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These Brilliant Literary Maps Will Help You Understand Your Favorite Book
A lavishly illustrated atlas for Huckleberry Finn and other classics
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Albert Einstein Has a Social Media Team
How the famed physicist tweets from beyond the grave
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Would You Drink a Cocktail Invented By a Computer?
How IBM’s Watson become the world’s most creative bartender
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This Norwegian Modern Art Museum Is Also a Bridge
An ingeniously twisted design blends art with infrastructure
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27 Percent of U.S. Adults Didn’t Read a Single Book Last Year
This new survey on reading habits isn’t all doom and gloom, though
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Sesame Street Just Welcomed Its First Autistic Muppet
“Julia” is geared towards raising awareness and acceptance
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Google Books Isn’t Copyright Infringement
A landmark court ruling allows the tech giant digitize library books
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This Giant Van Gogh Painting Is Made of Pumpkins, Watermelons and Squash
How crop artist Stan Herd made an acre-wide ode to “Olive Trees”
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Why Does the Internet Hate Renoir?
A tongue-in-cheek protest movement wants to remove the artist’s paintings from museums
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The Origins of the King James Bible
A handwritten draft of the world’s most famous bible has been discovered in England
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The Technical Challenges of Photojournalism in a War Zone
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Invader Tags European Space Agency With Alien Art
The anonymous street artist strikes again
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America’s in the Midst of a Lobster Boom
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Chicago’s Newest Library Is on a Train
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These Brave Playwrights Want to Rewrite Shakespeare
“They have been at a great feast of languages, and stol’n the scraps.”
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This Swiss Watchmaker is Teaching Apprentices For Free
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A Woman Bought a House For $100,000, Then Learned Frank Lloyd Wright Built It
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How the Tetris Theme Song Was Made
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