Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Tirion Havard, London South Bank University
Of the many “profound risks to society and humanity” that have tech experts worried about artificial intelligence (AI), the spread of fake images is one that everyday internet users will be familiar with.
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- Written by: Manos Tsakiris
Even if you think you are good at analysing faces, research shows many people cannot reliably distinguish between photos of real faces and images that have been computer-generated. This is particularly problematic now that computer systems can create realistic-looking photos of people who don’t exist.
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- Written by: Rachel Cramer-
Digital employees offer companies advantages, but there are also drawbacks, says Lingyao (Ivy) Yuan.
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- Written by: Mona Sobhani
I began this journey not expecting to find scientific evidence for my experiences, because the mainstream scientific materialist narrative suggests that evidence doesn’t exist for unexplained phenomena...
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- Written by: Luke Lafitte
Grandiose superheroes create a canvas on which we can portray both the most sublime and the most mundane aspects of humanity. I cannot think of a more fitting superhero to tell us who we are than Tony Stark and his alter ego Iron Man...
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- Written by: Steve Prentice
Among the most insidious examples of the exploitation of fear come in the form of phishing, vishing and smishing. Here are three examples...
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- Written by: Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University
New research offers insight into why Facebook’s targeted ads can sometimes be way off base.
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- Written by: Alyson Chapman, Texas A&M University
As route guidance systems aim to find the shortest path between a beginning and ending point
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- Written by: Deborah Lynn Blumberg for UT Austin
"There are times when people completely disregard the fact that they went online. They think they came up with the answer themselves," says Adrian Ward.
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- Written by: Taylor Kubota, Stanford University
A system made with two inexpensive sensors is more accurate than smartwatches for tracking calories burned during activity, researchers report
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- Written by: Sander van der Linden, Professor of Social Psychology in Society and Director, Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, University of Cambridge
One high-profile theory of why people share fake news says that they aren’t paying sufficient attention. The proposed solution is therefore to nudge people in the right direction. For example, “accuracy primes” – short reminders intended to shift people’s attention towards the accuracy
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- Written by: Shannon Schmoll, Michigan State University
The first lunar eclipse of 2021 is going to happen during the early hours of May 26. But this is going to be an especially super lunar event, as it will be a supermoon, a lunar eclipse and a red blood moon all at once. So what does this all mean?
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- Written by: Bill Schul, Ph.D.
When we consider interspecies communication we usually think in terms of human-creature exchanges or interactions in which some kind of relationship has been established. But it is not uncommon for us to experience an interaction with members of the plant kingdom...
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- Written by: Stephanie Lopez, Duke University
A new app successfully detects one of the telltale characteristics of autism in toddlers.
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- Written by: Mike Williams
With the help of programmed magnetic nanobeads, a diagnostic tool that plugs into an off-the-shelf phone can diagnose COVID-19 in 55 minutes or less.
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- Written by: Jon Whittle
Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning more about how to work with (and on) humans. A recent study has shown how AI can learn to identify vulnerabilities in human habits and behaviours and use them to influence human decision-making.
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- Written by: Ohky Simine Forest
Usually, a lack of proper spiritual education and moral guidance in a society is a powerful factor that allows the dark shadows easy entrance into clouded human hearts. Many people, from all professions, are so cynical that they have given up the dream of a perfect society. These people have no true vision...
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- Written by: J. Donald Walters
Paramhansa Yogananda said: We are all of us a little bit crazy, but most of us don't know it because we mix only with people with the same type of craziness as our own. It is only when differently crazy people come together that they get a chance to find out the errors in their own types of craziness!
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- Written by: Kira Allmann
Nestled between Lancashire’s stand-out beauty, the Forest of Bowland, and the breathtaking vistas of the Yorkshire Dales, the serene, postcard-perfect village of Clapham seems far removed from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Written by: David W Graham and Peter Collignon
If a two-year-old child living in poverty in India or Bangladesh gets sick with a common bacterial infection, there is more than a 50% chance an antibiotic treatment will fail.
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- Written by: Rakaia Kenney et al
Maybe you’ve learned to dislike the smell. Maybe your socks are full of gross bacteria. Or maybe, it’s both. Our team studies the brain and sense of smell
