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Visit the Original Lorax Tree in Dr. Seuss’s San Diego
Check out these Seuss-related sites in Theodore Geisel’s adopted hometown
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A Neuroscientist Tells You What’s Wrong With Your Brain
Dean Burnett’s new book, Idiot Brain, explains why your mind evolved to thwart you
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The 19th-century visionary often found herself stuck between two cultures
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Civil Rights Legend John Lewis Won a Prestigious Comic Book Award
With March, Lewis brings his life story to a whole new generation
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Why VHS and Five Other Formats May Live Forever
The final VCRs will ship later this month, but if recent history is any indicator, it doesn’t mean the VHS format will vanish for good
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How Miraculous Microbes Help Us Evolve Better, Faster, Stronger
Invisible yet crucial, our microbial partners add a gene-swapping plot twist to evolutionary theory
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The World’s Oldest Working Library Will Soon Open Its Doors to the Public
After renovations wrap up in September, the library at Morocco’s al-Qarawiyyin University will debut an exhibition section for non-scholars
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What Gives “Seinfeld” Its Staying Power?
In a new book, pop culture writer Jennifer Keishin Armstrong analyzes how the show about nothing changed everything
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on His Love of History, Youth Sports and Which Books Everyone Should Read
The basketball legend has always had a writer’s touch
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These Beatrix Potter Illustrations Were Found Tucked Inside a Mansion’s Books
The children’s book author found inspiration on vacation
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Wired Founder Kevin Kelly On the Technologies That Will Dominate Our Future
The optimistic futurist says we’ll share more, own less and spend far more time on our devices
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Captain America Is Getting a Real-Life Statue, But Some Say It’s in the Wrong Place
Did Steve Rogers grow up in Brooklyn or the Lower East Side?
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Why Betty and Veronica Are the Real Stars of Riverdale
In a reboot of the classic Archie comics, the two female leads take charge
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Novelist Edna O’Brien Explores the True Nature of Evil
Celebrated for her books about love, the writer might finally win a Nobel Prize for something darker
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Steven Spielberg on Why He Made The BFG
The director talks about the new adaptation, the cast and having John Williams compose the score of the film
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The British author’s world—antic, subversive, wildly inventive and monstrously humane—returns to the screen in Steven Spielberg’s The BFG
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Curiosity is a credential at Indiana University Library’s Lilly Library
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This Library Has Books Checked Out by Hamilton and Burr
The New York Society Library was wide enough for both men
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Relive ‘Don Quixote’ With a Trip Through Miguel de Cervantes’ Spain
Tilt at windmills for the 400th anniversary of the author’s death
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As U.S.-Cuba Relations Warm, This Long-Dead Author Benefits
A new conservation facility is on its way to Hemingway’s home near Havana
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