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World
A Severe Drought Pushes an Imperiled Amazon to the Brink
The planet’s biggest freshwater tank is in trouble. The Amazon rainforest, where a fifth of the world’s freshwater flows, is…
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News
Piling Horror Upon Horror
Watching from afar as people race toward an abyss, I find it hard to know what to write except “no,”…
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Arts
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…
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Finance
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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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
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…
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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.…
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Arts
‘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…
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News
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…