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Happy Holidays, New York!

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The Case for a Public Social Media Platform. “What if the United...

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Hyperallergic’s Art Tarotscope for the Winter Solstice

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If Stayin’ Alive Had Been Written in 16th Century

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Finland uses a progressive scale for speeding tickets; the fine amount is...

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How to Live Fully: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Remedy for Our Resistance to Change

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Meticulously Sculpted Books by Brian Dettmer Explore the Inner Workings of Information

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Top 10 Alternative Christmas Movie Lists: Horror, Action, Comedy & More

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Tragedy Struck Composer Irving Berlin on Christmas Day. Years Later, He Would Write One of the All-Time Holiday Classics

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The Dead Mall Society

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Banksy’s Heartbreaking Christmas Mural

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Random access

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The Life and Work of Afrobeat Creator Fela Kuti Explored by Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad

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From Sight & Sound, a list of the best video essays of...

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The Egalitarian Vision of Nativity Scenes

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Banksy’s Latest Mural Is a Heartbreaking Christmastime Message

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200,000 Years Of Human History In One Hour

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The Messy Family Drama of Ancient Egyptian Gods

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Why Japan’s internet looks weird — unless you live here. “Japanese customers...

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White House Renews Threats to Smithsonian Institution

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Underneath a Breaching Humpback Whale

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American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student. “Kids say...

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British Museum Launches Farcical “Decolonizing” Loan Program

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Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey

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Artists Embrace an Affordable and Ubiquitous Material in ‘Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities’

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Runaway supermassive black hole? Did not know this could be a thing....

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After a Century, the Rockettes Are Still Kicking Their Way Into American Hearts

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A full archive of The Hairpin (iykyk)....

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A ‘Hybrid Habitat’ By Guto Requena Gives New Meaning to ‘Urban Jungle’ in São Paolo

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What Pompeii Looked Like Hours Before Its Destruction: A Reconstruction

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‘Surreal Salon 18,’ Curated by Swoon, to Open at Baton Rouge Gallery with 60+ Artists

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Voices of Russia

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A Letter to Mamdani

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The Last Good Thing

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Are doctors replaceable?

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The Spiderman inversion

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Langston Hughes’ Homemade Christmas Cards From 1950

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Timing your overnight success

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If Birds Ran the World

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Best Art in Worst of Times

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“Use your best judgment”

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Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Christmas

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“The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and...

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Dear Zohran, Don’t Let Art Workers Down

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On reading Proust vs experiencing the world intermediated by screens (even when...

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If you want to see the future of clean energy, you have...

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Inkblot Books via the Public Domain Review. These pre-date use of the...

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Trump-Appointed NEA Chair Returns for Second Term

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“Victims of Communism” Monument Altered Over Reported Nazi Ties

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Medieval Psalms Were Not For Everyone

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