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Last summer, artists across Europe were shocked at a proposal to ban the sale of artists’ paints containing […]
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When MP3 and other forms of lossy audio compression were starting to become popular 15 years ago, I […]
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Like many armchair and amateur meteorologists, I like comparing my expectations with those of the professionals. Just recently, […]
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