Provincetown's annual Carnival parade last month included floats decorated with images made by generative AI, like Chat GPT. What does that mean for Provincetown's identity as an historic artist colony?
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We talk about how to practice skillful uncertainty in an era of epidemic unknowns.
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A Crested Caracara turns up at Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, marking the second Cape sighting of this warm-climate raptor this summer. This report covers the species' puzzling northward push since 2020, plus other notable birds including a Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Tricolored Heron, and a performative Clapper Rail in West Harwich.
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We’ll discuss collections and exhibits, and we’ll talk about how museums offer community engagement and provide context for what is happening in our region today.
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New fishing restrictions on Nantucket extend protections for great white sharks that began on Cape Cod Bay and the Outer Cape. Tom Moroney connects those rules to the lasting damage Jaws did to the species' reputation, and to his own past coverage of a now-defunct shark tournament on the Vineyard.
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Friends Madi and Deborah on Martha's Vineyard. Produced by Mae Nagusky and Atlantic Public Media.
The Point
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We talk about how to practice skillful uncertainty in an era of epidemic unknowns.
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We’ll discuss collections and exhibits, and we’ll talk about how museums offer community engagement and provide context for what is happening in our region today.
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The local news headlines of the week with our region's leading journalists.
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The true story of three friends who spend 28 hours in a struggle for their lives 25 miles from land.
NPR Stories
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Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer was suspended for one year by the NBA, and the team was ordered to pay $30 million for violating salary cap circumvention rules in a case involving Kawhi Leonard.
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Wilson, whose deep, dark contralto was one of the most distinctive voices in jazz, died on Wednesday in her hometown of Jackson, Miss.
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A prominent Hong Kong democracy activist, Joshua Wong, has pleaded guilty to a charge of colluding with foreign interests under a Beijing-imposed national security law.
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In the new movie It Ends, four twentysomethings find themselves stuck on an endless road — literally. Filmmaker Alex Ullom says his sensibilities were shaped by growing up online.
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A leading Palestinian writer has secretly moved his archives from the Israeli-occupied West Bank to Scotland, to save it from the risk of destruction in Israeli military operations.