The Ice-Skating Dandies of 18th-Century Paris. They took a mode of transportation and made it into an art form.
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Yale student turns 5-day mumps quarantine into the best Snapchat story ever. Boredom can do strange things to a person.
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In the video Smile, a woman fantasizes about her possible reactions to a catcaller. Contains NSFW language.
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France Has Her Own Lady Liberty, and Her Name is Marianne. She changes with the nation’s political climate.
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The synchronization of 100 metronomes. Watch and try to identify the last holdout.
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A Cromulent Exercise in Language. An awful lot of our new words come from pop culture.
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Did Inadequate Women’s Healthcare Destroy Star Wars’ Old Republic? Another of the many way the prequels defied common sense.
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When Arthur Conan Doyle Judged A Bodybuilding Contest. It was elementary, my dear.
January 5, 2017 – 5:00am