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De Profundis: Patti Smith Reads Oscar Wilde’s Stirring Letter on Suffering and Transcendence, Penned in Prison

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Pat Oleszko Wins $100K Whitney Biennial Prize

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Artist’s Planned Monument to Charlie Kirk Gets Trolled Online

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Manhattan DA’s Office Returns Three Antiquities to Mexico

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TV Appearance of Lincoln Assassination Witness

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Required Reading

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What Training My Chaotic Dog Taught Me About Power,...

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Trump Shrinks Utah National Monuments by 90%

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Building a World Map With Only 500 Bytes .

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The Artists Working in Velvet, Amethyst, and Relics

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Four Centuries Later, We Still Don't Get Caravaggio

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How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain?

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From the Brooklyn Public Library, a list of “the...

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The Real Life Mermaids of Florida’s Weeki Wachee Springs

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New-to-me podcast that looks really interesting: Time...

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The Wild Iris: Nobel Laureate Louise Glück on the Door at the End of Your Suffering

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Trompe-L’œil Paintings by Jason Limon Reveal a Hidden Skeletal World

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Why Are Berries Everywhere, in Every Season? Driscoll’s.

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Amazing Newspaper Ad Highlighting Period Poverty

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The ICA at VCU Brings Immersive Installation "Deo Vindice" to Richmond

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Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck: The Stoic Strategy for Weathering Life’s Waves and Turning Suffering into Strength

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Uncovered , a site for judging books by their first...

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The Resonant Computing Manifesto . “We can now build...

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The Rosenberg Boys

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Cocoa Plantations Set the Scene for Divine Events in Marc Padeu’s ‘Memento Vivere’

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What would a rainbow look like if we had two suns (like...

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Little Monsters

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What remains

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Frederic Edwin Church’s Sublime

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Loitering towards war

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God’s Children

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Two kinds of word salad

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The Origins of the Monsters in Homer’s Odyssey: The Cyclops, Sirens, Scylla & More

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Hear Hours of Lectures by Michel Foucault: Recorded in English & French Between 1961 and 1983

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A few highlights from a collection of lovely...

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The Naturalist’s Library (1833-43)

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Cape Town Gallery Accused of Withholding Pay and Artworks

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Welcome to Toronto, World Capital of the Urban Raccoon

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Beer With a Painter: Keltie Ferris

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Remembering Bruno Lucchesi, Pat Oliphant, and Edward Lucie-Smith

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How a Basket Empire Wove the Myth of America

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Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Campaign

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Legibility of effort in the LLM age . “What...

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How to Bear Your Sorrows: Nick Cave on Integrating the Darkness of Loss with the Bright Ongoingness of Life

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See Peter Marlow’s ‘The English Cathedral’ at London’s Oldest Gothic Church

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Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gift

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Lionel Messi Bathing a Baby Lamine Yamal

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Ted Gioia : “Works like the Odyssey are...

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Good interview with Craig Mod about how he uses LLMs :...

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The Moist Towelette Online Museum . Live moist and...

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