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MARGINALIA

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Marginalia integrates the scientific power of the university with the democratizing power of the internet. 

We use these modern knowledge technologies to solve the crisis they have created: the fragmentation of rigourous knowledge from human meaning. 

We create new forms of critical knowledge.
We curate experts for a wide audience.
We communicate at the intersection of scholarship, journalism, and public discourse. 

Marginalia's articles have been read and assigned by Google employees, White House staffers, members of the European Parliament, and they appear on syllabi in universities and classrooms around the world. 

 

We have been featured in places like The Browser, Arts & Letters Daily, the Poetry Foundation, and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

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Curated by scholars, poets, philosophers, and scientists, we integrate knowledge and meaning for the public good and provide depth for the digital age. As a charitable organization and magazine for the public good, we serve over 150,000 global readers. 

 

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