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50 Best Books for Boys and Young Men

As a boy, one of my favorite times in school was when we’d get a new Scholastic News book “catalog.” I would pore over the pages, picking ou

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The Sunday Epic: Bricklayer Bill’s Ultra-Marathon of a Life

Clinging to the undercarriage of a speeding train. Getting punched in the face for two bucks. Leaving a hospital bed to run a marathon. All

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The Art of Being Alone: May Sarton’s Stunning 1938 Ode to Solitude

"There is no place more intimate than the spirit alone."

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Meteor of Joy: The Young People’s Chorus of New York City Sings Bird Divinations

Children know the deepest truths about life, the elemental knowledge we unlearn in the act of living, those inarticulable truths music alone

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Albert Camus on the Three Antidotes to the Absurdity of Life

"In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater since

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Music and the Body: Richard Powers on the Power of Song

"The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body."

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Lit Hub Weekly: October 26 – 30, 2026

From Psycho to Christine, a highway is something “altogether different when they appear in the horror genre: there they expose themselves as

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“Zombie Bacteria” Might One Day Lurk in the Sewers

But they’ll be there to help The post “Zombie Bacteria” Might One Day Lurk in the Sewers appeared first on Nautilus.

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Crafted From Bone, This 2,800-Year-Old Flute Unearthed in Troy May Have Been Played Around the Time That Homer Composed 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'

After more than 150 years of excavations, the object is the first musical instrument ever discovered in the ruins of the ancient city, which

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The Mystery of Why Some Drugs Vanish

Disappearing versions of pharmaceutical molecules mean scientists can lose the ability to create some drugs, but why? The post The Mystery o

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A Dog Left a Paw Print on This Mud Brick 4,000 Years Ago. Archaeologists Discovered It in the Rubble of a Bronze Age House

The brick was found at Tavsanli Hoyuk, an archaeological site in western Turkey. Humans and dogs in this region have had a close relationshi

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St. John's Episcopal Church in Franklin, Pennsylvania

Nestled on a quiet back street in the once-booming oil town of Franklin, PA, sits St. John's Episcopal Church. While the exterior is pleasin

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8 Gargoyles and Grotesques Hiding in Plain Sight

What’s more wondrous than towering spires on a building? Stained glass? Vaulted windows, or garden roofs? One word: Ghouls. Nothing jazzes u

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Is There More to Cold Fusion Than Failure and Fraud?

Dig a little deeper and you’ll find a thriving research program with exotic atoms that won’t solve the energy crisis but stretches the bound

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Why smart people stay stuck in research mode

I recently had coffee with a university colleague who told me she was in the middle of planning a workshop. She had bought a couple of books

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Madagascar's Giant Bats Seem to Be Shrinking. After Measuring 121 Specimens, Scientists Suggest Hunting by Humans Is to Blame

In a new study, researchers looked at museum specimens of the island’s flying foxes, spanning 150 years of history. They found a significant

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“We Will Find a Graviton Before We Find Dark Matter”

A quantum information scientist on the hunt for the elemental mediator of gravity and why AI can’t solve physics problems creatively The pos

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This Rosy Stone Spotted in the Sahara Turned Out to Be a 4.1-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite From Mars, One of the Oldest Ever Found

Martian samples this old are extremely rare and offer clues about the Red Planet's youth. This meteorite further hints that our celestial ne

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Manga Are Black, White and Read All Over. Treasures of the Globally Popular Japanese Comic Book Medium Are on View in New York

The Brooklyn Museum's "Art of Manga" exhibition highlights the "mangaka," or creators, who have shaped the medium. Hundreds of original illu

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What Can Space Offer Humanity? In Pursuit of the Answer, Astronauts Have Been Making a Home in Microgravity for Decades

In a new gallery called "At Home in Space," the National Air and Space Museum shows how humans have tackled risky and arduous missions to pu

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I Had to Buy Back My Own Trauma

When I got serious about writing my memoir—about my mom murdering my grandmother—I knew it meant I’d have to dig up old records. What I didn

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Frank & Nancy’s Marine Corps Museum in De Pere, Wisconsin

Frank Cornelius, a retired Korea and Vietnam War veteran has taken what started out as a personal collection of Marine Corps memorabilia and

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This Bizarre Jurassic “Squid” Swam the Ancient Seas of Wyoming

And likely gobbled up its smaller cephalopod relatives for lunch The post This Bizarre Jurassic “Squid” Swam the Ancient Seas of Wyoming app

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This Halloween, amateur astronomers may be in for a dwarf planet treat

The Vera Rubin Observatory is shedding new light on the faraway regions by Neptune and beyond, including possible solar system building bloc

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