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“Today, the only naked bodies that many Americans will likely ever see...

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Meet the Aphantasics, Those Who Can’t See Mental Images

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Activists are role-playing ICE raids in games like Fortnite & GTA to...

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The World Lost the Climate Gamble. Now It Faces a Dangerous New...

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The Bad UX World Cup 2025. “Build a date picker with bad...

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A Bright Light Has Gone Out

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My Pace

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Stigler’s law of eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original...

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The Librarians

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NASA’s Perseverance rover scooped up a rock that might prove there was...

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Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the...

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“Geothermal is underdeveloped, and its upfront costs can be high, but it’s...

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Rainy Day Jazz Vinyl Set. “Plenty of ballads, blues and heart-warming songs...

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Can You Drive West to Lengthen the Sunset?

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CDC officials confirm that the US is two months away from measles...

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The Saudification of America Is Under Way. “Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder...

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Making Dark Chocolate Hilarious

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Fantastic and useful little design touch on this website that sells lighting...

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Football Stadium Turned Community Garden

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

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Stress Is an Ancient Superpower That Is Slowly Killing You

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

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

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

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

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All the Cats, Explained

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

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

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

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Skydiving the Sun

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

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Jett Brunet carves incredibly realistic duck decoys....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Anton Kusters’ Photos of the Yakuza

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

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