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A Teen's Fatal Plunge into the London Underworld
Sharma was calling from Apartment 504. If he’d stepped out onto the balcony, or just looked...
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Don’t Eat Before Reading This (1999)
Good food, good eating, is all about blood and organs, cruelty and decay. It’s about sodium-loaded...
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Jaron Lanier: Where Will Virtual Reality Take Us?
Because we in Silicon Valley are newness junkies, it can feel like an act of sabotage...
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Inside the Music Industry's High-Stakes A.I. Experiments
Sir Lucian Grainge, the chairman and C.E.O. of Universal Music Group, the largest music company in...
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The Twins Obsession
Half a century later, they still return our gaze, staring back at us in their dark...
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The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest (2015)
Flick your right fingers outward, forcefully, so that your hand flattens back down again. When the...
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When America First Dropped Acid
One evening in September of 1957, viewers across America could turn on their television sets and...
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A Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave
When Beatriz Flamini was growing up, in Madrid, she spent a lot of time alone in...
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Dickson Despommier wants our cities to be like forests
In 2000, Dickson D. Despommier, then a professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University,...
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Is A.I. The Death of I.P.?
Intellectual property accounts for some or all of the wealth of at least half of the...
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How Much of the World Is It Possible to Model?
It’s hard for a neurosurgeon to navigate a brain. A key challenge is gooeyness. The brain...
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The Swimmer (1964)
As soon as Enid Bunker saw him, she began to scream, “Oh, look who’s here! What...
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Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet
Like so many millennials, I entered the online world through AOL Instant Messenger. I created an...
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Scholars now argue that early nomadic empires were the architects of modernity
A common story of Mongol rule, especially in Russian nationalist scholarship, is of punishing subjugation—of an...
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Did an Abortion Ban Cost a Young Texas Woman Her Life?
LEGAL NAME OF DECEASEDYeniifer Alvarez-Estrada GlickDATE OF DEATH—ACTUAL OR PRESUMEDJuly 10, 2022MARITAL STATUS AT TIME OF...
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The California Town Owned by a New York Investment Firm
Scotia, California, in Humboldt County, is a tiny place, smaller than a square mile, tucked just...