The Gestures We’ve Forgotten

This is an edition of Ordinary Extraordinary, Ian Bogost’s guide to making everyday life vivid. Sign up for the newsletter here. On a recent trip to the local planetarium, I visited the gift shop to waste some time before the star show. Inside, I found one of those penny-press souvenir machines, the kind that turns an ordinary cent (plus two quarters as a fee) into a copper oval with an impression of the attraction. I don’t typically carry cash of any kind, let alone coins. But the device had a

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