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News Quiz

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  1. The New York Times News Quiz, March 15, 2024

    Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.

     

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  2. The New York Times News Quiz, Mar. 8, 2024

    Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.

     

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  3. The New York Times News Quiz, Mar. 1, 2024

    Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.

     

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  4. The New York Times News Quiz, Feb. 23, 2024

    Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.

     

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  5. The New York Times News Quiz, Feb. 16, 2024

    Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers.

     

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inEducation: American Government

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  1. What History and Economics Suggest About Biden-Trump, Round 2

    Underlying economic and market factors mattered in previous presidential rematches. They may help President Biden, even if polls aren’t showing that so far.

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    The most recent rematch of presidential candidates was 68 years ago, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower trounced Adlai E. Stevenson II a second time.
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  2. House Passes Bill to Force TikTok Sale From Chinese Owner or Ban the App

    The legislation received wide bipartisan support, with both Republicans and Democrats showing an eagerness to appear tough on China.

     By Sapna MaheshwariDavid McCabe and

    If the TikTok bill were to become law, it would likely deepen a cold war between the United States and China over the control of important technologies.
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  3. Supreme Court Stays Out of Dispute Over Drag Show at Texas University

    An L.G.B.T.Q. student group had asked the justices to intercede, saying the performance was protected by the First Amendment.

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    Protesters at West Texas A&M University last year opposing the decision by the school’s president to cancel a drag show on campus.
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  4. Supreme Court Narrowly Interprets Landmark Reduced Sentencing Law

    The justices sided with the government in a case focused on who is eligible for shorter prison sentences under the bipartisan First Step Act passed in 2018.

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    The Supreme Court’s decision in a prison sentencing case did not split along ideological lines.
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inEducation: Biology

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  1. A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive

    Given troves of data about genes and cells, A.I. models have made some surprising discoveries. What could they teach us someday?

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    CreditDoug Chayka
  2. Why Do Whales Go Through Menopause?

    A new study argues that the change brought these females an evolutionary advantage — and perhaps did the same for humans.

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    A killer whale swims through the ocean near San Juan Island in Washington state in September 2023.
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  3. Subterranean ‘Baby Dragons’ Are Revealed to Sneak to the Surface

    Scientists never imagined that the blind cave salamanders called olms willingly left their caves. But at numerous aboveground springs, there they were.

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    Adult olm active during daytime in a spring in the municipality of Doberdò del Lago, Italy.
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  4. Scientists Discover 100 New Marine Species in New Zealand

    The findings, from the largely uncharted waters of Bounty Trough, show that “we’ve got a long way to go in terms of understanding where life is found in the ocean,” a researcher said.

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    A potentially new species of elusive deep-sea squid found by scientists who were working to identify new marine life as part of the Ocean Census project.
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inEducation: Computer Science

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  1. How the A.I. That Drives ChatGPT Will Move Into the Physical World

    Covariant, a robotics start-up, is designing technology that lets robots learn skills much like chatbots do.

     By Cade Metz and

    Covariant’s AI-powered Robotic Putwall system autonomously sorts items at the company’s headquarters in Emeryville, California.
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  2. A.I. Is Learning What It Means to Be Alive

    Given troves of data about genes and cells, A.I. models have made some surprising discoveries. What could they teach us someday?

     By

    CreditDoug Chayka
  3. Facial Recognition: Coming Soon to an Airport Near You

    Biometric technology is expanding at airports across the United States — and the world — and transforming the way we move through them, from checking a bag to boarding the plane.

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    CreditBen Konkol
  4. A.I. Frenzy Complicates Efforts to Keep Power-Hungry Data Sites Green

    Artificial intelligence’s booming growth is radically reshaping an already red-hot data center market, raising questions about whether these sites can be operated sustainably.

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    The carbon footprint from the construction of data centers and the racks of expensive computer equipment is substantial, and the sites’ power needs have grown considerably.
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inEducation: English

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  1. 22 of the Funniest Novels Since ‘Catch-22’

    Because we could all use a laugh.

     By Dwight GarnerAlexandra JacobsJennifer Szalai and

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  2. 4 Books That Inspired Oscar-Nominated Films

    The Oscars are coming up, and several of the nominated films are based on books. Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, recommends a few of them.

     By Gilbert CruzKaren Hanley and

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  3. The Most Important Writing Exercise I’ve Ever Assigned

    I ask my writing students to stand in another person’s shoes. They’re finding it harder and harder to do.

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  4. What a Poetic Mind Can Teach Us About How to Live

    The poet Jane Hirshfield invites us to embrace habits of deep noticing and attention — and observe the beauty that unfolds.

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inEducation: Environmental Science

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  1. A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals

    A boom in data centers and factories is straining electric grids and propping up fossil fuels.

     By Brad Plumer and

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  2. Microplastics Are a Big Problem, a New Film Warns

    At SXSW, a documentary traces the arc of plastics in our lives, and highlights evolving research of the potential harm of its presence in our bodies.

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    Microplastic nurdles, or virgin plastic beads, found discharged in waterways near Point Comfort, Texas.
    CreditPlastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics
  3. Inside the E.P.A. Decision to Narrow Two Big Climate Rules

    Michael Regan, the E.P.A. administrator, said the Biden administration would meet its climate goals despite tweaking regulations on automobiles and power plants

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    Michael Regan, the E.P.A. administrator, said the Biden administration would meet its climate goals despite tweaks to regulations of automobiles and power plants.
    CreditNathan Howard/Associated Press
  4. The Farming Conundrum

    Agriculture is a big contributor to climate change — is there a path to reinvention?

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    A new report found that the United States is spending billions of dollars to try to slash greenhouse gas emissions from farms, but many of the new practices are unproven.
    CreditTim Gruber for The New York Times

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inEducation: Finance and Economics

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  1. What History and Economics Suggest About Biden-Trump, Round 2

    Underlying economic and market factors mattered in previous presidential rematches. They may help President Biden, even if polls aren’t showing that so far.

     By

    The most recent rematch of presidential candidates was 68 years ago, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower trounced Adlai E. Stevenson II a second time.
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  2. It’s Me, Hi, I’m the Problem. I’m 33.

    Meet the 1990 and 1991 babies, a massive microgeneration in lifelong competition for America’s economic resources, reshaping the world around them.

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    CreditDeena So Oteh
  3. Is Crypto Back? What to Know About Bitcoin’s Surge.

    Bitcoin just hit a record high, but there are big differences between now and the last crypto boom, when digital currencies became a cultural phenomenon.

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    Since the new cryptocurrency related E.T.F.s debuted this year, more than $7 billion in investment has flowed into them, pushing up the price of Bitcoin.
    CreditSamuel Aranda for The New York Times
  4. Big American Tech Profits From Chinese Ad Spending Spree

    Temu, Shein, and streaming and gaming apps looking to break into the U.S. market are spending huge sums to get their wares in front of American consumers.

     By Daisuke Wakabayashi and

    Ads from Temu, Shein, ReelShort, DramaBox and Last War, via Meta and Google.
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inEducation: The Arts

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  1. Surrealism Is 100. The World’s Still Surreal.

    Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us free.

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    André Breton in Paris in the 1920s. In 1924 he published his “Manifesto of Surrealism,” decrying the vogue for realism and rationality.
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  2. Why Is There No Oscar for Best Choreography?

    Imaginative dance abounds in Hollywood, but its creators remain unheralded at awards time.

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  3. With ‘Gems’ From Black Collections, the Harlem Renaissance Reappears

    An ambitious new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art uncovers work by long-ignored artists with the help of loans from Black colleges and family collections.

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    Inside the Met's conservation studio, from left: Motley’s “Portrait of the Artist's Father,” circa 1922; and three paintings by Waring, “Mother and Daughter" (circa 1927), “Girl in Green Cap” (1930) and “Self Portrait” (1940).
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  4. Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?

    How the Criterion Collection became the film world’s arbiter of taste.

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inEducation: Health Sciences

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  1. Microplastics Are a Big Problem, a New Film Warns

    At SXSW, a documentary traces the arc of plastics in our lives, and highlights evolving research of the potential harm of its presence in our bodies.

     By

    Microplastic nurdles, or virgin plastic beads, found discharged in waterways near Point Comfort, Texas.
    CreditPlastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics
  2. A Blood Test Shows Promise for Early Colon Cancer Detection

    Many patients are reluctant to undergo colonoscopies or conduct at-home fecal tests. Doctors see potential in another screening method.

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    Colorectal cancer awareness installation and rally on the National Mall to showcase the increasing number of cases in young adults.
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  3. ‘What’s My Life Worth?’ The Big Business of Denying Medical Care

    Insurance companies have weaponized a seemingly benign process to protect their profits, and it’s putting patients at risk.

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  4. Powerful Psychedelic Gains Renewed Attention as a Treatment for Opioid Addiction

    New research is stirring interest in ibogaine, which appears to help ease the agony of detox and prevent relapse. Used in other countries, it remains illegal in the U.S.

     By

    CreditMeridith Kohut for The New York Times

inEducation: History

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  1. 2 Black Heroes, 2 Cities in New York: A Journey Into the Past

    On a snowy trip to Rochester and Auburn, N.Y., a writer explores the cities that Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman called home.

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    Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist and social activist, lived in Auburn, N.Y., for more than 50 years. Above, her brick house, which is part of the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park.
    CreditTony Cenicola/The New York Times
  2. Scalpel, Forceps, Bone Drill: Modern Medicine in Ancient Rome

    A 2,000-year-old collection of medical tools, recently unearthed in Hungary, offer insight into the practices of undaunted, much-maligned Roman doctors.

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    A Roman fresco from Pompeii depicting a scene from Virgil’s “Aeneid” in which Iapyx, Aeneas’s physician, removes an arrow from Aeneas’s thigh.
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  3. Tripping in the Bronze Age

    A new study based on strands of hair found in a Spanish burial cave reveals that humans living about 3,000 years ago used hallucinogens, likely derived from local plants, as part of their rituals.

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    Ancient strands of human hair found in a burial site on the island of Minorca, Spain, contained traces of alkaloid substances known to produce altered states of consciousness.
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  4. A Love Story That Endured Through Slavery

    Amid the brutal treatment and trauma, love still blossomed between Eliza Randolph and Miles Green.

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    A drawing from 1866 of the marriage of a Black soldier and his bride in Vicksburg, Miss.
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  5. Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, March 16, 2024

    Can you sort 8 historical events?

     

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inEducation: Leadership

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  1. Wife, Protector and Now Political Heir: Yulia Navalnaya Rallies Russians

    The wife of Russia’s most famous opposition leader long shunned the spotlight, but his death in prison may make that impossible. “I have no right to give up,” she said.

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    Yulia Navalnaya walking past journalists and supporters at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, in January 2021, shortly after the arrest of her husband, the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny.
    CreditSergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
  2. It’s Lonely at the Top

    When making difficult decisions, you won’t help matters by over-explaining that you did what was best for everyone.

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    CreditPhoto Illustration by Margeaux Walter for The New York Times
  3. Elon Musk’s Mindset: ‘It’s a Weakness to Want to Be Liked’

    In an interview, the tech billionaire slams advertisers for pulling back from X and discusses his emotional state.

     By Andrew Ross SorkinEvan RobertsElaine ChenDan Powell and

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  4. Andy Reid, the All-Time-Great Chiefs Coach, Makes Football Fun

    His diligence and sense of mischief have made him one of the game’s best-ever coaches.

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    Coach Andy Reid with Patrick Mahomes and other players in the tunnel before a preseason game against the New Orleans Saints last August.
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inEducation: Psychology

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  1. What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living

    Researchers are documenting a phenomenon that seems to help the dying, as well as those they leave behind.

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    CreditPhoto illustration by Amy Friend
  2. Powerful Psychedelic Gains Renewed Attention as a Treatment for Opioid Addiction

    New research is stirring interest in ibogaine, which appears to help ease the agony of detox and prevent relapse. Used in other countries, it remains illegal in the U.S.

     By

    CreditMeridith Kohut for The New York Times
  3. One Twin Was Hurt, the Other Was Not. Their Adult Mental Health Diverged.

    A large study of “discordant twins,” in which only one suffered abuse or neglect, adds to evidence linking childhood trauma to adult illness.

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    Identical twin sisters at a Twins Day celebration in Twinsburg, Ohio, in 2019.
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  4. The Answer to America’s Addiction Crisis Could Come Out of Tulsa

    Nicholas Kristof on the most effective recovery program he’s ever seen.

     By Nicholas Kristof and

    CreditIllustration by Akshita Chandra/The New York Times; Photograph by Barrett Emke for The New York Times

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inEducation: Sociology

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  1. The ‘Colorblindness’ Trap: How a Civil Rights Ideal Got Hijacked

    The fall of affirmative action is part of a 50-year campaign to roll back racial progress.

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    CreditPhoto illustration by Mark Harris. Source: Bruce Davidson/Magnum Photos.
  2. We’re Not Asking the Most Important Questions About Age

    A presidential contest between two older candidates is an opportunity for us to start recognizing the crucial needs of our aging population.

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    CreditMaxime Mouysset
  3. The Miseducation of Google’s A.I.

    Gemini, Google’s new chatbot, has provoked a fierce debate about social values and artificial intelligence.

     By Michael BarbaroKevin RooseStella TanAsthaa ChaturvediMary WilsonBrendan KlinkenbergDiane WongMarion LozanoWill Reid and

    Google’s A.I. driven chatbot Gemini was rolled out in February, replacing the former model Bard.
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  4. The Youths Have Spoken: Wallets Are Uncool. Go Digital.

    A wallet-free lifestyle relying on your phone is attainable, but it requires preparation and some compromise.

     By Brian X. Chen and

    CreditDerek Abella