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An extensive history of Birdo’s gender (according to her Nintendo appearances). “If...

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Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win...

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American Museum of Natural History Repatriates Remains of 124 Native People

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Clive Thompson writes about the influence of BASIC (“the most consequential language...

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What Are Those Giant Painted Heads Floating in the Seine?

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The Olympics Drag Scene Got Christian Art History Right

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A nationwide study of young people in South Korea found a significant...

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How Hair Weaves Us Together

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The Winking Irony of “Ecological” Luxury

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It’s Oil That Makes LA Boil

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For the first time, wind & solar generated more of the EU’s...

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NYC Unveils 18-Foot Sculpture to Mark Breakdancing’s Olympics Debut

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An explainer of the conservatives’ plan for women in America. “If enacted,...

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Speed jigsaw-puzzle competitions are a thing…and the mindet required seems the same...

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The War Over Safe Drug Supply in Vancouver

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A 2,000-Year-Old Marble Mosaic Floor Emerges from the Sea in Italy

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Extended Trailer for The Rings of Power Season Two

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The Oldest Example of a Prestigious Red Dye Was Found in a Rare 3,800-Year-Old Textile

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Germans are installing “plug-and-play” solar panels to decrease their electric bills. “You...

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Saad Qureshi’s Elaborate Sculptures Play with Scale to Create Remembered and Imagined Places

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The paradoxes of Mikha’il Mishaqa

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The First Animation That Hayao Miyazaki Directed on His Own: Watch Footage from the Pilot of Yuki’s Sun (1972)

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The last little bit

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What Makes Life Alive: Vasily Grossman on Consciousness, Freedom, and Kindness

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The Rolling Stones Introduce Bluesman Howlin’ Wolf on US TV, One of the “Greatest Cultural Moments of the 20th Century” (1965)

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