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Never too much, hardly enough

Ten design lessons from Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of American landscape architecture. Also: Amnesia, Neneh vs. Kamala, Elon/Twitter, sex work, anchovies, the umwelt, and reification.

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Matt Ruby
Oct 25, 2022
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I always thought amnesia was going to be much more common than it’s turned out to be. Because if you watched movies when I was a kid, you thought it was a regular medical condition. Like everyone you knew would either wind up having amnesia, multiple personalities, or wake up with Nic Cage’s face. Movies back then never addressed the actual

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