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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Memories without brains

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The World’s Oldest Cookbook: Discover 4,000-Year-Old Recipes from Ancient Babylon

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Agency and contribution

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The Best Stunts of All Time, Over Nearly 100 Years of the...

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When the Klan Got Kicked Out of Town. “More than 500 Lumbee...

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The Geological Sublime

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The Art of Roland-Garros. Each year since 1980, the French Open has...

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What Were Federal Agents Doing at a Puerto Rican Museum in Chicago?

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Required Reading

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Shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 Competition

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A View From the Easel

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The Pliable Philosophy of Brazilian Geometric Art

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Unity and Resilience Flow Through Taquen’s Gestural Compositions

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Archaeologists Reconstruct Ancient Roman “Jigsaw Puzzle”

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New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source. “Sometimes all a sticky...

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No One Else Has a Bike Like Mine. “The most elaborately decorated...

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Why Take a Selfie in 2025?

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A Dance and Film Series Choreographs Five Poetic Approaches to Beginning Again

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The Bayeux Tapestry is returning to the UK for the first time...

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Mitchell Johnson Exhibits New Paris Paintings

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A New Genetic Map of Human Disease for the Past 37,000 Years

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The Menagerie Lurking in Rural America

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Craig Mod: Overtourism in Japan, and How it Hurts Small Businesses. When...

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Becoming Earth

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“Lately, it has been difficult to ignore a tendency at the NY...

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What If You Replaced the Moon With a Black Hole?

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When Moderation Becomes Appeasement. “Because reactionary centrists do not really have values,...

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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment. “Instead of...

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Tenderly Crocheted Sculptures by Caitlin McCormack Contend with Existential Dread

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How to Save a Dog

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How Superman Became a Character for the Ages

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Ancient water clocks

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How to Observe

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Freedom over death

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Notes to myself

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Tomorrow Never Knows: How The Beatles Invented the Future With Studio Magic, Tape Loops & LSD

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Stephen King’s Top 10 All-Time Favorite Books

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Wow, Apple’s AirPods Pro 2 earbuds are $149. That’s $100 off…the lowest...

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Cool Anatomical Sculptures of Lego People

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Penn Museum Workers Vote to Authorize Strike

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Gao Zhen, Chinese Artist Detained for “Defaming” Mao, Looks Ahead to Trial

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In a Culture of Silence, a Berlin Initiative Speaks Up for Palestine

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The Wild, Inclusive Brilliance of New York’s Pyramid Club

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How the Roman Empire Saw the World Through Art

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How Baroque Rome Saw the World Through Art

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Who Goes MAGA? “His Substack has 10,000 subscribers and a name like...

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Something Extraordinary Is Happening All Over the World. “Millions of people from...

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“REFLECTIVE URBANISMS: Mapping New York Chinatown is an interactive web project that...

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Wood and Ceramic ‘Guardian’ Assemblages by Expanded Eye Emphasize Earthy Materials

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