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Smartphones and artificial intelligence are undermining our ability to follow a complex argument, with grave consequences.

For the past three weeks, I have been asking AI (Claude) to build tools to solve my personal problems. Counting them up, I have made over 10, including smartphone apps, spreadsheet sheets, tools that ...

I'm Borei, a fourth-year pharmacy student.Don't you find it frustrating when you buy textbooks or reference books as e-books?

Eric Idle, a founding member of Monty Python, bought a shack in France in 1971. Decades later, the shack is a "shackeau," he says. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Idle about his book "Idle in Provence." ...

Louise Erdrich occupies one of those rare and coveted positions among contemporary authors: Like Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, Jonathan Franzen, the late Hilary Mantel, and others, she is both a ...

Eric Carle, known for "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," also illustrated the 1985 book "The Greedy Python." The book's story of a voracious snake resonates with Florida's ongoing struggle with invasive ...

PDF files are widely used in many workflows. You might need to merge reports, split large files, extract text or tables, add watermarks, or redact sensitive content. These are all routine tasks, but ...

In my Boston Globe review of Louise Erdrich’s 2016 novel “LaRose,” I described her as “an artist of the liminal.” “Python’s Kiss,” Erdrich’s new collection of stories written over 20 years, testifies ...

So, you’re looking to learn Python, huh? It’s a pretty popular language, and for good reason. It’s used for all sorts of things, from making websites to crunching numbers. Finding the right book can ...