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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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A life in Zen

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After you make a strategic error

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Hundreds of Medieval Medical Manuscripts with Strange Cures Get Digitized & Put Online: From Leeches to Crushed Weasel Testicles

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1787: “Caroline Lucretia Herschel became the first woman to receive a salary...

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Two Ways To Film The Same Scene

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Two of the most promiscuous snack brands, Oreo and Reese’s, are teaming...

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Raymond Saunders, Who Made the Color Black His Own, Dies at 90

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Required Reading

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The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US. “I did not...

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A View From the Easel

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How to Be a Happier Creature

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How the Moomins Showed Us a More Compassionate World

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10 Shows to See in Upstate New York This August

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How to Upload an Image to a Bird

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Gabrielle Garland’s House Portraits Illuminate Daily Life, Individuality, and the ‘Fabric of Society’

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Motherfucking windfarms. In Europe, they’re called Royale with Breeze. (I stole that...

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Always Stand on the Side of the Egg

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Lisa Congdon Translates the Healing Power of Making from Collage to Painting

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Dying for Gold: Who Killed the Miners of Buffelsfontein?

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Forthcoming book from Bill McKibben: Here Comes the Sun. “Energy from the...

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Bill McKibben: Rooftop Solar Is a Miracle. Why Are We Killing It...

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Rebecca Solnit: The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology. “It...

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The End of America as a Center of Science

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Side effect of the Tour de France: pro riders gobbling up all...

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More than 70 Iconic Works by Kerry James Marshall Shape a Major Survey in the U.K.

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How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent...

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