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How a 13th-Century Monk Created a Prayer Manuscript by Writing Over—and Accidentally Preserving—Archimedes’ Groundbreaking Mathematical Works

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Eager to give up agency

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Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek

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Kindness Over Fear: Naomi Shihab Nye Tells the Remarkable Real-Life Story That Inspired Her Beloved Poem “Kindness”

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On the experience of the long haul flight . “The...

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“ The Booker Prize 2026 longlist has now been...

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Man Arrested in Broad Daylight Theft of 2,500-Year-Old Gold Torque From French Museum

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Please Use AI . “Be sure to use AI when planning that...

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Lucy Sparrow Invokes ’90s Supermarket Nostalgia in ‘The Beginning of Convenience’

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The Queer Surrealists Who Fought Nazis With Paper Bullets

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Historic Japanese Castle Damaged in 7.1-Magnitude Earthquake

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Walter Benjamin Warned Us About AI

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Where Do European Country Names Come From?

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Art Problems: Why Are There So Many Toxic People in the Art World?

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Curtis Sliwa and Massive Hot Dog in Times Square

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30 notable sales of rare books by AbeBooks over the past...

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19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Creatively...

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The Return of the Monarch

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Photobook Publisher Steidl in Dire Straits After Threat of Bankruptcy

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Looking for History: MoCA\CT's New Exhibition Explores Memory, Landscape, and the American Story

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All US Cities Which Used to Have More Than 100,000 People But Don’t Anymore

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How the Words We Teach English Language Learners...

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Nature or Culture? Europeans Can Vote on the New Banknote Design

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Don’t use AI until you’re 40 . “We have been so...

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“Spaceballs: The Clickbait”—Inside the Return of Rick Moranis at Comic-Con

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Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief

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Betye Saar Dies at 99

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The light narrows

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Kimon de Greef

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The smush

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What Miles Davis Taught Herbie Hancock: In Music, as in Life, There Are No Mistakes, Just Chances to Improvise

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Christopher Hitchens Explains Why Homer’s Odyssey Still Matters to Our World (2000)

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The Bird in You, the World in You, and the Art of Trusting Time: A Ceramics and Serpentine Raffle

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Betye Saar, Who Opened Portals Between Worlds, Dies at 99

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Smithsonian Hearing's Most Bizarre Moments Ranked by Tier

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We Used to Be Able to Buy Things in This Country ....

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Tell Us, O Muse, of Elon Musk's Racist AI Version of "The Odyssey"

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The Smithsonian Is Not the President's Museum

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‘Colorstruck!’ Examines the Connection Between Race and Chromatic Expression

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Trump Orders Installation of Warning Signs Outside Smithsonian Museum

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A Shortlist of Potential Future Euro Banknote Designs

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“ Datatype is an OpenType variable font that turns...

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The Batman Effect : people in an experiment acted more...

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Europeans Vote on New Leonardo da Vinci Banknote Design

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Her Rape Kit Had a DNA Match. In San Francisco, That’s Not Enough.

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Once Upon a Time in Space

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Benjamin Moser on Frederic Edwin Church

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An Exhibition Lets Self-Taught Artists Speak for Themselves

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An Uncomplicated Man , Emily Wilson’s review of Nolan’s...

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Dynamic Scenes Emerge from Fumiaki Aono’s Wooden Assemblages

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