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The Year Math Changed Forever
“A.I. is solving problems that stumped the field for decades. Mathematicians look to Terence Tao for guidance on their altered world.”
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Why Immigration Agents Don’t Quit in Protest
“How a culture of dehumanization and denial keeps ICE and Border Patrol personnel ‘at war with an enemy that does not fight back.’”
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How Jim Morrison Surmounted Tragedy and Skied Down Everest
“The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on.”
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How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness
“By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before Christopher Columbus arrived.”
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Parting Shot
“Stormy Morse lost two partners to gun suicide. Then the NRA came to collect.”
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The Scheme That Broke the Texas Lottery
“When a ‘purchasing group’ won a ninety-five-million-dollar jackpot, the victory caused a scandal in a state where opposition to legal gambling remains widespread.”
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What Would It Mean to See a New Color?
“Olo can be described as the ‘greenest green,’ though it can never be captured by a camera. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision.”
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The Prehistory of A.I. Slop
“Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.”
