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  1. Can A.I. Rethink Art? Should It?

    There is an increasing overlap between art and artificial intelligence. Some celebrate it, while others worry.

     By Farah Nayeri

    Visitors watched a projection of Refik Anadol’s A.I.-generated work that was part of his solo exhibit “Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive,” at the Serpentine North Gallery in February in London.
    Visitors watched a projection of Refik Anadol’s A.I.-generated work that was part of his solo exhibit “Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive,” at the Serpentine North Gallery in February in London.
    CreditDan Kitwood/Getty Images

  2. Read Your Way Through New Orleans

    New Orleans is a thriving hub for festivals, music and Creole cuisine. Here, the novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin shares books that capture its many cultural influences.

     By Maurice Carlos Ruffin

    CreditRaphaelle Macaron

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inEducation: American Government

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  1. What to Know About Biden’s Executive Order on Immigration

    The president issued an executive order that essentially blocks asylum claims at the southern border, a major shift in how the United States has handled claims for protection.

     By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Karen Hanley, Claire Hogan and Christina Shaman

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  2. The Major Supreme Court Cases of 2024

    No Supreme Court term in recent memory has featured so many cases with the potential to transform American society.

     By Adam Liptak, Abbie VanSickle and Alicia Parlapiano

    CreditThe New York Times

  3. Forty Years Later, Biden Seeks to Echo Reagan’s Legacy of American Leadership

    At Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, President Biden plans to follow one of the former president’s most iconic speeches with his own testimonial to democracy and the need to resist isolationism.

     By Peter Baker

    Forty years ago, President Ronald Reagan delivered his “Boys of Pointe-du-Hoc” address on the cliffs scaled by U.S. Army Rangers during the D-Day invasion of Normandy in France.
    CreditRon Edmonds/Associated Press

  4. The 19th-Century Club You’ve Never Heard of That Changed the World

    In a democracy, how far is too far?

     By Jon Grinspan

    A Wide Awakes rally in October 1860 filled much of Lower Manhattan with marchers and spectators, and left the city stinking of burned torch oil.
    CreditNational Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

  5. Convictions of Biden’s Son and Trump Put the Justice System on Trial

    But despite the partisan roar, two juries appeared to seriously weigh the evidence and deliver verdicts. The system seemed to work as it is supposed to.

     By Charlie Savage

    Attorney General Merrick B. Garland being sworn in before a House Judiciary Committee hearing this month.
    CreditTom Brenner for The New York Times

inEducation: Biology

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  1. Scientists Find the Largest Known Genome Inside a Small Plant

    A fern from a Pacific island carries 50 times as much DNA as humans do.

     By Carl Zimmer

    The fern’s cells contain more than 50 times as much DNA as ours do.
    CreditOriane Hidalgo

  2. How Wombats May Save Other Animals From Wildfires

    They build extensive burrow networks and don’t seem to mind when other woodland creatures use them as flameproof bunkers.

     By Darren Incorvaia

    Wombat at a wildlife sanctuary on the South Coast of New South Wales. Their burrows can serve as fireproof refuges for small mammals, birds, and reptiles during and after extreme fires.
    CreditDean Lewins/EPA, via Shutterstock

  3. Unconventional Sex Let Anglerfish Conquer the Deep Ocean

    During a chaotic period some 50 million years ago, the strange deep-sea creatures left the ocean bottom and thrived by clamping onto their mates.

     By William J. Broad

    A toothed seadevil with a male attached. There are more than 300 species of anglerfish, making them the most varied family of vertebrates in the ocean’s lightless zone.
    CreditSolvin Zankl/mauritius images GmbH, via Alamy

  4. The Textbooks Were Wrong About How Your Tongue Works

    The perception of taste is remarkably complex, not only on the tongue but in organs throughout the body.

     By Joanne Silberner

    The taste bud diagram, used in many textbooks over the years, originated in a 1901 study but was actually showing the sensitivity of different areas of the tongue.
    CreditAlamy

  5. Was This Sea Creature Our Ancestor? Scientists Turn a Famous Fossil on its Head.

    Researchers have long assumed that a tube in the famous Pikaia fossil ran along the animal’s back. But a new study turned the fossil upside-side down.

     By Carl Zimmer

    The fossil of Pikaia, a creature that lived 508 million years ago and may have been a close relative of vertebrates.
    CreditMussini et al., Current Biology 2024

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inEducation: Computer Science

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  1. Can A.I. Rethink Art? Should It?

    There is an increasing overlap between art and artificial intelligence. Some celebrate it, while others worry.

     By Farah Nayeri

    Visitors watched a projection of Refik Anadol’s A.I.-generated work that was part of his solo exhibit “Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive,” at the Serpentine North Gallery in February in London.
    CreditDan Kitwood/Getty Images

  2. OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance

    A group of current and former employees is calling for sweeping changes to the artificial intelligence industry, including greater transparency and protections for whistle-blowers.

     By Kevin Roose

    Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher in OpenAI’s governance division, is an organizer of a group of former and current employees who say the company has a reckless culture.
    CreditJason Andrew for The New York Times

  3. If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your C.E.O.

    Chief executives are vulnerable to the same forces buffeting their employees. Leadership is important, but so is efficiency — and cost-cutting.

     By David Streitfeld

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  4. What to Know About the Open Versus Closed Software Debate

    A.I. companies are divided over whether the technology should be freely available to anyone for modifying and copying, or kept close for safekeeping.

     By Mike Isaac

    Meta’s open-source A.I. system is available to any developer to download and use.
    CreditLoren Elliott for The New York Times

  5. Welcome to the Era of the A.I. Smartphone

    Apple and Google are getting up close and personal with user data to craft memos, summarize documents and generate images.

     By Brian X. Chen

    CreditSisi Yu

inEducation: English

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  1. Read Your Way Through New Orleans

    New Orleans is a thriving hub for festivals, music and Creole cuisine. Here, the novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin shares books that capture its many cultural influences.

     By Maurice Carlos Ruffin

    CreditRaphaelle Macaron

  2. English-Language Books Are Filling Europe’s Bookstores. Mon Dieu!

    Young people, especially, are choosing to read in English even if it is not their first language because they want the covers, and the titles, to match what they see on TikTok and other social media.

     By Claire Moses and Elizabeth A. Harris

    Some in the book world worry as they see sales in English accelerate, especially among the young. “We neglect our language,” said Peter Hoomans, a bookseller at Scheltema, in Amsterdam.
    CreditIlvy Njiokiktjien for The New York Times

  3. How Many Literary A.I. Characters and Plots Do You Know?

    Some science fiction authors have been using the concept of artificial intelligence in their books for decades. Try this short quiz to see how many works you remember.

     By J. D. Biersdorfer

    CreditBen Hickey

  4. Everyone Wants a Piece of Kafka, a Writer Who Refused to Be Claimed

    A hundred years after Kafka’s death, people and nations are still fighting over his legacy.

     By Benjamin Balint

    Franz Kafka could not have foreseen how many admirers would read and misread his enigmatic fictions after his death.
    CreditPhoto illustration by Matt Dorfman; Photo by Bettmann Archives, via Getty Images

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inEducation: Environmental Science

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  1. Plans for an Ailing Forest Include Logging. Environmentalists Object.

    Officials in Oregon say they need to cut trees, including some healthy ones. The reaction shows how complex land management has become as forest health declines.

     By Anna Kramer

    Dead and dying Douglas fir trees in the Willamette National Forest, Ore., in October.
    CreditAmanda Loman/Associated Press

  2. As Solar Power Surges, U.S. Wind Is in Trouble

    A 2022 climate law was expected to set off a boom in renewable energy. So far, that’s only come partly true.

     By Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich

    CreditThe New York Times

  3. How Wombats May Save Other Animals From Wildfires

    They build extensive burrow networks and don’t seem to mind when other woodland creatures use them as flameproof bunkers.

     By Darren Incorvaia

    Wombat at a wildlife sanctuary on the South Coast of New South Wales. Their burrows can serve as fireproof refuges for small mammals, birds, and reptiles during and after extreme fires.
    CreditDean Lewins/EPA, via Shutterstock

  4. The Right Kind of Tipping Point

    Global carbon dioxide emissions might have already peaked, according to new estimates, signaling a potentially monumental shift.

     By David Gelles

    A wind farm along the shore of the Bohai Sea in Shandong Province, China.
    CreditGilles Sabrié for The New York Times

  5. By a Stream in Vermont, a Glimpse of a Plant Last Seen a Century Ago

    “Are you sitting down?” Vermont’s state botanist asked a fellow plant expert after spotting false mermaid-weed last month.

     By Jenna Russell

    Unassuming and easily overlooked, false mermaid-weed sprouts into view in late April, flowers for about a month and retreats by early June.
    CreditVermont Fish and Wildlife Department

inEducation: Finance and Economics

More in inEducation: Finance and Economics ›

  1. European Central Bank Cuts Interest Rates for the First Time Since 2019

    The quarter-point reduction comes as inflation in the eurozone cools, prompting the E.C.B. to move before the Federal Reserve in the United States, where rates remain high.

     By Eshe Nelson

    CreditEuropean Central Bank

  2. The Economic Theory That Explains Why Americans Are So Mad

    Annie Lowrey talks about how the affordability crisis is shaping how Americans perceive the state of the economy.

     By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

    CreditPhoto Illustration by The New York Times

  3. Office Building Losses Start to Pile Up, and More Pain Is Expected

    The distress in commercial real estate is growing as some office buildings sell for much lower prices than just a few years ago.

     By Joe Rennison and Julie Creswell

    Demand for office space remains weak and interest rates and other costs are higher than they have been in many years.
    CreditErin Schaff/The New York Times

  4. Wage Growth Exceeds Forecasts, Potentially Deterring Fed Rate Cuts

    The latest data could add to fears that the labor market remains too hot to bring inflation fully under control.

     By Ben Casselman

  5. Is America Getting Interest Rates Wrong?

    Why higher rates are replacing inflation as the thing to hate.

     By Paul Krugman and Peter Coy

    CreditIllustration by The New York Times; Images by FireflyLight, HIspanolistic and Bim, via Getty Images

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inEducation: The Arts

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  1. The Lost Art of the Negative

    Film cameras are seeing another renaissance. But some new photographers are leaving something behind: the tea-colored originals that determine the life of pictures.

     By Ali Watkins

    Carl Saytor, founder and owner of Luxlab, has remained steadfast in his love of analog photography. He rents darkrooms to young artists and often provides guidance and mentorship as they practice printing
    CreditMaansi Srivastava/The New York Times

  2. Can A.I. Rethink Art? Should It?

    There is an increasing overlap between art and artificial intelligence. Some celebrate it, while others worry.

     By Farah Nayeri

    Visitors watched a projection of Refik Anadol’s A.I.-generated work that was part of his solo exhibit “Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive,” at the Serpentine North Gallery in February in London.
    CreditDan Kitwood/Getty Images

  3. ‘No Excuses Anymore’ for Gender Inequality in Classical Music

    In Vienna, a series of concerts and summits will highlight women and nonbinary composers, as well as the dominance of the dead, white, male canon.

     By Valeriya Safronova

    “There are so many of us,” said Bushra El-Turk, a British-Lebanese composer who often merges Western and Eastern musical traditions in her work. “Whether we’re given opportunities is the problem.”
    CreditDavid Payr for The New York Times

  4. Want to Succeed as an Artist? Click Here.

    With a rising number of artists vying for a limited number of galleries and grants, arts professionals are pivoting to careers as coaches. But can they help people profit from their talents?

     By Travis Diehl

    CreditHannah Robinson

inEducation: Health Sciences

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  1. Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points

    The world must not continue to bear the intolerable risks of research with the potential to cause pandemics.

     By Alina Chan

    CreditIllustration by Mike McQuade. Source photographs by Getty Images.

  2. Cancer Researchers Begin Large Long-Term Study of Black Women

    The American Cancer Society hopes to enroll 100,000 women and follow them for three decades to discover what’s causing higher case and death rates.

     By Roni Caryn Rabin

    Participants in the study will be surveyed about their behaviors, environmental exposures and life experiences.
    CreditTravis Dove for The Washington Post, via Getty Images

  3. New Report Underscores the Seriousness of Long Covid

    The National Academies said the condition could involve up to 200 symptoms, make it difficult for people to work and last for months or years.

     By Pam Belluck

    Samantha Lewis, left, of Aurora, Ill., attending a physical therapy session to treat her long Covid symptoms in 2021.
    CreditAlex Wroblewski for The New York Times

  4. F.D.A. Panel Rejects MDMA-Aided Therapy for PTSD

    An independent group of experts expressed concerns that the data from clinical trials did not outweigh risks for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

     By Andrew Jacobs

    A dose of MDMA from the MAPS Public Benefit Corp., which is now renamed as Lykos Therapeutics, a for-profit company whose studies the F.D.A. is analyzing.
    CreditTravis Dove for The New York Times

  5. Advisory Panel of Experts Endorses F.D.A. Approval of New Alzheimer’s Drug

    The modest benefits of the treatment, donanemab, made by Eli Lilly, outweigh the risks, the panel concluded unanimously.

     By Gina Kolata and Pam Belluck

    Brain scans from a patient in the clinical trials of donanemab showed amyloid plaque being removed from the patient’s brain.
    CreditEli Lilly

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inEducation: History

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  1. D-Day at 80

    Veterans of the pivotal battle of World War II are disappearing. Europe, facing new conflict, recalls what their comrades died for.

     By Roger Cohen and Laetitia Vancon

    The American Cemetery in Normandy holds 9,388 graves.
    CreditLaetitia Vancon/The New York Times

  2. Have Wine for Breakfast, Put On a 51-Pound Suit and Get to the Battlefield

    Greek soldiers recreated ancient life conditions in a study to determine if the Dendra panoply, armor used by the Mycenaeans some 3,500 years ago, could stand up to combat. Study authors found it did.

     By Amanda Holpuch

    A soldier wearing a replica of a bronze armor.
    CreditAndreas D. Flouris/University of Thessaly

  3. The 19th-Century Club You’ve Never Heard of That Changed the World

    In a democracy, how far is too far?

     By Jon Grinspan

    A Wide Awakes rally in October 1860 filled much of Lower Manhattan with marchers and spectators, and left the city stinking of burned torch oil.
    CreditNational Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

  4. Gaza’s Historic Heart, Now in Ruins

    The Great Omari Mosque, built on an ancient holy site, is one of the many treasured landmarks damaged in Israel’s military offensive.

     By Bora Erden, Graham Bowley and Tala Safie

    CreditAmerican Colony Photo Department (Jerusalem), via Library of Congress; Ali Jadallah/Anadolu, via Getty Images

  5. Flashback: Your Weekly History Quiz, June 8, 2024

    Can you sort 8 historical events?

     

    Credit

inEducation: Leadership

More in inEducation: Leadership ›

  1. If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your C.E.O.

    Chief executives are vulnerable to the same forces buffeting their employees. Leadership is important, but so is efficiency — and cost-cutting.

     By David Streitfeld

    Credit

  2. The Quiet Magic of Middle Managers

    Amid a wider national atmosphere of division, distrust, bitterness and exhaustion, middle managers are the frontline workers trying to resolve tensions and keep communities working.

     By David Brooks

    CreditPete Gamlen

  3. It’s Lonely at the Top

    When making difficult decisions, you won’t help matters by over-explaining that you did what was best for everyone.

     By Roxane Gay

    CreditPhoto Illustration by Margeaux Walter for The New York Times

  4. Elon Musk’s Mindset: ‘It’s a Weakness to Want to Be Liked’

    In an interview, the tech billionaire slams advertisers for pulling back from X and discusses his emotional state.

     By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Evan Roberts, Elaine Chen, Dan Powell and Kelly Pieko

    Credit

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inEducation: Psychology

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  1. PTSD Treatments Are Falling Short for Many Patients

    Therapy and medication can help people recover from trauma, but many struggle to access the care they need.

     By Dani Blum

    CreditOwen Gent

  2. How to ‘Gray Rock’ Conversations With Difficult People

    Some say that becoming as dull as a rock is an effective way to disengage.

     By Christina Caron

    CreditKeith Negley

  3. What Is MDMA Therapy and What Are Its Risks?

    An F.D.A. advisory panel dealt a setback to those seeking treatment for PTSD, citing health risks of the illegal drug and study flaws.

     By Andrew Jacobs

    Developed in 1912, MDMA was reclassified in 1985 as a Schedule I substance, a drug defined as having no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
    CreditKenzo Tribouillard/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

  4. F.D.A. Panel Rejects MDMA-Aided Therapy for PTSD

    An independent group of experts expressed concerns that the data from clinical trials did not outweigh risks for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

     By Andrew Jacobs

    A dose of MDMA from the MAPS Public Benefit Corp., which is now renamed as Lykos Therapeutics, a for-profit company whose studies the F.D.A. is analyzing.
    CreditTravis Dove for The New York Times

inEducation: Sociology

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  1. English-Language Books Are Filling Europe’s Bookstores. Mon Dieu!

    Young people, especially, are choosing to read in English even if it is not their first language because they want the covers, and the titles, to match what they see on TikTok and other social media.

     By Claire Moses and Elizabeth A. Harris

    Some in the book world worry as they see sales in English accelerate, especially among the young. “We neglect our language,” said Peter Hoomans, a bookseller at Scheltema, in Amsterdam.
    CreditIlvy Njiokiktjien for The New York Times

  2. The ‘Empty Suit’ of Trump’s Masculinity

    Three men of Opinion debate Trump’s appeal.

     By Michelle Cottle and Carlos Lozada

    CreditIllustration by The New York Times; photograph by The Washington Post/Getty Images

  3. The Battle Over College Speech Will Outlive the Encampments

    For the first time since the Vietnam War, university demonstrations have led to a rethinking of who sets the terms for language in academia.

     By Emily Bazelon and Charles Homans

    A pro-Palestinian protest on Columbia University’s campus this spring.
    CreditMark Peterson/Redux

  4. Less Marriage, Less Sex, Less Agreement

    Bonds between men and women may be eroding when we need them most.

     By Nicholas Kristof

    CreditFerdinando Scianna/Magnum Photos

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