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TechHow will AI change work? A look back at the ‘productivity paradox’ of the computer age shows it won’t be so simple
By Bhaskar Chakravorti and The ConversationJune 25, 2023
EuropeHow long will the dollar last as the world’s default currency? The BRICS nations are gathering in South Africa this August with it on the agenda
By Mihaela Papa and The ConversationJune 25, 2023
LifestyleA zoo vs. a safari: How the thirst for ‘authentic’ tourism grew into the adventure tourism boom that led to the Titan tragedy
By Scott Smith and The ConversationJune 24, 2023
LifestyleThe secret American history of yoga began at Henry David Thoreau’s Walden Pond: ‘Even I am a yogin’
By Jeremy David Engels and The ConversationJune 21, 2023
PoliticsVladimir Putin looks uneasy about Ukraine’s counteroffensive as he faces the rarest of things: A political rival he can’t get rid of
By Peter Rutland and The ConversationJune 20, 2023
FinanceHave you been screwed over by an airline yet this summer? The government has let them create their own rules since 1978
By Janet Bednarek and The ConversationJune 20, 2023
EuropeBrazil’s Lula and the Global South are flexing their muscles—and they may be able to bring peace to Eastern Europe
By Jorge Heine and The ConversationJune 19, 2023
EuropeUkraine is flooding after explosions dynamited a massive dam. The founder of West Point’s Modern War Institute says hydraulic warfare is an age-old tactic
By Liam Collins and The ConversationJune 19, 2023
Lifestyle3 ways teachers can use the story of Juneteenth to expand kids’ minds, from an education professor who grew up in the Caribbean
By Raphael E. Rogers and The ConversationJune 19, 2023
LifestyleJewish denominations: A historian breaks down the difference between Reform, Orthodox and Conservative
By Joshua Shanes and The ConversationJune 19, 2023
LifestyleOne of the 182,566 people freed on the first Juneteenth was Joshua Houston, the enslaved servant of the famous general. This is his story.
By Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Zachary Montz and The ConversationJune 18, 2023
HealthWhether by infection or vaccine, 96.4% of Americans had COVID antibodies in their blood last September, massive survey finds
By Matt Hitchings, Derek Cummings and The ConversationJune 17, 2023
HealthWe’re still learning just how badly America handled the pandemic—’excess deaths’ jumped nearly 85% in 3 years, study finds
By Patrick Heuveline and The ConversationJune 17, 2023
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