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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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22 of the Funniest Novels Since ‘Catch-22’
Because we could all use a laugh.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Agriculture is a big contributor to climate change — is there a path to reinvention?
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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.
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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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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 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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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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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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When making difficult decisions, you won’t help matters by over-explaining that you did what was best for everyone.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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The Answer to America’s Addiction Crisis Could Come Out of Tulsa
Nicholas Kristof on the most effective recovery program he’s ever seen.
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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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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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The Miseducation of Google’s A.I.
Gemini, Google’s new chatbot, has provoked a fierce debate about social values and artificial intelligence.
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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.
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