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The Figments of Love and the Hallucinations of Reason

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Dive into Wool Creature Lab’s World of Vibrant Felted Nudibranchs

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A Boston man discovered a document passed down through...

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Lumière, Le Cinema!

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The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a Mind

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Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi proposes sending a tiny...

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In Conversation: Will Wilson

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“ Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of...

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Ruby Silvious’ Tiny Paintings and Assemblages Reimagine Used Teabags

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Why Attack Iran?

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Great art explained: Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581

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NYC’s New Culture Commissioner

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Who is Walter Mignolo?

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Radioposter Launches Paper-fi: Analog Books with Synchronized Soundtracks

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Popular (and good)

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Behold the First Realistic Depiction of the Human Face (Circa 25,000 BCE)

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When Do We Become Adults, Really?

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The Greatest Double Agent Ever: How a Spanish Chicken Farmer Became the Most Important Double Agent in WWII

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Grace Paley on the Art of Growing Older

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How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples”

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A nearly perfect score

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A Lighthouse for Dark Times

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Against Self-Criticism: Adam Phillips on How Our Internal Critics Enslave Us, the Stockholm Syndrome of the Superego, and the Power of Multiple Interpretations

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Maximum’s Upcycled ‘Billex’ Process Turns Discarded Bank Notes into Furniture

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AI slop

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Curator Diya Vij Named NYC Culture Commissioner

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Don’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful Letter of Support to Marie Curie in the Midst of Scandal

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Inside the Sacred Valley Ceramics Studio Referencing Ancient Peruvian Practices

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Trauma, Growth, and How to Be Twice as Alive: Tove Jansson on the Worm and the Art of Self-Renewal

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The Birth of Photography and the Death of Letters: Virginia Woolf on the Fate of Every Technology

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What's a Gen X to Do?

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How to win a bidding war

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Frieze LA Meets the Real World

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The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced

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The Case for Palestine at the Venice Biennale

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Fanny Wright and the Radical Courage of Being Real: The Forgotten Woman Who Pioneered Scientific Thinking and Free Love in America

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The Uncertain Future of Colombia’s Museum of Memory

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IDSVA Extends PhD Program to BA and BFA Applicants

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“For months, callers to the Washington state...

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A Hockey Dad, a Cartel, and a $12 Million Fraud

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Liz West Transforms a Bristol Parking Garage into a Kaleidoscopic Passageway

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A 2-hour mix of music compiled by Thom Yorke that plays...

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Finding God at the Brooklyn Museum

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The Candy Factory

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Do people still worship the ancient Greek gods?...

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Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer ....

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Marks found on 40,000-year-old artifacts might be a...

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The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can

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Pope Leo XIV to his priests: stop using AI to write...

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