How Christmas diplomacy seeks to exploit seasonal goodwill | The Conversation

Christmas diplomacy endures because it stands at the crossroads of culture, power and politics. The season brings with it a ...
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Understanding climate change in America: Skepticism, dogmatism and personal experience

(THE CONVERSATION) Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ...

Semantic Leakage Is Taking A Hefty Toll On AI Producing Harmonious Mental Health Advice

Semantic leakage occurs when a word in a prompt is later used in an LLM chat in an unsuspecting way. This can be worrisome in ...

How AI Will Reshuffle Healthcare: A Conversation With Sangeet Choudary

In this conversation with business strategist Sangeet Paul Choudary, we explore how AI will reshape healthcare delivery—and ...

Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way

LifeTracer is not a universal life detector. Rather, it provides a foundation for interpreting complex organic mixtures. The Bennu findings remind us that life-friendly chemistry may be widespread ...

Gazing into the mind’s eye with mice – how neuroscientists are seeing human vision more clearly

Advances in technology have greatly accelerated scientific understanding of vision and the brain. Researchers can now routinely record the activity of thousands of neurons at the same time and pair ...

Local democracy is holding strong, but rural communities are falling behind, new survey of Michigan officials shows

While these high ratings are good news for local democracy in general, when we break down the results by whether communities ...
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What are gas stove manufacturers trying to hide? Warning labels

However, abundant evidence shows that cooking with a gas stove releases pollutants that harm human health. Multiple studies have shown that burning methane gas produces nitrogen oxide, carbon monoxide ...
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The ‘one chatbot per child’ model for AI in classrooms conflicts with what research shows: Learning is a social process

Individualized learning has its place. But decades of educational research is also clear that learning is a social endeavor at its core. Classrooms that privilege personalized AI chatbots overlook ...

From truce in the trenches to cocktails at the consulate: How Christmas diplomacy seeks to exploit seasonal goodwill

Christmas diplomacy endures because it stands at the crossroads of culture, power and politics. The season brings with it a set of expectations about restraint and goodwill that leaders can invoke, ...

How emotionally intelligent AI is redefining the future of work

Increasingly, the focus is on how AI can become a trusted partner to human talent, working in tandem to elevate not just ...

Hacked phones and Wi-Fi surveillance have replaced Cold War spies and radio waves in the delusions of people with schizophrenia

For example, Americans living during World War II developed persecutory delusions involving Germans, while those living during the Cold War focused on communists. People with thought disorders have ...