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Combo #3 Redux: Remembering Steve Bonano on 9/11 (opens the original)
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On the Hunt: When a Job Application Asks for Your Age and Religion. (opens the original)
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Redux: Pens We Love That You Can Bank On (opens the original)
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Ants on the Run: A Mundane Sidewalk Video with Parodies from Famous Voices (opens the original)
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Just ants. Or is it?What happens when a seemingly simple video of ants running across a New York City sidewalk is left to interpretation by Jackie Chan, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Whoopi Goldberg, among others? The Museum of Modern Art In this mesmerizing and hypnotic video, the lowly ant is elevated into art form when these microscopic insects and the pavement collide on a Manhattan sidewalk. The artist transforms the everyday reality of New York City concrete into outdoor theater. She traces the rel
Putting the pet in peeves and other minor (and not so minor) irritants (opens the original)
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I can’t help but wonder who put the pet in peeves. Between war, famine, and the plague during the 14th century, some clever linguistician concocted the word peevish which defined itself as perverse, capricious, or silly. The p-word entered American vocabulary around 1907 or so when it was used as a verb to irritate or exasperate and then added into noun form a few years later. The phrase pet peeve was popularized by Frank King’s comic strip The Little Pet Peeve which
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