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Tom Gauld (and Richard Scarry) on cars of the future....

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Hokusai’s The Great Wave Now on Display at the Art Institute of Chicago

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The Open Book in Wigtown, Scotland is a rental place (available on...

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“Harris and Walz, intentionally or not, are projecting something different: a sitcom...

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I know some of you are K-12 educators — the excellent The...

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Big Hockey Players, Itty-Bitty Rink

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“Dark energy, which most physicists have long held to be unchanging, may...

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Elite athletes are using a new baking soda formulation to boost athletic...

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The Harris campaign posted a TikTok of Donald Trump talking about his...

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Detailed Miniature “Sculptures of Urban Decay”

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An introduction to the latest iteration of Dynamicland’s Realtalk, a prototype of...

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Cars Have Fucked Up This Country Bad. “On average, America is an...

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A working thumper from Dune built out of Lego. (Working as in...

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Einstein’s Nuclear Warning Letter to FDR Up For Auction

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This is a website you can only visit once. (I mean, technically...

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Crash Course Art History, a playlist of 22 episodes with topics like...

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Goodbye for Now! And a Diary Comic

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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens....

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Lies by scientists can kill people — falsified research on beta blockers...

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I Never Expected To Run For Office — Here’s What I Learned....

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Lane 8 Season Mixtapes

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100 tiny tricks for sorting out your life. I did this one...

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The Banned Somersault Long Jump

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Useful Time Travel Is Impossible. But Fun to Think About.

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Realized I often use “Forgetful Jones” when describing my tendency to forget...

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A new scientific analysis suggests that the Altar Stone at Stonehenge (weighing...

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If you (or someone you know) has hiked the Appalachian Trail since...

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Different Kinds of Human Operating Systems

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“Tim Walz has tonic masculinity. Confident. Decent. The kind of man who…would...

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The last coal-fired power station in the UK will close down on...

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David Attenborough on Cybertruck behavior. “Here we see the Cybertruck has formed...

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The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time

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A Navajo Weaving of an Intel Pentium Processor

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Atul Gawande: Tuberculosis is still the world’s #1 infectious disease killer (1+...

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New School Year Drop-Off and Pick-Up Rules. “Approach the White Zone at...

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America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny. “Few things...

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The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (Sylvan Esso Remix)

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Even if autonomous vehicles work perfectly, they will likely not decrease emissions...

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Why TV Is Wrong for Tolkien

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I’d missed that Ray Nayler, author of the excellent The Mountain in...

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Is My Blue Your Blue? A visual perception test that judges what...

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Colossal, one of my all-time favorite sites on these here interwebs, has...

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Can AI Make Art?

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What are we going to do with abundant, free, renewable energy? “[By...

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The Secret Message Contained in One Million Checkboxes

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RIP to journalist, author, and huge Deadhead Steve Silberman. His wish when...

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Taking Some Time

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Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir

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Edith Zimmerman: “My main thing is trying to figure out who I...

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What We Learned In Our First Year of 404 Media. “We are...

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