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The Thai Beef Noodle Soup That Has Been Continuously Simmering for 52 Years

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

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

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

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Playwright Georgica Pettus has written a play called...

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

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

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The Ballroom Icon Who Paved a New Way

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Fancy food update

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Philip Guston’s Lines of Poetry

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Jack Halberstam’s Trans Theory at a Slant

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Guggenheim Museum Union Votes to Authorize Strike

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My Mayor Muslim, My Art Political

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

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The Clip Stage

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

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

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

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

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

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

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On Description

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Are Crows Really Our Friends?

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If Artists Mapped the World

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Illegible benefits

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

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We are all weird

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

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

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At Upstate Art Weekend, Cars and Barns Are Galleries

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

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See Photos From a Sweltering, Joyous NYC Pride March

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

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

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The Artists Countermapping the World

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

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A Comprehensive Guide to Yellow Stripey Things

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

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

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

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

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The Adjective Word Order We All Follow Without Realizing It

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Elaborate Kené Patterns by Sara Flores Continue an Ancient Indigenous Tradition

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The Met and the Art Smuggler

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Phyllis the GOAT and the Senior League Wii Bowling Champions

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

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

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

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Maybe It Will Happen Today

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