Post Overview
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Review
8 years ago+19 19 0How Dada Dynamited the Old Art World
Born in Europe amid the insanity of World War I, Dada was an art movement like no other—it rejected reason and agendas and embraced absurdism wherever it found it.
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Analysis
8 years ago+35 35 0 x 1When is it ethical to euthanize your pet?
In the past, owners were quick to put their pets down. Now, with many viewing pets as family members, are they waiting too long?
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Expression
8 years ago+17 17 0Education as a Political Institution (1916)
"Education should not aim at a dead awareness of static facts, but at an activity directed toward the world that our efforts are to create." - Bertrand Russell, June, 1916. No political theory is adequate unless it is applicable to children ...
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Review
8 years ago+20 20 0Confronting Mortality In An Unsettling, Inspiring 'Tour Of Bones'
Before her death in 2014, author Denise Inge took a spiritual journey to bone houses throughout Europe. Lots of us are afraid to confront the things lurking in our basements. In mine, it's the spider crickets; in Denise Inge's, it was the b ...
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Expression
8 years ago+21 21 0The Kindness Of Strangers Connects A Poet To Her Own Grief
Poet Elizabeth Alexander's new book is a memoir of her life with her husband, who died three years ago. During her book tour, readers began giving her keepsakes that help her work through her grief.
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Analysis
8 years ago+24 24 0Watch This Leaping Great White Shark Get Some Serious Air
This awesome video shows a shark jumping out of the water like a rocket. What can we learn from a video analysis? Normal humans think this is cool, but what does a physicist see? We see a projectile motion problem. Yes, for any object that has a moti ...
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Expression
8 years ago+17 17 0Wonderful Portrait Film Photography by Nolwen Cifuentes
Nolwen Cifuentes is a French-Colombian photographer, based-in Los Angeles. “I got a 35mm Canon camera when I was 12 that my mom bought me and it's still the same one I use today, 15 years later, to shoot a lot of my images. It's like an ext ...
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How-to
8 years ago+20 20 0Eat the Squash Blossom
I don’t cook with flowers much; I tend to find them either very bland (pansy, carnation) or too delicate to use as anything but a carefully placed garnishes (nasturtium, herb flowers like basil). But squash blossoms are a bit different. They’re easy ...
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Expression
8 years ago+15 15 0NSFW The Absurd and the Nude: Giuseppe Palmisano Gathers Stories
We ran across the work of Italian photographer Giuseppe Palmisano this morning, and love the absurdity and overall fun he seems to be having with his subjects. We did a little Google translate on his site to see what he was all about, and he notes &q ...
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Expression
8 years ago+22 22 0Pinup Pioneers: The First Underwater Photoshoot – In Pictures
When Bruce Mozert gazed into the waters of Silver Springs, Florida, in 1938, he saw nothing but possibilities. Here are his earliest underwater shots, with queens of the deep doing underwater archery, sipping cocktails, reading the paper – and even f ...
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Current Event
8 years ago+28 28 0Fleeting Wonders: Millions of Balls Saving Los Angeles From Drought
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Shade Ball Cover Project rolled to a halt, rounding off years of work. With a shout of "shade balls away!" Los Angeles city officials overturned a row of sacks and sent 20,000 of the jet black objects cascading do ...
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Expression
8 years ago+18 18 0From a Synagogue to a Pizzeria, an Alternative Tour of Stained Glass in NYC
Although it's an art form more associated with medieval cathedrals, there is stunning stained glass in New York City. Some of the most lustrous examples are found in museums — the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Autumn Landscape” (1923–24) by Tiff ...
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Expression
8 years ago+21 21 0Clutter
Somewhere in the world, there must be people who actually take a moment to unsubscribe from all those e-mails—newsletters and sale alerts and publicity blasts—that clutter their inboxes. Rather, I mean, than simply deleting them every single day. One ...
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Expression
8 years ago+22 22 0NSFW Student Activism Has Been Flaring Up Around the World—Here’s What the Protests Looked Like
From Chile to Myanmar, activists are speaking out against skyrocketing tuition, police brutality, and censorship. Students have a legacy of activism, spearheading protests against the Vietnam War and sit-ins advocating for civil rights. Their rallies ...
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Analysis
8 years ago+18 18 0News about the success of a new Ebola vaccine may be too good to be true
Was the Ebola vaccine 100% effective, or 100% lucky? The good money is on a percentage somewhere in between, but in truth, we will never know. For three reasons, we cannot know if the vaccine really worked, or how well. Those reasons are the lack of ...
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Analysis
8 years ago+26 26 0Wild West Ghost Town Emerges from Watery Grave
Drought conditions in the Western part of the United States have allowed an old Nevada town once submerged deep beneath Lake Mead to emerge from its watery grave. Founded in 1865, St. Thomas was initially settled by Mormons drawn by Muddy Creek, a tr ...
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Interactive
8 years ago+16 16 0Permafrost: Choose Your Own Adventure
You're heading in. Choose your weapon: The black one with grooves. The solid black one. The canary-colored one. The faded black with silver markings. The fire red with orange stripes. The flat, mat black one...
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Analysis
8 years ago+17 17 0The Hidden Connection Between Morality and Language
Janet Geipel of the University of Trento in Italy posed fictional scenarios to German-, Italian-, and English-speaking college students in each student’s native language and in a second language that they spoke almost fluently. What Geipel found in h ...
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Expression
8 years ago+19 19 0Sunday Sweets For Book Lovers Day
It's Book Lovers Day, my friends, and I know *JUST* how to celebrate! Assuming you can convince your guests these are actually edible, of course...
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Review
8 years ago+18 18 0Of all the best-dressed lists, Vanity Fair’s is the most reliably deranged
According to the magazine, one of the world’s most chic women is the Countess of Wessex – among other bland celebrities and royals. Are these people truly fashionable, or has money been confused with style?