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Chatbots are appropriating our most common rhetorical tics. Yet when it comes to language, human creativity can’t be beat. By Vauhini Vara Her memoir follows the path from an abusive childhood to ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto have built a worm that thinks for itself. Using free off-the-shelf AI models it ...

In a Pulitzer-winning book, “The Radicalism of the American Revolution,” he wrote that the colonists rose up against an entire worldview, not just against taxation. By David Stout In this satisfyingly ...

Lidia Rauch was born at the crossroads of South Africa’s past and present – the granddaughter of one of apartheid’s ...

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Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. A book transfer moves funds between deposit accounts within the same bank, eliminating float ...

A new book applies principles of environmental tipping points to past societal transformations — and attempts to draw lessons about what the future holds today.