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Winners of the 2026 Photomicrography Competition

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Dark Forestry. “What defense against this onslaught of...

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When Idaho Banned Abortion, OB-GYNs Fled. The Doctors Who Stayed Are Cracking.

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A trip to upside-down world

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The People Against the Arch

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Equality talk

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Restrictive design

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Explore the Reading List for Harvard’s Humanities 10: The “Brutal” Humanities Class That’s Suddenly in High Demand

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“Don’t Try”: Charles Bukowski’s Concise Philosophy of Art and Life

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The Divorce Tapes (gift link). “The only music she...

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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, and with Fangs: The Alchemy of Unrequited Love and the Story Behind Emily Dickinson’s Most Famous Poem

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Wendell Berry on Where Our Loved Ones Gone Go

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Ambiguity or clarity?

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How to Harness Your Existential Wanderlust

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Albert Camus on Stubbornness and Creativity

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Please Don’t Sit on the Flowers

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Start

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The Jewish Sisters in Renoir’s “Pink and Blue”

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They found a chunk of Mars in the Sahara Desert. A recent...

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Pablo Helguera to Helm the New School’s Vera List Center

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The Match Archive

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An analysis of 59 studies (including a 24-year Danish...

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Abstract Wool Compositions Cascade from Weathered Metal in Amine El Gotaibi’s Sculptures

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The Relationship Between Comedy, Democracy, and AI

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“Are sperm counts declining? Are microplastics and...

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Meg Onli and Zack Winokur to Curate 2028 Whitney Biennial

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DC Protesters Slam Trump's Fascist Triumphal Arch

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We Have Star Wars at Home

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Arkivism Is an Accessible Antidote to AI with 4 Million+ Public Domain Images

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From filmmaker Kevin B. Lee, a story about seeing Platoon...

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Jordan Poorman Cocker’s Vision of Global Indigeneity

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A call for more “mindful underparenting” from...

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A View From the Easel: Natali Bravo-Barbee

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Intermedia + Digital Arts MFA Program at UMBC Now Accepting Applications

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What Else Could It Mean? A Book Surveys the Playful, Iconoclastic Works of James Wines

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Marianne Moore on the Three Elements of Persuasive Writing

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KDO Search Now Available to Everyone

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Bain Capital Acquires Tibetan Buddhism For $35 Million....

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The Art of Letting Go

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Met Gala’s New Theme Is So Basic

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Celestial nuisance

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Reviewing the game tapes

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

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Was Homer’s Ithaca Really an Island?: New Research Challenges a 2,000-Year-Old Assumption

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Anthropic has new rules for its Opus 5.5 model to “steer...

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And in other news, the NY Times is trying to buy...

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Salon, one of the last OG general interest web...

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Rosa Parks on To Tell the Truth

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It’s Time to Talk About Classism in the Art World

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Video captured by Amy Yolland of three humpback whales...

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