"Artificial intelligence will redefine some of our deepest assumptions about the makeup of the world around us."

"The study found that children who viewed inspiring videos were more likely to help refugees."

"The exhibition “Make Room” opens with a work titled Hysteria (2022) — featuring a cubist-faced figure wearing a striped-and-polka-dotted dress raised above the waist, exposing her vulva. Having the viewer consider a Black female body _...Read More_

"This is the first post in a series I plan to write on the work from our group and others that combines ideas from deep learning with ideas from self-organization and collective systems. In this first post, we’ll look at some of the _...Read More_

"The new legislation will make it easier for trans people to legally change their gender through self-identification"

"I used to feel a sense of comfort when a little red dot on my iPhone’s home screen showed 42 unread text messages. This was earlier in the pandemic, when we were still Zooming for pleasure, and everything, especially when I’d see my _...Read More_

"There are certain archetypes you encounter when dating as a fat person — particularly a woman who dates men. There’s the guy who sees right past you, swiping left on plus-size profiles automatically. There’s the one who swipes right, then _...Read More_

"I ran a workshop called What Is Your Utopia at SpaceUs Roslindale, an MIT DesignX project that turned empty shopfronts into artist studios. The goal was to not only to demonstrate how utopian thinking can help us imagine new ways to _...Read More_

“Creators celebrating the simple pleasures of daily life are upending the hyper-polished norms of social media.”

"It was six months after we’d broken up when Aaron found the pros and cons list. It’d been ripped out of a yellow Moleskine notebook, presumably so I could stash it somewhere more discreet or maybe dispose of it altogether. Yet it was _...Read More_

>"In this column, our letter-writer is terrified at the state of the world — politics, climate change, anti-LGBTQ legislation — and doesn’t know how to cope. Fear’s inevitable, Papi says. The more useful exercise is figuring out how to _...Read More_

>"There’s not a perfect universal script we can use to respond. Here’s what relationship and divorce experts suggest."

"First of all, happy Pride! Second of all, it’s that time of year when I feel like a fake gay person. It’s not even that I haven’t been in a gay relationship (I am a woman, and my most recent ex is another woman), but I just feel like I _...Read More_

How to Help Your Friend Through Divorce _...Read More_

"Have you ever used a dental dam? Do you know anyone who’s used a dental dam? Can you even say with confidence what exactly a dental dam is and how it works? If not, you are likely among a large percentage of people who don’t use protection _...Read More_