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How the Silk Road Actually Worked (and What Could Go Terribly Wrong On It)

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How Martin Luther King, Jr. Used Nietzsche, Hegel & Kant to Overturn Segregation in America

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The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found , a piece...

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Seneca on True and False Friendship

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The Moving Story of the Dawn Redwood: How a Fossil Came Back to Life to Bring Humanity Together in the Middle of Our Deadliest War

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The Fascinating Science of How We Think Not with the Brain But with the World

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When does it become a speech?

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How to Be a Good Explorer on the Lifelong Expedition to Yourself

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The Battle of New York

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The daily review

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A Beginning, Not a Decline: Colette on the Splendor of Autumn and the Autumn of Life

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The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

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Standing in the Shadow of No Towers

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Brooklyn, Say Hello to Your First Craft Supply Library

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Why Leaves Change Color and How We Become Who We Are: The Science of Chlorophyll and the Poetics of Personhood

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15 Fall Art -Ennials, From St. Louis to Dakar

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School of Visual Arts Ends Photography MFA Program

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Symmetry and Biomorphic Forms Characterize Roberta Gentry’s Sensual Paintings

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Joel-Peter Witkin’s God-Loving, Gender-Bending Art

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Neat little prototype demo of a Bluesky reader that...

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A View From the Easel

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Sara Anstis’ Soft Pastels Summon Mythology, Dreams, and the Renaissance

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A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in...

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University of Michigan’s Fully Funded MFA Program Combines Studio Art and Research

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Pope.L Invites Us to Think Through the American Dream

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UCR ARTS Presents Dispatches: The Photography of Douglas McCulloh, 1990–2025

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Excavating Craft Histories Through Archives

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UK AIDS Memorial Quilt to Come Home to Scotland

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Biiiiig Stretch

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“In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at...

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Say Hello to PÉPET, a Pear-Shaped, Palm-Size Paper Pal

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Artists Reflect on 25 Years Since 9/11

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Penchants of the polymaths

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Solace

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Scientists Discover the Earliest Evidence of Drug Use in 25,000-Year-Old Teeth

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“Evil Mickey Mouse” Invades Japan in a 1934 Japanese Anime Propaganda Film

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The Unspeakable World: Alan Watts on How to Touch the Pulse of Life

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VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer...

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The Simpsons Switcheroo

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“ Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of...

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Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by...

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Gloria Steinem’s final essay , posthumously published by...

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TIL that my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in i t (for...

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Artists Reflect on 9/11 and the Wounds of the “War on Terror”

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Teaser trailer for Musk , a 3h45m-long documentary film...

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Kathleen V. Jameson Named Speed Museum Director

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Albert Camus on the Source of Strength and How to Save Our Sanity in Trying Times

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Brooklyn Museum Displays Work of Artist Killed in 9/11 on 25th Anniversary

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A Portrait of an Artist as a Dominatrix

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