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TechChatGPT 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 ConversationJuly 24, 2023
FinanceThe 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 ConversationJuly 24, 2023
Success340,000 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 ConversationJuly 24, 2023
EnvironmentA 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 ConversationJuly 23, 2023
By Anna Nagurney and The ConversationJuly 22, 2023
SuccessHow 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 ConversationJuly 22, 2023
SuccessHow Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston created the entertainment ecosystem that Netflix destroyed, from a scholar of streaming
By David Arditi and The ConversationJuly 19, 2023
HealthThe $80 billion fitness industry relies on the myth that it helps you lose weight. Scientists are increasingly skeptical
By Donald M. Lamkin and The ConversationJuly 18, 2023
LifestyleBarbie used to be everything wrong with patriarchal beauty ideals, feminist professor says. Now she’s closer to ‘queer camp’
By Carol Hay and The ConversationJuly 17, 2023
MindThe ‘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 ConversationJuly 17, 2023
PoliticsPrigozhin’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 ConversationJuly 17, 2023
EuropeNATO 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 ConversationJuly 15, 2023
HealthSolving the country’s loneliness crisis would make Americans healthier, fitter and less likely to abuse drugs
By Clay Marsh and The ConversationJuly 15, 2023
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