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A Year in Reading: Restraint as Wisdom

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Göbekli Tepe: The 12,000-Year-Old Ruins That Rewrite the Story of Civilization

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How Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Are Made

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The Memes That Defined 2025

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Art Movements: Big Museum News

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MacKenzie Scott announces that she’s donated almost $7.2 billion of her personal...

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A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs

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This $1M Picasso Could Be Yours for Just $117

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Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Wisdom for Inspiration and Healing from the...

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Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary. In the narration, he calls the...

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Taxes for Humans: A Radical Reimagining of Financial Empowerment

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Jeff Wall’s Post-Truth Photography

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Photographing the Andromeda Galaxy for 10 Seconds vs 10 Hours

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Funniest McSweeney’s piece I’ve read in awhile: The Mastermind Box Cover: What...

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Coreen Simpson’s Timeless Ode to Black Beauty

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90 Minutes of Knitting ASMR

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Medieval Motifs and Pop Culture Converge in Jorge Mañes Rubio’s Beaded Sculptures

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A View From the Easel

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Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend...

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Thread: What was typography like in the Soviet Union? “They did not...

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Inside the Deadliest Immigration-Related Disaster in US History

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Being in the world: from Plato to Heidegger

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Art Books We Loved in 2025

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Can machines suffer?

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Download 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli

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A Year in Reading: Inward Journeys

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The Earliest Known Customer Complaint Was Made 3,800 Years Ago: Read the Rant on an Ancient Babylonian Tablet

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Hundreds Rally Against Sweeping Cuts at New School

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New evidence suggests that Neanderthals were making fire in the UK 400,000...

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Beatitude: Poet John Keene’s Spell Against Despair

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Our Favorite Art Books of 2025

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Victorian-Era Mourning Objects From the V&A’s Collection

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Remembering Frank Gehry, Martin Parr, and Mel Leipzig

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Luminous Paintings Conjure Change in Shuo Hao’s Antique Furniture Assemblages

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The 10 Best Paris Art Shows of 2025

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The trailer for It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, a documentary film about...

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In Maureen McCabe's Art, the Medium Is the Message

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Timothy Snyder: “What comes next? For the Nazis, the deportation and the...

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Size of Life, a visual comparison of living things from DNA to...

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Liz Collins Explodes Cliches About Crafts

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