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The word “disrespect” came up a lot, as did complaints about Google’s increasing reliance on AI and what this might do to future generations. Studies have found that Google results have a measurable ...

A painting in Blair Hobbs’s new exhibition features a cut-out drawing of Flannery O’Connor in a pearl choker and purple ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, author Gregory Maguire plans one of his few “Elphie: A Wicked ...

So we have to get it right the first time.” Are you the hostile punctuator in your group chat or Slack channels??? We asked experts how to tell—and how to fix it. The period has become a “point of ...

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