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Death by a Thousand Dams

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jasper Craven

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Paris Students Shut Down the Louvre

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How intuitions work

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Thieves’ cant slang

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Doctor Who’s Tom Baker Plays Douglas Adams’ Digital “Agent” in the AI-Predicting Hyperland (1990)

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Hear How Clare Torry’s Vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” Made the Song Go from Pretty Good to Downright Great

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Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

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Art Books on Needles and Threads

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NPR’s Planet Money recently did a show on tariff refunds...

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Hundreds Protest in Colombia After Far-Right President Removes Works From National Museum

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Do you believe in life after death? This is a great...

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Gowanus Open Studios Turns 30

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Beer With a Painter: Melissa Brown

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David Reed Went Where Lichtenstein Wouldn’t

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Rithika Merchant Summons Ancient Mythology and Mysticism in ‘The Dreaming Realm’

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A Tiny 24 FPS E-Ink Game Boy Emulator

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A 24-minute video tour of the Krasner and Pollock: Past...

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Let’s Give a Round of A-Paws to These Tompkins Dog Parade Participants

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Towers of Babble is a game that mashes up word games and...

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Hyperland, a Prescient 1990 TV Show by Douglas Adams

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Paris Students Block Louvre Entrance, Forcing Closure

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Rosana Paulino Reads the Archive Against Those Who Made It

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In ‘Aeolus,’ DRIFT Suspends Illuminated Glass Rods in a Sculpture of the Wind

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This Iranian Documentary Wasn’t Meant to Begin This Way

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Lane 8 has released his Fall 2026 Mixtape, 4 hours,...

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Diasporican Abstraction: A Cross-Border Cartography of Puerto Rican Abstraction

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Won’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from...

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Smiles Meyer Queers “The Last Supper”

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Feeding the Revolution

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Consequence of Donald Trump

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Come Face-to-Face with the Lion Nebula in the James Webb Space Telescope’s Portrait

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When Relationships Change: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing the Intermittency and Mutability of Love

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The Doxing of Jane Doe

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A vocabulary for the future: nature

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The Buffalo Haunts America

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Horrible, unmanly, indispensable

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Two commuting hacks

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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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