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I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline
“No texts, no Instagram, no subway Slack.”
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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
“An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.”
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Experiences in Groups
“The more you can perceive, the more choice you will have about how to respond.”
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What It Means to Speak With the Dead
“A session with a Florida medium in a time of genocide.”
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Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art
“To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.”
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The Foreign Language That Changed My Teenage Son’s Life
“I worried about his ability to fit in. But then he fell in love with Russian — and on a trip to Central Asia, he flourished.”
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Tripping on LSD at the Dolphin Research Lab
How a 1960s interspecies-communication experiment went haywire.
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The Year Mahbuba Found Her Voice
“The young refugee from Afghanistan arrived on the doorstep of a Chicago school. She was deaf and had no previous exposure to formal sign language. What happened next was transformative.”