The view from Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights, the “undisputed capital of Christmas pageantry.”
The view from Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights, the “undisputed capital of Christmas pageantry.”
Fake Covid vaccines—or perhaps just fake offers and no vaccine—are currently for sale on the darknet.
Fake Covid vaccines—or perhaps just fake offers and no vaccine—are currently for sale on the darknet.
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At large weddings in the age of Covid, the photographer sees all.
At plenty of weddings, he said, guests in their eighties and nineties walk around maskless. “I saw a guy with an oxygen machine. He was carrying around an oxygen machine to breathe, but he didn’t have a mask o…
For first time, UK rules air pollution significantly contributed to a death—a girl who lived on a London traffic circle.
For first time, UK rules air pollution significantly contributed to a death—a girl who lived on a London traffic circle.
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An island-sized iceberg broke off from the Antarctic shelf and is headed straight for an important penguin sanctuary.
An island-sized iceberg broke off from the Antarctic shelf and is headed straight for an important penguin sanctuary.
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Some startling news from the World Economic Forum’s “Future of Jobs 2020″ report—”a tour-de-force bummer” unless you’re a robot.
Some startling news from the World Economic Forum’s “Future of Jobs 2020″ report—”a tour-de-force bummer” unless you’re a robot.
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“Family and community through the long lens of Jewish history.”
A Poetry Magazine round-up of classic and contemporary poems that celebrate Hanukkah and the Jewish faith.
From “Honorary Jew,” by John Repp:
The first year, I grated potatoes, chopped onions
& watched. The second year, I fed all but the eggsinto the machine & said I’ll do the latkes & did,
my pile of crisp delights borne to the feast by the wifewho baffled me, our books closed, banter hushed,
money useless in the apartment—house, my in-laws called it,new-wave thump at one end, ganja reek at the other—
in which she’d knelt to tell the no one who listenedno more no no more no a three-year-old mouthing
the essential prayer.
School districts in Texas are buying mobile device forensic tools (MDFTs), the same ones used by the FBI and state police.
School districts in Texas are buying mobile device forensic tools (MDFTs), the same ones used by the FBI and state police.
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A new way to think about Facebook: as this century’s Doomsday Machine, quietly humming along.
Megadeath is not the only thing that makes the Doomsday Machine petrifying. The real terror is in its autonomy, this idea that it would be programmed to detect a series of environmental inputs, then to act, without human …