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• NYT Strands hints, answers for May 1
• Style in the Age of the Smartphone
• In Moscow, Constructivist Marvels Face Demolition
• Hosting a National Blurb Contest
• Operation Rock Wallaby rains food down on wildlife hurt by bushfires
• How Old Issues of Wired Show Changes in the Tech Industry
• We’re Both Dippy Over Him, and Other News by Dan Piepenbring
• Intimisms: “Psychologic Poetry in Painting”
• Best iPad deal: Save $132 on Apple iPad (10th Gen)
• Glen Baxter Week, Day Five: Porn Collections, Yodelers

• Sir Ian McKellen sign was a Sir Patrick Stewart meme at Women's March
• For the strategy vets at Creative Assembly, 'Halo Wars 2' is a fresh challenge
• The sun's poles have flipped. A spacecraft is watching what happens next.
• Rick Perry was casually blowing bubbles with his gum at the inauguration
• Plane full of Women's March supporters headed to Washington, D.C. turns on pink cabin lights
• Apps aren't dead — they're thriving to the tune of $89 billion
• Party planes full of 'nasty women' are heading to DC
• Adele will be back to perform at the Grammys
• These important pages have already been deleted from the White House website
• Dad uses HTC Vive to give daughter immersive VR tour of her dollhouse

• Watch how an old Venus spacecraft tumbled before crashing to Earth
• Can Poets Save the Parks? Well … Maybe.
• Michael Herr, 1940
• Thomas Mann’s Brutal Review of His Older Brother’s Novel
• SpaceX's Starlink will provide free satellite internet to families in Texas school district
• Memoirs of an Imprisoned Suffragette
• What Does an Italo Calvino Look Like as a Building?
• “Bad Behavior”: An Interview with Alexia Arthurs
• Best roborock deal: Save $400 on Q5 Pro+ Robot Vacuum and Mop
• Hosting a National Blurb Contest

• Hurricane Laura's impact lingered with nightmarish mosquito swarms
• The Beginnings of Briggflatts
• The World of ‘Garfield’ Parodies Runs Deeper Than You’d Dreamed
• Daniel Spoerri’s Flea
• The State of 5G: When It's Coming, How Fast It Will Be & The Sci
• Welcome Two New Editors at The Paris Review
• Jason Shulman Takes Long
• In Moscow, Constructivist Marvels Face Demolition
• NYT Connections hints and answers for April 14: Tips to solve 'Connections' #673.
• In Praise of Minor Literature