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Considering infinity

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AI Figures Out the Rules of a Mysterious 2,000-Year-Old Board Game from Ancient Rome

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Inside the Automats Where Coin-Operated Machines Created a Modern, Democratic Dining Experience

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How to Love the World More: George Saunders on the Courage of Uncertainty

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How to Be a Stone: Three Poems for Trusting Time

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The Eternal Return: Nietzsche’s Brilliant Thought Experiment Illustrating the Key to Existential Contentment

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Dozens of former employees of Noma tell of abuse &...

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What Makes a Soul Mate: Roxane Gay on Loving vs. Being in Love

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Confused about donations

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How the Bicycle Was Born: Mount Tambora, the Year Without a Summer, and the Stubborn Courage to Reimagine the Possible

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An Irishwoman’s Fierce and Poetic Record of Traversing the World on a Bicycle in the Middle of the Cold War

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Annie Dillard on Unselfconsciousness

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Álvaro Urbano Suspends Fleeting Moments of Decay in Metal Plants

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Wander: Natascha McElhone Reads Hermann Hesse’s 100-Year-Old Love Letter to the Wisdom of Trees in a Cinematic Walk Through Kew Gardens

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Letting in the Golden Light: Oliver Sacks on How Love Changes What We See

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Biennial Hangover

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If they knew…

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10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This March

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Israel-US Strikes Damage Tehran’s Historic Golestan Palace

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These Are the People in This Neighborhood

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The Political Potential of the Chinatown Storefront

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“Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” Pops Up in DC

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The Ten Best Books to Complement Your Viewing of This Year’s Oscar-Nominated Movies

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Petrit Halilaj’s Opera of Kosovan Memory and Myth

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Lots of great defecation physics here: “ 66 percent...

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Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies

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Forget About Getting Your AI Art Copyrighted

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The New School Cancelled Their Class on Soccer and World...

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SETI might be missing alien signals because...

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Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World

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Teacher v Chatbot: My Journey Into the Classroom in the Age Of AI

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Virginia Woolf on Love

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Octavia Butler on Change and the Meaning of God

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“For the Colonel, It Was Finger-Lickin’ Bad”

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The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of...

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‘Lettres Décoratives’ Is a Celebration of Fin de Siècle Sign Painters’ Vibrant Letterforms

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Recursive Resemblance

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“If measles-mumps-rubella vaccination rates decline...

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Grant Garmezy Molds a Full-Size Dakotaraptor from Molten Glass

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Carol Bove’s Metal Textiles

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Savage care

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Tight rope standing

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That’s what studies are for

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Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors

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One Man’s Quest for the End of the World Started on a Ranch in Texas

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But We Had Music

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Director Rian Johnson (Knives Out, Poker Face) wrote the...

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An Overfilled Guggenheim Retrospective Dulls Carol Bove’s Brilliance

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How to Be a Tree: Notes on the Resilience of Letting Go

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