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After being shuttled in less than half an hour between aggressive air conditioning, a muggy Chicago street and the temperate library, the cup had begun producing condensation at an alarming rate.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Disney's coverage also featured a vegetable platter being served and a rotating floor.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Then it stops being a “proxy war” about your nephew and starts being about you two getting on the same page, he adds.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
It was nearly 30 years ago when chess helped mankind properly understand that it was being outsmarted by machines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
You’re usually self-conscious during introductions, but being back in a group of Native people is worth feeling awkward at first, and the feeling is temporary anyway.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
We as human beings identify with celebrities who have nothing to do with us, but these parasocial relationships can be very bad for our wealth.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
An unexplained catastrophe, and the arrival of mysterious alien beings, have turned British society upside down - and a man and his elderly aunt muddle through on the Kent coast.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
“My message is for peace — love for all human beings to be treated with dignity, respect and equality.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Longer-term, "AI might not even need human beings anymore to do real things in the physical world," he added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
There have been roughly 600 generations since human beings first ceased to be hunter-gatherers.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
