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Is Big Tech Harming Society? Research Is Being Manipulated by Big Tech
For almost a decade, researchers have been gathering evidence that the social media platform Facebook disproportionately amplifies low-quality content and misinformation. So it was something of a surprise when in…
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Are Men More Emotionally Disconnected? What Can Be Done About It?
Image Credit: FotoDuets/Shutterstock Many of us are worried about loneliness and isolation, and both decade-old and recent data suggest they impact men more than women. Loneliness predicts health outcomes including…
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Israel’s Past Invasions of Lebanon: Will This Time Be Different?
Image Credit: Al Jazeera Following a massive bombardment of Lebanon, Israel has begun a land invasion of its northern neighbour. Troops have entered southern Lebanon in a bid to push…
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Desert Sands Reading: Indigenous Wildlife Tracking Fuels Major Project
As animals move across the desert, they leave tracks, diggings and droppings. For skilled trackers, reading these signs is like watching a movie. A story of who was there and…
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Why Are Pandemics Increasing? Our Impact on the Planet Explains It
Image Credit: ImageFlow/Shutterstock Pandemics โ the global spread of infectious diseases โ seem to be making a comeback. In the Middle Ages we had the Black Death (plague), and after…
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The ‘Best Comet of the Year’ Is Here: Everything You Need to Know
Image Credit: AstroStar/Shutterstock In January 2023, a new comet was discovered. Comets are found regularly, but astronomers quickly realised this one, called C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), had the potential to be…
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How ChatGPT Is Changing Writing and Why It’s a Problem
Image Credit: Shutterstock Have you noticed certain words and phrases popping up everywhere lately? Phrases such as โdelve intoโ and โnavigate the landscapeโ seem to feature in everything from social…
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India is in the midst of an electric vehicle revolution
You donโt have to be in India long to appreciate just how dramatic its electric vehicle revolution is. Whether itโs electric two-wheelers or trucks, buses or bicycles, they are hard…
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Could the Exploding Pager Attack Ignite an Israel-Hezbollah War?
The alleged Israeli attack on members of Hezbollah via their pagers is another ominous development propelling the Middle East towards a full-scale regional war. It leaves Hezbollah with little option…
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Instagram to Remove Beauty Filters, but Damage is Done
Image Credit: Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock Meta has announced third-party augmented reality (AR) filters will no longer be available on its apps as of January 2025. This means more than two million…
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OpenAIโs data hunger raises privacyย concerns
Image Credit: Euronews Last month, OpenAI came out against a yet-to-be enacted Californian law that aims to set basic safety standards for developers of large artificial intelligence (AI) models. This…
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Is life getting better for Chinaโs tech billionaires?
Image Credit: asharkyu/Shutterstock According to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Pony Ma, co-founder of Tencent Holdings, is once again Chinaโs richest person, now with a net worth of more than…
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My Child is Having Panic Attacks: What Should I Do?
Image : Allan Mas/Pexels In the movie Inside Out 2, 13-year-old Riley, who has recently started puberty, has a panic attack during a hockey game timeout. Anxiety (the emotion responsible…
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Why Your Boys Love Fighting with Sticks, Nerf Guns, and Swords
Lipatova Maryna/Shutterstock , CC BY As someone who has spent most of his professional life studying how children develop, Iโm often asked by parents (especially mums) why children (especially boys)…
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Impact of a Second Trump Presidency on the Global Economy
Evan El-Amin/Shutterstock Donald Trump inherited a strong economy from President Obama and managed it poorly. Real GDP grew more slowly under Trump than it had under any president since the…
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