Folk Culture

NASA, ESA, K. Stapelfeldt, G. KoberDay 18 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: an energetic protostar. FS Tau is...

The soldier, a lanky, dark-haired sergeant named Vitalii Ovcharenko, met me at a gas-station café on an otherwise deserted stretch...

At first, it was the Airbnb owner I felt sorry for. I once had a friend who rented out her...

“I’d want to know if anybody nominated for a high-level job in Washington legitimately assaulted somebody … If people have...

In the video, my siblings and I stand with our mother on the large porch of a house somewhere in...

Alan Turing’s original 1950 proposal for what we now know as the Turing test—an experiment to gauge whether a machine...

The glorification of dangerous thinness is a long-standing problem in American culture, and it is especially bad on the internet,...

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Hyundai has a lot riding on a patch of rural Georgia. In October, the South Korean auto giant opened a...

Jonathan Zittrain breaks ChatGPT: If you ask it a question for which my name is the answer, the chatbot goes...