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History shows why FEMA is essential in disasters, and how losing independent agency status hurt its ability to function

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When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urban search and rescue team resigned after the deadly July 4, 2025, Texas floods, he told colleagues he was frustrated with bureaucratic hurdles that had delayed […]

Lifestyle

5,000 years of (in)equality in the Carpathian Basin: Challenging theories on social hierarchies in prehistory

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The global distribution of wealth is currently the subject of controversial debate. Against this backdrop, social sciences, humanities, and economics are intensively investigating how social hierarchies arise in human communities and where these processes originate. […]

Lifestyle

Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?

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Teenagers can seem to have their phones glued to their hands—yet they won’t answer them when they ring. This scenario, which is all too familiar to many parents, can seem absurd and frustrating, or even […]

Education

Why bolstering post-secondary education for former youth in care is a wise investment

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As we move closer to the start of the fall term, returning to school is often a source of conversation and excitement.This post was originally published on this site

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Heroes, victims—and rarely collaborators: Study reveals Nazi era reinterpretation across EU

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Whether in Belgium, Poland, or Ukraine, when asked about their nation’s role under Nazi occupation, many Europeans today primarily see their own population as victims—or as heroes. This is the key finding of a cross-national […]

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How AI might be narrowing our worldview and what regulators can do about it

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As artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT become part of our everyday lives, from providing general information to helping with homework, one legal expert is raising a red flag: Are these tools quietly narrowing the […]

Earth Sciences

Ocean sediments might support theory that comet impact triggered Younger Dryas cool-off

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Analysis of ocean sediments has surfaced geochemical clues in line with the possibility that an encounter with a disintegrating comet 12,800 years ago in the Northern Hemisphere triggered rapid cooling of Earth’s air and ocean. […]

Education

Common patterns found among scientists with remarkable early-career citation success

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A new analysis of data on scientists with exceptional early-career success—according to a metric known as citation impact—has identified common characteristics among them, some of which could also be indicators of problematic or fraudulent behaviors. […]

Lifestyle

With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views

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If you’ve interacted with an artificial intelligence chatbot, you’ve likely realized that all AI models are biased. They were trained on enormous corpuses of unruly data and refined through human instructions and testing. Bias can […]

Nature

Decline of seed-dispersing animals hinders fight against climate change

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Most trees in the Amazon (90%), the Atlantic Forest (90%), or the Cerrado, the Brazilian savanna-like biome (60%), depend on animals to disperse their seeds, ensure their reproduction, and keep the forest standing. Birds, mammals, […]

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  • Misspelled names may give brands a Lyft if the spelling isn’t too weird

    Consumers don’t mind when companies use misspelled words—think Lyft for “lift” or Froot Loops for “fruit loops”—as their brand names, as long as the alterations aren’t too extreme and the misspelling makes sense.This post was [...]
  • Study highlights resilience of small exporters in wartime Ukraine

    As the shocks of war continue to be a daily reality for people in Ukraine, smaller exporting firms have demonstrated the critical role of relational capital—fostering trust, cooperation, and communication with foreign partners—to survive and [...]
  • Tropical systems spin up Mid-South crop insurance rates

    Farmers in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi pay four to six times more for crop insurance than their counterparts in the upper Midwest, and Hunter Biram wanted to know why.This post was originally published on this [...]

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  • Extreme weather alerts can move markets. Here’s what investors can learn from our new research
  • Shipping policies designed to boost online spending instead drive consumers into stores
  • Misspelled names may give brands a Lyft if the spelling isn’t too weird
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