Whitney Cummings—and Her Sex Robot—Take on Modern Womanhood

I never really understood catcalling until Whitney Cummings explained it in front of a live audience. Rather than waxing snarky about backward oafs who don't get why harassment is bad, she says she understands the impulse, and launches into a story about seeing a service dog in an airport terminal. One that was wearing a…

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Russia Is Going to Up Its Game for the 2020 Elections

"You don't need to change votes to cause chaos," Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) says.Andrew Harnik/APOne week after Robert Mueller’s testimony shined a spotlight, once again, on election interference, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is feeling the heat. The leader turned heads on the Senate floor Monday as he rose to decry critics who have dubbed…

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Alphabet’s AI Might Be Able to Predict Kidney Disease

Google has a solution for the creaking inefficiencies of modern healthcare: push notifications. No, not those annoying reminders to practice your Arabic lesson on Duolingo or subscribe to a new Lyft deal. Google is betting its alerts can save your life. The company is building an artificial-intelligence-driven system that promises to give doctors an early…

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These Chaotic Games Are a Referee’s Worst Nightmare

The frenetic sports matches in Pelle Cass' digitally manipulated photographs are a referee's worst nightmare. Unhinged athletes crowd the field and race around like maniacs, ignoring the rules and generally doing whatever they damn please."A friend told me I'm depicting Dionysian chaos," Cass says. "I like to repeat that, because it captures what I'm going…

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Let’s Break Down the Physics of a Wickedly Curving Baseball

The twitter world is going crazy over this epic pitch by Oliver Drake of the Tampa Bay Rays. Of course it's real, but why does this happen? In physics, you don't really under­stand something until you can model it—so let's do just that. I'm going to walk through the steps of modeling an awesome pitch…

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