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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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A poet on Mars

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Fermi’s Law

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The Making of a Perfect Martini

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The Surprising Power of Boredom: It Lets You Confront Big Questions & Give Life Meaning

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Go Computer Now! – The Story of Sphere Computers. “If things had...

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Luis Mendo is self-publishing a book about his life as a writer/artist...

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My first adventure of the day is going to the Shunkaen Bonsai...

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I’m hoping to post some of my photos from Japan here when...

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I stopped into the MEGA Donki (Don Quijote) in Shibuya last night...

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Conrad Bakker Recreated All 1,100+ Books in Pioneering Land Artist Robert Smithson’s Personal Library

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School Nixes Exhibition Criticized by Turning Point USA

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Remembering D’Angelo: The Eternal Spell of ‘Voodoo’

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The Whitney’s Surrealism Show Is a Mindfuck

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Artists Nationwide Unite Against the Trump Administration

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Altman Siegel Gallery to Close Next Month

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Ancient Rock Art Rewrites the Arabian Desert’s History

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Required Reading

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A View From the Easel

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Five DC Exhibitions You Can See Despite the Government Shutdown

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The Secret Life of Horus

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Textile Futures: Register for the Virtual Cotsen Textile Traces Global Roundtable

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Skirball Cultural Center Presents Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston

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Holy Essence

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Dive into the Painstaking Process of Restoring an 18th-Century Fan

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I Feel, Therefore I Understand: Humboldt on the Essence of Science and How to Read the Poetry of Nature

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He Supported the US War in Afghanistan. Now He May Be Deported to the Taliban.

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An iconic Philly skate locale, Love Park, was demolished in 2016 —...

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The Freedom of Enough

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The 39 coolest neighbourhoods in the world in 2025, including Jimbōchō, Tokyo;...

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POP Phone: a USB-C handset that you plug into your phone for...

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The Space Exploration Logo Archive

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Don’t Touch That Dial!

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Stan Squirewell’s Mixed-Media Collages Imbue Anonymous Historical Photos with Panache

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Listening to whales

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The explosion of choice

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Significant digits

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The Genius Engineering of Roman Aqueducts

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The Night When Bob Dylan Went Electric: Watch Him Play “Maggie’s Farm” at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965

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“‘Take on Me’ is an ideal song for Song Exploder, because it’s...

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65 Essential Children’s Books, from The Story of Ferdinand and Caps for...

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Richard Feynman: Fire Is Stored Sunshine

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Where’s the AI design renaissance? “My hunch: vibe coding is a lot...

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A ‘Love Letter’ to the City, Humans of New York Takes Over Grand Central

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Sally Mann’s Polarizing Life in Art

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Edward Gorey Killed His Darlings

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Swifties Are Flocking to this German Museum

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Man Accused of Urinating on MLK Memorial

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Junk Food for the One Percent

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Indigenous Artists Reclaim The Met’s American Wing

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