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Dance moves: Race and the rise of ragtime, 1900-13

A new series charts 20th-century 'periods of innovation' spurring the evolution of music to dance to. The first instalment looks at the emergence of ragtime

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New school: imagining the classroom of tomorrow

Illustrators imagine the future of education

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Drone deliveries, innovation in carrots and a critical theory of PowerPoint

Favourited: The best stories of innovation from around the web

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'This house proposes that we nationalise Uber'

A debate on how to make the sharing economy work for everyone

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Bald Norwegians, French intellectuals and VR flirting

Favourited: Assorted picks from the past week

Long

Think frugal

Jaideep Prabhu on smart ways to do more with less

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Escaping the whirlpool, part 2

Liam Byrne, Richard Florida and Paul Ormerod weigh in on 'stagnovation'

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Escaping the whirlpool

Debating ways out of our 'stagnovation' moment

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Social studies

Are we on the cusp of a golden age of experimentalism or have we reached Peak Lab?