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Latest Why Miniatures Inspire Such Awe

Why Miniatures Inspire Such Awe

Vidcon   Apr 20, 2024  0  57

They are not models or toys. They are worlds within worlds.

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Latest How Being Busy Became a Status Symbol

How Being Busy Became a Status Symbol

Vidcon   Apr 20, 2024  0  52

“If time is a luxury, why don’t we flaunt it?”

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Latest The Paradoxes of Modern Dating

The Paradoxes of Modern Dating

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  52

A conversation with Faith Hill about daters’ competing desires for structure and serendipity

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Latest A Chess Formula Is Taking Over the World

A Chess Formula Is Taking Over the World

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  53

What’s your Elo rating?

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Latest How to Rank Everything

How to Rank Everything

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  50

A formula designed to rate chess players is now everywhere.

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Latest Taylor Swift Is Having Quality-Control Issues

Taylor Swift Is Having Quality-Control I...

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  23

The Tortured Poets Department excavates her private life more deeply than ever—but somehow, it’s a story we’ve heard before.

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Latest The Languages AI Is Leaving Behind

The Languages AI Is Leaving Behind

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  58

The generative-AI boom looks very different for non-English speakers.

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Latest The Tortured-Metaphors Department

The Tortured-Metaphors Department

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  85

Taylor Swift’s new album excavates her private life more deeply than ever—but somehow, it’s a story we’ve heard before.

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Latest Eight Cookbooks Worth Reading Cover to Cover

Eight Cookbooks Worth Reading Cover to C...

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  48

Flag dishes you want to make, or don’t: The point of this practice is pleasure, not pragmatism.

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Latest The Hidden Wisdom of Cookbooks

The Hidden Wisdom of Cookbooks

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  49

The author Ruby Tandoh argues for the freedom to cook—and eat—for pleasure.

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Latest The Growing Incentive to Go Nuclear

The Growing Incentive to Go Nuclear

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  56

Biden has inadvertently encouraged vulnerable nations to seek the ultimate shield.

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Latest Democrats’ Unproven Plan to Close Biden’s Enthusiasm Gap

Democrats’ Unproven Plan to Close Biden’...

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  52

Progressive organizers are betting they can flip the conventional wisdom on voting.

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Latest The Art of Putting On Airs

The Art of Putting On Airs

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  50

In the 21st century, you are who you pretend to be. It’s a world Tom Ripley was made for.

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Latest Welcome to the New Nuclear World

Welcome to the New Nuclear World

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  53

Biden has inadvertently encouraged vulnerable nations to seek the ultimate shield.

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Latest Photos of the Week: Burning Bull, Blue Forest, Olympic Flame

Photos of the Week: Burning Bull, Blue F...

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  59

Eid al-Fitr prayers in India, trophy winners at the Boston Marathon, the burning of a historic building in Denmark, a joyous water...

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Latest The Columbine-Killers Fan Club

The Columbine-Killers Fan Club

Vidcon   Apr 19, 2024  0  55

A quarter-century on, the school shooters’ mythology has propagated a sprawling subculture that idolizes murder and mayhem.

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Latest The Real Youth-Vote Shift to Watch

The Real Youth-Vote Shift to Watch

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  61

No, young voters aren’t definitively turning toward Trump. But there’s a more specific dynamic to pay attention to.

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Latest The Bone-Marrow-Transplant Revolution

The Bone-Marrow-Transplant Revolution

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  47

Finding a matched donor has always been the major challenge. A drug has solved that problem.

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Latest Playing God With the Atmosphere

Playing God With the Atmosphere

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  60

Interfering with Earth’s climate systems is becoming more possible—and less predictable—than ever.

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Latest We Can Manipulate the Atmosphere Like Never Before

We Can Manipulate the Atmosphere Like Ne...

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  54

Interfering with Earth’s climate systems is becoming more possible—and less predictable—than ever.

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Latest The Uncomfortable Truth About Child Abuse in Hollywood

The Uncomfortable Truth About Child Abus...

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  65

A new series about the “dark underbelly” of kids’ TV raises crucial questions about abuse in Hollywood. But it doesn’t go far enou...

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Latest What Do We Owe Child Actors?

What Do We Owe Child Actors?

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  56

A new series about the “dark underbelly” of kids’ TV raises crucial questions about abuse in Hollywood. But it doesn’t go far enou...

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Latest Winners of the 2024 World Press Photo Contest

Winners of the 2024 World Press Photo Co...

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  120

Some of the winning and honored entries in this year’s annual photo competition

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Latest Your Fast Food Is Already Automated

Your Fast Food Is Already Automated

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  81

The founder of Chipotle wants to reinvent lunch using robots. Is that really a reinvention at all?

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Latest The Crucial Factor of the Stormy Daniels Case

The Crucial Factor of the Stormy Daniels...

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  61

The case has one important advantage the others don’t.

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Latest The Illogical Relationship Americans Have With Animals

The Illogical Relationship Americans Hav...

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  44

A new book explores the roots of our love for certain creatures—and our indifference toward many others.

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Latest There’s No Easy Answer to Chinese EVs

There’s No Easy Answer to Chinese EVs

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  54

Supercheap electric cars or an American industrial renaissance: Pick one.

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Latest The Bone-Marrow Transplant Revolution

The Bone-Marrow Transplant Revolution

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  46

Finding a matched donor has always been the major challenge. A drug has solved that problem.

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Latest The Paradox of the American Labor Movement

The Paradox of the American Labor Moveme...

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  53

It’s a great time to be in a union—but a terrible time to try to start a new one.

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Latest Who’s Afraid of a Chinese EV?

Who’s Afraid of a Chinese EV?

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  58

Supercheap electric cars or an American industrial renaissance: Pick one.

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Latest Abolish DEI Statements

Abolish DEI Statements

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  47

Assessing a debate about a controversial hiring practice

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Latest How to Be Less Busy and More Happy

How to Be Less Busy and More Happy

Vidcon   Apr 18, 2024  0  51

If you feel too rushed even to read this, then your life could use a change.

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Latest The New Rules of Political Journalism

The New Rules of Political Journalism

Vidcon   Apr 17, 2024  0  49

In this election, the reporting strategies of the past will not be enough.

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Latest The New Empress of Self-Help Is a TikTok Star

The New Empress of Self-Help Is a TikTok...

Vidcon   Apr 17, 2024  0  49

Keila Shaheen outsold Oprah Winfrey with a journaling book marketed through TikTok. Now what?

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Latest The Trump Trial’s Extraordinary Opening

The Trump Trial’s Extraordinary Opening...

Vidcon   Apr 17, 2024  0  49

The first days of the criminal case against the former president have been mundane, even boring—and that’s remarkable.

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Latest Biden’s Safe, Polite Campaign Stop in Scranton

Biden’s Safe, Polite Campaign Stop in Sc...

Vidcon   Apr 17, 2024  0  53

The president’s kitchen-table issues approach seems to lack true vision.

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Latest Women in Menopause Are Getting Short Shrift

Women in Menopause Are Getting Short Shr...

Vidcon   Apr 17, 2024  0  59

They could benefit from a diversity of hormones, empathy about their experience, and a frank approach to sexuality—all hallmarks o...

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Latest The Self-Help Queen of TikTok Goes Mainstream

The Self-Help Queen of TikTok Goes Mains...

Vidcon   Apr 17, 2024  0  58

Keila Shaheen outsold Oprah Winfrey with a journaling book marketed through TikTok. Now what?

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Latest The Bicycles of World War II

The Bicycles of World War II

Vidcon   Apr 17, 2024  0  54

Images of some of the many ways people put bicycles to use during the Second World War

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Latest Something Weird Is Happening With Caesar Salads

Something Weird Is Happening With Caesar...

Vidcon   Apr 17, 2024  0  56

With chefs tossing in pig ear, tequila, and other wacky ingredients, when does a classic dish become something other than itself?

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Latest The Rape Denialists

The Rape Denialists

Vidcon   Apr 17, 2024  0  54

Why has it proved so hard for so many on the left to acknowledge what happened on October 7?

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Latest Biden Needs More Than Nostalgia

Biden Needs More Than Nostalgia

Vidcon   Apr 17, 2024  0  46

The president’s back-to-Scranton-basics approach seems to lack true vision.

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Latest Finding Justice in Palestine

Finding Justice in Palestine

Vidcon   Apr 17, 2024  0  47

The question of Israel and Palestine must be reframed and recalibrated.

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Latest The Jews Aren’t Taking Away TikTok

The Jews Aren’t Taking Away TikTok

Vidcon   Apr 17, 2024  0  49

But conspiracy theories that say otherwise are coming for democracy itself.

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Latest The Vale of Cashmere

The Vale of Cashmere

Vidcon   Apr 17, 2024  0  43

A short story

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