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John Berger and Susan Sontag in Conversation

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Seal and Sea Lion Brains Help Explore the Roots of Language

The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color–from Azure to Zinc Pink

Joe Kent Defects, Robots, and Mad Men Sequel Ideas

Do the Next Right Thing: Carl Jung on How to Live and the Origin of His Famous Tenet for Navigating Uncertainty

Open Thread

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Daily briefing: Same-sex sex is a normal part of some primates’ lives

The Affordability Mayor’s First Betrayal

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Perceptual Shifts Part I: Seeing Through Other Eyes

Perceptual Shifts Part II: The Hunter’s Interface

Ghosts, Love, And The Search For Readers, Part 2: A Continuing Conversation With Writer Kipling Knox

Medical Tourism Is Overhyped

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This Week’s Photograph

The MASALA Study Unpacks South Asians’ Heart and Metabolic Disease Risk