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Samuel Biagetti in Jacobin, pondering the rootless modern liberal: Jennifer and Jason are members of the upper middle class, living off t...

Billingsgate Market, c. 1910. Book sale in the Caledonian Road Market, c. 1910. Covent Garden Market, 1910-1925. Cove...

These three images of the same charcoal drawing (the lower two are details) appeared on the Tumblr of the Cavin-Morris Gallery. I wa...

Cool map by John Nelson; click to enlarge. A remarkably high percentage hit the Caribbean or the Philippines.

London-based architect Thomas Heatherwick, took this old grain silo and carved it into a new museum. As you can see below, some of the geo...

One great world leader to another: A frightened dog barks louder. . . . I am now thinking hard about what response he could have expecte...

The news from Italy: For more than three centuries, scholars, codebreakers and occultists have been stumped by a cryptic letter written ...

From an essay by Amanda Ripley on education in the Middle East, but with worldwide applicability: Motivation is the dark matter of educat...

Here's a project I would love to be part of: Alphabet’s far-reaching ambitions are forcing it to grapple with an unusual challenge fo...

Teenagers aren't so eager to grow up as they used to be: …teenagers are increasingly delaying activities that had long been seen as ri...

Greek artist Nikolaos Gyzis (1842-1901) spent the last the last 6 years of his life painting variations on a swirling orbit of...

Teddy Roosevelt once wrote, There can be no real political democracy unless there is something approaching an economic democracy. This is...

Let's play "real or fake?" with these two items from the online auction houses. The above is up for sale as a "Viking ...

The number one state for opiate overdose deaths is West Virginia, which is relatively poor and troubled in other ways. The number two state ...

I should be over being surprised or impressed by any more data showing how little most people care about the things they say they care about...

We had only one hot week in August, and since then four straight weeks of cool, cloudy weather when the temperature has rarely gone above ...

If one is to do good, it must be done in minute particulars. —William Blake

Arthur Melville (1855-1904) was a Scottish watercolor painter known for his unusual use of color and impressionistic style. I was inspired...