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Screenshot of the BeatConnect software showing a sequencer with tracks being edited by multiple people represented by differently colored cursors

New Streams — Dispatches

 A still life with an all-white tennis shoe made of Polybion’s leather alternative Celium. Its heel rests on an orange; a pomegranate balances on its tongue

Cell Numbers — Dispatches

 Photograph taken in a darkened room of a glowing orb filled with what look like plants connected by clear rubber tubes to ten vertical cylinders with wires and liquids. Everything is suspended from the ceiling.

Together Forever — Dispatches

 Designers Ben Barry and Everett Katigbak in the Facebook Analog Research Laboratory, ca. 2011

Connecting the Dots — Dispatches

 Photo of Steve Jobs seen from below, holding the original iPhone at the 2007 unveiling of the device

Values Proposition — Dispatches

 Three models in swimsuits sit at the beach in colorful low chairs made by ITA Leisure

Trail Marker — Dispatches

 View of AIAIAI's TMA-2 headphones with overlaid information about its materials

Sound Decisions — Dispatches

 A drone-eye view of a park with several circular mounds in the grass and a white-roofed open pavilion along one edge

West Side Stories — Dispatches

 Black-and-white portrait of architect Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Ingels — First Things First Podcast

 Illustration of a flowerbox and watering can by Fanny Luor

Value Engineering — Dispatches

 Photograph of a Melyon Detox Serum box

New Regime — Dispatches

 Portrait of Barbara Groth, who is wearing jeans and a jacket, standing in front of a lake with mountains in the background

Barbara Groth — First Things First Podcast

 The cover of “The Women Who Changed Architecture” set on a pink background

Historical Renovation — Dispatches

 Diagram demonstrating the connections in a network with ten nodes

Networking Opportunity — Dispatches

 Climber Alex Honnold, in a red shirt, holding on to a rock face with mountains in the distance

Alex Honnold — First Things First Podcast