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He was imprisoned by the Nazis; she was sent to a sanitorium. For Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, love was not a luxury they could afford
A.S. Hamrah's film criticism elides the distinction between comic prose-poetry and reflexive contrarianism
At Stanford, undergraduates faking perfection are thrown ungodly sums of money. But whatâs it all for?
Every poll, pollster, and methodology converges on the same thing
Violence, including terrorism, against Cuba has long been tolerated in Washington; Cubaâs response to it has not. That double standard is once again on full display as the Trump administration former
This scan isnât very good (best I could find), but these are all the lightsabers used by Jedi and Sith in the various Star Wars shows and movies. I think this is from a few years ago, so Iâm not sure
Reflections (Session 2 of 2)
My friend Adriana wrote about her story game based on Danteâs Inferno. âIn Vya, I modeled Pom after the poet Alice Notley, whose Descent of Alette (1996) is one of the great contributions to the liter
Jacob Bielecki at Quillette: In 1976, Peter Frampton was a guitar player who was respected among his more popular peers despite having enjoyed no commercial success. He had only a small following in h
Ranging widely from Seneca to Ringo Starr
Contemporary pop artist fnnchâs essay on How to Make a Living as an Artist is pretty great. Lots in here that resonates with my experience of turning a creative hobby (KDO) into a business. Most peopl
The AIPAC-backed candidate in Kentucky's 4th Congressional district won, but two AIPAC-supported candidates lost in Pennsylvania's 3rd.
The dark side of pollinators The post Why These Bees May Be Killing the Plants They Feed From appeared first on Nautilus.
From Universe Today, an ongoing series of articles on A Brief-ish History of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). Part I is entitled âWhere is Everybody?â
Their migrations may be a âtailâ of mating opportunities The post These World-Record Humpbacks Crossed 9,000 Miles of Open Ocean appeared first on Nautilus.
You Can Make an App for That. âThe most important thing youâll need is taste. Not objectively good taste, necessarily, so much as a keen sense of your own.â
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In 1949, the African American singer Paul Robeson, known for his anti-racist stand, performed the âSong of the Jewish Partisansâ (âZog nit keyn molâ) in its original version, in Yiddish, at a concert
From Noahpinion: The Ukraine War isnât the first war in which drones are proving decisive â that would be the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War in 2020 â but itâs the war in which drones have truly come int
When Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush lost their congressional seats in 2024, the number of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)âaffiliated members in the House of Representatives shrunk to two: Alexandr
Jamelle Bouie writes that each US president molds the presidency in his own image and Trump has constructed a âgovernment as protection racket and the president as mob bossâ.1 So what manner of presid
We live in interesting times
How to write better
Mariame Kabaâs letter to young activists: âI donât know how things will turn out, but I am committed to something other than this â the current structure and state of this world. We can live different
But it doesn't have to be
The fatal marine creature lives near Singaporeâs âIsland of Death Behindâ The post New Species of Deadly Box Jellyfish Discovered appeared first on Nautilus.
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By replacing the most fundamental concept in topology, Peter Scholze and Dustin Clausen are taking the first step in a far bigger program to understand why numbers behave the way they do.
Grothendieck is revered in the world of math; outside of it, heâs known for his unusual life, if heâs known at all. But what were his actual mathematical contributions? The post How Alexan
The strength of a union and its leadership can be gauged most accurately when the headwinds are strongest: when political opponents command the White House and Congress, when the economy sours, employ
A life-changing lesson from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
notes on malaise
A pep talk in the face of despair. âThings can always get better, but it doesnât happen via inertia. It happens because a lot of people tried.â
âThereâs an old saying that, on Wall Street, there are no bad ideas, only good ideas taken too far.â
We handpick and explain the most important stories at the intersection of climate, land, food... The post Cropped 20 May 2026: Deforestation roadmap | Melanesian Ocean Summit | Returning pet parrots t
Weâre open sourcing Resident, our library for running AI-authored code on microcontrollers â with no compile step and no firmware flashing. Itâs our twist on vibe coding firmware, built for instantly
Wednesdays are all about personal finance here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last weekâs links including a look at the...
Our World in Ten Buildings: How Architecture Defines Who We Are and How We Live. Among the buildings are a school in Mass., a hospital in Rwanda, a prison in Norway, and a lighthouse in Maine. Intrigu
Why it will never work
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