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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
Arnold Schoenberg Changed Hollywood
Of the thousands of German-speaking Jews who fled from Nazi-occupied Europe to the comparative paradise of...
The Hunt for John Wilkes Booth Goes On
If Abraham Lincoln had leaned back in his rocking chair that night at Ford’s Theatre and...
The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I
In 2016, Alex de Vries read somewhere that a single bitcoin transaction consumes as much energy...
The Terrifying A.I. Scam That Uses Your Loved One's Voice
On a recent night, a woman named Robin was asleep next to her husband, Steve, in...
Carl Newport on his PhD experience at MIT: How I learn to concentrate
I arrived at M.I.T. in the fall of 2004. I had just turned twenty-two, and was...
The Magic of Bird Brains
At around 9 A.M. every weekday, a crow caws in the Jardin des Plantes, the oldest...
The Deep Sea Is Filled with Treasure, but It Comes at a Price
The International Seabed Authority is headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica, in a building that looks a bit...
A Professor Claimed to Be Native American. Did She Know She Wasn’t?
Link URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/a-professor-claimed-to-be-native-american-did-she-know-she-wasnt Comments URL: https://tildes.net/~life/1em7/a_professor_claimed_to_be_native_american_did_she_know_she_wasnt Votes: 24 Comments: 15
"Dune" and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages
A trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” features the boy prophet Paul Atreides, played by...
What a Major Solar Storm Could Do to Our Planet
You are probably familiar with the Earth’s magnetic field, which makes all life here possible by...