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The secret ingredient of comfort food? Struggle.
By Kara Baskin

Coachella is canceled. Catch a show on Fortnite.
By Sam Eifling

The Experience Playlist: Art
By Erick Trickey

She strings sculptures from the sky
By Tracy Staedter

On this road trip, the car wrote a novel
By Tony Rehagen

Inside TikTok’s hypnotic, colorful, and lucrative art world
By Lian Parsons-Thomason
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POW! Web comics burst out of the panel.
By Tony Rehagen

These artists use basketball courts as their canvas
By Jim Sullivan

It’s not Dali. It’s AI.
By Tony Rehagen

The Experience Playlist: Food + Agriculture
By Schuyler Velasco

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Putting on a virtual choir is impossible. Everyone is doing it.
By Schuyler Velasco

The Experience Playlist: Songs of resolve
By Erick Trickey

The quarantine movie queue: 10 films about the power of science
By Glenn McDonald

Thanks to 3D printing, the future of toys is faster and cheaper
By Glenn McDonald

Need stress relief at a challenging time? Try slime.
By Alix Strauss

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We saved the world from a pandemic — in a board game
By Glenn McDonald

The Experience Playlist: Let’s Play
By Erick Trickey

These scientists want to make real cheese without the cow
By Jim Sullivan
Dancing a once-forbidden hula, at long last
By Catherine Toth Fox

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Forget football. Video games are the next big college sport
By Ethan Gilsdorf

The inevitable rise of the hologram rock concert
By Jim Sullivan

Inside the world of Spotify ‘fan fiction’ playlists
By Lian Parsons-Thomason

The voting innovation no one’s talking about
By Cori Brosnahan

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On Netflix and Spotify, algorithms hold the power. But there’s a way to get it back.
By Glenn McDonald

How technology is changing the spice trade
By Alison Stein

This band camp for Rush fans is more than just a party in the woods
By Matt Crossman

This college athlete lost her leg, learned to run again, and is aiming for the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics
By Lauren Daley

I started an oyster garden — and then ate it
By Paul Heltzel

In Paris, an amateur baker meets her match — macarons
By Lian Parsons-Thomason

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This improv theater plumbs the emotions behind our divisions
By Hattie Bernstein

A fashion show for cats? Meow, darling.
By Alix Strauss

Lovers of feral cats prowl the world’s streets
By Jim Sullivan

The virtuous, mail-order, bot-shaken future of booze
By Glenn McDonald

This veteran found healing through driving a Porsche — fast
By Matt Crossman

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Behind the fur: A baseball mascot tells all
By Jessica Palombo Gustafson

I Tried It: Being a paid audience member
By Alison Stevenson

Speedgate, the sport invented by artificial intelligence
By Glenn McDonald

She went from fire-eating to running the ring
By Alix Strauss

Bending the spoon, and other secrets of ESP
By Glenn McDonald

The anguishing memoir he had to write
By Kara Baskin

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A race where you push yourself — and a stroller
By Jim Sullivan
What color are my eyes? It depends.
By Margaret Eby
The day I brought my knitting to the boardroom
By Alexandra Samuel
Dancing away from gender roles
By Cori Brosnahan

Cornhole (yes, cornhole) is going pro
By Glenn McDonald

At this fast food restaurant, machines do the cooking
By Heather Kapplow

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All the beauty products he could ever want
By Alix Strauss

Performing my first opera — al fresco
By Maryann De Leo

Visiting the ghosts of Hollywood’s past — and maybe hearing them talk
By Alison Stevenson

Finding the cheese that speaks to you
By Julia Beck

This is the future of clothing
By Glenn McDonald

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An adult learning piano? Put on your headphones.
By Evan Judd

When protest came dressed in a tiara
By Heather Kapplow

She’ll sell you Springsteen’s guitar or dancing with Madonna
By Alix Strauss

How fiction predicted today’s AI
By Glenn McDonald

How to win at civil debate
By Jenni Gritters

Trophies, ‘Chambongs,’ and food, of course
By Alix Strauss

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The strange satisfaction of a sports injury
By Jim Sullivan

From a basement office, she made the White House bloom
By Julia Beck

Getting inked is just part of his job
By Julia Beck

The ghost in my Netflix account
By Jen Deaderick
Career Day: The Greeting Card Writer
By Schuyler Velasco

Teaching English in the shadow of the border wall
By Kellye Hooks

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On tour with the world’s only punk banjo star
By Glenn McDonald

I Tried It: Ax throwing
By Megan Johnson

Career Day: The Opera Singer
By Julia Beck

The race to save a forbidden language in Alaska
By Ella Jacobson

Career Day: The Cheetah Trainer
By Amy Sutherland

When the Saints are on the march, his voice gives them a boost
By Stephanie Grace

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My search for the best fried chicken in New York
By Schuyler Velasco

This is the future of food
By Glenn McDonald

I don’t want to stop singing ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside.’
By Debbie Gravitte

Career Day: The Oyster Shucker
By Alix Strauss

Career Day: The Travel Agent
By Schuyler Velasco

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Fiction: Father figure
By Alix Strauss

Cranberry sauce, un-canned
By Glenn McDonald

Career Day: The Food Stylist
By Tracy Mayor

A pencil, a marker, and ‘pure magic’
By Natalie Pompilio

I Tried It: Aura photo
By Schuyler Velasco

Career Day: The Lighting Designer
By Jenni Gritters
