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The Bone Rush

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Idaho Pushed Anti-Trans Laws for Years. Then a Teen Died.

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Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Is Free

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The people’s atheist

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The Having/Doing job gap

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Hear the Haunting Sound of an Ancient Celtic War Trumpet: Silent for 2,000 Years, It Now Sounds Again

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Getting Dressed During World War I: A Fascinating Look at How Soldiers, Nursers & Others Dressed During the Great War

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The Lost Joy of Music Piracy . “Still to this day,...

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Epictetus on Love and Loss: The Stoic Strategy for Surviving Heartbreak

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A Homerist’s Review of “The Odyssey”

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Goofy Oversized Wicker Costumes

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Excerpt from a longer (podcast) conversation with John...

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A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”

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New Museum's Shiny New Building Leaks During Flash Floods

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Cuban Artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara Exiled to the US

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Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is making a documentary about the...

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A Beastie Boy Returns to the Mic, With Some Help

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On Japan’s visible evidence of care . “American...

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Watch 1969’s Apollo 11 Moon Landing “Live!”

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The Sunflower Effect of Kyung-Me

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Activists Sue to Stop Frida Kahlo Works From Leaving Mexico

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Presence, Memory, and Time Merge in the Surreal Works of ‘Architects of Absence’

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A Texan Risked Everything to Defend Ukraine. So Did His Father.

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Trump Whitewashes George Washington’s Slavery History in New Display

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Open Call 2027: Jentel Artist Residency

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I love the 1-bit aesthetic of this story-driven city...

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A High-Definition Cinematic Video Relives NASA’s Artemis II Mission

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

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Sleep and the Meaning of Life: Fernando Pessoa on the Existential Dimension of the Horizontal Hours

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The Meaning of Nolan’s The Odyssey

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From BBC Earth, the trailer for Evolution , a...

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Isolated, Scared, Forlorn: The Heartbreaking Final Months of Virginia Giuffre’s Life

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The Skinner revolution

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A Stolen Dove Takes Flight Again

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Beyond Greece and Rome

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The power of positive argument

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The World’s Greatest Song That Simply Shouldn’t Exist: The Making of The Beatles’ “A Day in the Life”

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Where Did the Monk’s Haircut Come From? A Look at the Rich and Contentious History of the Tonsure

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From Mitochondria to Minds: The Illustrated Science of the Psychedelic Dream Called Life

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Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being

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Pointless banality and the uncanny valley

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Borges on How to Conquer Time

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How to Be a Lichen: Adaptive Strategies for the Vulnerabilities of Being Human from Nature’s Tiny Titans of Tenacity

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Edwin Church, Peter Hujar, Looted Art

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Imminent, urgent, trending and important

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The Art of the Sacred Pause and Despair as a Catalyst of Regeneration

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A Living Memorial to Palestinian Activist Alex Odeh Takes Flight

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Trevor Winkfield’s Cheerfully Sinister Worlds

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Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Fatally Stabbing NYC Vogue Dancer

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Zendaya’s Earrings Are Part of a Much Bigger Problem

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