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Cheese Please! Send Your Emails with a Side of Swiss

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Is It Time to Move On From Dr. Seuss? “Isn’t 65 years...

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Erasure of Rainbow Memorial for Pulse Shooting Victims Raises Alarm in Florida

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Cognitive resistance training is the defense against slop and brainrot. “Every hard...

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Maria Nepomuceno’s Mixed-Media Sculptures Writhe with Ancient Symbolism

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The Hand-Painted Storefront Signs of Detroit by Ron Miller

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John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America. “The...

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Israel Says It Killed a Hamas Commander. It Killed a Pulitzer-Winning Journalist....

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Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Reality is evil

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Centering

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Gustave Doré’s Haunting Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy

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Did Paul McCartney Really Die in 1966? How the Biggest Beatles Conspiracy Theory Spread

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Daniel Day-Lewis stopped acting in 2017 after Phantom Thread. He’s unretired to...

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Trump Targets LGBTQ+ History, Migrants, and More in Chilling Smithsonian Hit List

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Much Ado About Vibe Coding

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The Mesmerizing Wonder of Wabanaki Weaving

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Required Reading

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I love stats like this: LeBron James has played against 35% of...

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Orcas and the Price of Consciousness: Lessons in Love and Loss from Earth’s Most Successful and Creative Predator

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Who Killed the Mercy Man?

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Months After LA Fires, Altadena’s Black History Endures

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Lawsuit Condemns Pro-Slavery Message in North Carolina Monument

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I Made a Floppy Disk from Scratch

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A View From the Easel

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Archaeologists Uncover “Extraordinary” 3,000-Year-Old Mural in Peru

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Lauren Groff: “In mid-April, I flew to Japan because I’d become obsessed...

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AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It’s Already Arrived

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NIN’s Closer & the Ghostbusters Theme, Together at Last!

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Six Acclaimed Artists Interpret Ecology and the Landscape for ‘Ground/work 2025’

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This is cool: Internet-in-a-Box. “Up to 32 users who are within about...

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An incomplete list of things Jane Austen disliked, including “people who pretend...

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Architecture Converges with the Human Form in Antony Gormley’s ‘Body Buildings’

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How NASA’s Juno probe changed everything we know about Jupiter. And also:...

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Yoyo Elevated to Performance Art

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Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies (ProPublica). “Food and...

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The Great French Fry Mystery

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In Milwaukee, Four Artists Unravel Trauma to Move Toward Collective Wellness

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David Garry accidentally bought over 10K Greg Briley baseball cards. “The cards...

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Ntaria

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Authenticate thyself

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Your Face Tomorrow

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The violinist problem

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The Ancient Roman Dodecahedron: The Mysterious Object That Has Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries

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Hear Joey Ramone Sing a Piece by John Cage Adapted from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake

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Rewilding the Human Spirit in the Age of Moral Colonialism: Brian Eno on Carnival as a Model for Saving Culture

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Notes from a Burner Phone 101 workshop. Participants learned about “phone-related risk...

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“You do not need the strongest powers of observation to see that...

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Did This 19th-Century Painting Inspire Taylor Swift’s New Album Art?

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