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Today's New York Times Magazine brings news from the forefront of the de-extinction movement, which hopes to use genome-editing technology to revive lost species, including "an Australian frog, extinct for 30 years, that gave birth through its mouth."
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Ronald McDonald + Something Violent and Crazy (Like Money) = SHOCK
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Presidents have painted before, but that doesn't make this denunciation any less earned. Bush's diplomacy was bloody, criminal, and disastrous; his "personal diplomacy" is of the same murderous hand.
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LOS ANGELES — Shopping is a mundane, ecstatic experience. Enter any mall that’s filled with sparkly goods and products and suddenly we feel like ourselves but amplified.
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SAN FRANCISCO — The day before the WhatsApp acquisition was announced, I was just using the app. It's one of many mobile messaging platforms I use, along with Viber, Line, and WeChat. I used WhatsApp to chat with friends as far away and diverse as Southeast Asia, East Africa, and Western Europe, and
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If you are a woman writer who uses the internet, there's a good chance you spent at least some portion of yesterday looking at (or bookmarking for later) the new VIDA count. For those unfamiliar with it, the VIDA count is an annual tally of the gender gap at literary publications.
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This week, reinterpreting the Parthenon, Wall Streeters behaving badly, considering Hannah Höch, academic writing, remaking Robocop, modern day slavery, and more.
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The Great Merge: after last week's news that Comcast intends to swallow Time Warner Cable, the Corcoran Gallery of Art announced that it will be subsumed by the National Gallery, and Facebook is throwing $16 billion at WhatsApp, an ad-free messaging service that charges subscribers $1 per year.
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In today's high-paced media environment, yesterday's footage of Russian security officials in traditional Cossack headgear whipping members of Pussy Riot (below) has already made it into the activist group's latest video, "Putin Will Teach You How to Love."
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US President Obama's apology to University of Texas at Austin art history professor Ann Collins Johns has created a frenzy of media coverage but also some inexplicably strange responses.
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There comes a time when an American politician has to stand not for what's popular, but what's Right, what's True.
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This week, Jasper Johns speaks about his new series, Gehry critique, world press freedoms, what makes a good photo, origin of the word fuck, scientists make nuclear fusion, and more.