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Tom Barson in Wisdom of Crowds: I’ve only witnessed one pitched battle in person, and it cured me of any wish to see another. It was not a firefight, like those
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Tim Suermondt: “The day after a February snow storm the sun came out, and I watched a group of high school students standing on the street corner, all of whom
Rahul Rao in Scientific American: Few computer science breakthroughs have done so much in so little time as the artificial intelligence design known as a transformer. A transformer is a
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Literary Review May 2024 Issue: Women are everywhere in classical literature and mythology, but the lives of actual women in the ancient world are much more obscure. In the May
Hot air rises—and so, unfortunately, do many of the aspiring leaders who spout it. Why do we continue to mistake confidence for competence, and what should we be doing differently?
“Pretty Woman” is essentially the grown-up version of Cinderella, and it’s one of the most well-known rom-coms around the world. The movie isn’t just about love — it’s about Hollywood
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Plastic Pollution and Climate Change Have Common Culprits – and Similar Solutions Nearly 200 countries have agreed that a treaty must tackle plastic pollution at every stage of its existence,
Whatever badness there wassometimeswas not of us,but between us. Because there was goodness,which felt like a sure base.While badness felt onlylike incidents upon it. The badness was onlythe way you
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Martin Mroz at Quora: There are a number of serious consequences of obtaining US citizenship that apply to you and your children in perpetuity that you may not be aware
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The computer scientist Ellie Pavlick aims to find out: She is translating philosophical concepts such as “meaning” into concrete, testable ideas. John Pavlus in Quanta: Start talking to Ellie Pavlick about her
Mark Blacklock at Literary Review: Evidently, the time is ripe for a survey of the branch of cultural production concerned with the end of the world. And yet, as Lynskey
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Elle Griffin at The Elysian: In 2022, Penguin Random House wanted to buy Simon & Schuster. The two publishing houses made up 37 percent and 11 percent of the market