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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we talk about the role of experts throughout society. Plus, we learn how to master a ...
A long list of APS Fellows, award winners, and members have been elected to both the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the ...
Key Points Babies can often pull off some pretty astonishing stuff—like sensing emotions and understanding math—according to ...
Do you have siblings? If so, what are your relationships with them like? How much do you think they have influenced you — your personality, interests, beliefs and behavior?...Anyone raising more than ...
The work is never done. It can never be permanently crossed off our to-do list. And if we’re honest, it can feel a bit ...
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. OpenAI’s ...
Alison Gopnik, a researcher who specializes in cognitive development, has proposed a better way of thinking about LLMs: These systems aren’t companions or nascent intelligences at all. They’re ...
Catholic Bishop Robert Barron took exception to a "rather annoying article" from The New Yorker this week that attempted to downplay Christianity’s legitimacy. The New Yorker released a piece ...
We spoke to Blake Gopnik about his new book, The Maverick’s Museum. The Art Newspaper: Why did you decide to write the biography? Blake Gopnik: There’s nothing I like more than plunging into a ...
Ideas54:00Writer Adam Gopnik on the Evolution of Antisemitism Into Anti-urbanism New Yorker writer and former CBC Massey Lecturer, Adam Gopnik argues that there's a connection between contemporary ...
“Yes, we should go there,” Gopnik wrote. The worst sometimes happens. If people of good will fail to act, and soon, it can happen here” (emphasis added). The “it” was fascism. As Gopnik ...
When I saw the title of longtime New Yorker writer and cultural essayist Adam Gopnik’s slim new volume, “All That Happiness Is,” the song “Happiness” from the musical “You’re a Good ...