Friday, August 21, 2026. Today’s newest cultural stories and most-read discoveries.
In northern Namibia, a Himba woman grinds a piece of deep red stone into powder. She mixes it with butterfat until it becomes a rich paste, then smooths it across...
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Just before midnight on December 31, Copacabana Beach begins to look almost unreal. Millions of people face the Atlantic beneath fireworks and stage lights, yet one color dominates the sand:...
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The meal is finished. The bill says $60. But in the United States, that often does not mean you are expected to pay $60. A blank line waits beneath the...
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A circle of young Maasai men is singing when one figure suddenly rises above the others. He jumps almost straight upward, lands, then springs again. There is no running start...
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The teapot rises. Twenty centimeters above the glass becomes thirty, then forty. A thin amber stream falls through the air, somehow landing neatly inside a small decorated glass while a...
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