The AI Boom and the Future of Finance

What's with the boom in biographies of people who never existed? The strange rise of a new literary genre

Arundhati Roy on Cockroach Democracy: The student protesters who have swarmed Delhi are showing us a different future for India

The ominous ‘fire clouds’ or ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ seen in France for the first time

How Celebrities Became America’s Unregulated Drug Pushers

What Our Views of the Elderly Reveal About Our Culture

Dinosaurs May Have Been Literally Charbroiled After the Asteroid Impact

Pentagon Contractor's Libel Claim Over Hidden Date Recording by O'Keefe Media Group Can Go Forward

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New York City’s Hate Crime Problem Needs a Law-and-Order Solution

Fossil skull flattening suggests ancient origins of infant helplessness

Future of giant monkey research facility uncertain, even as sanctuary plan dropped

Round and Round We Go

“I’m not a provocateur,” insists Alex Byrne, the MIT philosopher who helped author a report for the Trump administration on youth gender medicine

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Nolan’s Odyssey v. Homer’s Odyssey

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When Stupid Was a Diagnosis

Antidotes to Fear of Death: Astronomer and Poet Rebecca Elson’s Stunning Cosmic Salve for Existential Tremors

Lindsey Graham's Sister Tapped To Replace Him in the Senate

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