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When researchers asked people around the world to list every taboo word they could think of, the differences that emerged were revealing. The length of each…

AI chatbots are like students who don’t do the reading and raise their hand anyway.A new paper from researchers at OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, finds…

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Rory McIlroy was nowhere to be found.Two years after he had called his shot and predicted a win at Bethpage Black, Shane Lowry’s…

Calling the contrite: are you very sorry, or are you extremely remorseful? Do you see that what you did was very wrong, or have you recognised…

September 18, 20252 min readSome Dogs Can Learn Categories like Human Toddlers DoThese dogs can extend words to new objects based on function the way children…

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In a desperate parenting moment after dinner, I told my six-year-old, who was mid-meltdown, to “use your words!” He had just started yelling and hitting his…

Earlier today I wrote about ambigrams, a type of writing that is designed to be read in more than one way. Typically, an ambigram is a…

Douglas Hofstadter is probably best known as the author of Gödel, Escher Bach, a classic of popular science writing published in 1979.In 1983, he coined the…

July has been one of the deadliest months of the war in Gaza, with Israel killing one person every 12 minutes. The UN says more than…