Since OpenAI launched its ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, it has been used by people to help them write everything from poems, to work emails, to research papers. Yet, while ChatGPT may masquerade as a human, the inaccuracy of its writing can introduce errors that could be devastating if used for serious tasks like academic […]
Jamal with confetti. Rachel B. Glaser. The collective dream is over. Squinting, we walk out of the playoffs and return to Life. Images linger—a giant holding a toddler in a storm of confetti. A shiny, exuberant, mantis-like man standing next to a trophy. The woman who sat courtside wearing red and white gowns. The inexplicable […]
5 Mindsets To End Procrastination Immediately Photo by Peter Conlan on Unsplash You want to be creative and you are facing an empty page. You are determined to create something new, fresh, and exciting. And then you are stuck. You feel the great burden, fear, and resistance inside you. There are a thousand voices inside […]
As Johnny Carson used to say (this, or some variation, often enough that he was made fun of for doing it), “That was weird wild stuff.” Adding: “I did not know that.” (It’s a four second clip on YouTube now.) This reaction offers a way into Frederick Barthelme’s story, “Box Step,” though when it was […]
These stories — heartfelt family sagas, thrillers and everything in between — dive into the beauty, challenges and complexity of being queer today. June 15, 2023, 5:01 a.m. ET Looking to dive into a new queer young adult novel? We’ve got you covered! We asked 20 authors of queer Y.A. literature to recommend a queer […]
In 1914, astronomer and naturalist William Pickering peered at Mars from a secluded observatory and devised a theory: the planet was a watery, living world. He believed Mars was covered in a network of canals and marshes, continually moistened by storms and squalls. As Sarah Stewart Johnson writes in The Sirens of Mars : as […]
