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Welcome to the Chaoscene

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The use (and design) of tools

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How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome: A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals an Ancient Tax Evasion Scheme

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How to Enter a ‘Flow State’ on Command: Peak Performance Mind Hack Explained in 7 Minutes

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Workers Protest Abrupt Layoffs at Guggenheim Museum

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Why Did This Ancient Chinese Handscroll Break Auction Records?

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Ben Werdmuller on how he would run Bluesky. “Anyone will be able...

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Nan Goldin Sells Prints to Benefit Gaza Animal Hospital

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Russian Photographer Disinvited From World Press Photo Ceremony

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Artists’ Monuments to the Great Migration

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Was Rembrandt Inspired by the Story of Queen Esther?

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Amy Sherald’s Parables of Black American Life

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Was The Great Gatsby’s titular character a Black man who passed for...

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On the Real-Life Story of Deep-Cover Russian Spies Living As American Families....

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The Traditional Designs of Ukrainian Egg Decorating

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In North Carolina, Juvenile Lifers See a Pathway to Freedom

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In Puerto Rico, a Museum Builds Community Outside Its Walls

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Here’s the full trailer for season two of Poker Face (Natasha Lyonne,...

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Timothy Snyder on “the beginning of an American policy of state terror”...

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Remarkable Photos by Cristina Mittermeier Spotlight the Need for Hope Amid Crisis

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The First Sighting of the Colossal Squid

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Here’s a gift link to the WSJ article about Elon Musk’s “legion”...

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How Well Is [NYC’s] Congestion Pricing Doing? Very. “The number of complaints...

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Seth Rogen Speaks Truth to Billionaires, Gets Censored For It

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Land, Sea, and Wiry Trees Converge in 100architects’ Imaginative New Playground

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The Guggenheim Fellows for 2025 have been announced and they include Miranda...

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Robin Sloan’s monthly newsletter is one of my favorites, chock full of...

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Course of Treatment

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There Are Two Types of Dishwasher People

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Diary of a Spreadsheet

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Building an artificial scientist

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The essence of industrialism

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A Forgotten 16th-Century Manuscript Reveals the First Designs for Modern Rockets

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Why Most Ancient Civilizations Had No Word for the Color Blue

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3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever

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Fresh Sets Examines the Fine Art of Nail Art

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Shahzia Sikander’s Transgressive Femininity

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New cookbook from Samin Nosrat called Good Things that includes “the things...

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Parsons Fine Arts MFA Students Help Us Navigate 2025

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“God’s Architect” Antoni Gaudí Could Be Made a Saint

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Elon Musk Statue Defaced in Texas

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Swamped Skies

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Five Years in the Making, an MiG-21 Fighter Jet Gets a Glow-Up from Tens of Millions of Glass Beads

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Five Years in the Making, a MiG-21 Fighter Jet Gets a Glow-Up from Tens of Millions of Glass Beads

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Jennie C. Jones Transforms The Met Into an Instrument

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David Graeber (co-author of The Dawn of Everything): Are You An Anarchist?...

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Growing Up Marvel

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“Drew Struzan is a legendary movie poster illustrator, the man behind all...

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A.O. Scott’s Poetry Lessons

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“The Rise of End Times Fascism”

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