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How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven Easy Steps). “The...

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A Warts-and-All Biography of the Man Behind the Barnes Collection

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Required Reading

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The Black Hole That Could Rewrite Cosmology. Astronomers may have found a...

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A View From the Easel

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Former NBA star Reggie Miller’s neighbors got him hooked on mountain biking....

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Pratt Manhattan Gallery Celebrates the Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois

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Institut Valencià d’Art Modern Begins New Phase Based on Sustainability, Heritage, and Territory

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The Music of the Everyday

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Zackery Died After Climbing on Top of a Subway Train. Who Is to Blame?

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Frankenstein’s Sheep

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Zadie Smith: “In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind...

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The Hummingbird Bike

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New issue of Laura Olin’s newsletter, full of good stuff. “I had...

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Frédéric Demeuse’s Photos Foreground the Essential Beauty of Ancient Forests

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Two Slice is a bitmappy font that’s only two pixels tall and...

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Fantastic essay by Roxane Gay: Civility Is a Fantasy. “Calling for civility...

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Gilded predator: a digital reconstruction

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Uncanny Testimony

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Record everything!

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Chasing the snipe

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A Tour of the New David Bowie Archive Featuring 90,000 Artifacts from His Life & Career

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The Gilded Age: A Free Historical Documentary That Helps Make Sense of Our Own Fraught Times

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Our Enduring Fascination With Ancient Roman Baths

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Israeli Artists Urge Judy Chicago to Withdraw Tel Aviv Exhibition

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Remembering the Pigment Shop That Taught Me How to See

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Steamed Hams but It’s a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film. The classic Simpsons...

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A Caribbean Garden in the Middle of Berlin

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Eric-Paul Riege Reconfigures the Monument

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The Trailblazing Pueblo Potter Who Forged Her Own Path

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Generative Design

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The Paradoxical Promise of Postwar Liberation

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Why Do Wind Turbines Have Three Blades? Why not two? Or five?...

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The Human Stain Remover: What Britain’s Greatest Extreme Cleaner Learned From 25 Years on the Job

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Glimpse Spectacularly Tiny Worlds in Winning Videos from Nikon’s Small World In Motion Competition

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Huntington’s disease successfully treated for first time. “An emotional research team became...

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International Contemporary Ensemble Performs Jennie C. Jones at The Met

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Asia NOW Returns to the Monnaie de Paris for Its 11th Edition

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Grow as an Artist Without Pressing Pause: SVA’s Online MFA Art Practice

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Hybrid ASCII Art

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Historian Thomas Zimmer has left academia, Substack, and the US; now he’s...

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Using Cesium-137 testing to find counterfeit wine. “Cesium-137 did not exist on...

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Beau Miles’ Marathon, Single-Day Planting Project Sprouts a New Forest in an Australian Field

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When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer

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Is the New York Times finally getting real about Trump? “In the...

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Everyone Was Wrong About Maximum Siphon Height

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In Jimmy Kimmel’s words: What the late-night host said upon his return...

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McSweeney’s didn’t even need to lampoon Trump’s comments about vaccines, autism, &...

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Vernacular Architecture and Mossy Trees Fill Michael Davydov’s Tiny Worlds

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The ethical dilemma of deathbed wishes

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