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This is an excellent video explanation from Jamelle Bouie of what Jim Crow was, how it developed, and how it continues to ...

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Join National Geographic as they ride one of the most punishing train routes in the world, the Mauritania Railway, which travels ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is operational and will soon embark on its primary mission: to take a detailed image ...

This is a thoughtful piece from artist & illustrator Christoph Niemann about how he’s come to use AI (tactically, sparingl ...

One of the longest and heaviest trains in the world, the 1.8-mile beast runs from the mining center of Zouerat to the port city of Nouadhibou on Africa’s Atlantic coast. The train is the bedrock of ...

From an excerpt of his new book, It’s Only Drowning ( Amazon ), David Litt writes about the frustrating and humiliating experience of learning how to surf at the age of 35.

Graphic artist Chris Ware has created a set of 20 stamps for the US Postal Service’s 250th anniversary in his iconic style ...

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Diego Luna is guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live this week and for his first monologue, the Mexico native spoke about ...

Like many others, I became a little obsessed with Andor over the past few months. I was lukewarm on the first season when it came ...