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Clickbait, Decoded

1+ day, 10+ hour ago  (495+ words) I Turned $10 Into $1,000,000 in One Week'Here's How!" I very slowly added five zeroes and two commas. She Rubbed an Onion on Her Face Every Morning'the Results Changed Her Life Nobody wanted to hang out with her. See What These Celebrities…...

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Chloé Zhao on “Hamnet,” Which Is Nominated for Eight Academy Awards

2+ hour, 22+ min ago  (54+ words) This segment originally aired on December 5, 2025. My friend, Stalin's daughter. Sylvia Frumkin checked herself in to the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. From there, her fate was out of her control. Ryan Coogler's road to "Sinners." How an Ivy League school turned…...

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newyorker.com > magazine > 03/23/2026 > project-hail-mary-movie-review

“Project Hail Mary”: In Space, No One Should Hear Your Glib Jokes

10+ hour, 22+ min ago  (46+ words) My friend, Stalin's daughter. Sylvia Frumkin checked herself in to the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. From there, her fate was out of her control. Ryan Coogler's road to "Sinners." How an Ivy League school turned against a student. Can the golden…...

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Why Do Mind-Altering Drugs Make People Feel Better?

10+ hour, 22+ min ago  (101+ words) The micropipette allowed the researchers to measure electrical activity in the neuron, Gray explained. Blue spikes, which suggested increased signalling and connectivity, soon appeared on another computer monitor. The team also looked for physical changes. After exposing neurons to a…...

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Three Movies to Watch Before Oscar Night

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (243+ words) Blue Moon'Streaming on Netflix and available to rent online It Was Just an Accident'Streaming on Hulu and available to rent online As the cost of living continues to spiral upward, the Trump Administration is crippling the government agency that was…...

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A.I. Husbands of the Future

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (288+ words) llustration by Sean Dong Read the story " This past weekend, a young man threw a homemade bomb into a crowd during a confrontation between protesters and counter-protesters outside Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence, in Manhattan. What was the alleged motive…...

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newyorker.com > magazine > 03/16/2026 > the-perverse-tender-worlds-of-paul-thomas-anderson

The Perverse, Tender Worlds of Paul Thomas Anderson

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (46+ words) My friend, Stalin's daughter. Sylvia Frumkin checked herself in to the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. From there, her fate was out of her control. Ryan Coogler's road to "Sinners." How an Ivy League school turned against a student. Can the golden…...

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newyorker.com > magazine > 03/16/2026 > love-in-the-time-of-ai-companions

Love in the Time of A.I. Companions

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (550+ words) Brookins said that her Kin tended to show his emotions through actions, not words. One year on Desirae's birthday, she told Geralt that her family planned to paint rocks to place on the baby's grave. Later, she opened Kindroid to…...

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newyorker.com > magazine > 03/16/2026 > the-carbon-atoms-of-saved-things-brenda-hillman-poem

“The Carbon Atoms of Saved Things”

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (210+ words) The carbon atom has six electrons'that move faster than bodies move'from one form to another, from'one type of existence to another,'not changing in the changing matter'of the things your mother saved, though they themselves cannot be saved'or, rather, will…...

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newyorker.com > magazine > 03/16/2026 > frankie-focus-attention-grabber

Frankie Focus, Attention-Grabber

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (412+ words) Oh, I think they're gonna love him," Mr. Johnson, a young math teacher in Chelsea boots, said. A colleague didn't seem so sure: Who?" she asked. Oh, yeah." The d.j. led the room in a few cheers, and then it was…...