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As I was about to write this piece in a restaurant inside a mall, I noticed a food delivery rider watching on his phone a clip of the former president in what appeared to be a pro-Duterte reel. This ...

The real problem is not the use of AI itself. The problem is that writing classes have often focused too much on the finished essay and not enough on the thinking behind it.

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Mark Hughes Cobb reflects on why we seek out fear in haunted houses and movies, and how it connects to love and loss.

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The applications of ultrathin, conductive films such as those made of graphene have many applications, but it's been thought ...

We appear to have reached a point in the information age where AI models are becoming old enough to retire from, er, service — and rather than using their twilight years to, I don’t know, wipe the ...

Anthropic retired a popular AI model and now it's blogging on Substack ...

We all know that one person who discovered blogging back in 2013. He started a column, wrote three posts about the 2011 Cricket World Cup, the best stock to invest in and then nothing since. He still ...

Papers signed by famous figures can fetch thousands and even millions of dollars. But who decides where they belong and what they're worth?