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  • researchCybersecurity

    2026 will be the year you get fooled by a deepfake, researcher says. Voice cloning has crossed the ‘indistinguishable threshold’

    By Siwei Lyu and The Conversation
  • PJ'sHealth

    Why you feel so anxious and stressed during the holidays, even though you’re probably just sitting around, watching TV and eating

    By Stacy Shaw and The Conversation
  • xmasEurope

    Christmas 500 years ago was a drunken 6-week feast that may have been considerably better than the modern holiday, medieval historian says

    By Bobbi Sutherland and The Conversation
  • jews/chinese foodArts & Entertainment

    American Jews, Chinese food and Christmas: The first connection was a 1935 gift of chow mein to a New Jersey orphanage

    By Samira Mehta and The Conversation
  • coyoteEnvironment

    Why coyotes won’t become the new wolves and what it has to do with moose and beaver

    By Alex Jensen and The Conversation
  • manAI

    It’s starting to look like we’ll never come up with a good way to tell what was written by AI and what was written by humans

    By Ambuj Tewari and The Conversation
  • treeCommentary

    Colorado is suffering from Christmas Tree inflation because Denver imports most of them—from North Carolina and the Pacific Northwest

    By Ali Besharat and The Conversation
  • the conversationNorth America

    Rural America is deeply misunderstood: We aren’t depopulating and we’re not the reason 2024 swung to Trump

    By Tim Slack, Shannon M. Monnat, and others
  • housing affordabilityReal Estate

    America’s mobile housing affordability crisis reveals a system where income determines exposure to climate disasters

    By Ivis Garcia and The Conversation
  • ZohranPolitics

    Political communication scholar on how Zohran Mamdani hacked ‘slacktivism’ to appear on your phone, on your street and in your mind

    By Stuart Soroka and The Conversation
  • StreamingBig Tech

    Netflix-Warner deal would drive streaming market further down the road of ‘Big 3’ domination

    By David R. King and The Conversation
  • WrappedArts & Entertainment

    Why Spotify Wrapped understands the genius of ‘optimal distinctiveness theory’

    By Ishani Banerji and The Conversation
  • remote workFuture of Work

    Remote professionals are quiet quitting Fridays. Their rebellion could open the door to a 4-day work week

    By Christos Makridis and The Conversation
  • They can’t hold up this train! by Charles Jay Taylor, 1855-1929, artist, 1893. President Cleveland as a railroad engineer driving a locomotive labelled “Administration R.R.” that is roaring out of a tunnel labelled “Business Depression Tunnel”, and knocking out of the way legislators who are placing “Dilatory Amendments” and “Teller’s Dilatory Tactics” on the tracks, trying to derail the train; among the legislators are Francis M. Cockrell, James Z. George, James L. Pugh, William A. Peffer, George G. Vest, James D. Cameron, William M. Stewart, Henry M. Teller, John P. Jones, and Edward O. Wolcott. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Politics

    Is American history reminding you of dark, tumultuous periods from the past? Consider the Gilded Age of the late 19th century

    By Robert A. Strong and The Conversation
  • Sean DuffyLaw

    Air traffic controllers were already some of the most stressed workers in the U.S. before having to work without pay, say experts from Center for Aviation Studies

    By Brian Strzempkowski, Melanie Dickman, and others