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Isaac Asimov Laments the “Cult of Ignorance” in the United States (1980)

Now Yourself: The Elusive Science of What the Present Moment Is Made of and How It Makes You Who You Are

How Do You Know That You Love Somebody? Philosopher Martha Nussbaum’s Incompleteness Theorem of the Heart’s Truth, from Plato to Proust

Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called...

What is queer typography? “I think that covers a...

Human DNA in Cave Paintings Can Survive For Millennia, Study Finds

The Ballroom Icon Who Paved a New Way

Fancy food update

Philip Guston’s Lines of Poetry

Jack Halberstam’s Trans Theory at a Slant

Guggenheim Museum Union Votes to Authorize Strike

My Mayor Muslim, My Art Political

Scan More than 60 Million Stars in the Most Detailed Photo of the Milky Way Ever Taken

The Clip Stage

“Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the Supreme...

Gah, this is another thing I’m completely fucking pissed...

Great piece by Andrea Pitzer on how lost Ezra Klein is...

I found this AI Compass quiz genuinely useful for...

Mark Rothko’s Color Fields Mirror the Elements in a ‘Weather-to-Painting Experiment’

There’s a Grocery Price Emergency in America....

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Are Crows Really Our Friends?

If Artists Mapped the World

Illegible benefits

Daylight Savings Time: A (Beach) Reading List for the Lighthearted

We are all weird

An Entire Ancient Greek Philosophical Treatise Burned by Mount Vesuvius Has Been Deciphered with X‑Ray and AI Technologies

Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship:” Better to Suffer Than Collaborate

At Upstate Art Weekend, Cars and Barns Are Galleries

A tour of some playgrounds in NYC designed by kids ,...

See Photos From a Sweltering, Joyous NYC Pride March

Texas Tattoo Artist Gets 30-Year Sentence Over “Anti-Trump” Zines

On decision fatigue : “Why are you so tired? The...

The Artists Countermapping the World

The World’s Tallest Messi Statue Is Also Its Most Salacious

A Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things

Legendary Cellist Pablo Casals, at Age 93, on Creative Vitality and How Working with Love Prolongs Your Life

If you’ve never seen it (or even if you have), Christian...

Nancy Shaver's Beloved Store in Hudson to Close After 30 Years

My Father Wants to Age in Place. AI Will Be Watching

The Adjective Word Order We All Follow Without Realizing It

Elaborate Kené Patterns by Sara Flores Continue an Ancient Indigenous Tradition

The Met and the Art Smuggler

Phyllis the GOAT and the Senior League Wii Bowling Champions

DeviantArt Is an All-in-One Platform for the Creative Economy

A Retro 70s TV Intro for Andor . “Get ready to...

Derrick Lin Plays with Light and Scale in Emotive Photos of Miniature Dioramas

Maybe It Will Happen Today

The Writers Who Wrote The Most in History . “Corin...

Diabolical Motherhood