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Фанко Поп: От Любви к Коллекционированию

Фанко Поп: От Любви к Коллекционированию 1

В мире где искусство, развлечения и культура переплетаются, существует явление, которое завоевало сердца миллионов фанатов по всему миру. Это необычные, милые и креативные виниловые фигурки, называемые “Фанко Поп”. Сегодня давайте погружаемся в удивительный мир Фанко Поп, изучим его историю, популярность…

Pascal Campion’s “Winter Sun”

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In his cover for the January 22, 2024 issue, the artist Pascal Campion set out to capture a distinctive aspect of winter in New York: the way the low sun hits…

How Much of the World Is It Possible to Model?

How Much of the World Is It Possible to Model? 8

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story It’s hard for a neurosurgeon to navigate a brain. A key challenge is gooeyness. The brain is immersed in cerebrospinal fluid; when a surgeon opens the skull, pressure is released, and…

Dickson Despommier Wants Our Cities to Be Like Forests

Dickson Despommier Wants Our Cities to Be Like Forests 10

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 2000, Dickson D. Despommier, then a professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University, was teaching a class on medical ecology in which he asked his students, “What will…

Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Like so many millennials, I entered the online world through AOL Instant Messenger. I created an account one unremarkable day in the late nineteen-nineties, sitting in the basement of my childhood…

Working with Joan Acocella

Working with Joan Acocella 14

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Not long ago, I became a kind of undertaker. I was a fact checker at this magazine until recently and, in the final months of my tenure, it felt as if…

The Horrifying and Humanistic Ending of “The Curse”

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The finale of “The Curse,” the oddest and most original show on television right now, opens with Asher and Whitney Siegel, the grin-and-bear-it married couple played by Nathan Fielder and Emma…

The Hard Truth About Pregnancy and Illness

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Bad things are happening in Texas, but they aren’t the result of abortion bans. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick and her child in utero died two weeks after Roe v. Wade was overturned. The mother’s death, according to pro-choice…

Kate Zambreno Collects Herself

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Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Toward the end of “The Light Room,” Kate Zambreno’s memoir of the early pandemic, she describes corresponding with a friend, the author and professor Sofia Samatar, about the difference between hoarding…

American Dependence: The Rise of Single Parenthood

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There’s a strong circumstantial case that welfare benefits increased single parenthood to some extent, but to what extent is difficult to nail down using scientifically rigorous methods. Credit: Bain News Service The debate over single parenthood has reemerged thanks in…