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Publishing Problems? Maybe You Need a White Pen Name

Can't get your latest poetry collection/humor listicle/cyberfeminist comic/experimental haiku manifesto published? Luckily for you, the Asian American Writers' Workshop has a new tool that will confirm your artistic legitimacy.

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Meta-Corporate Ad Torches Burning Man

David Foster Wallace was right, meta-television is the future, but a new meta-corporate ad by Quiznos may be one of the best examples of how corporations will serve up anti-corporate humor for the masses in an attempt to advance their own toasty agenda.

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Archaeologists Find Huge Stone Formation Near Stonehenge

Archaeologists in the United Kingdom have discovered an enormous stone formation just a mile from Stonehenge that makes the famous circle of sandstone slabs seem puny by comparison.

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Arkansas Tells Artist to Stop Putting Toilets in Her Yard

Nearly 100 years after Marcel Duchamp made "Fountain," bathroom plumbing fixtures are still way too edgy for Hot Springs, Arkansas.

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New Digital Archaeology Effort Attempts to Capture Cultural Heritage Before It's Gone

As ISIS continues to destroy the world's cultural heritage, archaeologists and other onlookers continue to scramble to find ways to counter the destruction.

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New Tests Date World's Oldest Wood Carving to 11,000 Years Ago

The world's oldest wood carving just got older.

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Discovery of Ancient Greek 'Palace' Reveals Fragments of a Lost Language

The Greek Ministry of Culture announced on August 25 that since 2009, archaeologists at a Mycenaean palace on Aghios Vassilios Hill on Greece's Sparta plain have unearthed numerous artifacts.

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ISIS Sets Off Explosion in "Most Important Temple in Syria" [UPDATED]

ISIS has once again struck a historic temple in Palymra, although the structure is "still standing," according to the BBC.

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Protect Yourself from Unwanted Photographs with This Hoodie

Attention shoppers: are you tired of paparazzi following you around, taking bright flash pictures and selling them to tabloids?

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William Kentridge Plans Massive, Vanishing Mural in Rome

In April 2016, South African artist William Kentridge will unveil “Triumphs and Laments,” a 550-meter (~1,804 feet) frieze along the embankment of Rome’s Tiber River.

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FBI Warns of ISIS-Looted Artifacts Hitting the US Market

Antiquities looted by terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria are entering the art market, prompting the FBI to release a flyer soliciting dealers' and collectors' help in halting illegal trade.

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The Tyranny of the Instagram Square Is Over!

Instagram has broken its self-imposed mold and is now allowing users to bypass the square photo format in favor of landscape and portrait-oriented images.