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An expansive mix of bottom heavy rhythms from the Darker Than Wax affiliate.

DJ Python, aka Brian Piñeyro, has resurrected his Luis alias for a new EP, called 057 (Schwyn), coming on AD 93 this June.

DJ Haram and Moor Mother premiere the title track of Nothing to Declare, their second joint project as 700 Bliss, out Friday.

Teenage Atlanta rapper and producer rodneyy shines on a Drake cover that references TLC and finds him stretching past his usual mode.

This is Thresholds, a series of conversations with writers about experiences that completely turned them upside down, disoriented them in their lives, changed them, and changed how and why they wan…

An ode to some of the world’s most misunderstood urban spaces: Ever since ancient Uruk, the world’s first major city, founded around 4000 BC in what is now Iraq, alleys have served as a borderland between private and public life. Uruk’s covered lanes, no more than eight feet wide, offered respite from the sun when residents walked […]

The Shanghai-based photographer Luo Yang has been documenting Chinese youth for more than a decade

The sky is blue. The oceans are blue. While science can explain them both, the reasons for each are entirely different.

Fed up with media cliches around a ‘typical’ Jewish person, Keith Kahn-Harris and Rob Stothard set out to showcase the community’s diversity – and hear their stories

Ryan was four years old when he started unboxing toys on camera in 2015. A few years later—assisted by his mother, who left her job as a high school teacher to work with him full time—he was YouTub…

To speak of Italo Calvino’s popularity outside of Italy is to speak of Calvino in translation, given that he has been read and loved abroad in other languages and not in Italian. For an author who …

Several times a week, I pick up my hurley and sliotar—a stick and a ball—and go to the large blank wall on the road behind my house. For ten minutes, I hit the ball against the wall with the hurley…

The Universe was born 13.8 billion years ago. That much we know. But can science really figure out what came before?

The system is orbited by third stellar companion and may have originated near the center of the Milky Way.

There is more to running than just training your muscles and improving your stamina. It is also a mental sport, and maybe even more so than previously believed.

Pamphlet, printed in Philadelphia, describing strange sky phenomena witnessed over Riga and Kirschberg.

‘Where do we go, as a country, for power?’ William Atkins on the proposed nuclear power station in Suffolk.

Jon Mooallem is a longtime writer at large with The New York Times Magazine and a contributor to numerous other radio shows and magazines, including This American Life and Wired. His first book, Wi…

I haven’t taken a complete survey of world religions, but I suspect that some form of the question “Who’s there?” is the ultimate inquiry every spiritual tradition seeks to answer. It’s certainly t…

There’s a psychological reason you haven’t created healthier habits in your life.

Throwing out data seems to make measurements of distances and angles more precise. The reason why has been traced to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.

This is the ninth installment of Criticism in Public, a series of interviews with academics about public writing, academic scholarship and literary criticism. Read previous […]

Why the father of neuroscience, toward the end of his career, preferred to study ants.

How advanced civilizations could leave us a message of their presence.