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The Dark Story Behind Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Famous Photograph, Taken Four Days After a Laudanum Overdose

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When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975)

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How to Unself in Order to Be Who You Really Are

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20 Truths about Life from 20 Years of The Marginalian: A Ceramics and Lichen Raffle

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Anticipating confusion

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Celebrating 20 Years of The Marginalian and the Search for Meaning: Free Livestream This Friday

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Bloom: A Touching Animated Short Film about Depression and What It Takes to Recover the Light of Being

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The Map to the Route of Your Life

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The Single Most Effective Remedy for Despair: Advice from T.H. White’s Merlyn

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Diaries of a Primitive Man

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The race to the bottom feels inevitable…

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The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream

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Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black...

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Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out....

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Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Truth About America

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Artavazd Pelechian’s Distant Connections

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Tanya Merrill's Animal Instinct

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Chromatic Inkscapes

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This Ron DeSantis Statue Can’t Take the Heat

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The Other Significant Others: Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom

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Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness

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Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s...

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Roooobot. Huuuuuman.

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Faith and Its Contradictions in “9 Temples to Heaven”

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Massive King Ramses II Statues Unearthed in Egypt

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The trailer for Blade Runner 2099, a new limited series...

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Going 94 MPH on a Skateboard (New World Record)

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A View From the Easel: Allan Wexler

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I played (not) solitaire for more hands than I would care...

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Robin F. Williams Suspends the Allure and Horror of Technology in an Endless Loop

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Good headline: Nine Inch Snails.

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Tishomingo Burn Ban

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The “Renegade Housewife” of Pop Art

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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The School of Art at the University of Arkansas Offers Tuition-Free Graduate Programs

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How to be a (Roman) man

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A good worker

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How Vincent van Gogh’s Sister-in-Law Worked Tirelessly to Make Him Famous

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How to Hold Your Helplessness: Nobel Laureate Bertrand Russell’s Salve for the Anxiety of Overwhelm

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Danh Vo and Sandra Mujinga Selected for Met Museum Commissions

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12 Must-Read Books on Textiles and Fiber Art

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Beautiful Seamless Ride

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WPA Murals at Harlem Hospital Restored to Their Original Glory

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The 98-Year-Old Pop Art Queen Behind an Iconic Lichtenstein Billboard

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Is the camera shutter noise the last skeuomorphic element...

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Ah, the Many Smells of Frieze London

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Valerio Adami’s Hot and Cold Art

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Rembrandt’s Ancient Obsessions Are Made Anew in Upcoming Met Exhibition

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How Hunting Owls Use Sound to “See” Under the Snow

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