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Cool thing that I did not notice about The Wild Robot: at...

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New Evidence Suggests Humans Developed Written Language To Avoid Breaking Up In...

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Ensemble stars

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My Recent Media Diet, the Endless January Edition

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Australia’s Decision to Drop Its Venice Biennale Artist Ignites Uproar

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How Trying Became Cool Again

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Ken Burns’ Criterion Closet Picks include Seven Samurai, a Fellini box set,...

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Thought-provoking musings on AI from Robin Sloan. “The language model reads Everything,...

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The Crazy Thing About Babies

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Girls Who Code’s “Five by Five” strategic plan is “reaching 5 million...

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I love this week-by-week map of Gina Trapani’s life. “This is a...

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Allegra Goodman writes about the “life-saving power” of listening to audiobooks (Austen,...

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Wes Anderson’s next movie is called The Phoenician Scheme, an “espionage comedy-drama...

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Kevin Kelly’s 50 Years of Travel Tips

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Deadline: “Starz has acquired the rights to Miranda July’s buzzy novel All...

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From Nolan RoYAlty (cReAtor of oNE Million chEckBOXES), A globAL CAPS LOCK....

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Jerry Lawson was one of Silicon Valley’s first Black engineers and is...

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An Update

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Watery Landscapes Set the Stage for Lachlan Turczan’s Ephemeral Light Installations

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Beyond causality

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Beep Boop! Computers and Game Consoles Blink to Life in Love Hultén’s Retrofuturist Tech

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“I’ve got your back”

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Meet Jesse Welles, the Folk Singer Who Turns News into Folk Music, Writing Songs on Elections, Plane Crashes, Ozempic & More

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Flannery O’Connor: Friends Don’t Let Friends Read Ayn Rand

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Seth Rogen is the Boss Now

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How to stop Trump’s power grab. “Trump isn’t inevitable. Here’s a plan...

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The Venn Diagram of Trump’s Authoritarian Actions

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Required Reading

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Really interesting essay about organizing: How Much Discomfort Is the Whole World...

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8 Art Books on Love to Read This Valentine’s Day

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Why Do All My Hinge Options Look Like Guys From Old Paintings?

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“Fuck the Middle Ground”

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Historical Maps to the Heart Help Chart Your Way to Love

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Alexis Rockman Paints Humanity’s Final Season

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House GOP has reintroduced the SAVE Act, which would require voters to...

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Why Did Australia Abruptly Ditch Its Venice Biennale Artist and Curator?

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Elie Mystal on Elon Musk’s vision of neo-apartheid. “First and most important,...

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The Drag Queen Artist Who Helped Make the East Village Interesting

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A View From the Easel

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Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream is...

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Is This the End of the American Constitution?

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Matt Bua’s ‘Repurposed City’ in Upstate New York Just Hit the Market

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On a scale of +10 (full democracy) to -10 (full autocracy), the...

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Apply Now for IDSVA’s Non-Studio PhD in Visual Arts: Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art Theory

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Days and Nights in Gaza

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RFK Jr. confirmed as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department....

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Heather Cox Richardson on the history of the liberal consensus, from Lincoln...

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A New Documentary Traces How a Faith Ringgold Mural at Rikers Island Helped Women Break Free

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Slow-motion tongues

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