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smithsonian.com The artists shortlisted for this year's Turner Prize would've made Marcel Duchamp-one of the first modern creatives to question what constitutes "art"-proud: Not only do the four nominees eschew traditional mediums in favor of film, but they also skirt the boundaries between activism, archaeology and art, delivering incisive explorations of racially motivated police brutality, an Israeli police raid on a Bedouin village, entropy and endings, and queer identity.

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In a ball of paper, scientists discover a landscape of surprising mathematical order. While working on his doctoral thesis at Harvard over the last few years, Omer Gottesman spent a lot of time at his desk crumpling sheets of paper, especially when he was stuck.

This Is the Way the Paper Crumples

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Books News Dutton, a Penguin Random House imprint, has just released its first batch of mini books, with a box set of novels by the best-selling author John Green. Dutton began selling miniature editions of contemporary and classic novels last week, inspired by the popularity of the format in the Netherlands.

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Artist Janna Ireland is on a hunt across Southern California for Paul R. Williams. For nearly two years, she's searched out buildings to photograph - mansions and housing projects, churches and banks designed by the Angeleno architect who died in 1980.

Photographer Janna Ireland is ensuring...

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