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‘Are You Going to Be the One to Get Rid of Santa?’
A family in a small town in New York holds a world record for having the most lights on a…
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These Underwater Fireworks Are From ‘Sea Fireflies’ Looking for Mates
Tiny crustaceans the size of sand grains sneeze up packets of glowing mucus to impress potential partners.
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It’s Holiday Window Season in NYC. Here’s What to Know.
“Let’s light it up!” the actress Jennifer Lawrence said on Monday night as she helped to reveal the holiday windows…
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Poem: Suddenly, Last Summer
Lisa Jarnot’s “Suddenly, Last Summer” develops, through ecstatic repetition, a theology of lostness. The sea-turtle hatchlings, with their instinctual desire…
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Flight of the Drones Lights Up Central Park
It began with a sudden, breathtaking emergence over the trees to the south — a thousand points of blue light…
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A Brief and Futile Argument in Defense of the Incandescent Bulb
When Thomas Edison was working on the incandescent lamp in 1879, he purportedly said, “We are striking it big in…
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In Milan Kundera’s Work, the Erotic Meets the Subversive
It’s hard to overstate how central Milan Kundera was, in the mid-1980s, to literary culture in America and elsewhere. He…
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Howard Brandston, Who Made His Mark With Light, Dies at 87
His light design company has applied his art globally to landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty, as well as architecture,…
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Despite War, Ukrainian Dance Group Returns for the ‘America’s Got Talent’ Finale
The Light Balance Kids, a Ukrainian youth dance group, wowed viewers with a high-octane performance last month on the first…
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Despite War, Ukrainian Dance Group Returns for the ‘America’s Got Talent’ Finale
The Light Balance Kids, a Ukrainian youth dance group, wowed viewers with a high-octane performance last month on the first…
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