Venice Biennale Strike Makes History

Plus, the LA Art Book Fair, and a seagull becomes a Biennale star.

How Everest Has Changed Since Into Thin Air

"Scaling the world’s highest mountain is a very different experience than it was when I climbed it."

The shared tragedy of Red Queen hiring

Runaway selection happens when organizations compete with each other far beyond the point where it’s rational to do so. We see this in species as well–peacocks have ungainly and inefficient feather displays because, as Alice’s Red Queen said, “It takes all the running you can

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Why The Founding Fathers Were Obsessed with This Muslim Ruler

The writings of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America include many a reference to the likes of Cicero, Montesquieu, and John Locke. That the names Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan never appear may not sound like much of a surprise, even if you happen to know

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Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

It took nearly 50 years. WKRP in Cincinnati is no longer just a TV sitcom. It’s now a real radio station in Cincinnati. A Cincy-area FM station, known as “The Oasis,” has adopted the WKRP call letters after acquiring them from a nonprofit radio station in North Carolina. The

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Zadie Smith on the Courage to Be More Than Yourself

Every act of learning is an act of intellectual appropriation, incorporating someone else’s knowledge into your own mental library. Every act of empathy is an act of emotional appropriation, modeling the reality of another into your own in order to fathom it. I have

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