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Roland Griffiths, Who Led a Renaissance in Psychedelics, Dies at 77

The drugs had been the third rail of scientific inquiry. But in a landmark study, he saw them as a…

Magazine

Yohji Yamamoto Prefers the Side View

This sketch [from Yohji Yamamoto’s fall 1988 collection] (above) is a lie. It’s a woman, but she looks like a…

News

A Historical Novel That Is Also a Mash-Up of the Centuries

Adam Thirlwell’s “The Future Future” follows a 19-year-old socialite through a prerevolutionary Paris that looks suspiciously like our present day.

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Hamas and the Moral Failure of Our Institutions of Higher Learning

We have failed. When a coalition of 34 student organizations at Harvard can say that they “hold the Israeli regime…

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‘Do Not Take Your Mezuzah off Your Door’

The Torah tells us that on the day God created humanity, God saw everything God created, and God saw that…

World

A Severe Drought Pushes an Imperiled Amazon to the Brink

The planet’s biggest freshwater tank is in trouble. The Amazon rainforest, where a fifth of the world’s freshwater flows, is…

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Piling Horror Upon Horror

Watching from afar as people race toward an abyss, I find it hard to know what to write except “no,”…

News

The 50 Best TV Shows on Netflix Right Now

New shows come to the streaming giant all the time — too many to ever watch them all. We’re here…

Finance

How ‘A.I. Agents’ That Roam the Internet Could One Day Replace Workers

Researchers are transforming chatbots into online agents that play games, query websites, schedule meetings, build bar charts and do more.

Science

Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.)

There is no free will, according to Robert Sapolsky, a biologist and neurologist at Stanford University and a recipient of…

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