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Fraktur Folk Art (ca. 1750–1820)

Fraktur has its origins in folk art traditions from Alsace, Switzerland, and the Rhineland, but in America it became more…

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Music Review: I Don't Want You Anymore – Cherry Glazerr

(Secretly Canadian) If there's one constant in Cherry Glazerr's vigorous alt-rock through the years, it's Clementine Creevy never sounding like…

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Images from the Collective Unconscious: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and the Eranos Archive

In the 1930s, Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, mystic and founder of the multidisciplinary Eranos forum, began compiling a diverse visual archive that…

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10 Chilling Stories That Might Just Keep You Up at Night

As children, many of us sat around the dinner table or a crackling campfire, listening to our parents or friends…

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“I felt sad then, I feel free now”: a case for examining the constructive resistance of opted-out mothers

The mothers in the sample tend to construct themselves in two main ways, as (1) valuable mothers (capable, tireless, caring…

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The World's First Costume Book: François Desprez's Collection of Various Clothing Styles (1562)

Desprez’s 121 engravings illustrate garbs supposedly found the world over in 1562, worn by humans and monsters alike.source

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John Steinbeck on the art of receiving and the true meaning of…

John Steinbeck on the art of receiving and the true meaning of gratitude. source

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10 Unbelievable Sound Facts with a Ring of Truth

The internet is full of “facts” that will just plain blow your mind, and with the rise of social media,…

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“I’m not white”: counter-stories from “mixed race” women navigating PhDs

This study introduces five vignettes of “mixed race” women, gathered from a wider study of 27 PhDs and early career…

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A bottle of scotch recently sold for $2.7 million – what’s behind such outrageous prices?

When a rare bottle of Scotch whisky sold for US$2.7 million in November 2023, I was stunned, but I wasn’t…

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