A Trump victory would reward them. But not enough to justify the risks
The peninsula is becoming a death trap for the Kremlin’s forces
There is more to AI than ChatGPT
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (June 7, 2024): The latest issue features The Mayday Call: How One Death at Sea Transformed a Fishing Fleet…
The opioid epidemic has made a dangerous job even more deadly. And when there’s an overdose at sea, fishermen have to take care of one another.
Tech companies are running low on new experiences to offer us. A new ad for the iPad contains revealing hints of where they could go next.
By PETER C. BAKER
In 2020, the author of “How to Be an Antiracist” galvanized Americans with his ideas. The past four years have tested them — and him.
By RACHEL POSER
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Deforestation and climate change may be helping Oropouche virus spread far beyond the Amazon Basin
Achievement demonstrates feasibility of making all of life’s code easily searchable, researchers say
Comparative genomics elucidates the steps enabling heat production in fat tissue
Times Literary Supplement (June 5, 2024): The latest issue features Reading the Raj – E.M. Forster’s ‘A Passage to India’, Way-Out Philosophy, Michelangelo at the British Museum…
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR (June 4, 2024): The latest issue features ‘An Olympian for the Ages’ – Why George Eyser’s feats at the 1904 Games deserve to be celebrated today; Joshua Prager on a forgotten Olympian, Mickalene Thomas and the art of remixing, new poetry from Ange Mlinko, and more…
Who was George Eyser, the one-legged German-American gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games?
Mickalene Thomas and the art of remixing
Is the convergence of human and machine really upon us?
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil
In the fall of 2014, an MIT cognitive scientist named Tomaso Poggio predicted that humankind was at least 20 years away from building computers that could interpret images on their own. Doing so, declared Poggio, “would be one of the most intellectually challenging things … for a machine to do.” One month later, Google released an AI program that did exactly what he’d deemed impossible.
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (June 1, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Walnut and Me’ – How my dog helped me accept that someday we will all die…
For the first time since the Vietnam War, university demonstrations have led to a rethinking of who sets the terms for language in academia.
By EMILY BAZELON
When Lulu Hunt Peters brought Americans a new method for weighing their dinner options, she launched a century of diet fads that left us hungry for a better way to keep our bodies strong and healthy
The jury has convicted the former President of thirty-four felony counts in his New York hush-money trial. Now the American people will decide to what extent they care.
In the courtroom with the former President at the moment he became a convicted felon.
At a crucial moment they encapsulate the dilemma of how to handle populism
A backlash against abortion bans is energising the middle ground in America
They are saving like never before. But even that may not bring interest rates down
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