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It’s 9 AM on a Monday. You walk into the office kitchen, drawn by the promise of caffeine. There it sits: a glass pot, three-qu…

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In a quiet backstreet of Tokyo, tucked away from the neon symphony of the city, there is a small shop you could easily miss. In…

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There is a ghost that haunts our modern world. It’s the ghost of the Industrial Revolution, a phantom of steam and steel, of pr…

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