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Category Archive: I Found This Cool Thing!

Interesting things are all around us—and these things become more interesting through the act of describing and debating them with other smart folks. This category of writing celebrates what you found in an archive or on the street; if you learned something about the past or the present; if you went someplace beautiful or grand or terrifying.

Dick The Game

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When Dick: A Card Game Based on the Novel by Herman Melville appeared for sale, Avidly sent a few […]

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If Cotton Mather Went to Disneyland

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One thing is for certain: he would not have caught the measles. This is the case because in […]

I Found This Cool Thing!The Wide, Wide WorldUncategorized Kelly Wisecup

I See Dead People

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At The Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, the dead fill every nook and cranny. “Art of Mourning,” the […]

Bodies and MindsI Found This Cool Thing! Alizah Salario

Lonely Connect

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The polar explorer Felicity Aston is the first woman to traverse Antarctica solo and the first human to do so […]

Bodies and MindsBooks You Should ReadI Found This Cool Thing!Popular FictionsThe Wide, Wide World Hester Blum

17 Endangered Species That Are Also Bands

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1: Alabama Heelsplitter This richly colored Gulf mussel, with a shell like polished leather in a college library, […]

I Found This Cool Thing!The Wide, Wide World Jedediah Purdy

“Terry was a dude”: A dialogue on “Backstreets” and “Governor Chris Christie’s Fort Lee New Jersey Traffic Jam”

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Recently Rolling Stone published a list of the 100 greatest Bruce Springsteen songs of all time as decided […]

Close ReadingI Found This Cool Thing!Popular Fictions Hester Blum, Pam Thurschwell

The Growth of A Year

I troop forth replenish’d with supreme power, one of an average unending procession, Inland and sea-coast we go, […]

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Swamps, Squash, Slavery

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It is difficult to imagine a sufficient motive to have induced any man to penetrate a mile into […]

I Found This Cool Thing!The Wide, Wide WorldUncategorized Lynne Feeley

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