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“Fed up with big legacy news? Here are 13 independent, worker-owned outlets...

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The Media’s Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to...

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The Brilliance and Privilege of Jane Austen and Julia Margaret Cameron

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The Cheese Was Free

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A lovely, beautiful, and uplifting obituary of poet and activist Andrea Gibson....

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DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website. This Onion article got...

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Photos From the 2025 BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition

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Watch Solar Winds Burst into Space in the Closest-Ever Glimpse of the Sun

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I Was Diagnosed with Incurable Cancer. This Futuristic Treatment Could Save Me.

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America is Losing Its Soul in Brown-Skinned Screams and White-Skinned Silence. “The...

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Skater Demarcus James is skateboarding across the entire United States, from Oakland...

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A Multifaceted Book and Exhibition, ‘Black Earth Rising’ Contends with Colonialism, Land, and Climate

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Asmat encounters

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An unholy alliance

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The Superman metaphors

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How the Ancient Greeks Built Their Magnificent Temples: The Art of Ancient Engineering

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Albert Einstein Tells His Son That the Key to Learning & Happiness Is Losing Yourself in Creativity (or “Finding Flow”)

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The Woman Behind the Iconic Glass House

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Ancient Egyptian Coffin Paintings Suggest Awareness of Milky Way

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Bayeux Tapestry to Return to UK After Nearly 1,000 Years

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Taking Journalism’s ‘Experts Said…’ Chicanery About Facts to Its Natural, Absurd Conclusion

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Watch Queen’s Brilliant Live Aid Performance: It Happened 40 Years Ago Today (July 13, 1985)

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Is It Not Wonderful to Be Alive: Edward Lear’s Parrots

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The four arcs

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Not a joke: there is a new Commodore 64 coming out. “The...

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Flailing

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Why Bats Shouldn’t Exist: The Limits of Knowledge, the Pitfalls of Prediction, and the Triumph of the Possible Over the Probable

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Buffalo Museum Cancels Event After Backlash Against Texas Flood Cartoon

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Shamim M. Momin Is the Bronx Museum’s New Director

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The 16th-Century Artist Who Created the First Compendium of Insect Drawings

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From Vietnam to Nepal, Lee Me Kyeoung Expands the Geographic Bounds of Her Corner Store Drawings

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Annie Leibovitz Shoots Fifty Shades of Anne Hathaway

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“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.”

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Maya Ruler’s Tomb Is Unearthed in Belize, With Clues to His Ancient...

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A New Book Illuminates Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Prolific Time in Los Angeles

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Scrappy is a prototype tool for building “little apps for you and...

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Mend is a project based in Syracuse, NY that publishes the “creative...

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The poetry machine

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Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Memories without brains

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The World’s Oldest Cookbook: Discover 4,000-Year-Old Recipes from Ancient Babylon

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Agency and contribution

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The Best Stunts of All Time, Over Nearly 100 Years of the...

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When the Klan Got Kicked Out of Town. “More than 500 Lumbee...

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The Geological Sublime

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The Art of Roland-Garros. Each year since 1980, the French Open has...

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What Were Federal Agents Doing at a Puerto Rican Museum in Chicago?

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Required Reading

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Shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 Competition

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