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The Quietest Full Moon of the Year
Sunday night brings 2026's smallest full moon — a micromoon, drifting near the red heart of Scorpius. From a backyard in Minnesota it'll look gentle rather than grand. Worth stepping outside for a minute when the porch lights go down.
2026-05-27Glass, Slowly Cooled
Foci over in Northeast opens a new kilnforming show this Saturday — sheets of glass shaped patiently at fifteen-hundred degrees, then left a full day to cool. Something to bring to the table: what does a craft measured in days, not minutes, have to teach the rest of our week?
2026-05-27The Pope, the Robots, and Us
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical landed this week. Forty-two thousand words on what AI might cost workers, attention, and ordinary dignity. The hard part isn't whether the machines will sound smart; they will. It's that something said simply and confidently already feels truer while the truer thing tends to come with more humility.
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