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The Colossal Gift Guide is Here

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Can a Comma Solve a Crime?

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Foursquare is open-sourcing a database of 100+ million “places of interest”....

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Johanna Under the Ice

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Not normal: Lions are climbing trees in Botswana. “It appears that climbing...

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Josh’s Albums of the Year

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The Once and Future Woods

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Infinite Content

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Tetris Forever is, well, kind of hard to explain. It’s a documentary...

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NYT asks, “Is the Northeast Entering Its Wildfire Era?” “It might be...

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How an Empty Internet Gave Us Tradwives and Trump

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Grace Against Gravity and the Physics of Vulnerability: How Birds Fly and Why They Flock in a V Formation

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Game design and strategy (Bongo part 3)

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Idiosyncratic Ceramic Sculptures by Janny Baek Evoke Nature and Desire

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Compassionate time

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Further vs. faster

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How the Ancient Romans Traveled Without Maps

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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How to Potty Train Your Cat: A Handy Manual by Jazz Musician Charles Mingus

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Google Creates a Career Certificate That Prepares Students for Cybersecurity Jobs in 6 Months

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There’s a Ghost in the Garden: A Subtle and Soulful Illustrated Fable about Memory and Mystery

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A View From the Easel

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Required Reading

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The Banana That Made Me Sick to My Stomach

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Chicano Art Patron Cheech Marin Gets Life-Sized Bronze Statue

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Neon, The Most Noble Of Signs

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Art That Rides the Radio Waves to Resistance

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House Passes Dystopian Bill Targeting Nonprofits

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Totally Cooked

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Tove Jansson Found Refuge in Play

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Asian America’s Unofficial Photographer Laureate

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Through Monumental Installations of Soap and Stones, Jesse Krimes Interrogates the Prison System

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Flush is an app for finding public bathrooms. “Search through over 200,000...

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Social Bonds May Save Our Lives

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Baker’s Chocolate Wasn’t Made For Bakers

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A world map of where you don’t need a permit to buy...

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Lightscape Returns to Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the Holidays

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From Single Balls of Clay, Paul S. Briggs ‘Hand-Turns’ Leafy Vessels

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McRib Sauce Ice Cream

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Our Coast to Coast Walk Across Northern England Was an Exercise in Hope and Joy

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Missed the shuttle. “It was night but the tarmac was illuminated with...

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The World-Changing Impact of Vaccines

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A great idea for a list: The 25 Most Important Recipes of...

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Augusta Britt, secret teenaged muse of a middle-aged Cormac McCarthy, sounds like...

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Get in, Loser—We’re Chasing a Waymo Into the Future

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Gary Wagner’s Photos Illuminate Rugged Icelandic Fjords and Shorelines

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The winners of the National Book Awards were announced last night —...

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When the media is ready (Bongo part 2)

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An Astonishing, Rarely Seen Islamic Art Collection Goes on Display

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To know a place

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