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Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry?

Before a car crash in 2008 left her paralysed from the neck down, Nancy Smith enjoyed playing the piano. Years later, Smith started making music again, thanks to an implant that recorded and analysed her brain activity. When she imagined playing an on-screen keyboard, her brain–computer interface…

5 days ago

World’s longest-married couple reveals key to a lasting relationship: ‘We love each other’

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A Miami husband and wife who recently attained the title of world’s longest-married couple say they managed that feat just by loving one another. “We love each other,” Eleanor Gittens, 107, said to LongeviQuest when the website specializing on people who are in their second century of life asked…

4 weeks ago

‘Rawdogging’ marathons: has gen Z discovered the secret to reclaiming our focus?

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Name: Rawdogging marathons. Age: In its therapeutic sense, brand new. Appearance: It doesn’t look like much, to be fair. I don’t even know what it is. Originally, rawdogging was a slang term for having sex without a condom. They have marathons for that? Over the years, however, it has come to mean…

Oct 13, 2025

The Hacker Mindset: Humanity’s Best Defense

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Dane Sherrets 3 min read·3 days ago Just got back from DEF CON 33. Like every year, during a talk or panel someone will say some version of “hackers are the future” or “the world needs hackers” (this year I most clearly remember it during Hacker Jeopardy). I always nod along … because I strongly…

Aug 31, 2025

Monks behaving badly: the sex scandal rocking Thailand’s Buddhist clergy

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The disappearance of a respected monk from his Buddhist temple in central Bangkok has revealed a sex scandal that has rocked Thailand, with allegations of blackmail, lavish gifts and a string of dismissals raising questions about the money and power enjoyed by the country’s orange-robed clergy.…

Jul 19, 2025

Three giant ‘doomsday fish’ wash up in one week, but harbinger of calamity a damp squib, say experts

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Bad luck comes in threes, according to the saying. And this week three ethereal oarfish, nicknamed “the doomsday fish”, have washed up on the shores of Australia and New Zealand. Two headless specimens were found near Dunedin and Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island, following the discovery of…

Jun 8, 2025

Dailydave: (the root of the root and the bud of the bud)

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Dailydave mailing list archives By Date By Thread (the root of the root and the bud of the bud) From: Dave Aitel via Dailydave Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:22:11 -0500 Memories and thoughts are the same thing, someone tried to explain to me recently. You have to think to remember, in other words. This…

Jan 20, 2025

Millennials are turning into their boomer parents

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This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Baby boomers, they're just like us. Or, rather, we're just like them. And by "we," I mean millennials. The inevitable march of time often means turning into your parents,…

Jan 19, 2025

Funding public schools based on enrollment in the previous year may help keep their budgets more stable, research shows

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Funding for public K-12 schools in the U.S. is based on enrollment. More students mean more money. In 31 states, public schools use the previous year’s enrollment numbers to determine the current year’s funding, which makes it easier to soften the financial blow when enrollment declines. In the rest…

Jan 11, 2025

‘I deleted news apps’: Guardian readers on how to stop doomscrolling

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Doomscrolling happens to the best of us. Algorithms across social platforms are finely tuned to feed you content and posts that keep you locked in. It can be hard to pull yourself away even when you’re consuming a barrage of news about the state of the world online. While we certainly don’t…

Dec 30, 2024

Transform the daily grind to make life more interesting – a philosopher shares 3 strategies to help you attain the good life

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Imagine it’s Monday morning, too cold and too dark, but once that alarm goes off, you know you’ve got to rally. The kids have to get to school. You’ve got to get to work. And, of course, your ever-growing to-do list hangs over your head like a dark cloud, somehow both too threatening to ignore and…

Dec 28, 2024

Why You Always Get Punished for Telling The Truth

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Boadicea There's a story about Zig Ziglar, the motivational speaker. A woman approached him at one of his seminars, begging him for help. She said she hated her job. Her boss was horrible. Her coworkers hated her. What should she do? Well, Zig told her to shut up and stop complaining. He said she…

Dec 8, 2024

An Uncertain Future Requires Uncertain Prediction Skills

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We live in an Age of Uncertainty. Not just because of the global threats to societies, but many face unprecedented insecurity at a personal level, particularly the younger generations. None of us know what is going to happen, and we might as well face up to it. And that’s the first lesson in making…

Dec 8, 2024

Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report

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An estimated 140 women and girls across the world die at the hands of their partner or family member every day, according to new global estimates on femicide by the UN. The report by UN Women found 85,000 women and girls were killed intentionally by men in 2023, with 60% (51,100) of these deaths…

Nov 28, 2024

We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away From Reality

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Opinion June 18, 2024 5 min read We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away from Reality We are living through a terrible time in humanity. Here’s why we tend to stick our head in the sand and why we need to pull it out, fast Donna Grethen Objectively speaking, we are living through a…

Nov 24, 2024

Millennials have no rizz on the internet anymore

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Tech Senior Correspondent covering technology and culture You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. New Follow authors and never miss a story! Follow Katie Notopoulos Every time Katie publishes a story, you’ll get an alert straight to your…

Nov 24, 2024

101 things I would tell my self from 10 years ago

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10 years ago, I started my freshman year of college. This is the advice I needed to hear, not the advice you need to hear. In fact, some of it may be actively bad for you. See Should you reverse any advice you hear? You are overly obedient. You not only do what people tell you to do, but find it…

Nov 24, 2024

Are we living in the same timeline? Why your partner perceives time differently

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Consider a hypothetical couple: Cathy and Max. Cathy tells Max she feels like it’s been too long since they had sex, and Max responds that it seems to him like they just had sex. They look at a calendar to see who is right, and remember they had sex seven days earlier. Both feel justified: Cathy…

Nov 24, 2024

Can you resist all the addictions modern life throws at you? Only if you’re rich enough | Martha Gill

theguardian.com

They are problems of success, really, these modern ills. Social media addiction, gaming disorders, the compulsive over-eating of sugar and processed gloop: they are products of a society with more than enough food, leisure time and boredom, and without the life-or-death excitement that kept our…

Nov 24, 2024

I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is

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Updated at 9:43 a.m. ET on October 11, 2024 The truth is, it’s getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality. As Hurricane Milton churned across the Gulf of Mexico last night, I saw an onslaught of outright conspiracy theorizing and…

Nov 17, 2024

Scientists developed portable nuclear reactor with amazing feature: ‘Transformative for our economy, industry, and communities’

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A small nuclear reactor that can run for eight years or more without water is scheduled to go online by 2029 in Saskatchewan, Canada. In November, Saskatchewan’s government announced an $80 million CAD (about $59 million USD) project from the Saskatchewan Research Council to demonstrate the…

Nov 17, 2024

Should You Create a Personal or Business Brand?

danielmiessler.com

Explore vs. Exploit: The Pattern-Novelty Balance 12/10/2025 Understanding how oscillating between exploration and exploitation unlocks maximum enjoyment from life #philosophy #meaning #personal Revisiting the AI Bubble 07/10/2025 Why a major crash, AGI, and millions of jobs replaced aren't mutually…

Nov 1, 2024

Vast ‘doughnut’ discovered in molten metal of Earth’s core

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By travelling to the centre of the Earth via seismic waves scientists have discovered a ring-like structure within the swirling pool of molten metal known as the outer core. Research published in the journal Science Advances has identified a doughnut-shaped region within the outer core, parallel to…

Aug 31, 2024

Start your day on a strawberry: 15 microhabits for calmer, healthier mornings

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Brain dump before you go to sleep Spend two minutes each evening sketching out how your tomorrow will look, on a notepad or in your Notes app, for more productive mornings, says Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author of Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less. “It gives your creative subconscious time…

Aug 12, 2024

New study finds increasingly positive link between money and happiness

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This just in: money apparently does buy happiness. A new study conducted by a senior fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania found an increasingly positive association between money and happiness. Matt Killingsworth, who tracks happiness for his large-scale research project,…

Jul 20, 2024

Appleby: a celebration of Gypsy and Traveller heritage

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In May earlier this year, Romany Gypsy Wendy Smith went to the high court and successfully challenged a new law that effectively criminalised the travelling way of life. Even among the many Romany Gypsies and Travellers who are settled and no longer travel, the victory was seen as symbolic because…

Jun 11, 2024