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From 5,300 years ago to the present, the post-African Humid Period prevailed.
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
The founders and their partners say voice technology doesn’t just connect past generations to the present but living people from different linguistic parts of the globe whose voices would otherwise never be heard.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
The film’s eagerness to hinge so much of its plot on AI — evolving another prescient detail of King’s text into the present — creates an unavoidable tension with the outmoded production demands of Killian’s show, a tension that Brolin is asked to wave away with a single line of dialogue.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
From the 15th century down to the present day, the Church has constructed an identity and a past at odds with what the records show—expanding the authority and power of the papacy in ways that have striking broader political implications.
—Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
The founders and their partners say voice technology doesn’t just connect past generations to the present but living people from different linguistic parts of the globe whose voices would otherwise never be heard.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 11 Nov. 2025
The film’s eagerness to hinge so much of its plot on AI — evolving another prescient detail of King’s text into the present — creates an unavoidable tension with the outmoded production demands of Killian’s show, a tension that Brolin is asked to wave away with a single line of dialogue.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
From the 15th century down to the present day, the Church has constructed an identity and a past at odds with what the records show—expanding the authority and power of the papacy in ways that have striking broader political implications.
—Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
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“The present.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20present. Accessed 25 Nov. 2025.
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