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The Colorful History of Tarot Is as Mesmerizing as the Decks Themselves

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The cosmic distance ladder with Terence Tao: part two

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Walk in these

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Daydream fatigue

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A Visualization of the History of Technology: 1,889 Innovations Across Three Million Years

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Listen to Never-Before-Heard Works by Erik Satie, Performed 100 Years After His Death

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Uncaging the Bird in the Mind: William Henry Hudson and the Gift of the Ruin of Your Best Laid Plans

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Behind a Flight Attendant’s Painted-On Smile

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Joe Overstreet’s Activism Through Abstraction

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As a Japanese American in LA, the ICE Raids Hit Home

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A billion choices

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Education is free, learning is expensive

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Anna Wintour to Remain Met Gala Chair

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Tourist Denied US Entry After ICE Found JD Vance Meme on His Phone

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Lisa Yuskavage’s Genre-Defying Works on Paper Presented at the Morgan Library & Museum

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A Bold Finnish Artist Brought These Precious Little Hippopotamus-Like Trolls to the World 80 Years Ago

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Inside the Dollar General Workers’ Fight for Safety and Fair Pay

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Funding for MFA Students: The $90,000 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

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In a Baltimore Exhibition, the Transformative Potential of Today’s Griots Emerges

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Anima: One Woman’s Search for Meaning in the Footsteps of Bulgarian Mountain Shepherds

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Women in Afghanistan Are Prisoners In Their Own Homes. This is the Story of Marjan, Married at 12 to a Taliban Fighter

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As hot as possible

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The beat of goombay

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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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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