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Tracking the D'bury Universe
We won't post new stories on this page every day, but whenever we do put something up you have our word: It will be about the strip. Guaranteed.
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The Stacks: A Son Finds His Father On Guadalcanal
Peter Richmond lost his father when he was seven. Years later, on a trip to Guadalcanal to research his dad's World War II experience, the son encountered old horrors but found a hero...
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International Yoga Day Finally Arrives In India, Amid Cheers And Skepticism
It was the culmination of a holiday hyped for weeks by the government...
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Identification, Please
I grew up in a house full of natural-history field guides...
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That Time The Middle East Exploded -- And Nixon Was Drunk
The Nixon administration began disintegrating -- the president unable to play his role as the leader of the nation and the free world -- at 7:55 pm on October 11, 1973...
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Waiting For The Conservative Jon Stewart
A unified theory of why political satire is biased toward, and talk radio is biased against, liberals in America...
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Songwriters Hall Of Fame Honors Hunter And Garcia, Tuneful Wizards Of The Grateful Dead
On Thursday night the Songwriters Hall of Fame will induct Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia...
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Garish Tastes, Awful Hair: Donald Trump Is America
He's the king of bad taste in a country that loves bad taste. And all the candidates (him included) are pygmies anyway. Go, Donald!
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Why Startups Love Moleskines
The majority of the people in the room, whether clad in hoodies or golf shirts, were balancing on their laps not iPhones or laptops, as I might have expected, but Moleskine journals...
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The Square
The most famous, the most enigmatic, and most frightening painting known to man...
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Tim Hunt, Hung Out To Dry
In an exclusive interview Tim Hunt and his wife Professor Mary Collins tell how their lives fell apart after his quip about women in science went viral on Twitter...