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  • Person staring at computerTech

    The robots are here and the pleasure seekers are going to fall in love with AI, say experts who studied machine-human bonding

    By Marco Dehnert, Joris Van Ouytsel, and others
  • Engineer examining AI technology with reflection on eyeglasses.Tech

    Audits, ‘soft laws’ and ‘automation bias’: 3 experts break down what it could take to regulate AI and how hard it will be

    By S. Shyam Sundar, Cason Schmit, and others
  • Close up of teenage girl in bedroom using smart phoneFamily

    Eating disorders among teens have more than doubled during the pandemic. Here are the warning signs and what to do about them

    By Sydney Hartman-Munick and The Conversation
  • WACO, TEXAS – MARCH 25: Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Waco Regional Airport on March 25, 2023 in Waco, Texas. Former U.S. president Donald Trump attended and spoke at his first rally since announcing his 2024 presidential campaign. Today in Waco also marks the 30 year anniversary of the weeks deadly standoff involving Branch Davidians and federal law enforcement. 82 Davidians were killed, and four agents left dead. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)Politics

    A law professor breaks down Trump’s complex legal situation and explains how this case is different than any other

    By Jeffrey Bellin and The Conversation
  • ALLENTOWN, PA – APRIL 30: Pitcher Drew Anderson #40 of the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs gets set to pitch as a pitch clock counts down during the second inning of a AAA minor league baseball game against the Syracuse Mets on April 30, 2019 at Coca Cola Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images)Success

    Baseball’s new shot clock is either a brazen sellout or remarkable piece of ignorance, says the philosopher who wrote ‘Infinite Baseball’

    By Alva Noë and The Conversation
  • Cesar ChavezSuccess

    How Cesar Chavez fused community organizing with Catholicism to become a labor icon, according to a scholar of religion

    By Lloyd Daniel Barba and The Conversation
  • Former US President Donald Trump during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, US, on Saturday, March 4, 2023. The Conservative Political Action Conference launched in 1974 brings together conservative organizations, elected leaders, and activists. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Donald Trump can still run for president after his indictment—and even govern from jail

    By Stefanie Lindquist and The Conversation
  • Alexei Stakhanov explaining his system to a fellow miner in the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)Success

    Today’s management-speak has a lot in common with 1930s Soviet propaganda—and it’s making people miserable

    By Bogdan Costea, Peter Watt, and others
  • Stone Town, ZanzibarHealth

    2 of the scientists who worked on the first ancient Swahili DNA analysis say the results weren’t African or Asian—they were both

    By
  • Ajay Banga, US-nominee for leader of the World Bank, during a Bloomberg Television interview in London, UK, on Friday, March 10, 2023. Banga said that The World Bank should be a catalyst for spurring lending from the private sector to mobilize the trillions of dollars needed for development across the world. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Some advice for the new head of a World Bank is inheriting a slew of problems and a dysfunctional corporate culture

    By Rachel Kyte and The Conversation
  • Bank runFinance

    After SVB’s demise, a banking scholar who used to work at the Federal Reserve breaks down the greatest hits of bank runs

    By Rodney Ramcharan and The Conversation
  • Donald Trump

    Analyst of Saudi foreign policy breaks down what’s really going on with the key U.S. ally’s major new deals with Iran and China

    By Kristian Coates Ulrichsen and The Conversation
  • Raccoon-dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) close up of adult”n”nBeidaihe, Hebei, China MayHealth

    Crucial data about the origins of COVID is only now being disclosed. A scientist weighs the cost of the delay

    By Dominic Dwyer and The Conversation
  • Buddy CarterTech

    Why nervous people in power want to stop you from using TikTok, according to a longtime cybersecurity researcher

    By Doug Jacobson and The Conversation
  • Cast of SuccessionSuccess

    ‘Succession’ works by appealing to our ‘anti-social desires,’ says author of ‘Prestige TV and the Contradictions of the Liberal Class’

    By Robert Samuels and The Conversation