Fred Lerdahl proposes a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.

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Fluency lowers our guard, and when language becomes beautiful, both humans and machines stop asking hard questions.

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Shel Silverstein’s Homework Machine was one of my kids’ favorite poems of his when they were little. First published in 1981, the short poem turned out to be rather prescient about AI, especially the ...

A single slammed door outside a Campbell law office did more than spike traffic on social media. The short clip has yanked a quiet corner of California family court into the spotlight, with parents ...