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Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.

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Demons, primates, and quirky villagers: Find all this and more in the six new books Tobias Carroll recommends this month.

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Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence’s first major novel, was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well ab...

“Nothing like this has ever happened before or will ever happen again,” a friend said to me about a lucky turn of events — a statement that struck me as touchingly self-negating: …

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WWe live in an era where our smartphones remember everything—from phone numbers and daily schedules to the exact turns needed to navigate familiar streets. However, in our rush to outsource our cognitive workload to screens, our biological hardware is paying a silent, compounding price. The Outsourced Mind In my latest article, “Digital Alzheimer’s: How Offloading Our Memory to Screens Threatens Synaptic Plasticity — and How to Protect Your Brain,” I dive deep into the neurobiology of what happens when we stop using our brain’s native machinery for retention and spatial mapping.