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‘Marjorie Prime’ Review: A.I. Gave Her Back Her Husband. Was It Worth It?

✇NYT: Technology
By:Elisabeth Vincentelli
8 December 2025 at 22:13
June Squibb stars in the Broadway premiere of Jordan Harrison’s meditation on grief and the nature of human and artificial intelligence.

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June Squibb, right, plays the titular character of “Marjorie Prime,” with Christopher Lowell as an A.I. replica of her deceased husband as he was in his 30s.

Did the Giant Heads of Easter Island Once Walk?

✇NYT: Science
By:Franz Lidz
26 November 2025 at 10:00
Scholars have long debated how the massive stone figures of Rapa Nui got to where they stand today. A new study offers one possible explanation.

© Josh Haner/The New York Times

The Rapa Nui moai, the monolithic stone figures of Easter Island, were hewed from compacted ash in a quarry inside the crater of the Rano Raraku volcano between A.D. 1200 and 1700.
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