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Leibniz’s notation catches on because his circle of collaborators takes it and runs with it, and their successors — people like Euler and Lagrange and Laplace — develop analysis into a whole discipline in continental Europe over the next century.—
John Pavlus,
Quanta Magazine,
25 Mar. 2026 -
That b/1 was followed up by two more steel successors, with equally striking stone dials.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
20 Mar. 2026
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An analysis of the recordings showed that the parents behaved aggressively toward the divers more often when the human interlopers were staring at the offspring or the parent, compared with when the diver was looking in another direction or completely turned away.—
Gennaro Tomma,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
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Colossal’s researchers use it to alter the DNA of living animals so offspring express traits associated with their extinct relatives.—
Hanna Wickes,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Mar. 2026
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The building had served for decades as the site of intake operations for single men and families without children, and, in addition to assigning people to shelters around the city, Bellevue itself also offered hundreds of beds.—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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Even outside of traditional television, the reality TV model has made millionaires of even more toxic matriarchs such as Ruby Framke, who amassed over 2 million YouTube subscribers by pimping out her children for clicks while criminally abusing them in secret.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
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Fittingly, the song’s thumping beat is heard twice, real loud, in Rosebush Pruning, Karim Aїnouz’s high-gloss, pitch-dark satire about an American family described by one of its scions as mediocre, vapid egotists, who will never have to work thanks to a large inheritance.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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Overlooked in all the post-game hoopla and cheese-grating is the team’s management, members of the McCaskey clan, scions of legendary Bears founder George Halas, who died in 1979.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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