Inside the ‘700 Indians’ AI myth and what broke
The joke wrote itself. “AI, Actually Indians.” Variations of that punchline ricocheted around the internet after a viral post claimed…
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Who Wrote ‘Last Christmas’: George Michael’s Solo Craft
If you tried to make a Christmas hit in 2024, the first thing your label would give you is a…
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Hooked on Help: How AI Courts a Dependent Generation
The library is packed, the coffee is burnt, and the soft glow that once meant study groups and Google Docs…
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Seeing the rich changes votes, but raises the temperature
From a distance, inequality looks like a sterile graph. Up close, it feels personal. A new study suggests that the…
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The overpacked flight that quietly changed Spain’s future
The suitcase was packed with braid and ceremony. On a bright July morning in 1936, a light aircraft clawed at…
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Call On Me: The Hit Eric Prydz Couldn’t Outrun, Until Now
A surprise drop in Austin revived a 2004 anthem and reopened an old, thorny story about sampling, credit, and what…
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The Scholar Who Seized China and Rewrote Its Past
In the autumn of 23 CE, as rebels surged into the imperial capital of Chang’an, the emperor who had promised…
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Noah, Gilgamesh, and the Black Sea: Tracing a Flood’s Origins
Thirty miles north of Istanbul, the Bosporus narrows to a mile-wide strait where salt water runs like a river between…
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Unmasking the Beast of Gévaudan, France’s Dark Legend
The first body was found in summer grass, not far from a huddle of cattle and a boundary of firs….
