Ep. 404 of The Sunday #NYTReadalong (Climate Change; AI, The Odyssey)

This week, we turn our attention to Climate Change, with the latest example being the wildfires in Europe; the latest news coverage about AI; and a discussion about some of the critiques of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey.

Sree Sreenivasan and I are hosting Ep. 404 of The Sunday #NYTReadalong on August 2. We will be live at 8:30 a.m. ET, 12:30 p.m. GMT and 6:00 p.m. IST. If you miss the show, you can always watch the replay, right on this page.

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Climate Change

• Extreme Heat Has Transformed What Summer Means Across Generations in Europe

  
  

• Earth’s Warming Primed France and Spain to Burn, Scientists Find

  
  

• The Summer That Broke Europe | Record heat and wildfires are devastating the continent, and scientists warn the climate crisis is getting worse.

The Latest AI News

• Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?

  
  

• Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations

  
  

• Opinion: Stop Testing A.I. Like an App. Test It Like a Weapon.

The Odyssey

• How Emily Wilson’s Takedown of ‘The Odyssey’ Ignited a Debate

• Ross Douthat: It Is Banal, Bland, Thin and Didactic. We Can’t Stop Talking About It.

• Baby’s First R-Rated Blockbuster

A Few Quick Messages

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Sree’s Sunday Note

Read and watch the latest installment of X Teaches Sree Y, “Learning About the Odyssey w/ Tara Maria Fernandes and Krishna Sreenivasan.

Sree had Tara Maria Fernandez, Ph.D in English / Language Arts Teacher Education, and his son, Krishna Sreenivasan, teach him about “The Odyssey” (the poem and the movie) and, as it happens, “The Iliad” as well.

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