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A peek inside Robert Caro’s home library, hidden shelves and all. His...

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The Strange Power of Laughter

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Do Our Dogs Have Something to Tell the World?

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Building a Medieval Castle From Scratch

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Turn-of-the-Century Tactile Graphics Illustrate Nature for People Who Are Blind

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Instances of haptic nostalgia (“the poignant memory of the physicality of an...

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How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days. “In one of the...

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A sick sunfish stopped eating after its aquarium closed for renovations so...

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How to Use Renaissance Paintings to Improve the Farming of Tomorrow

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Eric Laithwaite: shaping things to come

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TikTok Covens and QAnon Shamans: A Reading List on Neo-Paganism

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Reen Barrera’s Expressive ‘Ohlala’ Characters Evoke Emotions and Empowerment

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Prosperity versus liberation

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Honesty about better

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Revisit Pop-Up Video: The VH1 Series That Reinvented Music Videos & Pop Culture

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The Oldest Beer Receipt (Circa 2050 BC)

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On Consolation: Notes on Our Search for Meaning and the Antidote to Resignation

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Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens, i.e. “choosing what...

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Jo Baer, Painter of “Radical Figuration,” Dies at 95

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The Fugitive Prince

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13 Artists Perform Selfhood in the Age of Alienation

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SF Ranked Among Most “Arts-Vibrant” US Cities

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The Revisionist History of the Nazi Salute

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8 Artsy Ways to Celebrate the Year of the Snake in NYC

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Kind of Obsessed With Shōgun

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The Story of the Godfather of Asian-American Media, Told by His Son

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We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual...

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Surrealism’s Legacy of Antifascist Activism

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The Pasadena Bookstore Taking Cues From Octavia Butler

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Beguiling Botanicals Fluoresce in Tom Leighton’s Otherworldly Photographs

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A caffeine calculator that tells you how much of your favorite beverage...

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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: A Visual History. A coffee table book about one...

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The School Shootings Were Fake. The Terror Was Real

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Where Do You Put the Camera?

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Every Star Trek Movie, Ranked. I think the top 5 here are...

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Matias Karsikas Merges Diverse Techniques to Reimagine Natural Surfaces

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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the...

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Explore an Incredibly Detailed Topographical Map of the Moon

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Empire of Blood: How Dana White’s UFC Conquered America

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I’d love to know where people are directing their giving these days....

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Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as...

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Asya Marakulina Sculpts Poignant Ceramic Portraits of Demolished Homes

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Electric garden

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Trusting AI

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Watch 950 Weather Reports Presented by David Lynch, Straight from His Los Angeles Home

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Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922

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From the Paleontological Research Institution, The Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change, “the...

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Nintendo Announces the Switch 2

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Artists Wanted to Make a Pro-Palestine Statement. The Brooklyn Museum Said No.

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Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy. “There...

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