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You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. I’m a rational person. I grew up in a family of scientists. My dad, who studied the brain, told me ...

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January is traditionally a month for starting projects, trying new things, and working to break bad habits — particularly anything that gets in the way of self-improvement or productivity. Polygon ...

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If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

I f there’s been one constant in the nearly 30 years Kerry L. Beckford has been teaching, it’s this: College students aren’t particularly excited to take a required composition course. So Beckford, a ...

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The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

"Sesame Street" gave me a very valuable skill. Diners often feel a wave of dread when a server doesn’t write down their order, fearing mistakes will follow. Most servers only skip pen and paper when ...