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For many Olympic medalists, silver stings much more than bronze
At the 2022 Beijing Olympics, a distraught Alexandra Trusova received silver and immediately declared, “I…
Category: Arts
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What the 3.2 million-calendar year-previous Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame
Fifty a long time in the past, researchers identified a almost total fossilized skull and…
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Palestinian writers have long explored the horrors of amputation
Words fail as 2,000-pound bombs shred lives and limbs. The sheer number of children killed…
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What America’s first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation
In 2023 alone, the board game industry topped US$16.8 billion and is projected to reach…
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I interviewed moms with 5 or more kids − here’s what I learned about the women who are quietly going against the grain
Commentators link America’s declining birth rate to a number of factors: a lack of support…
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By not lip-syncing Amy Winehouse’s songs, actress Marisa Abela confronts impossible expectations in ‘Back to Black’
Like Amy Winehouse, “Back to Black,” the new biopic about the late British singer, has…
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Rap ‘beef’ as public spectacle is a dangerous game that artists rarely win
The shooting of a security guard near the Toronto home of Drake is the latest…
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How the manosphere found its way into the Black community
In the summer of 2023, I read that YouTube had demonetized a podcast called “Fresh…
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Newsrooms are experimenting with generative AI, warts and all
The journalism industry has been under immense economic pressure over the past two decades, so…
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How a British military march became the distinctive sound of American graduations
Graduations throughout the United States erupt with some familiar sounds every year: the passionate cheering…