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How Does an Enigma Machine Work?

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How Wildfire Smoke Is Reshaping Childhood ....

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A Short Film Sheds Light on the Garfield Phones Washing Up on a French Beach Since the ’80s

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This guy hooked his hamster’s wheel up to Strava —...

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What Would It Mean to See a New Color?

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The great arc

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Secrets of the Atomic City

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Hundreds Demand Return of SAIC Professor

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Culture clash

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The modern library

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Mark Twain Predicts the Internet in 1898: Read His Sci-Fi Crime Story, “From The ‘London Times’ in 1904”

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Astronomers have measured the size of the largest galaxy...

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Hundreds Demand Reinstatement of SAIC Professor Savneet Talwar

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Advocates Rally to Stop Sale of Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts

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The Scent of Ancient Rome in St. Louis

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The Fruitless Search for Vermeer’s Personal God

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Remembering Milan Knížák, Simone Forti, and Francisco Correa Cordero

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“ In this video , I’ll take you from farm to...

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Drawings by Children in Texas ICE Facility Are a Cry for Help

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The Computer That Helped Win World War II . “…it...

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Monumental Painted Wood Carvings by Jiang Miao Center Mindfulness

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How to Store Ebooks in Instagram Reels and Other Covert Data Storage Tricks

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Lidar and other discoveries continue to show that the...

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Heading On Out…

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Six Teenagers, a Brutal Murder and the Story They Couldn’t Take Back

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‘Bodega Cats of New York’ Advocates for the City’s Beloved Feline Shopkeepers

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This is an old list but still interesting: the 12 most...

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Art Orgs That Received More COVID-Era Funding Outperforming Others, Study Finds

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Tressie McMillan Cottom’s reading list for fighting back...

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Read 20,000+ Golden Age Comic Books Free Online: Superheroes, Westerns, Romance, Horror, and More

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Emily Wilson takes another crack at a critique of...

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Surfing Alaska’s Turnagain Arm (home to a twice-daily...

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Enigmatic Narratives Unfold in Aron Wiesenfeld’s Dreamy Oil Paintings

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The Missing Pages

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The last ice age

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Pleating With Iris van Herpen

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The disconnect between effort and value

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How Ada Lovelace, Daughter of Lord Byron, Wrote the First Computer Program in 1842–a Century Before the First Computer

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The Only Three Distinctions Between People

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Roots and the Meaning of Life

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In recent years, science has been learning more and more...

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Best Outdoor Art Shows This Summer

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A Fatal Reaction

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Huh, here’s the trailer for a new director’s cut (of...

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Trump Proposes Lowest Smithsonian Budget in Years

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Rice University Extends Free Tuition to Families Earning Up to $200K

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Valerie Hillings Named Inaugural Director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

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Are You Good at Mowing Lawns?

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Kimsooja Comes Full Circle

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“ poetry camera is a new way to see your world....

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