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The Cable that Changed the World: How Instant Global Communication Began in 1858

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Extraction or generation

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The Oldest Book Printed with Movable Type is Not The Gutenberg Bible: Jikji, a Collection of Korean Buddhist Teachings, Predated It By 78 Years and It’s Now Digitized Online

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David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire

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Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket....

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A Stormy Week of Art in NYC

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Kim Tschang-Yeul, Water Drops

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The death of web development education. “The income from...

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Four Artists Win MacArthur “Genius” Grants

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The Breathtaking Sight of Ancient Rome's Largest Surviving Wall Mosaic

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Brent Simmons on how using the stock Mac UI isn’t the...

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How Are Artists Affording Pet Care?

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Four Artists Exploring Sustainable Alternatives to Synthetic Art Supplies

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Unions Reach Tentative Agreements at Brooklyn Museum and American Folk Art Museum

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A Workforce of Creatures Chugs Along in Kate Renshaw-Lewis’ Hand-Drawn Film ‘Busy Bodies’

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Kehinde Wiley Requests to Buy Back Painting Removed by State Department

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What’s On Your To-Do List?

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Fantastical, Elemental Hybrids Persevere in Jon Ching’s Metaphysical Paintings

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The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris....

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How to Explain Complicated Things

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On commodified, automated intelligence. “If any of these...

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Niklas Roy Constructs a Functional Pendulum Clock Made Entirely of Trash

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C.S. Lewis on How to Structure the Days of a Creative Life and Train the Receptive Imagination

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Jean Shin Creates Her Own Anti-War Camouflage

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The MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt

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In the wake of her divorce, Curtis Sittenfeld revisits...

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You Should’ve Said Something

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Dusklands

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Whitney Museum Workers Declare Strike

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Lost and Found: A Reading List on Labyrinths, Mazes, and Wayfinding

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Don’t use the ‘C-word’

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What sort of fuel?

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Mick Jagger Tells the Story Behind ‘Gimme Shelter’ and Merry Clayton’s Haunting Background Vocals

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OpenAI isn’t going to release its newest model because...

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This American Life has a whole episode with Nikole...

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Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of...

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