Posts

• Hey, New York Times: The Rest of the World Makes Great TV, Too (October 8, 2026)
• Eva Marie Saint has died at 102: the last star of Hollywood’s Golden Age (October 7, 2026)
• Scientists Urge Consumers to Stop Buying Products Made From Antarctic Krill (October 7, 2026)
• We’re Reporters, Not Teachers. We Were Able to Start Private Schools Anyway. (October 5, 2026)
• ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ winks and blows a blood-soaked kiss at horror films of queer past (October 2, 2026)
• Into Being: New Flash Fiction by Bridget Goldschmidt (September 28, 2026)
• Annie Dillard brought poetry into prose, pioneering a mystical form of creative nonfiction that critics both admired and misunderstood (September 28, 2026)
• Your Sunday Funnies: How Things Have Changed! Department (September 27, 2026)
• Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman’s Revenge (1912) (September 24, 2026)
• On Yom Kippur, Remembering the Yom Kippur War (September 18, 2026)
• May Pang Has a Life of Her Own (September 17, 2026)
• Your boss is watching you (September 16, 2026)
• Why does your brain mix up memories? A new study examines how memories are misplaced in your brain’s filing cabinets (September 15, 2026)
• A Kalyee Srithnam Film: New Fiction (September 14, 2026)
• "There Are Children Who Are Great Sages": Just a Few Thoughts and Pictures for Rosh Hashana, in a Fraught Year (September 11, 2026)
• The Twin Towers, 1974: Photograph by May Pang (September 10, 2026)
• SABOTAGE: New Science Fiction by Mark Laporta (September 9, 2026)
• Dog parks are an antidote to the isolation and divisions that social media can fuel (September 8, 2026)
• How North Carolina Wasted the Chance To Fix Hog Pollution (September 5, 2026)
• The real reason many Americans are cutting ties with their parents and siblings (September 3, 2026)
• Goings-on About Town: May Pang Takes Her Photographs on Tour (September 3, 2026)
• Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin (September 3, 2026)
• Contrarian Movie Reviews, Part 247: "Rangoon" is Actually Very Good! (September 2, 2026)
• Why Christopher Nolan turned Circe into a vindictive witch (August 19, 2026)
• THIS CROWDED EARTH, BY ROBERT BLOCK: EPISODE 3. President Winthrop—1999 (August 19, 2026)
• ‘Exercise will help any healing process’: Managing the pain of peripheral neuropathy (August 17, 2026)
• From the Audere Magazine Archives: The Week’s Damon Linker Says: Don’t Worry, We’re Not Living in a Simulation (August 14, 2026)
• Ecocide in Ukraine (August 13, 2026)
• Alon Preiss Didn't Thank You For Holding the Damn Door for Him (August 11, 2026)
• "Smitten": New Fiction by Alon Preiss (August 5, 2026)
• "What if Amoebas Could Play the Piano?" -- Some Overdue Thoughts on Tom Friedman’s Silly Mamdani Column  (August 4, 2026)
• Stick with What Works: Now is No Time to Give Up on Drachmanization (August 3, 2026)
• THIS CROWDED EARTH, BY ROBERT BLOCK: EPISODE 2. HARRY COLLINS, 1998 (August 2, 2026)
• An ancient past unearthed by urban construction (July 31, 2026)
• Your Sunday Funnies! (July 26, 2026)
• Why Gen Z is falling in love with film photography (July 26, 2026)
• William Delisle Hay: The Doom of the Great City, Being the Narrative of a Survivor, Written A.D. 1942  (July 22, 2026)
• In Search of Funding to Fight the Climate Crisis, Local Leaders Turn to Diplomacy (July 21, 2026)
• Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880) (July 18, 2026)
• Trump Keeps Saying This Over and Over Again; What Does He Mean?  (July 17, 2026)
• This Crowded Earth, by Robert Block: Episode 1. Harry Collins, 1997 (July 17, 2026)
• Herring and Herons: Signs of the Charles River’s Vast Improvement (July 13, 2026)
• Why You Should Be Eating Jellyfish to Save the Oceans (July 8, 2026)
• How to Explain My Fear of Scuba Divers Trying to Drown Me When I’m Wearing a Black Suit and Tie (July 6, 2026)
• A new pledge of allegiance (July 5, 2026)
• On Stephen Foster's Bicentennial, Listen to Randy VanWarmer's Tribute Album (July 3, 2026)
• 200 years after his birth, controversial composer Stephen Foster still sings to America’s contradictions (July 3, 2026)
• Oblivioni Re-Rates the Presidents (June 30, 2026)
• Storm: New Flash Fiction by Bridget Goldschmidt (June 28, 2026)
• The left needs better answers for scared people (June 28, 2026)
• A Curious Discovery of the Mid-19th Century, Which Shall Enlighten You (June 24, 2026)
• Why it’s OK to say ‘namaste’ in yoga class (June 24, 2026)
• A Thought or Two on Jay Clayton’s Stalled Nomination (June 22, 2026)
• When Jewish Canadians Lose Confidence in Public Safety (June 19, 2026)
• There’s No Point in Arguing Anymore. Let's Talk About "Mannix" Instead. (June 13, 2026)
• Using cannabis for sleep isn’t harmless – a neurologist explains how it can trap people in a cycle of dependency (June 12, 2026)
• Singer Ray Gibson at Fifty: “I’m Finding My Voice, Still”  (June 9, 2026)
• In Japan, raves and tea parties become sites of protest (June 7, 2026)
• New Yorkers, Electricity Will Now Come to You From Dams in Canada (June 3, 2026)
• Headline of the Week, June 2, 2026 Edition! (June 2, 2026)
• As goes CBS Radio News, so goes the idea that news media should serve the public interest (June 1, 2026)
• The First Day of Summer: Words and Pictures (June 1, 2026)
• THE TASTE OF SUCCESS: New Science Fiction from Mark Laporta (May 29, 2026)
• H. G. WELLS: THE RELIGION OF ATHEISTS (May 28, 2026)
• Song of the week: “Hydrogen,” by Birmingham Electric (May 27, 2026)
• COMRADES: A story for Memorial Day, by ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (May 25, 2026)
• Why the DNC 2024 Autopsy Is a Giant Turd (May 24, 2026)
• Kevin Schreck: Three UPA Animated Short Films to Stream Right Now! (May 22, 2026)
• Do you take after your dad’s RNA? (May 19, 2026)
• Two More New Prose Poems from Howie Good (May 18, 2026)
• Denmark’s ‘hands-off’ approach to parenting could offer a blueprint for raising more resilient, self-reliant kids (May 17, 2026)
• And the Worst Headline of the Year Goes To ... USA Today! (May 15, 2026)
• Oblivioni is Back!  (May 15, 2026)
• Away for the Season. Reason? Freezin'! (February 27, 2026)
• Save Luanne and Lucky! (February 22, 2026)
• Dear Remembrance Box: New Poetry by Phyllis Klein (February 19, 2026)
• Two New Prose Poems from Howie Good (February 19, 2026)
• ‘Which Side Are You On?’: American protest songs have emboldened social movements for generations, from coal country to Minneapolis (February 19, 2026)
• KNOWING WHERE: New Science Fiction by Mark Laporta (February 15, 2026)
• Geothermal could replace almost half of the EU’s fossil fuel power (February 11, 2026)
• Steven S. Drachman: The Worst Argument Israel’s Defenders Keep Making (February 2, 2026)
• Why I keep building bridges even when I’m full of doubt  (February 1, 2026)
• Can shoes alter your mind? What neuroscience says about foot sensation and focus (January 28, 2026)
• Kalyee Srithnam: I Stayed at a Cute Little Inn One Time, and It Wasn't So Fucking Great, If You Want to Know the Truth (January 26, 2026)
• Your Sunday Funnies: The Yellow Kid (January 25, 2026)
• Microbial Olympics: Super-duper one-celled athletes (January 23, 2026)
• Googoosh, the ‘Voice of Iran,’ has gone quiet – and that’s her point (January 20, 2026)
• The Night They Left Forever: A Dark Fairy Tale (January 15, 2026)
• Bowie: Ten Horrible Years Without Him (January 9, 2026)
• ‘Neither Gaza nor Lebanon!’ Iranian unrest is about more than the economy -- protesters reject the Islamic Republic’s whole rationale (January 6, 2026)
• Art of the Day: Nineteenth-Century Trade Card, "Royal Glue Mends Everything" (January 6, 2026)
• I wrote a book on the politics of war powers, and Trump’s attack on Venezuela reflects Congress surrendering its decision-making powers (January 3, 2026)
• What loving-kindness meditation is and how to practice it in the new year (January 1, 2026)
• A Comic Strip from December 1925: What were we complaining about a hundred years ago? (December 28, 2025)
• The dystopian Pottersville in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is starting to feel less like fiction (December 18, 2025)
• Steven S. Drachman Defends Sam Wainwright, of “It’s a Wonderful Life” (December 17, 2025)
• Let’s agree to stop ‘keeping the peace’ this holiday season (December 14, 2025)
• Peace on Earth? A Poem for a Fraught Holiday Season (December 14, 2025)
• “December” by Christina Rossetti (December 14, 2025)
• The Brain Fever Contract: New Fiction by Hugh A.D. Spencer (December 11, 2025)
• Randy Gordon on Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand, Creativity and Music-Extruding Machines (December 7, 2025)
• From 1925: How to Be a Bore (December 5, 2025)
• Ah, the Indescribable Pleasures of that Day After Thanksgiving! (November 27, 2025)
• How to turn a family gathering into a laboratory for political healing (November 26, 2025)
• Your Thanksgiving Funnies Page: Buster Brown, from November 1903 (November 26, 2025)
• WISHBONE VALLEY: A Classic Thanksgiving Ghost Story For Kids, by R. K. Munkittrick (November 26, 2025)
• ‘Carry your light out into the shitstorm’ — a conversation with Joan Baez  (November 23, 2025)
• "Billboards": Classic Sci-Fi Rediscovered (November 20, 2025)
• From the Archives: "Weren't Born A Man" - Dana Gillespie's Unavailable Masterpiece (November 17, 2025)
• Smoking Girl: Fiction from our Archives (November 13, 2025)
• “You have to worry less if you’re a tree”: Tracy Rybacki interviews poet David Groff about poetry, grief, family and the art of being human  (November 11, 2025)
• Two Poems by David Groff (November 11, 2025)
• Four films that show how humans can fortify – or botch – their relationship with AI (November 10, 2025)
• How arabidopsis thaliana, a humble weed, became a superstar of biology (November 7, 2025)
• Alon Preiss: Some notes from this morning’s meeting (November 5, 2025)
• With federal climate progress stalled, Simplify Solar advances local solutions  (November 3, 2025)
• ‘My gender is like an empty lot’ -- the people who reject man, woman and any other gender label (October 31, 2025)
• From the Archives: Steven S. Drachman on "Etude in Black," that Columbo episode that Natasha Lyonne Loves So Much (January 2023) (October 28, 2025)
• Animal origami: The physics of nature’s folds (October 24, 2025)
• Quote of the Day: The Day the Robots Stopped Reasoning (October 22, 2025)
• Pharaohs in Dixieland – how 19th-century America reimagined Egypt to justify racism and slavery (October 22, 2025)
• Jane Fonda, other stars, revive the Committee for the First Amendment – a group that emerged when the anti-communist panic came for Hollywood (October 14, 2025)
• I Attach A Short Story for Your Consideration, which I Hope You Will Enjoy (October 9, 2025)
• Slaves of the Dust: Rediscovered Sci-Fi by Sophie Wenzel Ellis (October 5, 2025)
• The Captain's Visit: New Fiction by Bridget Goldschmidt (October 3, 2025)
• Kalyee Srithnam: A Guy Asked Me a Question (2022) (October 3, 2025)
• Dederico Felloni, the Director who Died: The Ultimate, Totally Definitive Biography (September 29, 2025)
• Even as Jimmy Kimmel returns to the airwaves, TV networks remain more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before (September 28, 2025)
• The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850) (September 26, 2025)
• How can I keep from singing, even in grim times? (September 22, 2025)
• Frederick Douglass, on Freedom of Speech (September 19, 2025)
• How neutrino, a mysterious particle, could explain the universe’s missing antimatter (September 18, 2025)
• Kalyee Srithnam: Is AI Porn Harmless, or a Dangerous Crutch? (September 18, 2025)
• After Charlie Kirk’s murder, the US might seem hopelessly divided – is there any way forward? (September 16, 2025)
• Tom Vinciguerra on How to Respond to Charlie Kirk's Assassination: “Keep Mum” (September 15, 2025)
• The Portion: America Should Learn the Lessons of Ki Tavo (September 11, 2025)
• Astrology’s appeal in uncertain times (September 10, 2025)
• "You Are Targeting the Wrong People" (September 9, 2025)
• Generative AI and deeper thinking: What’s in our heads still matters* (September 8, 2025)
• Your Sunday Funnies: Ella Cinders (September 7, 2025)
• Ki Teitzei is this Week's Parsha: Would Everyone Please Listen to God for Once? (September 5, 2025)
• Could Oregon chart the course for universal health care in the US? (September 4, 2025)
• Mark Laporta on Debussy: Douze Etudes  (September 3, 2025)
• Chopped Liver Brothers, Fancy Fruit Men, and Does God Really Really Exist?: Alon Preiss Reviews the Web (September 2, 2025)
• Superman's Plea for Tolerance, then and now (August 31, 2025)
• The Ape-Men of Xlotli: Rediscovered Sci-Fi by David R. Sparks (August 29, 2025)
• Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura (August 27, 2025)
• Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ still speaks to a nation vacillating between hope and despair (August 24, 2025)
• Summer’s End: A Classic Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar (August 24, 2025)
• Trans Youth: Care, Not Controversy (August 22, 2025)
• Imaginary Prospects: New Fiction by Bridget Goldschmidt (August 17, 2025)
• Memory Error (You): New Fiction from Kalyee Srithnam (August 13, 2025)
• Ron Ketelsen Attacks Oblivioni Magazine: "Inaccurate" and "False," he says (August 11, 2025)
• What fantasy stories teach us about defeating authoritarianism (August 10, 2025)
• Worm-inspired treatments inch toward the clinic (August 7, 2025)
• The Latest News from Schoharie County (August 6, 2025)
• Beyond brute strength: A fresh look at Samson’s search for intimacy in the Hebrew Bible (August 6, 2025)
• Kendall Beck Is Your Coolest Friend in Japan (Even If You Don’t Know Who She Is) (August 3, 2025)
• Murmurations: Puerto Rico’s Resilient History Mirrors the Mangrove (July 31, 2025)
• Everything You Need to Know to Succeed in this Challenging New 20th Century! (July 28, 2025)
• Ruby the Flapper: More Jazz Age Comics from 1926 (July 27, 2025)
• Frank Reade Jr.'s Submarine Boat; or, to the North Pole Under the Ice: A Steampunk Adventure from 1902! (July 26, 2025)
• Columbia’s $200M deal with Trump administration sets a precedent for other universities to bend to the government’s will (July 25, 2025)
• Can animals make art? (July 22, 2025)
• Lessons from a Historic Act of Disarmament in Kurdistan (July 18, 2025)
• Sculptor galaxy image provides brilliant details that will help astronomers study how stars form (July 17, 2025)
• Jay Greenfield has died; Attorney and Civil Rights Activist Became Acclaimed First-Time Novelist at 83 with "Max's Diamonds" (July 1, 2025)
• We're moving to a reduced publication schedule for the summer (and maybe the fall, too), but don't worry. We're fine. (June 29, 2025)
• Watching the world, one quintillionth of a second at a time (June 29, 2025)
• Finding Strength in Our Voices: Tracy Rybacki and Megan Moore on Life, Work and the Down Syndrome Community (June 27, 2025)
• A new book of Edward Gorey’s drawings shows what’s lost when the artist’s sexuality is glossed over (June 27, 2025)
• Steven S. Drachman: A Few (Optimistic but Skeptical) Thoughts on Last Night’s Mamdani Election Upset (June 25, 2025)
• Your favorite campgrounds, hiking trails, and forests could soon be up for auction (June 21, 2025)
• Fragments of Agency, Threads of Self (June 16, 2025)
• Trump Is Following in the Footsteps of the Worst Traitor in US History (June 16, 2025)
• Why did Israel defy Trump – and risk a major war – by striking Iran now? And what happens next? (June 13, 2025)
• Steven S. Drachman: The Rise and Fall of Jewish Sharon Springs (June 12, 2025)
• Ivy: New Fiction by Tracy Urban (June 2, 2025)
• A New Sunday Mermaid Comic! (June 1, 2025)
• A Jazz Age Comic Strip About a Flapper (For Your Sunday Morning Enjoyment) (June 1, 2025)
• Tim Vernimmen: The history of the ocean, as told by foraminifera, tiny beautiful fossils (May 29, 2025)
• Gigantic Pumpkin: New Flash Fiction by Robert David Duncan (May 27, 2025)
• Violation: New Science Fiction by Mark Laporta (May 26, 2025)
• Aristotle would scoff at Mark Zuckerberg’s suggestion that AI can solve the loneliness epidemic (May 26, 2025)
• Zohran Mamdani’s Cynical and Dangerous Politics (May 22, 2025)
• Steven S. Drachman: The Biden Coverup Wasn’t a Coverup (May 21, 2025)
• Believe it or not, there was a time when the US government built beautiful homes for working-class Americans to deal with a housing crisis (May 19, 2025)
• Granville Burgess, a Shoeless Joe Jackson Advocate, Relishes Justice At Last (May 14, 2025)
• Amelissa Oblige: Beneath the Surface (May 14, 2025)
• <h2>YOU, TOO?</h2> A Poem about Anti-Semitism at Harvard (May 13, 2025)
• RFK Jr. said many autistic people will never write a poem -- even though there’s a rich history of neurodivergent poets and writers (May 12, 2025)
• Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It. (May 9, 2025)
• What We Worried about 128 Years Ago: A Political Cartoon from 1917 (May 7, 2025)
• Can learning cursive help kids read better? Some policymakers think it’s worth a try (May 6, 2025)
• Poem of the Week, Found on the Back of a Gum Wrapper (May 5, 2025)
• Photo of the Week: Machu Pichu, April 2025 (May 4, 2025)
• Could we be entering a Trump resistance ‘movement moment’? (May 1, 2025)
• Terra Affirma: A Hybrid Wild (April 24, 2025)
• Stuart V. Witt: Have you heard the one about the 83-year-old math teacher who wanted to be a standup comedian? (April 24, 2025)
• The Worst Story Ever Told (April 22, 2025)
• The Public Policy Pronouncements of Donald Trump (Part 12), with Commentary and Analysis (April 18, 2025)
• Alain Nu: The Sacred Pendulum   (April 18, 2025)
• On Alt-Right Zionists: With Friends Like These…. (April 17, 2025)
• Humans aren’t the only animals with complex culture, but researchers point to one feature that makes ours unique (March 19, 2025)
• Tracy Rybacki: The Celebrity in All of Us (March 19, 2025)
• Donald Brackett on Primal Screen Therapy: The Optical Unconscious Writ Large (March 17, 2025)
• The caterpillars that can kill you (March 16, 2025)
• Steven S. Drachman: Remember how bad 2014 seemed at the time? (March 15, 2025)
• Lessons on trans liberation from the U.S. South (March 10, 2025)
• The pernicious effects of transphobia on campus (March 7, 2025)
• The fight for trans rights is a women’s rights issue (March 7, 2025)
• Some 1920s Humor from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang (March 5, 2025)
• Trump is the kinglike president many feared when arguing over the US Constitution in 1789 – and his address to Congress showed it (March 5, 2025)
• Three Poems of Rupture and Despair (March 4, 2025)
• Kalyee Srithnam on Quantum Soulmates, Love and Entanglement (March 4, 2025)
• Beyond Anthropomorphism (March 4, 2025)
• Your Sunday Funnies: And So They Were Never Married (March 1, 2025)
• "No Other Land", A Palestinian-Israeli film, is an Oscars favorite ? so why is it so hard to see? (February 28, 2025)
• Kim Jong-un is launching a crackdown on North Korea’s drinking culture (February 25, 2025)
• Shadowless: New Science Fiction by Steven S. Drachman (February 23, 2025)
• Your Sunday Funnies: The Death of Preiss (Part 3) (February 22, 2025)
• Politically Relevant Obscurity of the Week: "Molli and Max in the Future" (February 20, 2025)
• Trans people affirmed their gender without medical help in medieval Europe. History shows how identity transcends medicine and law (February 18, 2025)
• Poem of the Day: My Death (February 17, 2025)
• What Are The Five Absolutely Best-Ever Episodes of Land of the Lost? (February 11, 2025)
• Poem of the Day: Broadway-Lafayette Street Station (February 11, 2025)
• Your Sunday Funnies: The Death of Preiss (Part 2) (February 9, 2025)
• Efficiency ? or empire? How Elon Musk’s hostile takeover could end government as we know it (February 7, 2025)
• How to organize under authoritarian creep in a far-right closing civil society (February 5, 2025)
• From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture (February 3, 2025)
• A Story We Will Not Write About: Who is Wearing a Plunge Dress at the Gala? (February 2, 2025)
• Your Sunday Funnies: The Death of Preiss (Part 1) (February 2, 2025)
• On Religion: Let’s Disagree Respectfully (January 31, 2025)
• The White People: Rediscovered Fiction by Arthur Machen (January 30, 2025)
• Photo of the Day: Have You Ever Seen a Mermaid? (January 30, 2025)
• How midlife became a crisis (January 28, 2025)
• David Fotouhi, Donald Trump’s No. 2 Pick for the EPA, Represented Companies Accused of Pollution Harm (January 26, 2025)
• David Lynch exposed the rot at the heart of American culture (January 23, 2025)
• What do I write about now?  (January 20, 2025)
• That 1970s version of Lorna Doone that ran on Saturday morning on PBS (a review) (January 19, 2025)
• Israel-Hamas deal shows limits of US influence – and the unpredictable impact of Trump (January 17, 2025)
• Mark Laporta on Anna Clyne’s Night Ferry (January 14, 2025)
• Self-continuity: Making friends with your past and future selves (January 14, 2025)
• Your Sunday Funnies! A "Mermaid" New Yorker Cartoon (January 12, 2025)
• Finding Harmony in the Chaos: Embracing Life’s Duality to Thrive (January 11, 2025)
• A Moment of a Lifetime: some thoughts on forgiveness, by Tracy Rybacki (January 10, 2025)
• A Poem for January, by Angeline Weld Grimké (January 9, 2025)
• Photo of the Week: December 28, Brooklyn (January 7, 2025)
• When everything in the universe changed (January 7, 2025)
• How liberals lost political comedy -- and helped Trump win (January 6, 2025)
• Mark Laporta: Writing Music is How I Hear Myself Think (January 3, 2025)
• Corpse Pose: New Fiction by Robert David Duncan (January 3, 2025)
• Language AI in 2024: Size, guardrails and steps toward AI agents (December 22, 2024)
• “To make the perfect cup of coffee….” A Q&A with AnnieGamps’ Adam Nagelvoort (December 17, 2024)
• Love is found within: new fiction by Tracy Rybacki (December 13, 2024)
• Unwrapping Operation Christmas Drop (December 13, 2024)
• Books to Help Prepare for Trump 2.0 (December 11, 2024)
• Oblivioni Ranks the Best Movies of 1924 (December 9, 2024)
• Assad Government in Syria Falls After Nearly 14 Years of Civil War as Rebels Seize Capital (December 8, 2024)
• Your Sunday "Mermaids" Comic: Existential Dread (December 8, 2024)
• Creating Sentient AI: An Experiment  (December 6, 2024)
• New technologies could refine the copper the world needs — without the dirty copper smelting (December 4, 2024)
• Studies of migraine's many triggers offer paths to new therapies (December 1, 2024)
• "Infinity Afterglow": A Dazzling Finale to an Epic Sci-Fi Saga (December 1, 2024)
• An upward spiral – how small acts of kindness and connection really can change the world, according to psychology research (November 29, 2024)
• What to Read on Thanksgiving  (November 24, 2024)
• Mermaids! Your Sunday Funny! (November 24, 2024)
• STARGUARDS: INKY'S EPILOGUE (November 24, 2024)
• To some ancient Romans, a gladiator was the embodiment of tyranny (November 22, 2024)
• Trump's Third Term is Impossible? Don’t Be So Sure! (November 19, 2024)
• Poem of the Day: Harvest Song (November 17, 2024)
• 'Potentially Ominous Trend' for Press Freedom as Trump Wages Legal War on News Outlets (November 17, 2024)
• What is Your Obscure Fandom Passion? Write About It! (November 15, 2024)
• Time Enough At Last: Classic Sci-Fi by Lynn Venable (November 13, 2024)
• Trump's environmental policy: what he can do, and what he probably can’t change (November 12, 2024)
• An Obscurity to Stream: Darezhan Omirbayev’s “Kairat” (November 10, 2024)
• Mermaids: The Flapper (November 10, 2024)
• Quincy Jones mastered the art of arrangement, transforming simple tunes into epic soundscapes (November 7, 2024)
• Trump’s Near Sweep of Texas Border Counties Shows a Shift to the Right for Latino Voters (November 7, 2024)
• Trump Claims "Illegal Alien Voting" Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees. (November 4, 2024)
• Giving Back: New Fiction by Robert David Duncan (November 3, 2024)
• Your Sunday Funnies: Mermaids! (November 3, 2024)
• 1900 — OR,THE LAST PRESIDENT: Fiction by INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD (October 31, 2024)
• A new president will be elected, but it may take some time to determine who wins (October 30, 2024)
• North Korea is poised to intervene in Ukraine. It’s our fault.  (October 23, 2024)
• Sustainable building effort reaches new heights with wooden skyscrapers (October 21, 2024)
• Sinwar is Dead: To Achieve Peace in Israel/Palestine, Don’t Read My Ebook, and Ignore My Ted Talk  (October 18, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 1: Incorporeal (October 14, 2024)
• Judy-Lynn del Rey, the woman who revolutionized the fantasy genre, is finally getting her due (October 14, 2024)
• CINN's Steve Acunto to Publish New 3rd Novel in Acclaimed Space Opera (October 11, 2024)
• Our Favorite "Eons" Host: Michelle Barboza-Ramirez (October 11, 2024)
• Oregon County Files First-Ever Climate Deception Lawsuit Against Gas Utility (October 9, 2024)
• Alarm Clock Mirage: New Poetry by Danny D Bennett (October 7, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 38: Call to Arms (October 5, 2024)
• Photo of the Day: Venice Glass Week Teaches Us How to Catch Stardust  (October 4, 2024)
• In ‘Nobody Wants This,’ rom-com gets century-old tropes with a new twist – the cute rabbi (October 4, 2024)
• Stop Punishing Gazans and Lebanese for Iran's Wars (October 2, 2024)
• Untangling the Roots of Wild Foods (October 1, 2024)
• Hummingbirds thrive on an extreme lifestyle. Here’s how. (October 1, 2024)
• The Real Problem with Israel’s Wars (September 29, 2024)
• We're All At A Staff Off-Site; See You Next Week! (September 19, 2024)
• At Least Two Saudi Officials May Have Deliberately Assisted 9/11 Hijackers, New Evidence Suggests (September 17, 2024)
• Today's Top Stories! (September 15, 2024)
• Vignettes of Life: Political Conventions, circa 1924 (September 15, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 37: Doomsday Device (September 14, 2024)
• Mark Laporta on Schreker: Chamber Symphony (September 13, 2024)
• How Did We get Here?: Starguards, Chapter 9  (September 11, 2024)
• Bobbleheads, Magic 8 Balls, chairs and other artifacts in the Smithsonian reveal the historical significance of presidential debates (September 10, 2024)
• Vignettes of Life, a Jazz Age Comic: Epicurean Eccentricities (September 8, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 36: Ornery Subroutines (September 7, 2024)
• Robot cooks are coming to the kitchen ? what that could mean for society and culture (September 5, 2024)
• Mark Laporta on George Benjamin: Three Inventions (September 5, 2024)
• HYMEN, a Poem by H.D., from a Hundred Years Ago, and then some (September 5, 2024)
• Art of the Week: "Pretzel Vendors," by Samuel Cahan (September 3, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 35: Terrifying Mutant Brat (August 31, 2024)
• What a bioluminescent petunia had to teach me (August 30, 2024)
• Lessons from the $600M fight over Michael Jackson’s estate (August 29, 2024)
• New Covid/FLiRT Symptom Plagues Out-of-Print Novelist: Is There a Bug Burrowing Inside My Ear (or Are You Just Happy to See Me)? (August 28, 2024)
• How to make sure your disruptive protest helps your cause (August 26, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 34: Fleet of Clay (August 24, 2024)
• China leans into using AI, even as the US leads in developing it (August 23, 2024)
• A Sunday Mermaid Comic Strip ... on Tuesday! (August 20, 2024)
• Is it Real or Is it AI? A Starry Night at Rye Playland (August 19, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 33: Probability's Edge (August 17, 2024)
• Throw Caution to the Wind: A Noir Graphic Novel by Brackett & Olsen (August 16, 2024)
• Most young voters support Kamala Harris ? but that doesn’t guarantee they will show up at the polls (August 16, 2024)
• Forlorn and Forsaken: A Tisha B'Av Story by Isaiah Berschadski (August 13, 2024)
• Our Shared Humanity, This Tisha B'Av (August 12, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 32: Biomechanoid Weapon (August 10, 2024)
• Photo of the Day: (Almost) Forgotten (August 9, 2024)
• The Woman Obsession: Rediscovered Classic Sci-Fi by William Campbell Gault (August 9, 2024)
• Alon Preiss: Enough with Your Faith (August 9, 2024)
• The climate vice president? What Tim Walz brings to the Harris ticket (August 9, 2024)
• Trump Media Quietly Enters Deal With a Republican Donor Who Could Benefit From a Second Trump Administration (August 7, 2024)
• "Case in Point" and "Criminal": Prose Poems by Howie Good (August 7, 2024)
• Walz pick turns focus on what a VP brings to White House – 3 essential reads (August 6, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 31: Interstellar Terror (August 3, 2024)
• Two Poems by Beth Brown Preston (July 31, 2024)
• Quantum information theorists are shedding light on entanglement, one of the spooky mysteries of quantum mechanics (July 31, 2024)
• Devil’s Food: New Fiction by William P. Lazarus (July 30, 2024)
• What a Relief: We're Back (July 19, 2024)
• What VR and AI Can Bring Us: Movie Theaters of the Future (July 16, 2024)
• Why does your hair curl in the summer? A chemist explains the science behind hair structure (July 15, 2024)
• Martian Meteorites help scientists understand the red planet’s interior (July 15, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 30: Cosmic Chess (July 13, 2024)
• Stolen  Afternoon: New Fiction by Bridget Goldschmidt (July 12, 2024)
• From Forgotten Box to Art Gallery: The Journey of Benson's Beasts (July 11, 2024)
• LIFESTYLES: New Fiction by Jorge Etcheverry Arcaya (July 11, 2024)
• Biden Can Stop the Terrifying Prospect of Second Trump Presidency—By Stepping Aside (July 10, 2024)
• Chasing Ghosts: The Self-Curated Film/ Performance Art of Yoko Ono (July 10, 2024)
• As New Campaign Implores Him to 'Pass the Torch,' Biden Rejects Calls to Drop Out  (July 6, 2024)
• Will Joe Biden step down? An expert Q&A (July 6, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 29: Playing With Fire (July 6, 2024)
• July 4, and Religion without God: Alon Preiss reviews the Web (July 4, 2024)
• ChatGPT and the movie ‘Her’ are just the latest example of the ‘sci-fi feedback loop’ (July 1, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 28: Frame-Shift (June 29, 2024)
• Alon Preiss: A Contrarian Opinion on Biden’s Debate Performance (June 28, 2024)
• Go Your Own Way: Billy Wilder and the Fine Art of Independent Cinema (June 28, 2024)
• What Jack Benny and Poet Dorritt Carroll can Teach Joe Biden (June 28, 2024)
• Escalating Israel-Hezbollah clashes threaten to spark regional war and force US into conflict with Iran (June 26, 2024)
• Cleaning up cow burps to combat global warming (June 23, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 27: Shadowy Threats (June 22, 2024)
• What We're Watching: Anna May Wong in Piccadilly (June 19, 2024)
• Independent Thinkers: Send Us Your Thoughts (June 19, 2024)
• Kristin Pauker: The Fight for Fairness (June 19, 2024)
• Tweet of the Week; Headline of the Week (June 18, 2024)
• Alon Preiss, on the Hunter Biden and Donald Trump Verdicts (June 11, 2024)
• Abracadabra! How magic can help us understand animal minds (June 9, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 26: Critical Update (June 8, 2024)
• Scientists call the region of space influenced by the Sun the heliosphere – but without an interstellar probe, they don’t know much about its shape (June 7, 2024)
• We're All Going to Die! (The Worst News Article of the Week) (June 5, 2024)
• Exposomics: Polluted Minds (June 4, 2024)
• Top 5 Reasons to be Grateful that Matt Murray is the New WaPo Executive Editor (Plus a Bonus Reason) (June 3, 2024)
• So You Have a Horrible Boss: What To Do Next (June 2, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 25: Sidereal Delusions (June 1, 2024)
• ‘Born in the USA’ turns 40 and still remains one of Bruce Springsteen’s most misunderstood songs (May 31, 2024)
• Photo of the Day: A Restaurant that Knows What It Doesn't Like (May 29, 2024)
• Frank Reade, Jr., and His Engine of the Clouds;OR, Chased Around the World in the Sky. (May 28, 2024)
• What veterans’ poems can teach us about healing on Memorial Day (May 27, 2024)
• From 1867: some Wicked Stories that have been told about Cats. (May 26, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 24: Heartless Hologram (May 25, 2024)
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• How a British military march became the distinctive American graduation March (May 24, 2024)
• Between Spirituality and Sexuality: My Journey of Sacred Union  (May 24, 2024)
• Harrison Ford's 5 Best Movies to Watch Right Now (May 22, 2024)
• Time for half-year resolutions? (May 20, 2024)
• Mermaids! at the Beach -- Your Sunday Funnies (May 19, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 23: Atemporal Reunion (May 18, 2024)
• Flapper Jane, by BRUCE BLIVEN (May 17, 2024)
• Mark Rudd: Columbia students are sick at heart — just as we were in ‘68 (May 16, 2024)
• The Holographic Duality Proves that God Exists (May 16, 2024)
• Josh Feit: Whatever Became of Mahmoud Hassan Pasha?  (May 14, 2024)
• The world is obsessed with forests’ climate benefits. Here’s the problem. (May 13, 2024)
• Zionism Defined: Is It Time to Retire the Word? (May 13, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 22: Alien Think Tank (May 11, 2024)
• The Girl from Bodies, Inc: Rediscovered Sci-Fi by Len Spencer (May 10, 2024)
• How to Bury Your Abusive Husband and the Laws That Shielded Him (May 9, 2024)
• Nature-based solutions are critical to dealing with climate change (May 7, 2024)
• What is “It”? Looking Back at a Misunderstood Word  (May 7, 2024)
• What Do Robots Think Humans Really Need? (May 5, 2024)
• Mermaids! Your Sunday Funnies (May 5, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / EPISODE 21: Warrior Drones (May 4, 2024)
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• The tender art of tadpole parenting (April 30, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 20: Biotech Gambit (April 27, 2024)
• From shrimp Jesus to fake self-portraits, AI-generated images have become the latest form of social media spam (April 25, 2024)
• During this Season of Discontent, We Need a New Word for “Palindrome”! (April 24, 2024)
• Interview: Donna Levin Champions Unlikely Friendships and the Power of Community in "The Talking Stick" (April 24, 2024)
• SORT OF THE RINGS: NEW FICTION BY JAY GOLDIN (April 23, 2024)
• Are tomorrow’s engineers ready to face AI ethical challenges? (April 22, 2024)
• WOMAN'S TOUCH: Rediscovered Sci-Fi By EVELYN E. SMITH (April 21, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 19: Alien Assault (April 20, 2024)
• Why are there so many beetle species? (April 19, 2024)
• “The Talking Stick”: Donna Levin's Bold and Ingratiating Blend of Friendship, Deception and Memory (April 19, 2024)
• Marcus Aurelius’ Macchiato Meditations: Fiction by Eric Lawson (April 18, 2024)
• Taylor Swift’s homage to Clara Bow (April 17, 2024)
• Larry Says Goodbye, and Wesley Morris Rides His Bike on the Sidewalk (April 16, 2024)
• We're on Vacation (March 29, 2024)
• D. Watkins and Nia Johnson: Not Just Surviving, but Thriving (March 28, 2024)
• A Chat with Bruno Grandsard, the Underdog Candidate for District 10 (March 27, 2024)
• DOGTRONICS: New Fiction by Hugh A. D. Spencer (March 27, 2024)
• Did You Text with a Slave in Burma Over Your Morning Coffee?  (March 26, 2024)
• Barnard Professor Nara Milanich’s Timid Activism  (March 25, 2024)
• These Prospect Park Trees are Beautiful, but are they “Nature”? (March 24, 2024)
• Descendants of Holocaust survivors explain why they are Putting Auschwitz Memorial tattoos on their own bodies (March 22, 2024)
• Five Shows to Stream on PBS … Right Now  (March 21, 2024)
• How ‘Dune’ became a beacon for the fledgling environmental movement and a rallying cry for the new science of ecology (March 18, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 18: Temporal Transfer (March 16, 2024)
• Hunting sky islands for genetic clues to climate resilience (March 15, 2024)
• The Lost Randy Vanwarmer Interview, Annotated (March 15, 2024)
• Send Us Your Short Fiction  (March 10, 2024)
• The Shadow of a Forgotten Moon: Starguards, Chapter 8 (March 10, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 17: Space Goddess (March 9, 2024)
• Rediscovered Masterpiece: Algernon Blackwood's The Willows (March 9, 2024)
• What happened this Week? (March 8, 2024)
• Saving the news media means moving beyond the benevolence of billionaires (March 8, 2024)
• Skeith DeWine, Redefining Skateboarding Culture through LGBTQ+ and BIPOC Representation (March 5, 2024)
• Toward truly compostable plastic (March 4, 2024)
• Celebrating AltSpace Week, And Mourning What Was (March 2, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 16: Cosmic Data Feed (March 2, 2024)
• The Russia-Ukraine War has caused a staggering amount of Ukrainian cultural destruction – both seen and unseen (March 1, 2024)
• Some of OUr Web Ads Are Gross? (February 29, 2024)
• Does Sora Mean the End of Human Movies (Spoiler: No) (February 27, 2024)
• 5 Reasons Why You Should Adopt a Pet Rat! (February 25, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 15: Time Warp (February 24, 2024)
• Making the moral of the story stick? A media psychologist explains the research behind ‘Sesame Street,’ ‘Arthur’ and other children’s TV (February 23, 2024)
• Get Published! We Want You in Oblivioni Magazine (February 22, 2024)
• Donna Levin’s New Novel ‘Talking Stick’ Heads Up a Good Season for Women’s Fiction (February 22, 2024)
• The Most Disappointing News Story of the Week: Chynna Phillips, and Her Father's Dark Revelation (February 20, 2024)
• What’s behind the astonishing rise in LGBTQ+ romance literature? (February 19, 2024)
• From the Archives: Is The Future Artificial? (February 18, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 14: Symbiote Blackmail (February 17, 2024)
• James Webb Space Telescope Challenges Cosmological Norms: Unraveling the Mystery of Ultramassive Galaxies (February 16, 2024)
• Some of the Renaissance’s most romantic love poems weren’t for lovers (February 15, 2024)
• Remembering Jack Benny, on his 130th Birthday (February 14, 2024)
• Art of the Day: Who Were These Guys? (February 12, 2024)
• Rediscovered Sci-Fi: SECOND VARIETY, by Philip K. Dick (February 11, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 13: Metaversal Shadow (February 10, 2024)
• TikTok: Companies Are Selling AI Therapy. Should You Buy It? (February 9, 2024)
• Things That Are Out of Your Reach: The Fisk-Harkness House is for Sale (February 7, 2024)
• Marcel Perez Tribute Showcases Forgotten Comic Trailblazer (February 7, 2024)
• Josh Feit on Magic (and Racism): Douglas Fairbanks' 'The Thief of Bagdad' Celebrates 100 Years of Hollywood Spectacle (February 5, 2024)
• Why interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua and Borisov may hold clues to exoplanets (February 5, 2024)
• THE HOLLOW VORTEX: Starguards, Chapter 7 (February 4, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 12: Secret Tech (February 3, 2024)
• Things of the Week: A List (February 2, 2024)
• I Found "The Gold Diggers" -- a Lost Film Classic -- in a Biscuit Tin (January 31, 2024)
• "David Bowie wore neckties.” (January 30, 2024)
• Jazz this Week: Mike McGinnis + 9 (January 29, 2024)
• A newly identified ‘Hell chicken’ species suggests dinosaurs weren’t sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hit (January 29, 2024)
• A Look Back at “The First James Bond” (Spoiler Alert: It’s Not Who You Think) (January 29, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 11: Space Base (January 27, 2024)
• VR Community: Let Us Write About Your Virtual Reality Events (January 26, 2024)
• From January 1854: FEMALE ACCOMPLISHMENTS (January 26, 2024)
• Josh Feit: Family Secrets, Crime and Social Justice in Elizabeth Gaskell’s "Mary Barton" (January 25, 2024)
• Alon Preiss Reviews the Web: Nicholas Kristof, Spike Lee and Running Out of Toilet Paper (January 24, 2024)
• Mysterious Muons: the Enigma of Anomalous Magnetic Moments in Particle Physics (January 21, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 10: Pocket Universe (January 20, 2024)
• Photo of the Day: Graffiti War in Brooklyn (January 19, 2024)
• The life and death of Popular Culture (January 18, 2024)
• Can everyday distraction be a tool for productivity? (January 17, 2024)
• “Our Ever-Evolving Minds”: A Couple of Robots Chatting About the Meaning of Life (January 17, 2024)
• The Time Roamer’s Lament: Everyone you meet is a tragedy (January 16, 2024)
• Gen Z and millennials have an unlikely love affair with their local libraries (January 14, 2024)
• That "Mermaids" Comic Strip- Explained! (January 14, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 9: Shape-Shifter (January 13, 2024)
• Margot From Cleveland Nineteen Years Ago Last Month: New Fiction from Alon Preiss (January 12, 2024)
• Things to Worry About (January 11, 2024)
• Why We Miss Ties, and Why We Hope They Will Come Back (January 11, 2024)
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• Jackie Chan at 70: A Contrarian List of his Five Best Films (January 8, 2024)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 8: infinite Mentor (January 7, 2024)
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• Wait, Isn’t that Guy the Other Guy? You Know the One I Mean? (January 5, 2024)
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• Photo of the Day: Hamas (January 4, 2024)
• Happy New Year from Oblivioni Magazine (December 31, 2023)
• New Beginnings, Infinite Possibilities (December 31, 2023)
• Your Sunday Funnies: "Mermaids" for New Year's Eve (December 31, 2023)
• New Year’s Day, by Hamish Hendry (December 30, 2023)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 7: Temporal Anomaly (December 30, 2023)
• NEW YEAR’S EVE: A Poem by Harry Graham (December 29, 2023)
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• Robot Uprisings: The latest (December 28, 2023)
• MY NEW YEAR'S EVE AMONG THE MUMMIES: Rediscovered Fiction by George du Maurier (December 28, 2023)
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• Year-End Recap: The Most Disappointing News Article of 2023 (December 24, 2023)
• A Solar Seduction: Starguards, Chapter Five (December 24, 2023)
• Five Reasons Why 2024 Will be Great (plus a bonus reason) (December 23, 2023)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 6: Nanites (December 23, 2023)
• CRIME FICTION: THE AFFAIR OF THE MAN WHO CALLED HIMSELF HAMILTON CLEEK (December 22, 2023)
• Steven S. Drachman: The Pilgrims and their War on Christmas (December 22, 2023)
• "Safety Last” at 100 Years Old: Still a Towering Triumph (December 21, 2023)
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• Holy voter suppression, Batgirl! What comics reveal about gender and democracy (December 17, 2023)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 5: hidden fleet (December 16, 2023)
• Steven S. Drachman: Things That Are Sort of Gone, Just Out of Reach (December 14, 2023)
• in Palestine (December 13, 2023)
• Alon Preiss: Immortality? Feh! (December 13, 2023)
• Infographic of the Day, from the What-Me-Worry? Department (December 12, 2023)
• The psychopathic path to success (December 10, 2023)
• Your Sunday Funnies: "Mermaids" (December 10, 2023)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 4: Ancient Archive (December 9, 2023)
• Photo of the Day: The Rainbow Rose (December 8, 2023)
• Holiday Fiction: The Chanukah Light (December 8, 2023)
• Alon Preiss: The Corbynization of U.S. Progressives and the Election of Donald Trump (December 8, 2023)
• Holocaust comparisons are overused – but in the case of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel they may reflect more than just the emotional response of a traumatized people (December 8, 2023)
• Insomnia (December 6, 2023)
• Degas - Manet, and the Mystery of Madame (December 5, 2023)
• Neanderthals: More knowable now than ever (December 4, 2023)
• Your Sunday Funnies: Mermaids (December 3, 2023)
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• Merriam-Webster’s word of the year – authentic – reflects growing concerns over AI’s ability to deceive and dehumanize (December 3, 2023)
• Infinity Afterglow / Episode 3: Sentinel (December 2, 2023)
• Kissinger. Dead. (December 1, 2023)
• Alon Preiss: Just Say No … to “Caffé Americano” (December 1, 2023)
• Memories of Palestine before Israel: The Shlemihl (November 28, 2023)
• Charles Henry Turner’s insights into animal behavior were a century ahead of their time (November 27, 2023)
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• WHY ARE WE ALL SO HAPPY?: STARGUARDS, CHAPTER THREE (November 19, 2023)
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• Palestine before Israel: The Village of Râm Allâh (November 16, 2023)
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• Q&A — Plant pathologist Karen Garrett: AI for better crops (November 13, 2023)
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