Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fragments of decorated ostrich eggshells. (Texier et al., J. Archaeol. Sci., 2013) Ancient humans were surprisingly creative, ...

I almost wound up underlining all of Walter Isaacson’s slim new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written. It’s that smart, challenging, personal, humane -- with only 41 pages of text and a few short ...

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But what if the biggest giveaway that a text was written by AI isn’t a word, phrase, or punctuation mark, but a particular sentence structure instead? The idea that certain rhythms of sentences might ...

Next year, the United States is set to celebrate a major milestone: 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Historian and biographer Walter Isaacson joins TODAY to discuss his ...

With just months to go before the 250th birthday of the United States, thoughts this morning from bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson: We've got a big birthday coming up next year – our 250th. Here ...

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Bestselling biographer Isaacson (Elon Musk) takes a word-by-word look at America’s founding in this timely, if somewhat negligible, volume. The sentence under Isaacson’s consideration is the most ...

Most people know bad AI writing when they see it. But unless you’re a closeted copy editor, it’s surprisingly hard to put your finger on exactly why AI writing sucks. Now, Wikipedia’s editor team has ...

British novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) sat in his study in Gads Hill near Rochester, Kent circa 1860. He wrote one of the best first lines in literature. Great opening lines to books set the ...

You’ve likely heard of emotional intelligence, the ability to understand and manage your emotions. This is an invaluable skill, because it helps you to make better decisions in emotional moments—for ...