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Marcus Aurelius on the Good Luck of Your Bad Luck

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Go Fast, Turn Left: The Anderson Speedway & Indiana’s Data Centers

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“I Play the Field; I Read Around.”

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The Gospel According to Paul Pfeiffer

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Love with nowhere to go

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The half-life of disappointment

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How Balzac’s Extreme Coffee Habit Fueled His Productive Writing Routine

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A Soviet Animation of Stephen King’s Short Story “Battleground” (1986)

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Harry Kane is this year’s men’s winner of the Ballon...

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Lula Victory Memes That Make Us All Want to Be Brazilian

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A poignant short documentary about a mother who only...

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At 60, a Legendary LA Print Workshop Still Urges Us to Pay Attention

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From Charles Mann, a quick history of porcelain, which is...

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Russian and East European Posters

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Paul Pfeiffer on the Spectacle of Politics

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Nathan Fielder Is a Performance Artist in Disguise

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Giant Ofrenda Arrives in Manhattan Ahead of Día de Muertos

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Mamdani Votes Early at The Met. What Other NYC Museums Are Polling Sites?

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Ten of the most bizarre films and their posters, as...

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Dreamy Digital Illustrations by Rebecca Zwanzig Tap into Art History and Nostalgia

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You Finally Got a Wikipedia Page. Then It Vanished.

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The Lucrative World of Literary Scams

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John Dilg’s Down-to-Earth Reverence

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How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American...

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NASA’s Perseverance Sets Off-World Record for Total Distance Driven

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Bob Dylan on the Unconscious Mind and the Ideal Conditions for Creative Work

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Walt Whitman’s Advice on Living a Vibrant and Rewarding Life

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The Artist Who Dined Among Lions

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Simon Willison: “Battle Drones is heavily vibe coded —...

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Scott Kahn Invokes Dreams and Liminality in Atmospheric Landscape Paintings

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This exhibition of ukiyo-e (woodblock prints) by Utagawa...

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Winners of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026

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Wish You Were Here! Rose Sanderson’s Witty Postcards Conjure a Strange Reality

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Benchma(r)king

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How to Install an App on Your Commodore 64. “Oh, don’t...

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Vocal Accords

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Great art explained: Tamara in the green Bugatti

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How to build real peace

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From Paris, In Solidarity

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Is our attitude up to us?

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Harry Houdini Died 100 Years Ago This Halloween: Was He Really Killed by a Punch to the Stomach?

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Hear an Hour of the Jazzy Background Music from the Original 1967 Spider-Man Cartoon

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20 Favorite Children’s Books from 20 Years of The Marginalian

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The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds: Margaret Wise Brown’s Lost Masterpiece about Mortality and the Meaning of Life, Newly Illustrated

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The Tiny Computers app lets you play with old computers...

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Hospitality in the mirror

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20 Favorite Books from 20 Years of The Marginalian

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The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Timeless Tenets of Critical Thinking

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Artists Take to the Streets Amid Massive Protests in France

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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life

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