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  • Newyork

    Don’t Wear the Goggles. Their Vision Is Bleak.

    “I will not live in the pod,” runs a mantra on right-wing Twitter. “I will not eat the bugs.” It’s an anathema against the various corporate and governmental forces that supposedly want us all to abandon private property, red meat and other American ...

  • Newyork

    In the Age of A.I., Major in Being Human

    Last summer, a piece of artwork generated with artificial intelligence took a first prize at the Colorado State Fair. To me, the image looks like a view from the back of the stage at an opera. You see the backs of three singers, then, past them ...

  • Science

    Deer Could Be a Reservoir of Old Coronavirus Variants, Study Suggests

    Even after Delta became the dominant variant in humans, Alpha and Gamma continued to circulate in white-tailed deer, according to new research.

  • Science

    When Your Old Fishing Buddy Has a Snout and a Blowhole

    Bottlenose dolphins help Brazilian fishermen pull in their catch, and researchers have worked out what the marine mammals get from the cooperative hunting.

  • Science

    Snarl, You’re on Candid Camera

    Wildlife cameras in Wisconsin are capturing interspecies encounters — and providing evidence that human activity might make such meetings more likely.

  • Newyork

    How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy

    Launched just weeks ago, ChatGPT is already threatening to upend how we draft everyday communications like emails, college essays and myriad other forms of writing. Created by the company OpenAI, ChatGPT is a chatbot that can automatically respond to ...

  • Newyork

    Having a Hard Christmas? Jesus Did Too

    Among my most treasured memories is one Christmas Day when I was around 6 or 7 years old. Christmases in my childhood were fairly magical, with good food, lots of family, presents and fun. But that Christmas I was miserable. I lay in bed at my ...

  • Newyork

    Human This Christmas

    Everyone in my professional life — fellow faculty members, other writers — is up in arms about ChatGPT, the new artificial intelligence tool that can write like a human being. Tech is not supposed to be human. It is only ever supposed to be humanoid ...

  • Newyork

    How Wildlife Rescue Can Heal the Human Heart

    NASHVILLE — As a young college student, I worked as a volunteer for the Alabama Wildlife Center, caring mainly for baby songbirds, squirrels and opossums. The infants entrusted to my care were all healthy enough that a teenager willing to begin the ...

  • World

    Your Friday Briefing: Covid Protests Grow in China

    Videos showed workers protesting at Foxconn’s iPhone factory in central China.Credit...via AFP— Getty; via Reuters, via AFP— GettyCovid anger ...

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