Don't Bogart My Blog: Sunday Best: How A.I. could save your life

And tell you how serious your friend's depression is.

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Sunday, June 30, 2019

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All things are rising —

global heat, the sea — yet not

Inslee's poll numbers.

The first Democratic debates may have lasted for four hours across two days and contained a surfeit of words, but the comedy writer Jason Gilbert summarized everything in mere syllables (17, to be exact). Here is every / 2020 Democrat / roasted by haiku. For more on the candidate sparring matches, read Nicholas Kristof's admission that he was wrong about Elizabeth Warren, Frank Bruni's explanation about why she aced the first debate and Gail Collins on why the women won the first night. But perhaps debate night two now has you dreaming of a Harris-Buttigieg ticket? Get your countdown clocks ready: Election Night is just shy of 500 days away. — Alexandra March

The Future of the Democratic Party Is About Women

Kamala Harris taking the stage for the Democratic primary debate. Damon Winter/The New York Times

By MICHELLE GOLDBERG

We've now had two Democratic debates in which women dominated. The question now is whether these victories can convince battle-scarred Democratic women to believe once again that a woman can beat Donald Trump.

Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii

We asked people in Honolulu to give their ethnicity. Many had long answers. Photographs by Damon Winter/The New York Times; Illustration by Katie Scott

By MOISES VELASQUEZ-MANOFF AND DAMON WINTER

"If you can't tell what people are by looking at them — if their very existence blurs the imagined boundaries between supposedly separate groups — then race becomes a less useful way to think about people."

How Artificial Intelligence Can Save Your Life

Ashley Gilbertson, VII Network for The New York Times

By DAVID BROOKS

You may not know how serious a friend's depression is, but A.I. does. In an analysis of more than 100 million text messages, this technology was able to determine that those most at risk of self-harm used words like "ibuprofen," not words like "suicide."

When Anthony Bourdain Went to the Bottom of the World

Anthony Bourdain in 2017. Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images

By ANGELA ZOUMPLIS

He's remembered for his curiosity about all kinds of cuisines and his desire to explore the untapped. For him, "food was a common ground. It was a means to conversation." The week he traveled to Antarctica, the conversation was about climate science.

Why That Doggie in the Window That You Saw This Morning Is Gone

Puppies from the Houston municipal shelter about to be loaded onto a van for a trip to Colorado. Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times

By KATE MURPHY

Adoption of rescue animals is on the rise, and transporting shelter animals to communities that have strict spay and neuter laws can save lives. But how humane really is "humane relocation"?