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Wanna Know How Your Trendy Home Decor Will Age? Look to These 'Model' Rooms of the 1970s
Consider—if you will—the fate of the trend, which is to fall dramatically from grace. For instance, these “model” interiors from the 1970s. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! By Kelly Faircloth.
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Water Lilies Blooming Timelapse
Vincenzo Di Nuzzo
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The Bridge From Nowhere
How is it possible to get something from nothing? By Amanda Gefter.
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Out Late With Oliver Sacks
Two memorable nights in the life we shared reveal the private and public sides of the famous man. By Bill Hayes. (Aug. 26, 2016)
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Can Transcendence Be Taught?
College should prepare students not only for a rich life but also for a meaningful death. By John Kaag and Clancy Martin.
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The Three Lives of Malvina Schwartz
Butches, Femmes, and Mobsters: Inside the world of America's first drag superstars. By Hugh Ryan.
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How the Concept of Deep Time Is Changing
The idea that humans are ephemeral compared to the workings of nature isn’t as persuasive as it once was. By David Farrier.
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Why did the KLF burn £1 million in cash on Scots island of Jura?
There were many things that set the KLF apart from other musical acts who enjoyed commercial success in the UK’s thriving dance scene of the early 1990s. By Chris McCall.
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Intimate Pictures Show Cuba Through the Eyes of Its Youth
Days before Fidel Castro’s death, National Geographic Photo Camp asked students in Havana what it means to be Cuban. This was their response. By Kirsten Elstner.
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100 Photos That Had No Influence on the World
Time has just posted a mini-site about the 100 most influential photographs of the world, accompanied by their history. The selection is very relevant, the images are fantastic and varied, there is nothing to add. So I decided to present here 100 photographs that had absolutely no influence on anything. Existence, thankfully, their only merit.
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The Poem that Foretold Modernism
How Stéphane Mallarmé's greatest work was forged from tragedy. By Ellen Handler Spitz.
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What Is a ‘Self’?
Here Are All the Possibilities. By Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
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How Your Brain Controls the Speed of Time
Why does reality seem to slow down in moments of extreme peril? Can the mind really bend time? Here’s the neuroscience behind the phenomenon. By Jeff Wise.
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The Secret Life of Time
It may seem slippery and maddeningly abstract, but it’s also deeply intimate, infusing our every word and gesture. By Alan Burdick.
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What will all the ‘stuff’ you own mean when you're older?
Which objects would you choose to tell the story of your life? By Gemma Carney.
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Real Life: My Sister, My Brother
The winner of our tenth essay contest, Meghan Tear Plummer, shares her honest, heartfelt story of loving her transgender brother—and missing the sister he used to be.
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The Hidden History of the Laundry Chute
Stains, smells, secrets, thieves, dead bodies, and even a radioactive towel have all found their way down one. By Sarah Minor.
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Robert Cumming Invents the Photograph
Constructing sets that look functional but are intentionally useless, an artist parodies the seamless illusion of images. By Sarah Bay Gachot.
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Say Goodbye to the Dreary Mass Housing of the Soviet Union
The grim prefab Khrushchyovkas helped solve the USSR’s housing crisis after World War II. Now, Moscow plans to demolish 8,000 of them, displacing more than 1.5 million people. Should any be preserved for posterity? By Mark Byrnes.
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Beloved Curve — Using Double Exposures, Sarah Amy Fishlock Reflects on the Cycle of Life
Too often the humankind puts itself at the center of any reflection on the meaning of life, but the truth is our planet—not to speak about the entire universe—has existed since long before we came on to the scene, and will probably outlive us. The beauty of Beloved Curve, a recent conceptual photography series by 31 year-old Scottish photographer Sarah Amy Fishlock, is the simplicity with which it connects the existential theme of the incessant cycle of life to her grieving process for her father's death through the intelligent use of double exposures.
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