Inside the Hollywood writing that fuels generative AI. Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic November 22, 2024, 2:09 PM ET This is Atlantic Intelligence, a newsletter in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence […]
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box. Earlier this year, the author and essayist Ayelet Waldman wrote an essay for The
One species of wolf has a bit of a sweet tooth. Striking new photos show Ethiopian wolves (Canis simensis) feeding on the nectar of Ethiopian red hot poker flowers (Kniphofia foliosa). The otherwise strict carnivores are the first large carnivorous
The yellow powder is a type of compound known as a “covalent organic framework,” or COF. Zihui Zhou, UC Berkeley Increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have caused intense hurricanes, wildfires, extreme heat, floods, droughts and more in
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three
In the mid-1960s, 47 year-old Dean Martin proves he’s still got it by knocking the Beatles off the top of the pop charts, and by launching his long-running TV show, which brought a version of his nightclub act into America’s
MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images Hezbollah is a Lebanese paramilitary organization and political party that’s directly supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the wake of the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel,
The moon eyed people were supposedly nocturnal and could not see well during the day, they also supposedly had pale skin due to their lack of exposure to sunlight. Certain stone structures such as the one at Fort Mountain in
Long before “thinking about the Roman empire” became shorthand for having a hyper-fixation, Ridley Scott turned the actual Roman empire into a mainstream obsession. In 2000, the director’s sword-and-sandal blockbuster Gladiator muscled its way into becoming that year’s second-highest-grossing film,
Makenzie Van Eyk (second from right) holds the message in a bottle that she wrote 26 years ago. Roland St. Pierre (far left) was her teacher at the time. Her daughter Scarlet (second from left) and son Huxley (far right)
