CULTURE
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The Architectural History of the Louvre: 800 Years in Three Minutes
Setting aside just one day for the Louvre is a classic first-time Paris visitor’s mistake. The place is simply too…
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Brian Eno Explores What Art Does in a New Book Co-Written with Artist Bette A
Brian Eno was thinking about the purpose of art a decade ago, as evidenced by his 2015 John Peel Lecture…
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Meet Jesse Welles, the Folk Singer Who Turns News into Folk Music, Writing Songs on Elections, Plane Crashes, Ozempic & More
At first glance, Jesse Welles resembles nothing so much as a time traveler from the year 1968. That’s how I…
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Horrifying 1906 Illustrations of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds: Discover the Art of Henrique Alvim Corrêa
H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds has terrified and fascinated readers and writers for decades since its 1898 publication and…
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Warner Bros. Lets You Watch 31 Films Free Online: David Byrne’s True Stories, Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman, Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep & More
It’s Friday, which means that tonight, many of us will sit down to watch a movie with our family, our…
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How Japanese Masters Turn Sand Into Swords: The Art of Traditional Sword Making from Start to Finish
We made sand think: this phrase is used from time to time to evoke the particular technological wonders of our…
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The Nature of Human Stupidity Explained by The 48 Laws of Power Author Robert Greene
It’s practically guaranteed that we now have more stupid people on the planet than ever before. Of course, we might…
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Explore a Digitized Edition of the Voynich Manuscript, “the World’s Most Mysterious Book”
A 600-year-old manuscript—written in a script no one has ever decoded, filled with cryptic illustrations, its origins remaining to this…
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How Erik Satie’s ‘Furniture Music’ Was Designed to Be Ignored and Paved the Way for Ambient Music
Imagine how many times someone born in the eighteen-sixties could ever expect to hear music. The number would vary, of…
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Noam Chomsky Defines What It Means to Be a Truly Educated Person
There may be no more contentious an issue at the level of local U.S. government than education. All of the…
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