A felt-tip pen. A very old typewriter. Scissors and cow gum. A local photocopying shop. And a thought, an almost subversive thought: “I can do this.” When British bank clerk Mark Perry heard the Ramones’ debut album in 1974, the music bug bit him. Hard. “I wanted to be involved even though I wasn’t…

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As the 14th season of Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York City came to a close this fall, I found myself on Reddit, reading rumors about the marriage and divorce timeline of one of the show’s stars. R

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Over the past few years, the social movement known as effective altruism has divided employees and executives at artificial-intelligence companies across Silicon Valley, pitting believers against nonb

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Enlarge / Some bugs are just perennially out of reach. (We are aware this is not a red panda, but we lack for images illustrating such a creature being lightly annoyed by a particular kind of insect).