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The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom

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An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of Candid Connection

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Dueling Hares and Leaping Toads Top the 2026 British Wildlife Photography Awards

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“Billionaires made 19 percent of all reported...

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The Shape of Paris

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The Modern Times cafe moved to a pay-what-you-want model...

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“A group of runners starts jogging around a...

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An Animated Look at Noguchi’s Experimental Playgrounds That Were Never Built

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Jay Graber is stepping down as CEO of Bluesky to...

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Ali Eyal’s Forever War

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The Shooting of Two Cornell Freshmen, 42 Years Later

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Does culture make emotion?

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Small changes to big systems

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Who Would Be Emperor If the Roman Empire Still Existed Today?

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The Futurist Cookbook (1930) Tried to Turn Italian Cuisine into Modern Art

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Finding Sanity in Sprezzatura: The Lost 16th-century Italian Art of Living with Fluency, Serenity, and Openness to Wonder

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Lebanon Gallerist Navigates Ongoing Israeli Airstrikes

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Mirrors, Iron, and Stone Conjure Ancestral Healing in Olayami Dabls’ Detroit Museum

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How a Texas Town Became an Art Project

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Lisette Model’s Silenced Jazz Pictures

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Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of Being

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Thaddeus Mosley, Beloved Self-Taught Sculptor, Dies at 99

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My Road Trip With the Do-Gooding Cactus Smugglers

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“What if we taught students to use AI critically,...

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Amoako Boafo Takes His Studio on the Road

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New web game that takes 2 min to play (and perhaps a...

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How Do We Know What We Want: Milan Kundera on the Central Ambivalences of Life and Love

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Ali Eyal Gives Testimony

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Gugusse and the Automaton

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Elizabeth Saloka’s Vibrant Painted Rocks Adopt the Personalities of Snacks and Pop Culture Icons

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GPS jamming and spoofing is becoming commonplace in war...

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The fish doorbell in Utrecht is back for another season!...

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In Paraguay, Architecture Doesn’t Come at the Expense of Nature at ‘Un Bosque en La Casa’

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The Hidden Hope in the Darkness

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The NY Times went back through a century of...

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Sense of Scents

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The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

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California’s Deadliest Avalanche Turned on One Choice

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Ever behind the sunset

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Chronicles of a Needless War

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The eye of the mathematician

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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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