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Arts
Pushing the Body to Extremes to Find Serenity
Why do some people put their bodies through extreme acts? Why cross the Seine on a wire or climb a…
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Arts
After Nearly Five Decades, Waltraud Meier Takes Her Final Opera Bow
The famed singer, known for her captivating presence, intellectual approach and distinctive sound, is retiring from the stage with “Elektra.”
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Finance
Maybe We Will Finally Learn More About How A.I. Works
Stanford researchers have ranked 10 major A.I. models on how openly they operate.
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World
What if We Could All Control A.I.?
Researchers at Anthropic asked roughly 1,000 Americans to write rules for their A.I. chatbot. The results could be a model…
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News
The Strange Decline of the Pax Americana
When Hamas attacked Israel, Republicans knew whom to blame: President Biden. Donald Trump asserted that the attack wouldn’t have happened…
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News
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…
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News
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…
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News
The Science Nobel Winners Were Short and Fast
The awards for physics and chemistry were a reminder that the most important processes in nature unfold on a scale…
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Arts
Kate Soper Returns to Opera With a Story Medieval and Modern
On a recent summer morning in New York, three sopranos, a director and a small crew gathered for a rehearsal…
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Arts
The Forrest Gump of Data Mining Saw It All
McKenzie Funk’s “The Hank Show” follows the improbable career of one man, and the surveillance state he helped create.