Is the Dictionary Done For? | The New Yorker
January 31, 2026Possible collaborative studies
January 31, 2026Leslie, M. (2025, April 17). Could blocking ‘jumping genes’ help fight disease and aging? Science | AAAS.
https://www.science.org/content/article/blocking-jumping-genes-help-fight-disease-aging
NYTimes: How to Make Your Landlord Enforce the Noise Rules
January 31, 2026Cocktail Bar in Midtown Manhattan | Midtown Bar NYC | Four Seasons
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Exclusive: Have scientists found Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA? | Science | AAAS
January 31, 2026https://www.science.org/content/article/have-scientists-found-leonardo-da-vinci-s-dna
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The hunt for Leonardo’s DNA has been a high-profile proving ground for “arteomics,” an emerging field that could transform how the art world authenticates and protects its most precious objects (see sidebar, below). Today, authorship decisions hinge on expert opinion on, for example, how a brushstroke was made. “Connoisseurship is still what counts,” says LDVP chair Jesse Ausubel, an environmental scientist at Rockefeller University who previously led a major project to census the diversity of marine life.
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Moonlight shimmers strangely in the landscape paintings of Ralph Albert Blakelock.
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When Andrew Miranker peers at a Blakelock canvas, he sees more than brushwork and varnish. He sees a molecular archive. “Paint is a recording device,” says Miranker, a biophysicist at Yale University. As oil paint slowly cures, it traps fragments of DNA—human, animal, microbial—along with the dust and air of a studio. By interrogating vanishingly small samples of the strata on supposed Blakelock canvases, Miranker’s team hopes to uncover clues to whether they were done by the artist himself or a clever forger.
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Can AI be superhuman? Flaws in top gaming bot cast doubt
January 31, 2026https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02218-7
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In Go, two players take turns placing black and white stones on a grid to surround and capture the other player’s stones. In 2022,
researchers reported training adversarial AI bots to defeat KataGo2, the best open-source Go-playing AI system, which typically beats the best humans handily (and handlessly). Their bots found exploits that regularly beat KataGo, even though the bots were otherwise not very good — human amateurs could beat them. What’s more, humans could understand the bots’ tricks and adopt them to beat KataGo.
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Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty: Kucharski, Adam: 9781541606692: Amazon.com: Books
January 31, 2026If A.I. Can Diagnose Patients, What Are Doctors For?
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On a recent rotation, his professors asked his class to work through a case using A.I. tools such as ChatGPT and OpenEvidence, an
increasingly popular medical L.L.M. that provides free access to health-care professionals.
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