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Madame Blueberry’s insatiable wantThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Madame Bovary leaps into a modern time, a new medium and another biological kingdom.
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Unclaimed, claimed, unclaimableThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
On unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones.
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It wasn’t the beerThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
How could it be that despite decades of rigorous European unification, of open borders and largely adjusted standards of living, a virus was able to kill up to 40 times more people in one country than in another, only a few hundred kilometers away?
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How to write; or, how to insultThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Shoulders were slapped, fingers pointed, hearts fired up. Perhaps a little scuffle broke out after class, a boisterous wrestling over insults exchanged. Nothing to be concerned about. Acquiring knowledge was, after all, a combative affair.
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Who will speak European? A puzzleThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
Brussels is a concave mirror that returns a concentrated (and somewhat distorted) reflection of the projection of its continent.
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No one would have understood both the sentiment and the absurdity more keenly than Marx himself, whose face has adorned real currencies in more countries than anyone else’s, with the possible exception of Elizabeth II.
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Firsts in spaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
A friend of mine likes to say that the moon landing was real, but dumb. On astronautical tokenism.
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Curtain callThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
An iron curtain makes a powerful canvas. Images from Sven Johne & Falk Haberkorn’s Aus Sicht des Archivs, documenting life in the former East Germany in the 1990s.
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Only stupidity is hereditary
There sits a donkey before an open book, held between his forehooves in such a way that we can clearly see the pages. It is a family tree of sorts, with eight rows of seventeen standing donkeys.
