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Making Dark Chocolate Hilarious

Edward O. Wilson in 2009: “The real problem of humanity is the...

The Strange Afterlife of Hilma af Klint, Painting’s Posthumous Star. “As af...

The Fascinating History of Tarot Card Decks: From the Renaissance to the...

Mary Beard: Hollywood Lied to You About Ancient Rome. Here’s the Truth.

Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication. “City-dwelling raccoons seem to be...

Magnetikpunk: Playing Vintage Reel-to-Reel Tapes as Musical Instruments

The winners of the LIT Lighting Design Awards, encompassing the best work...

A Beloved Clothing Store Closed. A Customer Bought All 4,500 Items. “Ms....

Football Stadium Turned Community Garden

How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani. “Zohran has...

Stress Is an Ancient Superpower That Is Slowly Killing You

How to Photograph an Active Volcano Without Getting Vaporized. “It’s dangerous and...

Climate Change in America: Is It Too Late to Wake Up?

Clint Smith recently talked to students around the country about the “complexities...

Kevin Kelly shares some essential apps & services for independent travel in...

All the Cats, Explained

They’re making a live-action Legend of Zelda movie?...

The Sagrada Família has become the tallest church in the world, after...

A digital atlas of the Roman Empire’s entire road network (180,000+ miles)....

Skydiving the Sun

“A Personal Business is run by people who are truly into what...

Jett Brunet carves incredibly realistic duck decoys....

This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation. The fungi...

The Farmers’ Almanac, citing a “chaotic media environment”, will cease publication after...

This seems promising: researchers have demonstrated that a “nanoparticle-based vaccine can effectively...

After 230 years, the US Mint has ended production of new pennies....

The Northern Lights Put on a Show. “A powerful geomagnetic storm brought...

Put wings on your car. “We call it a private jet for...

Recently discovered 55-million-year-old crocodile eggshells perhaps belong to “drop crocs”, a species...

More women are riding the streets of Tehran on motorbikes, in violation...

Anton Kusters’ Photos of the Yakuza

A group of archaeologists has proposed “applying a model of how humans...

“The reason there are no weird blogs anymore is that it’s more...

22 Thanksgiving Main Dishes That Are Better Than Turkey. I’ve been trying...

Just as You Feared — Life in Zohran Mamdani’s New York. “Breakfast...

Operation Space Station

Meet the 2025 National Book Award Finalists. “Literary Hub caught up with...

A History of Japan

Mattias Krantz bought an octopus from the fish market and taught it...

The trailer for Train Dreams, a film adaptation of the novella by...

Jamelle Bouie: “I’m gonna make a case to you that no matter...

Jessica Guo: “If there’s something out there that calls to you, I...

The Age of Audio, a Documentary on the History of Podcasting

Fonts based on the type generated by the Epson MX-80 dot matrix...

For a More Creative Brain, Travel. “New sounds, smells, language, tastes, sensations,...

“China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months,...

High Horse: The Black Cowboy

Going to Art Galleries Can Improve Wellbeing. “Enjoying original works of art...

A zoomable, fully searchable archive of every single page of every single...