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Contributing writer at the Economist’s 1843 Magazine. "What I have written I have written." Words also @FT @NewYorker.
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John Phipps is a farmer from Chrisman, Ill., who writes humor and commentary pieces in his column "John's World," which appears regularly in Farm Journal. He is the TV host of "U.S. Farm Report."

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The Bayeux Tapestry’s Long Journey Home

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The ingenious answer was proposed by an art-engineering firm called SMACH. The company’s experts realized that, if the tapestry could not be rotated and stored, perhaps it could be stored and then rotated. They designed an object that resembles a huge, many-hinged ruler: a zigzag support that folds up, like a Japanese screen, into a neat cuboid.
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Quitting | The Point Magazine

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When I started smoking I was sixteen, and my life was very complicated. Large portions of each day were spent trying to disguise the fact that I had an erection. “You always get them just when you have to stand up,” people would complain, because the people I knew were also teenage boys. On weekends we would get together to make a big stink and talk about women. Once, we cycled forty minutes up a hill to buy beer. On the way down the extra momentum meant we didn’t even have to pedal.
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When a Man Loves a Cello

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In January, 2022, the British cellist Steven Isserlis was walking to a professional engagement when catastrophe struck. The skies opened. Isserlis was holding the three-hundred-year-old cello he prizes above all other possessions, and he watched in horror as it was ruined in the pouring rain. At last, to his inexpressible relief, he woke up. Isserlis often has nightmares about his cello. Losing it. Leaving it somewhere. The strings falling off without warning.
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