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Life on Earth October 18, 2024
October is the end for the Russo family’s annual adventure in horticulture. The mild (a partisan might say ideal) climate of the Maryland Piedmont means the garden yields tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers sometimes until almost Halloween. But last nig...
The Knicks Are Supposed to Be Good October 18, 2024
On Sunday night, something unprecedented happened at Madison Square Garden: A legitimately exciting preseason NBA game took place.The basketball part of the evening was not itself compelling, and how could it have been? It was an exhibition, on a Sun...
Escaping the Mind Machine October 17, 2024
In 1714, the German polymath, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, wrote in The Monadology, “If we imagine a machine whose structure makes it think, sense, and have perceptions, we could conceive it enlarged, keeping the same proportions, so that we could ente...
