The Eye Disorder That Comes for Those in Middle Age

I was surprised to learn that, were it not for my myopia, I might have noticed the presbyopia sooner. “A low amount of myopia is actually very, very convenient,” Xiaoying Zhu, a professor who specializes in myopia management, explained. “For myopic patients, if you don’t wear your distance correction, it’s like you have a pair…

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Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. The data centers that power artificial intelligence are being built at a rampant pace, and are spurring resistance all over the country. Apart from public concerns about A.I.’s…

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Russia rejects Black Sea ceasefire

Moscow has rejected a Turkish proposal to stop Ukrainian and Russian attacks on ships in the Black Sea, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday. Russia is repeatedly confronted with Ukraine’s “unbridled acts of terror,” she said in Moscow, accusing Ukraine of using drones to attack civilian ships from neighbouring states. A “half-hearted…

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Phoebe Bridgers Comes Back to Earth

“Lost Weekend” announces itself as a return from time spent in the wilderness. “WIFE IS HOME FROM WAR,” read one typically parasocial fan comment on a promotional Instagram post. “Lemme up my medication in advance,” read another—Bridgers’s fans like to joke about the emotionally devastating effect of her music. Yet the album begins not with…

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Toons Have Seldom Been Loonier Than in “Coyote vs. Acme”

In the 1952 “Looney Tunes” short “Operation: Rabbit,” Bugs Bunny encounters another member of the cartoon-critter pantheon. “Allow me to introduce myself,” the figure says, brandishing a business card. “My name is Wile E. Coyote, Genius.” It wasn’t quite the character’s first appearance—he’d made his début three years earlier, chasing the Road Runner, in “Fast and…

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