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Las Vegas’ giant $2.3B sphere is officially open

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Holy smokes, there may actually be a limit to Texans’ love of barbecue

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The Storm Pilot

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Inside the Taliban’s Luxury Hotel

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Required Reading

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Arrowhead Made From 3,500-Year-Old Meteorite Found in Switzerland

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San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum Sues Architect and Contractor of Its New Pavilion

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An Italian Artist Who Took On American Capitalism

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Remembering a Pioneer of Louisville’s Black Avant-Garde

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Sarah K. Khan’s Feminist Take on a 16th-Century Cookbook

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Christian Rogers’s Cruising Paradise

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Divya Mehra Releases Canada’s Colonial Genies

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A small shopping list (floss and more)

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Winners of the 2023 Bird Photographer of the Year Competition

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A Colossal Interview: Zoë Buckman On Tenderness, Her Evolution as a Woman and Mother, and Embroidering Her Largest Works To Date

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University of the Arts Celebrates Philadelphia Open Studio Tours

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The Man Who Thinks He Can Live Forever

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An Update on the Squiggle Shirts

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I Touched the Sun: A Tender Illustrated Parable About How to Find and Bear Your Inner Light

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What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World?

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In ‘The Lost Mystics,’ Kumkum Fernando’s Enigmatic Wanderers Chase Illusions Through Time and Space

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The Last Descent

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The Origins of the Socialist Slur

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Ramshackle Dwellings by Simon Laveuve Reach Skyward in an Imagined Post-Apocalyptic Future

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The Race to Catch the Last Nazis

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What science tells us about the afterlife

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Flat places

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A Determined Art Conservator Restores a Painting of the Doomed Party Girl Isabella de’ Medici: See the Before and After

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Thoughts on the manual

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Noam Chomsky Explains Why Nobody Is Really a Moral Relativist, Even Michel Foucault

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