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Will Machines Ever Truly Think? Richard Feynman Contemplates the Future of Artificial Intelligence (1985)

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Leonardo da Vinci’s Elegant Design for a Perpetual Motion Machine

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The Wanting Monster: An Almost Unbearably Tender Illustrated Spell Against the Curse of Not Enough

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Sebastião Salgado, Unflinching Documentary Photographer, Dies at 81

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“Mother Pigeon,” the Artist Fighting to Save NYC’s Urban Birds

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Lotus L. Kang’s Hopeful Doom Scrolling

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This rings true: “Elon Musk is less like Tony Stark and more...

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Happy 20th anniversary to Swissmiss, Tina Roth Eisenberg’s design/creativity/positivity blog....

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The Great Span: President John Tyler’s Grandson Dies Aged 96

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Jewelry Deserves a Place in Art History

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The Private Calligraphy of Henri Michaux

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A recent study: “Ibn al-Shatir was the first astronomer to have successfully...

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TERRA: Bodies & Territories Activates Land as Living Laboratory and Stage

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Guardians of Time and Transformation Commune in Jeanne Vicerial’s ‘Nymphose’

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Harvard Relinquishes Photographs of Enslaved People in Historic Settlement

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Top 25 Premier League goals of 2024-25 season. I like a good...

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The Tangled Past and Unsettled Future of Greyhound Racing in West Virginia

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Resourceful: “Shooting down a $100,000 Russian drone with an air-defense missile might...

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With Remarkable Precision, Lito Cuts Playful Compositions from Single Leaves

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How to Fix Grocery Stores: The Chewy Decimal System

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This a great piece about the challenges many are facing in participating...

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You can play Doom in this NY Times article about how you...

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Homewares and Laundry Take on Lives of Their Own in Tobias Izsó’s Mixed-Media Sculptures

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W.A.S.T.E. Not

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René Descartes: Second Meditation

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Just the right length

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Ridley Scott’s Cinematic TV Commercials: An 80-Minute Compilation Spanning 1968–2023

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A Young Jim Henson Teaches You How to Make Puppets with Socks, Tennis Balls & Other Household Goods (1969)

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Raising Hare: The Moving Story of How a Helpless Creature Helped a Workaholic Wake Up from the Trance of Near-living and Rewild Her Soul

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A Disillusioned Urban Planning Glossary. “NIMBY – Stands for ‘Not in My...

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This looks really interesting: Rogue One recut and rescored in the style...

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New York City Shows to See Right Now

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Protest Targets Whitney Museum Board Ties After Canceled Performance

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Amarie Gipson On The Reading Room, Houston’s Black Art and Culture Library

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Lil Nas X Did Not Steal a Photographer’s Poses, Court Rules

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Queer Artists Make Fantasy Architecture a Reality

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Kiah Celeste Coaxes Life From Objects

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We’re witnessing the reversal of Reconstruction. “ICE raids are the new night...

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The 2026 Venice Biennale Wants to Cut Through the Noise

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View of Azalea Garden from Mt. Fuji, Hasui Kawase

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It usually takes weeks to climb Mt Everest due to altitude acclimation....

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Pity the Barefoot Pigeon

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The Who Cares Era. “At a time where the government’s uncaring boot...

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European airlines are redirecting flights from American cities to destinations like Canada,...

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In ‘The Junior Classic,’ Michael Ezzell Builds an Uncanny World from Vintage Books

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Owls in Towels

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“Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Days go by. Nothing improves. The...

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Twain Dreams

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Some photos, videos, and observations from a visit to a West Virginian...

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