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Juno is a weather dog with the uncanny and unsettling ability (at least for her) to detect thunderstorms long before they arrive, even from 12 miles or more away.
The “Gift” That Keeps on Giving
The Matilda Effect- How Women’s Discoveries Are Written Out
There is a moment in 2001: A Space Odyssey when HAL, the shipboard computer presence, turns on its human counterparts to save itself. 
One of the more difficult lessons for me to learn as a writer is that even when I do my best to communicate my thoughts, my readers often experience them differently than I intended.
An Instagram post called “Dab the Tip” went berserk after some guy named Chris Petrone suggested that men should dab after urinating to prevent certain infections, best n
Five years after the pandemic drove medicine online, the evaluation of telehealth is more nuanced than either its supporters or critics acknowledge. Online consultations are a tool, not a revolution.
Much has been said, and rightly so, about generative AI’s tendency to hallucinate—its ability to confidently mislead.