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The Taco Bell 50k Ultramarathon was run in Denver over the weekend....

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I missed this from a couple of months ago: Inside the World...

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What Makes for a Healthy Society?

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“Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi won the 2025 Nobel Prize...

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Empty Nest? Or Open Door?

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How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World....

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In Praise of Comfort Films

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Tim Berners-Lee: “I gave the world wide web away for free because...

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Oh I don’t know, the appearance of two perfectly overlapping fiery rings...

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We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will...

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Keeping Up Appearances star Patricia Routledge dies at 96. I loved that...

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80 of the Most Iconic Guitar Intros

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Name A 28-Year-Old. “The data tells us that 3,880,894 children were born...

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I think I’m gonna read Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence next,...

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Harvard Library’s collection of Soviet and post-Soviet lapel pins. Sputnik, Aeroflot, the...

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Swift Justice: A Look Inside a Taliban Courtroom

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Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem, an interview with Ted Chiang...

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The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time, including, of course,...

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Instead of hiding rips and tears, the visible mending movement turns them...

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Old Masters, New Media

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When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in...

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A Chronology of All 113 Prints of Hokusai’s The Great Wave

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Are you ok? In a recent video, Hank Green tells his brother...

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Quentin Blake: How I Draw

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The official number of exoplanets tracked by NASA has reached 6000. Astronomers...

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Musician Plays the Last Stradivarius Guitar in the World, the “Sabionari” Made...

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A company called Blackdot has built a tattooing robot. The company says...

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Have I Earned It?

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A new kind of bone glue that “mimics how oysters stick to...

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25 years ago today, Radiohead released Kid A. This morning, I’m celebrating...

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“Scientists reflect on the life and work of [Jane Goodall], whose discoveries...

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Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters. “A bold,...

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Every Click

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The driest desert on Earth (non-polar category) is blooming in a gorgeous...

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From Haymarket Books, an Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police Reading List....

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A Loophole to Survive the End of the Universe?

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Anil Dash on Mariah Carey’s unreleased “Hole-inspired grunge album” called Someone’s Ugly...

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Which one of these paintings of a guitar player is by Johannes...

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The Age Of Innocence: Adaptation Done Right

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Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America. The manifestation of a Trump...

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Five More Things I Want to Tell My White Friends. “Please understand...

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I really appreciated this thoughtful piece about Ta-Nehisi Coates & Ezra Klein....

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12 Booker Prize 2025 nominees share their writing spots. “There are kitchen...

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Na Kim, in the Abstract

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This question from Ta-Nehisi Coates in his recent conversation with Ezra Klein...

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The Future Was Then: an Exhibition of Fascist Italian Posters

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How to actually live like a local. “The thing is, nobody ever...

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A long profile of Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the WWW. “Tim...

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Mister Rogers Visits Sesame Street (1981)

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