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Self-Portrait in a Beret, Claude Monet, 1886

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Three Dancers, Edgar Degas, c. 1900

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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the…”

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Temple of Wady Kardassy, Nubia by David RobertsSource:…

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illuminate-eliminate:Reges Treiben am Markusplatz, Venedig mit…

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Landscape near Fort Collins by Thomas Worthington Whittredge

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saisonciel:Diane Sinclair by George Hurrell, c. 1932

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Are there 300 million Gods? NASA Says About 300 Million Habitable Planets Could Exist in the Milky Way

NASA Says About 300 Million Habitable Planets Could Exist in the Milky Way Illustration of Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone. (Photo: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle) Humans have long wondered if there were other planets like Earth where life could thrive. This age-old question began to resurface […]

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17th-Century Sculpture Captures Unbelievable Lace Details in Hand-Carved Marble

The Baroque Period is known for its decadent theatricality, with European artists continuing the classical trends of the Renaissance and shaping them into dramatic paintings and sculptures. Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s work is particularly revered by art historians. Yet, the work of his lesser known apprentice, Giuliano Finelli, are just as breathtaking. Finelli was […]

How Different Types of Exercise Improve Your Mental Health

Exercise has been shown to have a great effect on your mental health and well being. There are many types of physical activities that will positively impact your mood and the chemicals which influence your feelings and outlook on life.  Running  Running is one of the easiest activities to begin. It requires little equipment and […]

A Tale of Two Churches

It is an enduring fact of American life that church worship remains deeply segregated. It was something that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed, just days before he was assassinated in 1968. As recently as 2012, a survey found that eight in ten American congregants still worship at a place where a single racial group […]

Glamorous Photo Shoot for Girl Who Was Banned from School Picture Day

School Picture Day gives kids a chance to preserve memories from one of the most important times in their lives. However, when 8-year-old Marian Scott turned up at her school—Paragon Charter Academy in Jackson, Mississippi—to be photographed, she was turned away for having red hair extensions.  The school-based its harsh decision on a student handbook […]

Beauty in Ingenuity: The Art of Science

The complex, sometimes conflictual, relationship of man and machine is a constant thread in “The Art of Innovation,” at London’s Science Museum. Recalling how the mechanical telling of time itself became contested during the Industrial Revolution, as the historian E.P. Thompson described in a famous 1967 Past & Present article, “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism,” […]

Man Hand-Knits Sweaters of Places and Then Wears Them in Front of Their Exact Locations

  Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Artist Sam Barsky has a unique way of commemorating the places to which he’s traveled. Instead of opting for the usual tchotchke like a magnet or a coffee mug, he hand-knits his own sweater in advance, depicting imagery from the specific locale he intends to visit. He […]

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