The vast encyclopedic architecture of Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) or Mason & Dixon (1997) gives way here to a series of detective fictions each set in a distinct historical moment, each featuring a reluctant investigator sifting through the wreckage of cultural paranoia.
But Baehren and Carvalho pointed out that these behaviors, which took place rarely and in captivity, might only be imitations of human communication.
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Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
At first, its proliferation seemed to constitute a typical case of Hollywood copycatting; Big Little Lies becomes a smash, wins eight Emmys, begets flimsy imitations that lots of people watch anyway.
This prompted Gourault to investigate the epistemic and infrastructural systems that link a glitch in virtual representations to a real person’s death.
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Farren Fei Yuan,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2026
There is so much power in storytelling and there is enormous power in inclusive storytelling and inclusive representations.
Johnson eventually pleaded no contest to three counts of false pretenses between $1,000 and $20,000.
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Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
She is also charged with one count of embezzlement from a vulnerable adult of between $1,000 and $20,000 and one count of false pretenses of between $1,000 and $20,000.
To pinpoint the silk’s secret, an interdisciplinary team used a high-tech toolkit that included AlphaFold3 modeling, molecular simulations, and NMR spectroscopy.
And because Epstein cultivated as many high-profile contacts as possible, that leaves a whole lot of people potentially exposed to unfounded insinuations.
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Gilad Edelman,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2026
In a recent interview at the Charlotte Chess Center, Giannatos kept coming back to Kramnik and the effect the grandmaster’s insinuations seemed to have on Naroditsky’s psyche.
Charges against 17 people arrested during demonstrations against Operation Midway Blitz immigration raids around Chicagoland last year have been dismissed as prosecutorial accusations have faded.
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Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2026
For the two-week trip, Vast put a call out for research proposals and will focus on biology and biotechnology, physical sciences, human research and technology demonstrations.
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Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2026
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