From analogies created by an algorithm that analyzed nearly 30,000 words in stories aggregated by Google News. Researchers at Boston University and Microsoft used the algorithm to reveal gender biases…

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By Forrest Gander, from Be With, a collection of poetry that will be published next month by New Directions. At which point my grief-sounds ricocheted outside of language. Something like…

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From a memorandum filed in April by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York opposing a motion from Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer. The motion…

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From “Human Rights Record of the United States in 2017,” a report published in April by China’s State Council Information Office. On April 20, the State Department of the United…

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The fall of New York and the urban crisis of affluence

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The power of strength

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Mrs. Goode was a little toad of a woman, dark and fleshy-featured. If my mother had seen her, she would have said she looked like she had a “touch of…

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After Bonin liberated the Scots’ pelts, we rode the lower trail until we come to a ford in the river where the Frenchman run his ferry. But the barge was…

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Sleep gets a bad rap in the United States. Despite the threats and cajolings of the CDC, which has deemed chronic sleeplessness a serious danger to the nation’s health, and…

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James Wood’s return to fiction

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Deborah Levy’s foremothers and heiresses

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Estimated combined square footage of all the self-storage units in the United States : 1,670,000,000 Factor by which this area is larger than the borough of Manhattan : 2.6 Number…

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Fool Me Once Thomas Frank is right: the Trump reelection nightmare could happen [“Four More Years,” Essay, April]. But I believe it is crucial that we not ignore fundamental truths.…

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In 2006, when the internet was younger and seemed to hold untapped artistic possibilities, I was asked to write a serial novel for Slate. The subject of the “book” was up to…

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Median number of views a YouTube video had in 2006 : 10,262 In 2016 : 89  Average amount Microsoft spends each month assisting people who need to change their passwords…

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Everyone is familiar with the sorts of jobs whose purpose is difficult to discern: HR consultants, PR researchers, communications coordinators, financial strategists, logistics managers. The list is endless.  This is…

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From a database listing the names of LGBTQ employee resource groups at more than 800 companies. The database is maintained by the Human Rights Campaign, a civil rights advocacy organization.…

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From testimony given in March by David Helsel, the superintendent of the Blue Mountain School District, in Pennsylvania, at a meeting of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives education committee. Hal…

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By Dilara O’Neil, from The California Review of Images and Mark Zuckerberg, which was published last year. In Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook profile photo uploaded during the summer of 2013, he…

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From titles of horror films released since 2002 whose plotlines involve social media. #Horror Smiley Catfish Cry_Wolf FeardotCom Death Tube iMurders Selfie From Hell Uwantme2killhim? Antisocial Unfriended Disconnect…

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From game play of The Game: The Game, a dating-simulation video game developed by Angela Washko, an assistant professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University. Washko modeled the characters and…

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