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No Ghost in the Machine
… cats of many different kinds, in many different contexts; (2) having it extract common features from these pictures and saving them as a tentative solution; and (3) feeding the computer another batch of pictures, some of cats and some of other things, and testing whether it can distinguish the cat pictures from the noncat pictures …
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Past is Present
… edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.
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The Meaning of Minimalism
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Preserving the Wild
… to British Columbia by glaciers and deep valleys. It harbors, in addition to gorgeous coastal peaks, immense forested slopes, muskegs reflecting like mirror shards, and braided streams feeding an inland extension of the Pacific Ocean.
Many of its beaches are defined by bleached logs—Sitka spruce, hemlock, and cedar—and all of its 17 million …
The Global Garage Sale
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House of Mirrors
… the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.
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History, Alive and Well
… and Germany.
In Russia, through the introduction of a London intermediary, he befriends a wealthy psychopath, Dmitri, who at various moments seems likely to hire, bribe, feed, or murder him. Dmitri stresses that he is not an oligarch ($50 million and up, apparently) but a “minigarch” who profited lavishly from Gorbachev-era liberalization without …
Channeling Emerson
… supposed to be conveying to me. But then I recall that for Emerson the occult relationship between human beings and the material world was a two-part invention, a feedback loop. Nature was nothing unless we perceived it—and by perceiving it, he noted in a pre-Heisenberg insight, we changed it, shaped it …
Read MoreWinter Recipes from the Collective
… not
permitted to prune it but I held the bowl in my hands,
a pine blowing in a high wind
like man in the universe.
3.
As I said, the work was hard—
not simply caring for the little trees
but caring for ourselves as well,
feeding ourselves, cleaning the public rooms—
But the …