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Hear the World’s Oldest Instrument, the “Neanderthal Flute,” Dating Back Over 43,000 Years

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Ex-FBI agent on ICE masking: “Masking has always been associated with police...

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Snake Venom, Urine, and a Quest to Live Forever: Inside a Biohacking Conference Emboldened by MAHA

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Scammers are using AI tools to sell spectacular-looking but non-existent plant species...

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Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer of Lived Experience, Dies at 95

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Required Reading

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Cheating Expert Answers Casino Cheating Questions

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Stupid-Americans feel about Trump the way Irish-Americans felt about JFK in 1960....

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A View From the Easel

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How New York City Got Its First Pride March

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The Met Finally Meets Asian Femininity on Its Own Terms

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Whoa, Anna Wintour is stepping down as Vogue’s editor-in-chief, a post she...

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Hope Is a Risk

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The Wild Within the Walls

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“Denis Villeneuve is set to direct the next James Bond film for...

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How the Beloved 'Peanuts' Found Its Way to Define the Modern Comic Strip

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Chris Ware Illustrates a Postwoman’s Day to Celebrate 250 Years of USPS

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How Field Notes Went From Side Project to Cult Notebook. “One by...

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Rick Rubin collaborated with Anthropic to create The Way of Code: The...

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This Sahara Railway Is One of the Most Extreme in the World

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How Do Muppets Go Outside? Find Out How Kermit and Gang Took to the Real World

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The Weird Zombie Existence of the Family Circus. The long-running comic is...

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Mal à la Tête

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Pathfinder: find and explore the relationships between two concepts....

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“I Went Southwest”

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The whooper highway

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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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