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In Appalachian Ohio the war on poverty rages on.
Stephen Colbert ditches jokes to call out every Republican standing with Donald Trump.
16 resources for artists who are struggling because of COVID-19.
The Republican Party has embraced fascism.
Philly activists reclaim 50 vacant houses, creating a model for organizing as mass evictions loom.
Crayola launches “Colors of the World” skin tone-inspired crayon colors.
Oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years.
Washingtonians who are living alone during the pandemic are feeling depressed and scared.
Lebanese artist Hayat Nazer creates powerful sculpture from the ashes of the Beirut Port explosion.
A doll lover turned her hobby into opening Maxine’s Doll Museum and Gift Shop in Hutchinson, Kansas.
Google’s free app analyzes your selfie then finds your doppelgänger in museum portraits.
Watching birds near your home is good for your mental health.
Napoleon’s heirs include a Wall Street banker, the founder of the FBI, and a Star Trek actor.
Custom hand-knit sweaters blend subjects into urban environments.
The world’s smallest species of wildcat could fit in the palm of your hand.
How automation will change work, purpose and meaning.
Here is what it is like to visit Whittier, Alaska, billed as “the town under one roof.”
The many different uses of cinnamon in both outdoor and indoor gardening.
My story as a homeless developer.
34 illustrations of how people in the past envisioned the future.
The six best classic board games.
The surprising creativity killer that we all want more of.
The history of the Internet’s first viral video.
Workplace bullying affects nearly half of U.S. workers. It’s time we did something about it.
The oddly-mesmerizing, often eye-bleeding art of hotel carpeting.
There is no excuse for you to casually drink bottled water.
Six DIY ways to create your own Porg infestation.
In Baltimore and nationwide, art museums fight sharp declines in attendance.
What does oligarchy mean? That we’re screwed.
The 1913 Women’s March that started in Hyattsville, Maryland.
Watch 15,000 dominoes fall and prepared to be mesmerized.
How to turn online distractions into art.
Archivists race to digitize slave records before the history is lost.
How to deal with job search depression.
The kitchiest hotel in the world.
Download hundreds of Van Gogh paintings, sketches, and letters in high resolution for free.
Video game legend thrown out of the record books after his times were found to be impossible.
Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics, updated for the drone age.
Stop wasting your money on Instagram Influencers. They suck.
A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens.
Sea level rise is eroding home value, and owners might not even know it.
Here’s a look at Jim Henson’s sadistic and hilarious ads for Wilkins Coffee made between 1957-1961.
What happens when artists use tech to confront inequality?
The diet that might cure depression.
Twin sisters celebrate their 100th birthday with a whimsical photo shoot in Brazil.
Half of Americans are effectively poor now. What the?
Dementia stopped Peter Max from painting. For some, that spelled a lucrative opportunity.
Newly discovered photograph of Harriet Tubman goes on display.
Couple who battled racial prejudice still going strong 65 years on.
Morbidly amusing vintage illustrations from a calendar advertising a killer medicine!
Gaming addiction classified as a disease by the World Health Organization.
1,600 rare color photographs depict life in the U.S. during the Great Depression and World War II.
Things I didn’t know—note to my white self.
How the FBI assassinated Fred Hampton for defending the black community.
Self-care isn’t enough. We need community care to thrive.
Build a retro arcade gaming table from a Raspberry Pi and an Ikea table.
In Florence, they’re brining the works of women artists out of the basement.
Why it’s time to show different male body types in advertising.
How 11 writers organize their personal libraries.
The psychological quirk that explains why people love Donald Trump.
When philanthropy seems suspiciously similar to hush money.
Production team gets revenge with a hilarious video after rapper doesn’t pay them.
Pastor blends faith and farms to end food insecurity in black churches.
Senior social media influencers you should follow.
24 Disney and Pixar characters that seem impossible to cosplay but fans pulled it off.
Why this 19-year-old Buzzfeed quizmaster will no longer work for free.
Community college transfers outperform high schoolers at top colleges, so why do we ignore them?
Inside New York’s last remaining artists’ housing.
New Tonga island is now home to flowers and owls.
Eerie abandoned shopping malls become Amazon fulfillment centers.
Cuba’s Taíno people: A flourishing culture once believed to be extinct.
What history didn’t tell us about the Nazi “Super Baby” breeding program.
Fifty fun facts for filling up your hollow brain.
Public benches in Iowa City replaced so that homeless people can lie down across them.
How the Big Bang may have created a mirror universe where time runs backwards.
When black men ruled the world: 8 things the Moors brought to Europe.
Advanced DNA technology finally helps identify boy’s remains found under a billboard in 1998.
Hear Prince’s personal playlist of party music: 22 tracks that will bring any party to life.
Why some people are better at drawing than others.
Pablo Escobar’s hippos keep multiplying and Colombia doesn’t know how to stop it.
A look back at the defunct restaurant chains in the United States.
The author who is bringing home the horror of “comfort women.”
Anthony Bourdain’s boyhood dream was to make comics. Few people know he did.
Howard Schultz: America’s new banality supervillain.
Yes, that’s a car vending machine in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
The weaponization of “learn to code” advice.
Meet the Hollywood bombshell who invented the basis for modern wifi.
Trump and the far right’s assault on children.
A look at people who think that they can pay their artists in “exposure” instead of money.
Kids who got the answer to a test so wrong yet so right at the same time.
Hiding homosexuality on the covers of American magazines a century ago.
A profile of Carol Kaye, the first lady of bass guitar.
A look at Ukraine’s lost generation.
Jailed for life for stealing a $159 jacket? 3,200 serving life without parole for nonviolent crimes.
More mammals are becoming nocturnal so they can avoid humans.
Russia is attacking the U.S. system from within.
A look back at the markets of the former Soviet Union in pictures.
Josh Hader is the latest example of how online posts from the past can affect us today.
What’s the common thread among sexual harassers? Too often, it’s money.
Woman from viral frozen eyelash selfie shares equally intense summer-themed picture.
A preview of a U.S. society without pensions.
The retail apocalypse has been postponed.
This Lego R/C creation as a flying toy is just plain cool.
Without Net Neutrality, is it time to build your own Internet?
Anti-Trump artists turn room in President’s Manhattan hotel into rat-filled exhibit.
A compendium of Native American tipi decoration circa 1900.
The rise and fall of the “Freest Little City in Texas.”
Everyone’s laughing at pro-Trump artist Jon McNaughton’s latest painting.
Twitter sided with Nazis over a Jewish journalist.
This guy asked for the gayest cake ever and the bakery delivered.
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