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How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated?
Digitizing the real world involves the tedium of real-world processes. Three-dimensional models are created using lidar...
Are Flying Cars Here?
At Wisk’s offices, Schrinner told me that air taxis could one day connect remote Indigenous communities...
The dumbphone boom is real
Will Stults spent too much time on his iPhone, doom-scrolling the site formerly known as Twitter...
How Chinese Students Experience America
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The Brazilian Special-Forces Unit Fighting to Save the Amazon
As we watched the fire spread, a small plane buzzed away over the trees. It belonged...
The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife
Link URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-trad-wife Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~life.women/1fbh/the_rise_and_fall_of_the_trad_wife_alena_kate_pettitt_helped_lead_an_online_movement_promoting Votes: 26 Comments: 9
Can We Get Kids Off Smartphones?
The exact causes of the Gen Z mental-health emergency will be parsed for years to come,...
Houdini and the Art of Escape (2020)
In 1908, Harry Houdini—“The World’s Handcuff King and Prison Breaker”—needed a new act. He was thirty-four...
The Crime Rings Stealing Everything from Purses to Power Tools
The law, authored by a Democrat, applies to two or more people working together to steal...
A Pill to Make Exercise Obsolete
Link URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/a-pill-to-make-exercise-obsolete Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~health/1f2c/a_pill_to_make_exercise_obsolete_2017 Votes: 8 Comments: 11
"3 Body Problem" Is a Rare Species of Sci-Fi Epic
Early in “3 Body Problem,” the new Netflix adaptation of Liu Cixin’s acclaimed science-fiction trilogy, intelligent...
How Foreign Policy Became a Campaign Issue for 2024
Presidential elections rarely hinge on issues of foreign policy, yet candidates delight in them. The lure...
America's Last Top Models
The U.S. system was also unique in that no other country required a model to accompany...
Why Is the Sea So Hot?
Link URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-is-the-sea-so-hot Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~enviro/1ezs/a_startling_rise_in_sea_surface_temperatures_suggests_that_we_may_not_understand_how_fast_the Votes: 12 Comments: 1
