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Study shows how kidnapping of athlete’s father influenced society, president across continents

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Sports are often viewed as an escape from the problems of the real world. But when a Colombian soccer star’s father was kidnapped, the resulting media coverage helped move the story from the field of […]

Lifestyle

Staying single for longer affects young people’s well-being, study finds

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Media increasingly portray being single as an expression of people’s lifestyle, self-determination and empowerment, with expressions such as self-partnership, solo living, sologamy and singlehood dominating the discourse. At the same time, more and more young […]

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Lifestyle

LGBTQ+ Aussies face work participation inequalities, finds study

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A Monash University study has found significant disparities in employment and work participation among LGBTQ+ Australians, highlighting ongoing structural inequalities in the labor market.This post was originally published on this site

Lifestyle

Museum design quietly determines what visitors see and what they miss

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Visitors may believe they freely choose what to see in a museum, but new research shows that design decisions, often invisible to the visitor, play a decisive role in shaping attention, movement and discovery.This post […]

Economy

An innovative new tool draws on emojis to improve consumer sentiment analysis

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In today’s hyperconnected world, social media has become a critical channel for businesses to understand consumers. While social listening tools are widely used, they often fall short, providing only a superficial understanding of consumer sentiment. […]

Education

There’s an intensifying kind of threat to academic freedom: Watchful students serving as informants

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Texas A&M University told philosophy professor Martin Peterson in early January 2026 that he could not teach some of Greek philosopher Plato’s writings that touch on “race and gender ideology.”This post was originally published on […]

Society & Politics

Whether or not US acquires Greenland, the island will be at the center of a massive military build-up in the Arctic

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Donald Trump is clearly in a hurry to dominate the political narrative in his second term of office. He began 2026 with strikes in Syria against Islamic State groups, the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás […]

Earth Sciences

Rocks and rolls: The computational infrastructure of earthquakes and physics of planetary science

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Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That’s what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in Earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her data from a bird’s-eye […]

Earth Sciences

AI sheds light on hard-to-study ocean currents

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The Indonesian Throughflow carries both warm water and fresh water from the Pacific into the Indian Ocean. As the only low-latitude current that connects the two bodies of water, it plays a key role in […]

Lifestyle

Why people believe misinformation even when they’re told the facts

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When you spot false or misleading information online, or in a family group chat, how do you respond? For many people, their first impulse is to fact-check—reply with statistics, make a debunking post on social […]

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Top Stories

  • Rescheduling marijuana would be a big tax break for legal cannabis businesses, and a quiet form of deregulation

    In December 2025, the Trump administration accelerated the process of reclassifying marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act—a shift that would reduce restrictions and penalties associated with the drug.This post [...]
  • Pubs are far more valuable to society than the tax they pay

    English pubs will receive a 15% discount on their business rates from April this year. The government deal, which also applies to music venues, follows a backlash from landlords who were facing a steep increase [...]
  • Climate change is reshaping how companies do business

    Climate change is not only disrupting supply chains and asset values, it is also quietly reshaping companies’ choice of business partners. New research based on nearly two decades of data from thousands of US-listed firms [...]

Highlights

  • Why hospitality skills can help all businesses adapt to the AI revolution
  • Filing taxes for someone else? Here’s how to do it safely
  • Rescheduling marijuana would be a big tax break for legal cannabis businesses, and a quiet form of deregulation
WHAT’S NEW
  • Study reveals shrinking package sizes hide significant food inflation
  • AI bosses are creating a new problem for gig workers
  • Government funding for AI jobs did not produce more jobs, research finds
  • Review finds digital tools alone do not improve finances without motivation and agency
WHAT’S INTERESTING
  • How political leanings affect views on academic freedom: New research
  • Perceiving AI as a ‘job killer’ negatively influences attitudes towards democracy, study suggests
  • Social media ban for under-16s could ‘create a game of cat and mouse’ between platforms and users
  • Banal but brutal: Career anxiety as a driving force behind authoritarianism
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  • Through the looking glass: New framework gives language to representation in children’s books
  • US hospitality and tourism professors don’t reflect the diversity of the industry they serve

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