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Photo credit: Jacques-Louis David/Wikimedia Commons & John Jabez Edwin Mayall/Wikimedia Commons – Why do men in famous portraits all have one hand in their coat?

Culture, Generations

Historians explain why men in old-timey portraits always had one hand in their vest or coat

Evan Porter

6/20/2026
John Harkes at the Summer of '94 Community Event.

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Culture, Skills

The best coaches don’t give you the answers. They make you find them yourself. Just ask the 1994 U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team.

Kylee Van Dillen

5/22/2026
Photo credit: Britannica – The Birth of Venus, Sandra Botticelli

Culture, Generations

Study finds that Venus’s alluring stare in Botticelli’s most famous painting may have pointed to a tragic diagnosis

Heather Wake

6/20/2026
Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons – Vincent van Gogh's self portrait (1887) and his Starry Night (1889)

Making Sense of Science, Science

Scientists found Vincent van Gogh’s hidden ‘fingerprint’ and it’s catching art forgers red-handed

Patrick Hamilton

6/20/2026
Photo credit: Public domain – Van Gogh's "Café Terrace at Night"

Culture, Wholesome

It took 100 years for someone to point out what van Gogh had hidden in his ‘Café Terrace at Night’

Annie Reneau

6/17/2026
Photo credit: Photo by Karly Santiago on Unsplash – Women from around the world helped create the Red Dress as a collective embroidery project.

Culture, Pop Culture

It took 343 embroiderers in 46 countries 13 years to make one absolutely stunning dress

Annie Reneau

6/6/2026
Photo credit: Alfred Frueh via Wikimedia Commons – (L) A man writing a letter; (R) American cartoonist Alfred Frueh in 1920.

Relationships, Skills

A cartoonist wrote his wife a love letter in 1913. It unfolds into a tiny art gallery built just for her.

Adam Albright-Hanna

4/24/2026
Photo credit: aview.fromabridge/Instagram – A beautiful art project has strangers answering an old-fashioned telephone and saying whatever’s on their minds.

Culture, Wholesome

Strangers answer a mysterious red telephone on a bridge

Evan Porter

4/2/2026
Photo credit: Emily Kampa – Women say an artist’s visceral display captures how they feel ignored and dismissed by doctors.

Health, Science

Artist’s provocative display captures how doctors dismiss women’s pain

Evan Porter

4/1/2026
Photo credit: @manzanita.asada/Instagram – Amanda Meyer turned a pile of leaves into a lovely dress.

Conservation, Nature

Madrid art student sews a gorgeous, wearable dress out of hand-picked leaves

Erik Barnes

3/26/2026
Photo credit: Elena Ternovaja/Wikimedia Commons – Ethan Hawke gets philosophical about art and creativity.

Culture, Pop Culture

Ethan Hawke beautifully explains why AI art can’t replace imperfect human creativity

Annie Reneau

3/24/2026