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  • Man in gliderTech

    ChatGPT is not a search engine. Here’s why you should think of it as a ‘glider’ to get better results, says engineer with Harvard PhD in neuroscience

    By James Intriligator and The Conversation
  • Vladimir PutinFinance

    The Russia-Africa summit is coming, but Putin barely invests in the continent while the mercenary Wagner Group rages across the countryside

    By Joseph Siegle and The Conversation
  • UPS strikeSuccess

    340,000 UPS drivers are about to strike over a pay scale that gives part-timers what the Teamsters call ‘poverty wages’—here’s a closer look at the numbers

    By Jason Miller and The Conversation
  • Phoenix tortoiseEnvironment

    A paleoclimate scientist explains why he cringes at the 100,000-year heat—and how far back in prehistory it was really this hot

    By Darrell Kaufman and The Conversation
  • Vladimir Putin

    Why Russia just pulled out of the deal that cut global food inflation by over 23%

    By Anna Nagurney and The Conversation
  • Tony BennettSuccess

    How Tony Bennett survived a near fatal drug overdose to create an 80-year career that knitted together the old and new Americas

    By Jose Valentino Ruiz and The Conversation
  • Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan, William Buckley JrSuccess

    How Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston created the entertainment ecosystem that Netflix destroyed, from a scholar of streaming

    By David Arditi and The Conversation
  • joggerHealth

    The $80 billion fitness industry relies on the myth that it helps you lose weight. Scientists are increasingly skeptical

    By Donald M. Lamkin and The Conversation
  • Margot RobbieLifestyle

    Barbie used to be everything wrong with patriarchal beauty ideals, feminist professor says. Now she’s closer to ‘queer camp’

    By Carol Hay and The Conversation
  • Aaron RodgersMind

    The ‘psychedelic renaissance’ is big business, but a religion scholar says humans—and animals—have been ecstatically tripping for thousands of years

    By Gary Laderman and The Conversation
  • Wagner GroupPolitics

    Prigozhin’s Wagner hasn’t just undermined Putinism—it’s bringing ‘unprecedented’ lawlessness to Russia, says lawyer with over a decade of experience in the country

    By Maxim Krupskiy and The Conversation
  • Joe Biden and Vladimir Zelensky

    NATO is ‘certainly conducting its business more like the way it did during the Cold War,’ says professor at U.S. Army War College

    By John Deni and The Conversation
  • Social isolation and loneliness have the same effect on human health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, which is to say, it can shorten life span by up to 15 years.Health

    Solving the country’s loneliness crisis would make Americans healthier, fitter and less likely to abuse drugs

    By Clay Marsh and The Conversation
  • Harvard graduationSuccess

    Harvard and other wealthy schools’ legacy admissions policies draw support from people who want to keep a ‘racial hierarchy,’ research shows

    By Angelica S. Gutierrez and The Conversation
  • Joe BidenPolitics

    A former Clinton and Obama diplomat pulls back the curtain on what really happens during NATO summits

    By Tara Sonenshine and The Conversation