Applications are Open for the Core Residency Program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Join a cohort of artists and writers committed to developing a sustainable practice. Applications for the 2027–29 Core term are due January 8, 2027.

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A Night Living in Penn Station

"For the outreach workers trying to place homeless New Yorkers in shelters, each evening presents familiar faces and fresh challenges."

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Jo Marchant: In search of now

What is ‘now’? Through physics via philosophy and psychology, discover the science and mystery of the present moment - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon

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The self-making world

Long mocked and misunderstood, Lamarck’s radical idea that organisms shape themselves and their world is making a comeback - by Jessica Riskin Read on Aeon

Culture • 4h

No iPad Till After Dinner, Mom

"Seniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled feeds. It’s their adult children’s job to save them."

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Happy Hyperallergic Halloween!

The best of our annual costume contest, from Eva Hesse ropes to Saturn devouring his son.

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Trees can’t run

That changes everything. This is the spot, your spot, a spot worth protecting. Trees understand the power of the neighborhood and the value of good neighbors. Trees can’t be anonymous, and they succeed by standing tall and sticking it out. Trees do better in a forest,

Culture • 5h

A Beginner’s Guide to Philosophy: From Logic to Epistemology to Metaphysics

These are, perhaps, not the very best times for humanities majors. Seldom do we even hear the once-standard defense that, by pursuing a course of study in subjects of that kind, students “learn how to think.” Such a justification still points to real value, at least in the most

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Watch David Bowie Take MTV to Task for Failing to Play Music Videos by Black Artists (1983)

The old vaudeville phrase “Will it play in Peoria?” has its roots in the late 19th century, specifically in Horatio Alger’s novel Five Hundred Dollars; Or Jacob Marlowe’s Secret. Like all of the books Alger wrote extolling the virtues of thrift, study, grooming, industry, etc.,

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