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Ray Ratto on best practices in being a grandparent:
"It was inevitable that AI would prey upon what I believe to be a deeply human instinct: our desire to learn more about what else lives on our planet."
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"Kennedy, and the show writers, want to have it both ways: the danger of a hockey bad boy with the veneer of female empowerment. But for anyone remotely familiar with the reality of the sport, this fantasy falls apart under the weight of its own contradictions."
The USMNT won with flair. Can it win a grind? defector.com/the-usmnt-wo...
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Kelsey McKinney on Alexander Calder:
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Whatever demons used to haunt the Knicks and their fans, Jalen Brunson has cast them out: defector.com/jalen-brunso...
"Would you rather see your favorite local sandwich chain close, or be bought out by private equity and instantly become 60 percent worse?" defector.com/60-minutes-w...
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Days of humidity had finally broken with a thunderstorm the night before. Brazilians were all over midtown, getting ready for their World Cup game. Puerto Rican and Pride flags were everywhere. “Knick...
Recently, while picking up a banh mi in my neighborhood, I found myself transfixed by a TV in the restaurant showing what I assumed was a nature documentary. At first the footage soothed: Gentle…
Gotham’s true heroes, its sanitation brigades, are still sweeping up the dazed, delirious, and confused bodies from the streets of the city, and the clean-up will take them well into this evening. The...
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Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family life. Have a question? Email us at [email protected]. This week,…
There were a number of intriguing discoveries to be made from the first round of matches in Group D of the World Cup, or as it is coming to be known, the Group Of Deaf. Such was the torrent of nearly ...
In October 2024, a few months before Heated Rivalry was greenlit by studio producers in Canada, Amazon Prime Video announced that it was adapting the popular hockey romance book series Off Campus.…
Don’t hide from our Monday crossword! This week’s puzzle was constructed by Aidan Deshong, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Aidan Deshong is a college student originally from Los Angeles. His greatest...
With a 94-90 win in Game 5, yet another doughty comeback and superlative Jalen Brunson takeover, the New York Knicks are NBA Champions. This is an unsettling and unusual thing to say, because they are...
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Calder Gardens is not so much a museum as it is a shrine to abstraction. The 1.8 acres of land it sits on is immaculately landscaped so that the flowers and grasses change throughout the year from…