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Opportunities in August 2025

Kirsty Elson’s Spirited Creatures Breathe New Life into Weathered Driftwood

An Ornate Stenciled Rug by Mateo Complements a Cultural Center’s Communal Rooftop in Dakar

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

A life in Zen

After you make a strategic error

Hundreds of Medieval Medical Manuscripts with Strange Cures Get Digitized & Put Online: From Leeches to Crushed Weasel Testicles

1787: “Caroline Lucretia Herschel became the first woman to receive a salary...

Two Ways To Film The Same Scene

Two of the most promiscuous snack brands, Oreo and Reese’s, are teaming...

Raymond Saunders, Who Made the Color Black His Own, Dies at 90

Required Reading

The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US. “I did not...

A View From the Easel

How to Be a Happier Creature

How the Moomins Showed Us a More Compassionate World

10 Shows to See in Upstate New York This August

How to Upload an Image to a Bird

Gabrielle Garland’s House Portraits Illuminate Daily Life, Individuality, and the ‘Fabric of Society’

Motherfucking windfarms. In Europe, they’re called Royale with Breeze. (I stole that...

Always Stand on the Side of the Egg

Lisa Congdon Translates the Healing Power of Making from Collage to Painting

Dying for Gold: Who Killed the Miners of Buffelsfontein?

Forthcoming book from Bill McKibben: Here Comes the Sun. “Energy from the...

Bill McKibben: Rooftop Solar Is a Miracle. Why Are We Killing It...

Rebecca Solnit: The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology. “It...

The End of America as a Center of Science

Side effect of the Tour de France: pro riders gobbling up all...

More than 70 Iconic Works by Kerry James Marshall Shape a Major Survey in the U.K.

How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent...

Man Dies in Whitney Museum Fall

Cracking the Family Codes

A film is a goodbye that never ends

The story of Malcolm X

In theory…

Hear the Pieces Mozart Composed When He Was Only 5 Years Old

Curious Alice — The 1971 Anti-Drug Movie Based on Alice in Wonderland That Oddly Made Drugs Look Like Fun

The Wirecutter’s list of the best canned cocktails. Very interested to hear...

How to Leave Substack. “Unfortunately, Substack willingly platforms, and allows bad actors...

“Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done...

Photos: Starvation and Chaos in Gaza. “Israel’s blockade of most food and...

How My Museum’s Celebration of America’s 250th Birthday Got Complicated

A compilation of super hero landings from the Marvel Cinematic Universe....

The Berlin Biennale’s Complicit Silence

Anti-Gentrification Protest Targets Mexico City Contemporary Art Museum

No Other Land Contributor Killed by Israeli Settler

Ruth Asawa Proved That Mothering Is Inherently Artistic

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DOGE-Pilled

Covid safety measures drastically reduced flu deaths, but the fatality rate has...