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An interactive email on the fascinating histories of everyday ideas

Zoom backgrounds
The pandemic’s wallpaper
Rice cookers
Set it and forget it
Master tapes
The most important records you’ll never hear
Holi
Time to play
Space Debris
The garbage frontier
Scratch and sniff
Smells like serious business
Molotov cocktails
The poor man’s grenade
Immunity
Biology gone wild
Lidar
A thousand points of light
Parasocial relationships
The feeling's not mutual