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This simple innovation transformed the reading habits of an entire nation
May 2013
| By Clive Thompson
From a fish's dyed nerves to vapor strewn across the planet, images submitted to a contest at the university offer new perspectives of the natural world
April 19, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
Some say the best way to improve American education--and get teachers more respect--is make them take challenging entry exams like doctors and lawyers do.
April 19, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
The actor talks about getting vetted by the baseball legend's grandchildren, meeting with his wife and why baseball was actually his worst sport
April 16, 2013
| By Leah Binkovitz
The sequel to Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland was designed to be a playable, albeit whimsical chess problem
April 17, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
Fujiko Nakaya works with an unusual medium. The Japanese artist is sculpting fog clouds at the Exploratorium's new site at Pier 15
April 17, 2013
| By Aleta George
In the 1970s, Joe Brainard wrote a book-length poem that paid heed to fashion
April 16, 2013
| By Emily Spivack
The definition of being eco-conscious is so much more than having solar panels on a roof
April 12, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
From Ferris Bueller’s Day Off to Mean Girls, on-screen educators have a talent for causing trouble. Here are the worst offenders.
April 15, 2013
| By Eleanor Barkhorn
How far can you push the design of a knight before it stops looking like a knight?
April 15, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
Sears styles sprung from the ideas of European artists and couturiers
April 05, 2013
| By Emily Spivack
Her tropical slashes of color enlivened the old-money crowd
April 09, 2013
| By Emily Spivack
Through staged fashion shoots, an artists' collective critiqued the ascendant sportswear retailer
April 11, 2013
| By Emily Spivack
Just what are those red, blue, and yellow diamonds hanging outside warehouses and factories?
April 10, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
This year, a San Francisco-based artist will unveil 365 new paintings, reminiscent of growing bacteria, on her blog, The Daily Dish
April 05, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
The vaunted Staunton Chess Set, the standard chess set you probably grew up with, has its roots in neoclassical architecture
April 03, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
A photographer painstakingly pieces together raw data collected by spacecraft to produce color-perfect images of the Sun, planets and their many moons
April 02, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
Even though most of 1950s Vegas is long gone, there are still many ways to relive the haunts of Ol’ Blue Eyes and the Rat Pack
April 01, 2013
| By Nina Fedrizzi
Yet the droopy trousers trend lives on
April 01, 2013
| By Emily Spivack
Photographer Thierry Cohen tries to reconnect city dwellers with nature through his mind-blowing composite images—now at New York City's Danziger Gallery
March 29, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
They're the biggest innovation in higher education in years, but are they a threat to small universities and community colleges?
March 29, 2013
| By Randy Rieland
The evolution of the All American Hero from artist's mannequin to action figure
March 29, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
Celebrate the birthday of the iconic car that changed the way families drove
March 26, 2013
| By Jimmy Stamp
A German contemporary artist creates a meditative space—lined with beeswax—at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
March 26, 2013
| By Megan Gambino
From rice to glitter, video and paint, these works reflect the best of contemporary portraiture
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