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Renée Stout’s Bewitching Circuitry

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A decade-plus in the making and now on Kickstarter: a book of...

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Large Hadron Couture Collider

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I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something...

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The Music of Pixar’s Elio, Created by a Choir of Wooden Dolls

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Could Should Might Don’t. “This isn’t a book filled with predictions and...

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Retraction Watch: a blog that tracks corrected and retracted scientific papers....

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Elodie Blanchard Revitalizes Fabric Scraps into Vivid Patchworks of Trees, Bouquets, and Goddesses

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Project Hail Mary, Official Trailer

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Get Up Close to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unrealized Buildings with David Romero’s Digital Models

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Ted Chiang writes about the earliest works of fiction about superintelligence. “The...

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The History of Electronic Music in 476 Tracks (1937–2001). “Spanning the years...

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Why You Should Love Durian, the World's Smelliest Fruit

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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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