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Discover Gadsby: The 50,000-Word Novel Written Without Using the Letter E (1939)

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Between the User and the Used

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“What caught my eye as a designer, as with most...

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The Unbearable Strangeness of Being

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Really interesting piece from Jodi Ettenberg about...

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The Museum Breathing Life Into New York's Downtown Performance Scene

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Peep the Wildest Costumes of This Year’s Easter Bonnet Parade

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A Dedicated Ruth Asawa Space Is Coming to San Francisco

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The Astor Place Riots of 1849 resulted in “the...

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50 Years of Chicano Photography

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LA Artists Honor Dolores Huerta’s Defiant Spirit

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Dutch Museum Discovers 8-Inch Ancient Roman Phallus

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Transcription by Ben Lerner

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Hallucinated Citations Are Polluting the Scientific Literature. What Can Be Done?

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A visual history of exploring the far side of the Moon ....

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12,000 Years Ago, Native Americans Were Playing Games of Chance with Handmade Dice

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Livestream: Artemis II is about to fly around the Moon ....

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New vocabulary word: “RAM harvester” . RAM...

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Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace

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The Death of a Superman

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Missed this last week: Lane 8 dropped their Spring 2026...

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Pattern Index, Max Cooper

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7 Artists We’re Excited to See at EXPO CHICAGO 2026

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Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds

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Lessons from fighting cancer that apply to resisting...

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“The promise of the open web was colonized by...

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Hillary Waters Fayle Creates ‘Portraits of Place’ from Seeds, Foliage, and Petals

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Louisiana, Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, and...

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See the Spectacular Winners of Smithsonian Magazine’s 23rd Annual Photography Contest

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Is AI already conscious?

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Art and Springtime in Upstate NY

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The antibiotic trap

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Kinder than necessary

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Watch 434 Avant-Garde and Surreal Short Films Online: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Luis Buñuel and Many More

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How a Clean, Tidy Home Can Help You Survive the Atomic Bomb: A Cold War Film from 1954

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Sentinels of the Soul: Kahlil Gibran’s Moving Letter to a Soldier in a Senseless War

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Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Gifted from Living Up to Their Gift

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Relationship Rupture and the Limbic System: The Physiology of Abandonment and Separation

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Plumbed

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Any Common Desolation

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The Art of Befriending Time and Change: Debbie Millman’s Illustrated Love Letter to Gardening as a Portal to Self-discovery

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The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales

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The Pattern Inside the Pattern: Fractals, the Hidden Order Beneath Chaos, and the Story of the Refugee Who Revolutionized the Mathematics of Reality

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Salvador Dalí’s Sublime Faith

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Where do bad choices come from?

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Wherever You Think There Is Nothing

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Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, and His Reading List of Essential Books for Aspiring Writers

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Salvador Dalí’s Frustrating Vision of the Divine

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Leah Ki Yi Zheng’s Personal I Ching

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Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s Personal I Ching

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