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Malaga Island is a small island on the coast of Maine, south of Bath in Casco Bay. It was an obscure place, and then in 1908-1912 it was bri...

Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík, Iceland Via Scott Siskind, an obituary for Chuck Feeney , who made billions as a pioneer of duty-free shopping a...

Le Plessis-Robinson is a suburb of Paris with about 30,000 inhabitants. The town has become a sort of parable of a possible alliance between...

Wonderful article in the November 20 New Yorker  about deepfake technology. In it, Daniel Immerwahr notes that although the technology exis...

Belgian photographer Léonard Misonne (1870-1943) was best known for taking photographs that look like paintings. He somehow found trees that...

Two from Scott Siskind, first a link  to a study I already referenced: Study : teaching dialectical behavioral therapy (a set of emotional r...

NY Magazine compiles a list of "Every Single Lie Told by George Santos." This years Comedy Wildlife Photograph y winners. In Ital...

To my mind Henry Kissinger's existence was dominated by two things: his intelligence, and his worship of power. He craved power for hims...

After the famous figurines, the best known artifacts from the Bronze Age culture of the Cyclades are the enigmatic ceramic objects known as ...

The people of the Eurasian steppes have been setting up stone statues for at least 5,000 years. They are very hard to date, of course, but w...