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The 50 Best TV Shows on Netflix Right Now
New shows come to the streaming giant all the time — too many to ever watch them all. We’re here to help.
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News
How ‘A.I. Agents’ That Roam the Internet Could One Day Replace Workers
Researchers are transforming chatbots into online agents that play games, query websites, schedule meetings, build bar charts and do more.
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Science
Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.)
There is no free will, according to Robert Sapolsky, a biologist and neurologist at Stanford University and a recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant. Dr. Sapolsky worked for decades as a field primatologist before turning to ...
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Newyork
You Can Look Inside a Black Hole. I’ll Show You How.
How do we learn something new, something we do not yet know? One way, of course, is through experience. This is why the young depart and travel. Another is thanks to someone else, who might have traveled for us. What they have learned comes to us as ...
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An Israeli Doctor, Off to War: ‘We Have Nothing Against the People of Gaza’
More from our inbox: Instilling the Joy of Music in ChildrenHow to Restore Trust in Our InstitutionsPaperbacks at WarCredit...Sergey Ponomarev for The New York TimesTo the Editor: Hamas viciously slaughtered Israeli men, women and children in their ...
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Books
The Essential Vladimir Nabokov
People who dislike Vladimir Nabokov tend to find his dexterity stressful, like watching a circus performer juggle torches for hours. The solution to this is to chill out. It’s not your job to worry that an elective juggler is going to light his ...
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‘S.N.L’ Returns With Pete Davidson and a Taylor Swift Cameo
The show’s first new broadcast in six months opened with a somber reflection by Davidson, the host, and included a brief appearance by Swift, who was a running theme of the episode.
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Newyork
Why Israel Is Acting This Way
With the Middle East on the cusp of a full-blown ground war, I was thinking on Friday morning about how Israel’s last two major wars have two very important things in common: They were both started by nonstate actors backed by Iran — Hezbollah from ...
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Five Louise Glück Poems to Get You Started
The American writer, who won a Nobel Prize in 2020, wrote with cool clarity and often puckish wit.
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‘Billions’ Season 7, Episode 10: Mutually Assured Destruction
Axe’s fixer skills are tested after Prince issues an order.