I Gave a Thousand Typewriters to a Thousand Monkeys, but Instead of Hamlet, They Just Keep Writing Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar

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I Gave a Thousand Typewriters to a Thousand Monkeys, but Instead of Hamlet, They Just Keep Writing Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Any scientist worth their salt eventually becomes accustomed to unpredictability. The unfortunate reality is that the majority of experiments fail—lab rats explode, bacteria escape the petri dish, etc. Still, I never anticipated that things could ever go this awry. For the past decade, I have been conducting a highly expensive and groundbreaking…

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Short Conversations with Poets: Matthew Zapruder

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Short Conversations with Poets: Matthew Zapruder Mahmoud Darwish called clarity the greatest mystery. Matthew Zapruder writes poems that are precise in their architecture and mysteriously limpid in their meanings. And full of avowals, resistances to any final conclusiveness, open to—even when saddened by—the endless mutability of things. A mutability that seems to call up in him an energy of d…

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How Our Pants Fit

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How Our Pants Fit To determine whether your body will fit our pants, please use this sizing guide. Our pants are measured in cubits. The cubit is a unit of measurement less ancient than legs, but more ancient than the notion that we should clad them somehow. It’s equal to the distance between someone’s elbow and their longest fingertip. Whose elbow and fingertip?…

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Commissioners agree CFP seeding needs change

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Commissioners agree CFP seeding needs change SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti said they agreed the way teams are seeded in the 12-team College Football Playoff should change.

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Super Bowl champion Eagles name Patullo OC

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Super Bowl champion Eagles name Patullo OC The Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles have promoted Kevin Patullo to the role of offensive coordinator, the team announced Wednesday.

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Madrid move on as Mbappé hat trick buries City

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Madrid move on as Mbappé hat trick buries City Real Madrid beat Manchester City 3-1 with a Kylian Mbappe hat-trick on Wednesday in their Champions League playoff second leg at a raucous Santiago Bernabeu stadium, earning them a 6-3 aggregate victory and a place in the last 16.

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iPhone 16e is Equipped With 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence

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iPhone 16e is Equipped With 8GB of RAM for Apple Intelligence Apple never publicly advertises the amount of RAM included in iPhones, but MacRumors has confirmed that the iPhone 16e is equipped with 8GB of RAM. Given the iPhone 16e supports Apple Intelligence, it was widely expected that the device would have 8GB of RAM, as that is the minimum amount of memory required for Apple Intelligence. All other iPh…

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Limited Run says potentially damaging NES carts are supplier’s fault

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Limited Run says potentially damaging NES carts are supplier’s fault Limited Run Games has apologized for a potential issue with two games it has offered on NES carts — Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland and Piopow — that could cause damage to the cartridges or to NES consoles. The statement follows a Time Extension report about the games. In a statement emailed to customers, Limited Run

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The Rabbit R1: all the latest news about this hare-raising AI gadget

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The Rabbit R1: all the latest news about this hare-raising AI gadget With artificial intelligence being so prevalent across, well, just about everything these days, it’s no small feat for AI developers to make their products stand out among the deluge. Very few have managed to capture as much attention as Rabbit, the AI startup that’s managed to sell 40,000 units of its standalone $199 R1 gadget

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