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If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?

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Not in Our Name

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Can Jollibee Beat American Fast Food at Its Own Game?

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Was the Baghdad Battery Actually a Battery?: An Archaeologist Demystifies the 2,000-Year-Old Artifact

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A Year in Reading: When the Going Gets Tough

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Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future on The David Letterman Show (1980)

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Artist Nnena Kalu Wins 2025 Turner Prize

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The Lighthouse Keeper: A Tender Illustrated Meditation on What Saves Us

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The 10 Best London Art Shows of 2025

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Beer With a Painter: Melissa Joseph

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Museum Grants Terminated by Trump Reinstated After Court Order

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New York: Best of 2025

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Anti-ICE Nativities Take a Stand Against Trump’s Cruelty

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A Charlie Brown Christmas, Live

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Wifredo Lam No Longer Waits by the Coatroom

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The Best Books of 2025

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We Asked Critics From Authoritarian Regimes What They Wish They’d Known Sooner....

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The Ten Best Photography Books of 2025

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What’s a UFO Show With No Flying Saucers?

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The Rembrandt Thief Who Came Out On Top

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A “particularly inventive” Rube Goldberg marble run maze. Lots of elements doing...

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Launch a Community-Centered Design Career with an MDes From the University of Arkansas

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Li Yi-Fan to Represent Taiwan at the 61st Venice Biennale

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Model Employees

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Trung Tran Studio Incorporates Mature Trees into a Warm Brick Home in Vietnam

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The 2025 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide

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Colin Furze built a full-suspension bike using powerful magnets instead of shocks...

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MoMA PS1 to Offer Free Admission Starting in 2026

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For ‘ÓST,’ Estúdio Capim Conjures a Retrofuturistic Candle Concept

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Looks Like the Supreme Court Will Continue to Overturn the 20th Century....

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A Year in NYC Art Shows

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The empty ideology

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The Business of Care

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If your marketing isn’t working…

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See What the Original Mona Lisa Likely Looked Like

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A Year in Reading: When We Are Redefined

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Read the Uplifting Letter That Albert Einstein Sent to Marie Curie During a Time of Personal Crisis (1911)

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The Best New York City Exhibitions of 2025

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Jiggle Cat

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A guide on how (and why) to quit Spotify. “I am extremely...

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What If the Economy Was Modeled After Ecology?

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Huge Collection of Laptop Sticker Art

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Water Leak at Louvre Museum Damages Hundreds of Books

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Why We Have Two Nostrils Instead of One Big Hole. (Great title!)...

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The Soundscape of Genocide in Gaza

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Matisse Prints Stolen From Brazil Library in Broad Daylight

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Photographers Around the World Capture Astonishing Auroras During the Solar Maximum

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The Dude Ranch Above the Sea

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I’m working on the 2025 gift guide right now, but I wanted...

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