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Vernor Vinge, influential sci-fi author who warned of AI ‘Singularity,’ has died
Vernor Vinge, prolific science-fiction writer, professor, and one of the first prominent thinkers to conceptualize the concepts of a...
How migration makes life more resilient
Excerpted from The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature’s Hidden Rules by Tim Blackburn. Copyright © 2023. Published by Island...
That time the CDC got people hyped for a zombie apocalypse
Excerpted from If It Sounds Like a Quack: A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling. Copyright...
Get 50% off some darn great reads with Barnes & Noble’s Book Haul sale
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School district uses ChatGPT to help remove library books
Against a nationwide backdrop of book bans and censorship campaigns, Iowa educators are turning to ChatGPT to help decide which titles...
Who caught the first bluefin tuna?
Excerpted from Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna, Obsession, and the Future of Our Seas by Karen Pinchin with permission from Dutton, an...
ChatGPT is quietly co-authoring books on Amazon
Generative AI programs are spurring plenty of ongoing discussions surrounding artistic integrity, labor, and originality. But that’s not...
Check out some of the weirdest warty frogs in North America
“No one can mistake a frog for any other vertebrate,” writes herpetologist C. Kenneth Dodd Jr. in his newly published edition of Frogs...
A spacecraft engineer’s wisdom from Mars 2020 and a disaster-stricken island
Excerpt from The Boy Who Reached for the Stars: A Memoir by Elio Morillo. Published by HarperOne. Copyright © 2022 HarperCollins. On...
Great science-minded coffee table books
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