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Why the New Human Case of Bird Flu Is So Alarming

The third human case of H5N1, reported on Thursday in a farmworker in Michigan who was experiencing respiratory symptoms, tells…

Politics

The One Thing That Can Save Cinema From C.G.I. Oblivion

The motion-capture acting in “The Planet of the Apes” movies tries to preserve the magic of the physical world amid…

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Loneliness Is a Problem That A.I. Won’t Solve

When I was reporting my ed tech series, I stumbled on one of the most disturbing things I’ve read in…

Arts

What to Know Before Seeing ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’

Who is Caesar? And how did apes learn to talk, anyway? Your burning questions about the “Planet of the Apes”…

Politics

My Boyfriend Said He’d Save Our Cat but Not a Stranger if Both Were Drowning

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether there is inherent value in human life more than any other kind of life.

World

The Great Hypocrisy of the Pro-Life Movement

To understand the remarkable moral, political and intellectual collapse of the pro-life movement, look to the Alabama Supreme Court, not…

Arts

Savages! Innocents! Sages! What Do We Really Know About Early Humans?

In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell…

Arts

Harvard Removes Binding of Human Skin From Book in Its Library

The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny…

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Scientists Just Gave Humanity an Overdue Reality Check. The World Will Be Better for It.

The world’s leading institution on geology declined a proposal on Wednesday to confirm that the planet has entered a new…

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Where the Wild Things Went During the Pandemic

A new study of camera-trap images complicates the idea that all wildlife thrived during the Covid lockdowns.

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