[The comparison from Thomas Friedman below is unusually long (compared to most analyzed in this blog). But, that's part of the point....

Comparison: A slab avalanche of wet, heavy snow rushed down the mountainside and slammed into the two stalled trains. It pushed them—and...

Comparison: So they poked it. They sent commands to Voyager 1, trying to jolt it back to coherence. The [tiger] team had a list of...

Comparison: The rabble holding cheap tickets who board last are most affected, but even jet-setters with elite status seem to worry about...

Comparison: ChatGPT is dumber than it looks. That’s not true for a screwdriver. Or a table saw or even a spatula. These are useful tools,...

Comparison: Astronomers have discovered the first known instance of a baby star ‘sneezing.‘ The cosmic discharge, which may have occurred...

Comparison: . . . if you haven't sailed here, if you haven't put in your ten thousand hours, these counter-currents, these eddies, it's...

Comparison: Yet it’s startling how much energy shoots though her via a simple handshake: if a woodland creature could shake your hand, it...

Comparison: Once you realize smartphones are like the cuckoo bird. So the Cuckoo bird lays her egg in other birds' nests; that egg...

Comparison: The last one had the element of surprise, which kept things shocking for a while in a way that was honestly a bit distracting...

Comparison: At one point, a dozen or so heroes amass at the old Ghostbusters headquarters in Manhattan to protect a storage trap of...

Comparison: Reentry [from prison] is not [an easy path]. It is a rocky, winding, switchbacked trail, overgrown in some places,...

Comparison: You paid thousands of dollars to learn what Toni Morrison had to teach you about the evils of slavery and you gave that...

Comparison: Everyone in the operation understands the dynamic by now, nobody more than [Issac] Prewitt and  [Will] McIntire, who...

Comparison: But when we understand that what we call particles are actually little ripples, little waves in the fields of the universe,...

Comparison: ‘The old phrase is that bankruptcy is like being in a fishbowl,‘ Hampson said. Insight offered by U of Florida law professor...

Comparison: Politics has become a stand-in not only for religion but also in the primary arena for kulturkampf. Having a president of the...

Comparison: [High-tech, social media companies are] run by engineers who might as well be wiring your house for cable or fixing your...

Comparison: Our minds render the past in surrealist montages, not as cinéma verité; we are more Willem de Kooning than Dorothea Lange....

Comparison: He has poisoned the well, made me question the basic nature of humanity. If there is one thing beyond all others that makes...