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The Sea Geeks Are Ready for World War III
An Indian-born NASA-trained engineer who’s building flying boats for the Navy. An Irish guy who’s making underwater drones. Meet the ocean-trepreneurs…
Suzy Weiss
I’m a Former Opera Singer. Timothée Chalamet Is Right.
Opera in America is incredible. It’s also a dying art.
Billy Binion
Alexa, Stop Recording Me
A new anti-surveillance device blew up on social media, promising to stop digital recorders in their tracks. But does it actually work?
Josh Code
Science Has a Major Fraud Problem
For decades, scientists were above reproach. Not any more. Joe Nocera investigates the murky world of fraudulent research, and the sleuths exposing…
Joe Nocera
This Week in Canada: Death Is a High-Volume Business
‘Exceptionally proficient’ at MAID; booze sales lose out to marijuana; terrifying synagogue attacks; and more.
Rupa Subramanya
Say It with Me Now: Open Marriages Never Work
All Lindy West proves in her new memoir, ‘Adult Braces,’ is that she loves being treated like a child by the man she was supposed to grow old with—and…
Kat Rosenfield
The World the Fatwa Made
The Islamic Republic’s most dangerous weapon isn’t missiles. It is a few sentences. They will hang over us—even if the regime falls.
Jonathan Rosen
The Weekend Press: A Soldier’s Letters Home
Plus: The geeks outsourcing their life to AI gathered in New York City this week. Kat Rosenfield on a must-watch Iranian vampire movie. Two glasses of…
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Who’s Excited to Be Replaced By AI? These Guys!
At New York City’s inaugural ClawCon, those attempting to automate their lives gathered to dream of a utopia without work, where humans can just drink…
Evan Gardner
Should a Woman Have Nine Children? Or None?
Plus: A fashion founder tells me not to try looking like Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. The sex politics of the AI elite. Lily Allen’s ex is in a show about…
Suzy Weiss
Two Drinks with . . . the ‘Impressively Angry’ Novelist, Howard Jacobson
Howard Jacobson’s new book, ‘Howl,’ is a tragicomic exploration of the Jew-hating madness and moral inversion that overtook England after the Hamas…
Dominic Green
Confessions of a Former Marijuana Evangelist
Neal Pollack spent most of his adulthood promoting weed’s cultural and legal adoption. Now he says it was ruining his life. This is how he changed his…
Maya Sulkin
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