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Synthetic AI data can’t always explain ‘messy realities of people’s lives’

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Have you ever wondered why a café opens in the next suburb, but not yours? Or found your favorite product available in one city but not another, even though it’s the same supermarket?This post was […]

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New workplace technologies bring both benefits and emerging psychosocial risk

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New research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has highlighted the need for effective management and integration of new technologies in the workplace, in order to protect workers’ psychosocial health.This post was originally published on this […]

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Study shows how social media sentiment can predict when people move during crises, improving humanitarian response

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Forced displacement has surged in recent years, fueling a global crisis. Over the past decade, the number of displaced people worldwide has nearly doubled, according to the United Nations’ refugee agency. In 2024 alone, one […]

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When helping hurts: How acts of goodwill can stall peace

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At first glance, helping those on the other side of a conflict seems like an act of compassion and progress. Yet new research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem shows that even seemingly well-intentioned initiatives […]

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Study finds Marion County Record raid created ‘shared press distress’ among fellow journalists

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When police raided a newspaper in the small town of Marion in 2023, they made international headlines as computers and phones were seized in an apparent attack on press freedom. New research from the University […]

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Enduring patterns in world’s languages: One-third of grammatical ‘universals’ stand up to rigorous testing

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Despite the vast diversity of human languages, specific grammatical patterns appear again and again. A new study reveals that around a third of the long-proposed “linguistic universals”—patterns thought to hold across all languages—are statistically supported […]

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Fake survey answers from AI could quietly sway election predictions

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Public opinion polls and other surveys rely on data to understand human behavior. New research from Dartmouth reveals that artificial intelligence can now corrupt public opinion surveys at scale—passing every quality check, mimicking real humans, […]

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Most colleges score low on helping students of all faiths, or none, develop a sense of belonging

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What helps students from all walks of life have a good college experience?This post was originally published on this site

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Child-care affordability is coming at the expense of equity, and it’s time governments acted

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Five years into Canada’s $10-a-day child care plan, affordability has improved dramatically for families fortunate enough to have a space. However, the families who need care the most are being left behind.This post was originally […]

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Why the chemtrail conspiracy theory lingers and grows—and why Tucker Carlson is talking about it

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Everyone has looked up at the clouds and seen faces, animals, objects. Human brains are hardwired for this kind of whimsy. But some people—perhaps a surprising number—look to the sky and see government plots and […]

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Top Stories

  • ‘Weights of gold in bullion’: How the ancients invested in precious metals

    “All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments,” proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (1st–2nd century CE), the Roman poet.This post was originally published on this site
  • Treasure the emotional connections to the clothes you have and style could be a whole lot more sustainable

    With January sales around the corner, another flood of unwanted clothes risks drowning our wardrobes and the planet.This post was originally published on this site
  • Can you ‘live long and prosper’ by learning economics from Star Trek? Or is that ‘highly illogical?’

    It might seem worlds away from the Earth we know. But can “Star Trek” teach us anything about the economics of our own society?This post was originally published on this site

Highlights

  • Why central bankers look to the ‘stars’ when setting interest rates
  • AI model uses social media posts to predict unemployment rates ahead of official data
  • ‘Weights of gold in bullion’: How the ancients invested in precious metals
WHAT’S NEW
  • Why shoppers buy fast fashion even if they disagree with it
  • The ‘pawprint economy’ is booming—and it offers huge opportunities for tourism
  • ‘Lifting and shifting’ workers is not always the best answer
  • Early motherhood carries wage penalty, while delaying pays off
WHAT’S INTERESTING
  • Citizens have greater trust in parliaments with higher female representation, new research finds
  • There’s little evidence tech is much help stopping school shootings
  • Hidden bias gives ‘swing state’ voters more influence over US trade policy
  • Report challenges climate change as sole trigger of Syrian Civil War, exposing governance failures in drought response
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  • New analytics show US schools can adopt later start times without raising costs

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