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A forest in winter, with snow in evergreen branches and bushes.

Jon Mooallem’s Walking Podcast: Like Receiving a Butt-Dial From a Nature-Loving Friend

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The Workspace of Tomorrow cover art, featuring a white cube and text on grey-green background.

Introducing Our New Podcast About the Future of Work

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Mikey Muhanna sitting in a chair before a large group of presentation attendees, all looking at a presentation.

A Podcast Dedicated to Deepening Awareness About Arab History and Culture

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The cover of the book Hearing the Cloud.

What the Internet Sounds Like: A Playlist

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Geometric shapes and colors with the At a Distance logo above.

This New Less-Is-More Podcasting App Helps Us Digest the News

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An eight-cone speaker system on a white background.

Hi-Fi Audio Design: An Expert’s Exceptional Primer

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A Radiooooo illustration with a woman with red hair and blue skin.

Avoid Algorithms With the Incredibly Refreshing Radiooooo

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A large white fireworks explosion in a black sky.

The Fraught, Noisy History of Fireworks in America

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Philosopher Simon Critchley having a drink at a bar

The Media That Gets Philosopher Simon Critchely’s Wheels Turning

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An illustration from Night Sky featuring the Virgo constellation.

This App Brings the Cosmos into Your Pocket

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Black and white cartoon drawing of a girl with glasses and striped shirt

Writer and Artist Edith Zimmerman Shares Her Media Diet

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A woman reads a magazine in a hot tub wearing a swimsuit

Artist and Editor Ekin Balcıoğlu Thinks You Should Read in the Bath

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Stylist Kate Young in her office with high fashion dresses hanging in the background

Hollywood’s Go-To Stylist Kate Young on Her New YouTube Show

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Charlie Chaplin riding the gears of a massive machine.

What We’re Watching on the Criterion Collection’s New Streaming Service

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Black and white illustration of a forest on a cliff viewed from above

Calm Your Nerves With This Free-to-Download Quarantine Coloring Book

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Journalist and writer Julia Cooke

The Words and Music Author Julia Cooke Is Escaping Through Right Now

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A photo collage of faces of people lost to gun violence

A Crowdsourced Internet Memorial Humanizes U.S. Gun Violence Victims

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Omar Sosa reclining on a brightly colored couch in his brightly colored Friedman Benda show.

Apartamento Magazine’s Omar Sosa Explores Comfort With a Friedman Benda Show

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A church with stained glass window and rows of lit candles

A New Series of Essays Unpacks Public Grief and Loss

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Writer and author Julian Sanction

Why History’s Harrowing Polar Expeditions Get Julian Sancton’s Blood Pumping

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Writer and "The New Era" editor-in-chief Hanna Nova Beatrice

“The New Era” Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Prefers to Consume Media the Old-Fashioned Way

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Poster for the Netflix movie "The Social Dilemma"

The Dark Side of Social Media, Explained by the People Who Created It

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A blue, brown, and translucent sculpture by Neri Oxman.

Neri Oxman’s “Material Ecology” Gets the MoMA Spotlight

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Tatiana Schlossberg smiling next to the front cover of Inconspicuous Consumption.

Environmental Journalist Tatiana Schlossberg Shares Her Media Diet

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A painting of a woman composed of blocks of color.

Derrick Adams’s Evocative “Beauty Works” Series

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A sunny park in Japan with blooming cherry blossom trees

Wind Down to the Meditative Wonders of Slow TV

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Various people encased in glass bubbles stand on the beach near the ocean

A Digital Art Museum for the Time of Covid-19

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A classical painting depicting two men and a woman with a funny contemporary caption

In Her New Book, a Comedienne Explains the Mansplainers of the World

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Three people underneath an Olafur Elaisson video installation.

Olafur Elaisson’s Latest Exhibition Offers a Hopeful Vision of the Future

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author and environmental anthropologist Gina Rae La Cerva

Environmental Anthropologist and “Feasting Wild” Author Gina Rae La Cerva’s Media Diet

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A black and white illustration of plants by Katie Holten.

Emergence Magazine Is at the Top of Our Reading List

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Four images arranged in a grid depicting a man in a suit, the words "Less than Zero" in red on a black background, an address, and a picture of an outdoor courtyard

Benjamin Critton on Modernist Homes in Popular Films

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A set of five New York Times Magazines fanned out across a white table.

David Marchese’s New York Times Magazine Talk Column Should Be Required Reading

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Journalist and filmmaker Saleem Reshamwala

Journalist and Filmmaker Saleem Reshamwala Shares Who and What He’s Following Now

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still from the cartoon "the look make show"

A New Cartoon Uses Art to Teach Kids How to Confront Life’s Challenges

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Two copies of Offscreen magazine featuring a woman with black glasses on the front cover.

Editor and Publisher Kai Brach’s Inspiringly Minimalist Media Intake

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The Gentlewoman magazine featuring Margaret Atwood, on a red background next to a centimeter ruler.

This Mini Magazine Celebrates a Decade of The Gentlewoman

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An app screen of 72 Seasons reading "Major Cold."

This App Tracks the 72 Seasons of the Japanese Lunar Calendar

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A security officer wearing bright yellow and orange safety gear.

“Worn Stories” Explores How Memories Are Made and Maintained Through Clothing

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A jade gua sha tool next to a sprig of rosemary.

The World of Gua Sha Facial Massages

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Two hands playing with yellow slime.

Why Slime Is All the Rage These Days

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