peru and South America. It starts from Chillca and follows a route to Machu…

By Cory Doctorow (Paper delivered at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, San Diego, California, 16 March 2005) AOL hates spam. AOL could eliminate nearly 100…

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in InformationWeek, August 14, 2007) Hollywood loves sequels—they’re generally a safe bet, provided that you’re continuing an already successful franchise.…

(Originally published as “Why Online Games Are Dictatorships,” InformationWeek, April 16, 2007) Can you be a citizen of a virtual world? That’s the question that…

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in Information Week‘s Internet Evolution, October 3, 2007) For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it’s…

This article [The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2016/08/17/the-calcutta-pococurante-society-public-and-private-in-indias-age-of-reform/] under a…

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in Locus Magazine, July 2006) As a science fiction writer, no piece of news could make me more hopeful. It…

This article [The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/11/14/the-memoirs-of-joseph-grimaldi/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish…

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in Locus Magazine, September, 2006) The theory is that if the Internet can’t be controlled, then copyright is dead. The…

This article [Olaus Magnus’s Sea Serpent] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/02/05/olaus-magnuss-sea-serpent/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you wish to…

By Orla Polten “Come On, Humans, One More Effort If You Want To Be Post-Christians!” is the cheeky title of a 2006 essay on theology’s…

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in The Guardian as “Online Censorship Hurts Us All,” Tuesday, Oct 2, 2007) Artists have lots of problems. We get…

This article [The Mysteries of Nature and Art] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [https://publicdomainreview.org/2011/11/28/the-mysteries-of-nature-and-art/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. If you…

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published in Locus Magazine, July 2007) Science fiction is a literature of the present. Many’s the science fiction writer who uses…

This article [Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments] was originally published in The Public Domain Review [http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/07/15/cat-pianos-sound-houses-and-other-imaginary-musical-instruments/] under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.…

By Cory Doctorow (Originally published as “How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers will Kill Facebook,” in InformationWeek, November 26, 2007) Facebook’s “platform” strategy has sparked much online…