From the Department of You-Can't-Make-This-Up: After a heated back-and-forth between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Defense Department's leading artificial intelligence supplier Anthropic over the firm's insistence that its systems not be used for... See more
To get from the back door around the garage and out to the garbage cans, I dug a path barely the width of one shovel, a concession to age and the deep blanket of heavy snow that dropped on us a week ago. I followed the course of least resistance, trying a... See more
There's nothing like a cardinal in winter Behold the cardinal. If that sounds reverential, it is. There is nothing quite like a cardinal in winter. Especially this winter. It's been a tough one, in terms of both the cold and the color. The long-lasting bl... See more
There's nothing like a cardinal in winter If that sounds reverential, it is. There is nothing quite like a cardinal in winter. Especially this winter. It's been a tough one, in terms of both the cold and the color. The long-lasting blanket of snow has mad... See more
The Olympics are a peculiar kind of mirror There must be a metaphor in all those broken medals at the Winter Olympics in Italy. At least six athletes, including Americans Breezy Johnson and Alysa Liu, who won gold in women’s downhill skiing and team figur... See more
