The AI tools tend to use words, like delves, crucial, potential, significant and important, far more often than human authors do Scientists know it is happening, even if they don’t do it themselves. Some of their peers are using chatbots, like ChatGPT, to write all or part of their papers. In a paper published this…
PM Modi and chess legend Susan Polgar NEW DELHI: Chess legend Susan Polgar reminisced about receiving a letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Republic Day eve 2022, acknowledging her contributions to developing young Indian chess talent.Recently, PM Modi extended congratulations to Gukesh Dommaraju for achieving his first classical chess victory against Magnus Carlsen, world…
No matter how you slice it, Liz Moore has arrived. This month, an adaptation of her blockbuster novel “Long Bright River” started streaming on Peacock. And her next book, “The God of the Woods,” now on the best-seller list for 36 weeks (and counting), will soon hit the million mark in sales — a distinction…
The first time Jean Jennings confronted the Mexican federal police, they had just arrested one of her friends for public urination. It was 1983, and she was part of an eight-vehicle road test along the length of Baja California, which she had joined as a writer for Car and Driver magazine. Thinking fast, she called…
Marie Winn, the author who chronicled the avian sensation Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk that took up residence on the overhang of an Upper East Side apartment building only to be evicted in 2004, sparking protests by birders who had been thrilled to watch him woo lovers with disemboweled rats, died on Dec. 25 in…
NEW DELHI: Former Karnataka chief minister SM Krishna, who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 92, considered ex-US President John F Kennedy as his ‘political guru’.In 1960, as Democratic leader JFK campaigned for the presidency, a 28-year-old law student Krishna, then studying in the US, wrote to Kennedy offering to campaign on his…
A gunman who critically wounded two kindergartners at a tiny religious school in Northern California was mentally ill and believed by targeting children he was carrying out “counter-measures” in response to America’s involvement in Middle East violence, a sheriff said Thursday. Glenn Litton used a “ruse” of pretending to enroll a fictitious grandson to gain…