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25 Photos For When Modern Life Gets Exhausting, So You Crawl Back Into Your Childhood
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Word of the Day
September 24, 2026
conciliatory
friendly, agreeable
“I took Amanda's invitation to dinner as a very conciliatory gesture.”
29 Works of Art Worth Slowing Down For
Vincent van Gogh – Prisoners’ Round (after Gustave Doré) (1890)
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25 Parenting Memes to Enjoy During Your Three Minutes of Free Time
5 Historical Photos That Speak Volumes
A mountain of bison skulls, circa 1892
The photograph was taken in 1892 at the Michigan Carbon Works near Detroit. Two men stand among a mountain of bison skulls, one at its base and the other near its summit. They appear very small. The dead animals do not appear small at all.
Only a few decades earlier, tens of millions of bison had moved across the Great Plains. Their herds could darken the ground to the horizon. They fed and clothed Indigenous nations, provided tools and shelter, and occupied a central place in ceremonies and stories that had endured for generations.
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32 “Rules” People Realized They Could Simply Ignore
A surprising amount of what we do every day isn’t actually required—we just do it because that’s what everyone else seems to do. From answering the door and tolerating other people’s nonsense to finishing a terrible book simply because you started it, sometimes watching someone ignore an unwritten rule is all it takes to realize you can too. Here are 32 things people discovered were completely optional.
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