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Awkward silences

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Use a lot of words

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Watch the Very First YouTube Video, a Defining Moment in Internet History

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Hear Alan Watts’s 1960s Prediction That Automation Will Necessitate a Universal Basic Income

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A Search for the World's Best Durian, the Divisive Fruit That's Prized—and Reviled

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The Brief and Illustrious Life of the Telegraph

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Wayne Thiebaud’s Art Is More Than a Piece of Cake

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Mamdani Memes Remind Us Good Things Can Still Happen

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Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing a sequel to The Social Network....

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As ICE Raids Stir Fear, My LA Neighborhood Perseveres

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Alicja Kwade Reflects the Warped Nature of Time and Reality in Poetic Installations

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Remembering Arnaldo Pomodoro, Who Uncovered Worlds Within Sculptures

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What Was Jim Crow?

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It Was Already One of Texas’s Strangest Cold Cases. Then a Secretive Figure Appeared.

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A blog about sci-fi interfaces in movies and TV shows with lots...

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Explore Storytelling Through 300 Years of Quilts in ‘Fabric of a Nation’

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How Christoph Niemann Uses AI in His Work

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In case you need, like I do, some reminders on How to...

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My Father Could Have Changed the World. Instead, He Changed Mine

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The Joy and Pain of Learning New Things as an Older Human

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At Jackie Robinson’s High School, Altadena Rebuilds After Fire

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A recent trend in book cover design: “It tends to lay blaringly...

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See the First Images of Our Solar System Taken by the World’s Biggest Digital Camera

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Oprah Shamed James Frey. He’s Back Anyway.

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Noah Kalina on the observer’s paradox: “I’ve come to the unfortunate realization...

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Chris Ware Creates Stamps For USPS

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From Scientific American, a set of charts of vaccination recommendations for children...

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Star Wars Lofi, chill music from a galaxy far, far away to...

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David Deutsch: explanations

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Hard to predict

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Why Bob Dylan’s Unreleased “Blind Willie McTell” Is Now Considered a Masterpiece

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The Very First Coloring Book, The Little Folks’ Painting Book (Circa 1879)

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Divinations of the First Light: A Cosmic Poem for the Vera Rubin Observatory

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This Is the Story of My Resignation From the Queens Museum

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Ireland’s Oldest and Largest Medieval Book Shrine Goes on Public View for the First Time

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Koyaanisqatsi Trailer Recreated Using Stock Footage

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Stunning Photos of the Cosmos From the World’s Largest Digital Camera

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Stop Making New Oreos. Not sure what the best part of this...

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The Enduring Legacy of ’80s Harlem Drag Balls

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The Scheme That Broke the Texas Lottery

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Young Joon Kwak’s Luminescent Bodies

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Ippei Tsujio’s Fresh Batch of Wrapping Paper Transforms Gifts Into Perfectly Baked Loaves

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Copaganda and Me. “The police are the good guys, or so I...

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New Project Will Map Fire-Ravaged Altadena’s Cultural Heritage

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Barbara T. Smith’s Experiments in Xerox

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An Interview With Andor’s Creator, Tony Gilroy

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Lessons on Art and Community From America’s Cultural Treasures

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Design Process in Practice at Pratt Manhattan Gallery

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Wandering Minds Reach the Bounds of Post-Its in Aron Wiesenfeld’s ‘Playtime’

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The Public Domain Cinematic Universe. Beloved characters like Mickey Mouse, Winnie-the-Pooh, and...

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