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From late January, a 40-minute talk by Rick Steves on...

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Timothy Snyder on strongmen . “Once you accept...

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De La Soul’s Tiny Desk Concert

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The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit

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TIL about babysitting co-ops . “The premise is...

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The KDO Rolodex Is Now a Wee Feed Reader?

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Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Acquires Original...

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TIL about burping your house , aka lüften (in Germany),...

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Color Photos of Rome (c. 1890s)

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Steve Jobs famously said that computers are a bicycle...

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LLMs are getting pretty good at unmasking pseudonymous...

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“ Imagine what it was like for women in colonial...

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HyperCard Changed Everything

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Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz. “Is...

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Takashi Murakami Remixes Monet

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Remember the “scroll lock” key on your...

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New Rembrandt Painting Discovered

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Can You Draw All 50 States From Memory?

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Recent advances in science have revolutionized our...

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“ Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with...

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When lit up at night, this badminton academy in...

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“Supercharged” solar activity and the equinox...

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Nine Inch Nails Releases Tron: Ares Remix Album

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“ A long dive into the features that make my ideal...

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This is the most 2026 thing I’ve ever heard:...

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A Boston man discovered a document passed down through...

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Lumière, Le Cinema!

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Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi proposes sending a tiny...

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“ Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of...

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Why Attack Iran?

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“For months, callers to the Washington state...

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A 2-hour mix of music compiled by Thom Yorke that plays...

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The Candy Factory

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Do people still worship the ancient Greek gods?...

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Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer ....

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Marks found on 40,000-year-old artifacts might be a...

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The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can

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Pope Leo XIV to his priests: stop using AI to write...

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Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate...

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The NY Times has added another daily crossword to the...

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Satellite’s Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse Photo Taken From Orbit

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“ Eclipses have been connected with the fate of...

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Calculating the longest line of sight on Earth : 530km...

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“ x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86...

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Ali Akbar, the last newspaper hawker in Paris, has been...

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Elizebeth Smith Friedman: The Codebreaker

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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account ....

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Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers (free...

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An Archive of Commercial Illustration (c. 1950-75)

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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The...

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