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When the World Was Low-Res: Why 90s Childhood Was Magic

Let’s start here: Nostalgia is a liar, but she’s the best kind of liar. She tells you that the past was easier, even though it probably wasn’t. She tells you the world made sense, even though—if you go back and ask your eleven-year-old self—he’d probably confess that he didn’t understand jack. But if you were a kid in the nineties, you lived in a reality that was about to end. You just didn’t know it yet.

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5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes

Girls with Down’s Syndrome at the Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, New York , 1902

When we talk about history, we like to focus on the movers and shakers—the presidents, the tycoons, the revolutionaries. But sometimes the most telling snapshots come from society’s margins, where the powerful forces of progress and prejudice collide, and nobody’s taking notes for the history books.

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5 Iconic Pieces of Art Worth Slowing Down For

“Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” – Gustav Klimt, 1907

Few paintings announce themselves with the brazen shimmer of Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. At first glance, it’s overwhelming—gold leaf everywhere, patterns stacked upon patterns, the subject almost swallowed whole by the ornamental whirl around her. But look again, and you’ll see the tension that defines much of Gustav Klimt’s best work: the push and pull between excess and intimacy, surface and soul.

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This Is What Life Feels Like: 3 Candid Personal Accounts

What’s it like to be a Narcissist

Being a narcissist isn’t what most people think it is. It’s not walking around thinking you’re better than everyone else all the time. It’s not constant confidence or arrogance or being some cartoon villain manipulating everyone around you while you twirl a mustache. It’s a lot more pathetic than that, honestly. It’s about power—but specifically, needing power to feel okay. To feel safe.

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5 Big Questions From Psychology, Answered

Can we ever fully heal from childhood trauma, or do we just learn to carry it differently?

If you went through hell as a kid—if the people who were supposed to protect you ended up being the ones you needed protection from—you’ve probably wondered if you’ll ever really get past it. If the weight in your chest will ever lift. If the anger will ever stop simmering. If the quiet, aching loneliness that shows up in the middle of the night will ever leave you alone.

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