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  • NEW YORK – APRIL 1988: American author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922 – 2007) poses for a photo in April 1988 at a party for the 25th anniversary of Elaine’s restaurant in New York City, New York. (Photo by Catherine McGann/Getty Images)Success

    Kurt Vonnegut dominated college graduation speeches because he was an offbeat voice of reason and unlikely youth hero

    By Susan Farrell and The Conversation
  • Men use smartphones to social media on vacation at home, use social media to talk to social distancing ,Working From Home concept.Tech

    I’ve been studying what social media does to people’s brains for years—and it creates a ‘cognitive overload’ that makes you easy prey for advertisers

    By Matthew Pittman and The Conversation
  • teenager of colorMind

    America’s teens of color are transforming digital activism: ‘With this generation, we are not going to wait’

    By Dominique Skye McDaniel and The Conversation
  • UYUNI, BOLIVIA – AUGUST 14: A worker hands a shovel to his colleague who is inside a salt recovery pool at the Llipi pilot Plant in the Uyuni Salt Flats on August 14, 2022 in Uyuni, Bolivia. The Uyuni Salt Flats, in the Potosi province, have the largest lithium reserves in the world. In 2008, former president Evo Morales nationalized the industry of lithium and then created the state-run company Yacimientos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB). Despite announcements and promises, extraction and export volumes never reached significant levels due to lack of investments and technology. Now the Bolivian government is working on strategic partnerships with foreign firms to boost the extraction of the so-called “white gold” or “petroleum of the 21st century”, key to produce batteries and electric vehicles. (Photo by Gaston Brito Miserocchi/Getty Images)Environment

    Bolivia is sitting on a goldmine of lithium but it’s setting up an ideological collision between modern society and indigenous religious views

    By Mario Orospe Hernández and The Conversation
  • SpaceX rocketTech

    Why the explosion of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket was a ‘very successful failure,’ from a space policy guru who works for the Air Force

    By Wendy Whitman Cobb and The Conversation
  • Mom and son at pharmacyHealth

    There’s a small but very real chance that over-the-counter medication could send you to the emergency room, says team that studies medications

    By Macarius Mwinisungee Donneyong, Ximena Oyarzún-González, and others
  • Joel EmbiidHealth

    A physical therapist who specializes in NBA players’ feet reveals his big fears over KD, LeBron and Embiid’s footwork

    By Philip Anloague and The Conversation
  • Young stressed handsome businessman working at desk in home office shouting at laptop screen and being angry about financial situation, jealous of rival capabilities, unable to meet client needs. Nervous about pandemic.Tech

    AI is going to totally change the game for email spammers and clunky scams will become a lot more sophisticated

    By John Licato and The Conversation
  • Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Congressional committees are poised to start probing the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, offering a stage for what’s likely to be a partisan clash over the role of financial regulations in the second largest bank failure in US history. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images via Getty ImagesFinance

    A finance professor who used to work at the Fed has 5 pieces of advice to avoid another banking meltdown

    By Brian Gendreau and The Conversation
  • Wild magic mushrooms foraged in the foest – Psilocybe semilanceataMind

    Psychedelics may ease cancer patients’ depression and anxiety better than prescription drugs

    By C. Michael White and The Conversation
  • This illustration photo taken on January 30, 2023 shows a phone screen displaying a statement from the head of security policy at META with a fake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calling on his soldiers to lay down their weapons shown in the background, in Washington, DC. – Chatbots spouting falsehoods, face-swapping apps generating fake porn and cloned voices defrauding companies of millions — governments are scrambling to regulate AI-powered deepfakes widely feared to be a misinformation super spreader. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)Tech

    It’s not just the puffy-jacket pope—different countries are creating deepfakes to spread propaganda

    By Jordan Richard Schoenherr and The Conversation
  • Woman Calculating Payment Bill In Kitchen.Personal Finance

    The weird and surprisingly recent history of why we file taxes in April

    By Thomas Godwin and The Conversation
  • Antibiotic resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria, 3d illustration.Health

    Looming behind antibiotic resistance is another huge threat—antibiotic tolerance

    By Megan Keller and The Conversation
  • Seasonal allergies have economic impacts, from health costs to missed working days.Health

    Brace yourselves, allergy sufferers: Pollen season is getting longer and more intense with climate change. Here’s what you can expect in the future

    By Yingxiao Zhang, Allison L. Steiner, and others
  • Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert MurdochPolitics

    As Rupert Murdoch defends Fox News’ lies in court, a media professor reveals the terrifying truth that journalism has no standardized requirements

    By John C. Watson and The Conversation