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Why Bats Shouldn’t Exist: The Limits of Knowledge, the Pitfalls of Prediction, and the Triumph of the Possible Over the Probable

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Buffalo Museum Cancels Event After Backlash Against Texas Flood Cartoon

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Shamim M. Momin Is the Bronx Museum’s New Director

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The 16th-Century Artist Who Created the First Compendium of Insect Drawings

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From Vietnam to Nepal, Lee Me Kyeoung Expands the Geographic Bounds of Her Corner Store Drawings

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Annie Leibovitz Shoots Fifty Shades of Anne Hathaway

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“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”

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Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient...

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A New Book Illuminates Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Prolific Time in Los Angeles

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Scrappy is a prototype tool for building “little apps for you and...

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Mend is a project based in Syracuse, NY that publishes the “creative...

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The poetry machine

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Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Memories without brains

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The World’s Oldest Cookbook: Discover 4,000-Year-Old Recipes from Ancient Babylon

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Agency and contribution

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The Best Stunts of All Time, Over Nearly 100 Years of the...

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When the Klan Got Kicked Out of Town. “More than 500 Lumbee...

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The Geological Sublime

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The Art of Roland-Garros. Each year since 1980, the French Open has...

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What Were Federal Agents Doing at a Puerto Rican Museum in Chicago?

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Required Reading

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Shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 Competition

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A View From the Easel

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The Pliable Philosophy of Brazilian Geometric Art

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Unity and Resilience Flow Through Taquen’s Gestural Compositions

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Archaeologists Reconstruct Ancient Roman “Jigsaw Puzzle”

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New Sphere-Packing Record Stems From an Unexpected Source. “Sometimes all a sticky...

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No One Else Has a Bike Like Mine. “The most elaborately decorated...

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Why Take a Selfie in 2025?

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A Dance and Film Series Choreographs Five Poetic Approaches to Beginning Again

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The Bayeux Tapestry is returning to the UK for the first time...

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Mitchell Johnson Exhibits New Paris Paintings

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A New Genetic Map of Human Disease for the Past 37,000 Years

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The Menagerie Lurking in Rural America

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Craig Mod: Overtourism in Japan, and How it Hurts Small Businesses. When...

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Becoming Earth

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“Lately, it has been difficult to ignore a tendency at the NY...

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What If You Replaced the Moon With a Black Hole?

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When Moderation Becomes Appeasement. “Because reactionary centrists do not really have values,...

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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment. “Instead of...

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Tenderly Crocheted Sculptures by Caitlin McCormack Contend with Existential Dread

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How to Save a Dog

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How Superman Became a Character for the Ages

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Ancient water clocks

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How to Observe

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Freedom over death

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Notes to myself

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Tomorrow Never Knows: How The Beatles Invented the Future With Studio Magic, Tape Loops & LSD

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