If we oppose banning some books, we should oppose banning any book. If our society isn’t strong enough to withstand the weight of difficult or challenging—and even hateful or problematic—ideas, then some…
Children learning to speak, Brown later explained on a radio program, “sort of half-chant their ideas.” She continued, “If they like the sound of the words at all, they repeat them, and make a pattern of…
Sophie Haigney on a new book of objects that are no longer commonplace—such as ashtrays—”evidence that nothing is inevitable.”
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Just like creating art on the blockchain, collecting it is a matter of constant acceleration.
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“I always felt like I was living in a very magical world.” Life as a tetrachromat, and seeing 100 times the colors as most people.
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Some skateboarding videos do a really good job of combining beauty and wtf.
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The government commissioned 270,000 photographs to document the Great Depression. More than a third were deemed undesirable.
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