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People experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs. “It feels good to ‘stick to our guns’ even if we are wrong,” researchers say. nyer.cm/9HdpTc8
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
nyer.cm
January 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
People experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information that supports their beliefs. “It feels good to ‘stick to our guns’ even if we are wrong,” researchers say. nyer.cm/9HdpTc8
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contrarian.substack.com/p/the-worst-... No president has understood less about what makes America great than Donald Trump; none has been more ignorant of the post-WWII international framework that allowed America to remain the premier superpower.
The Worst Foreign Policy Blunders of 2025
And the competition was fierce...
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January 2, 2026 at 1:05 PM
contrarian.substack.com/p/the-worst-... No president has understood less about what makes America great than Donald Trump; none has been more ignorant of the post-WWII international framework that allowed America to remain the premier superpower.
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People say you’re driving a moral panic, that you’re blocking good regulation, that there’s no point in resisting. And then you enforce a phone ban and miracles happen (qualitatively): nymag.com/intelligence...
How the Phone Ban Saved High School
Since the bell-to-bell device lockup, teens in New York have rediscovered the simple pleasures of conversation, board games, and poker.
nymag.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
People say you’re driving a moral panic, that you’re blocking good regulation, that there’s no point in resisting. And then you enforce a phone ban and miracles happen (qualitatively): nymag.com/intelligence...
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Opinion | Faculty Are First Responders in Averting an Epidemic of Intellectual Atrophy
Colleges need a public health approach to AI use. https://bit.ly/48TRbQJ
Colleges need a public health approach to AI use. https://bit.ly/48TRbQJ
December 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Opinion | Faculty Are First Responders in Averting an Epidemic of Intellectual Atrophy
Colleges need a public health approach to AI use. https://bit.ly/48TRbQJ
Colleges need a public health approach to AI use. https://bit.ly/48TRbQJ
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Student Success | How Excessive Phone Use Can Hinder Student Success
A majority of college students spend over four hours a day on their phone, negatively impacting their mental health and focus. https://bit.ly/4s572oq
A majority of college students spend over four hours a day on their phone, negatively impacting their mental health and focus. https://bit.ly/4s572oq
December 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Student Success | How Excessive Phone Use Can Hinder Student Success
A majority of college students spend over four hours a day on their phone, negatively impacting their mental health and focus. https://bit.ly/4s572oq
A majority of college students spend over four hours a day on their phone, negatively impacting their mental health and focus. https://bit.ly/4s572oq
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An analysis of more than 10,500 children across the U.S. found that those who received phones at age 12, compared with age 13, had a more than 60 percent higher risk of poor sleep and a more than 40 percent higher risk of obesity. https://wapo.st/4qv9CT4
December 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
An analysis of more than 10,500 children across the U.S. found that those who received phones at age 12, compared with age 13, had a more than 60 percent higher risk of poor sleep and a more than 40 percent higher risk of obesity. https://wapo.st/4qv9CT4
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Accounting body scraps remote exams to combat cheating ft.trib.al/tR9qN35
Accounting body scraps remote exams to combat cheating
Decision follows scandals at Big Four and comes as AI tools make it easier to circumvent invigilators
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December 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Accounting body scraps remote exams to combat cheating ft.trib.al/tR9qN35
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it's just so emblematic of what passes for conservative thought, this belief that their children go to college not to leave ignorance behind by learning from experts, but rather to teach the experts from their locus of ignorance, and to have their nonsensical prior assumptions validated as true
December 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
it's just so emblematic of what passes for conservative thought, this belief that their children go to college not to leave ignorance behind by learning from experts, but rather to teach the experts from their locus of ignorance, and to have their nonsensical prior assumptions validated as true
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American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student https://theonion.com/american-classmates-having-difficulty-understanding-bet-1828551698/
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student https://theonion.com/american-classmates-having-difficulty-understanding-bet-1828551698/
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From the Archives: What really worries many professors isn't AI per se, it's what lies behind students' willingness to cheat: feeling overwhelmed; doubts about their abilities; weak reading and study skills; not valuing assignments; and pressure for perfection.
Cheating Has Become Normal
Faculty members are overwhelmed, and the solutions aren’t clear.
chroni.cl
August 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
From the Archives: What really worries many professors isn't AI per se, it's what lies behind students' willingness to cheat: feeling overwhelmed; doubts about their abilities; weak reading and study skills; not valuing assignments; and pressure for perfection.
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Research has found that, though open offices often foster a symbolic sense of organizational mission, they are damaging to workers’ attention spans, productivity, and creative thinking. So why does the open-office plan persist?
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August 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Research has found that, though open offices often foster a symbolic sense of organizational mission, they are damaging to workers’ attention spans, productivity, and creative thinking. So why does the open-office plan persist?
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The listing for these “stealth mode” dots does not mince words about what they're designed to do: “Block or dim that bright white recording light with these precision-cut vinyl dots.”
TikTok Promotes Stickers for Secretly Recording Meta Ray-Ban Video
Millions of TikTok users are watching videos promoting a “ghost dot” sticker that conceals the recording indicator light on Meta’s smart glasses.
wrd.cm
August 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The listing for these “stealth mode” dots does not mince words about what they're designed to do: “Block or dim that bright white recording light with these precision-cut vinyl dots.”
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At an event commemorating the 200th birthday of the United States, a sitting Supreme Court Justice was invited to celebrate "the memory of the Founders and the document they drafted in Philadelphia."
Justice Thurgood Marshall declined
Justice Thurgood Marshall declined
August 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
At an event commemorating the 200th birthday of the United States, a sitting Supreme Court Justice was invited to celebrate "the memory of the Founders and the document they drafted in Philadelphia."
Justice Thurgood Marshall declined
Justice Thurgood Marshall declined
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"I think everybody's lost the ability to think for themselves."
Students - voiced by actors - explain how they use AI to cheat on university exams and assignments, as part of a Newsnight investigation.
#Newsnight
Students - voiced by actors - explain how they use AI to cheat on university exams and assignments, as part of a Newsnight investigation.
#Newsnight
July 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"I think everybody's lost the ability to think for themselves."
Students - voiced by actors - explain how they use AI to cheat on university exams and assignments, as part of a Newsnight investigation.
#Newsnight
Students - voiced by actors - explain how they use AI to cheat on university exams and assignments, as part of a Newsnight investigation.
#Newsnight
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“The world becomes like a torture chamber, and then nobody believes you.”
Millions of people suffer debilitating reactions in the presence of certain scents and chemicals. One scientist has been struggling for decades to understand why—as she battles the condition herself.
Millions of people suffer debilitating reactions in the presence of certain scents and chemicals. One scientist has been struggling for decades to understand why—as she battles the condition herself.
The Next Thing You Smell Could Ruin Your Life
Millions of people suffer debilitating reactions in the presence of certain scents and chemicals. One scientist has been struggling for decades to understand why—as she battles the condition herself.
wrd.cm
July 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“The world becomes like a torture chamber, and then nobody believes you.”
Millions of people suffer debilitating reactions in the presence of certain scents and chemicals. One scientist has been struggling for decades to understand why—as she battles the condition herself.
Millions of people suffer debilitating reactions in the presence of certain scents and chemicals. One scientist has been struggling for decades to understand why—as she battles the condition herself.
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Advice | Enabled by institutions, students choose self-indulgence instead of self-denial and self-esteem instead of self-questioning. They do not understand that those choices will eventually cause more unhappiness than the more difficult paths they chose not to walk. chroni.cl/45gqZjk
The 7 Deadly Sins of Students
I’ve been teaching for about 10 years now, and, of course, I was a student for 20 years before that. So I have some experience observing my students’ sins, and perhaps even more experience committing ...
chroni.cl
June 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Advice | Enabled by institutions, students choose self-indulgence instead of self-denial and self-esteem instead of self-questioning. They do not understand that those choices will eventually cause more unhappiness than the more difficult paths they chose not to walk. chroni.cl/45gqZjk
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Movies now relentlessly signpost their meaning and intent. “Artists and audiences sometimes defend this legibility as democratic, a way to reach everyone,” Namwali Serpell writes. “It is, in fact, condescending.”
The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies
Buzzy films from “Anora” to “The Substance” are undone by a relentless signposting of meaning and intent.
www.newyorker.com
June 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Movies now relentlessly signpost their meaning and intent. “Artists and audiences sometimes defend this legibility as democratic, a way to reach everyone,” Namwali Serpell writes. “It is, in fact, condescending.”
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Opinion: The university's therapeutic approach to, well, everything, is part of how we got in this mess. chroni.cl/3Z8121p
Opinion | Colleges Must Stop Infantilizing Everyone
It’s time to get serious again.
chroni.cl
June 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Opinion: The university's therapeutic approach to, well, everything, is part of how we got in this mess. chroni.cl/3Z8121p
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They figured out that people didn’t care about the “art” of NFTs so they just took the clubbiness and applied it to what they call coins. Same useless gambling, no layer of pretense.
NFTs from a couple of years ago are starting to succumb to link rot.
Someday the final server holding the last NFT image will go under, then truly all my apes will be gone
Someday the final server holding the last NFT image will go under, then truly all my apes will be gone
April 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
They figured out that people didn’t care about the “art” of NFTs so they just took the clubbiness and applied it to what they call coins. Same useless gambling, no layer of pretense.
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The Coinbase hack has heightened concerns about physical safety, as hackers gained access to data that could identify and track down customers with large holdings, making them prime targets for criminals
Crypto High-Rollers Go Big on Bodyguards to Deter Kidnappers
Even before Coinbase Global Inc. disclosed that hackers had stolen the home addresses and account balances of its customers, Jethro Pijlman was seeing an uptick in interest from concerned clients with large crypto holdings who were looking for bodyguards and other forms of protection.
bloom.bg
May 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The Coinbase hack has heightened concerns about physical safety, as hackers gained access to data that could identify and track down customers with large holdings, making them prime targets for criminals
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Portugal is taking online disinformation and fake news seriously. As part of a broader attempt to encourage media literacy, it’s offering 15-18 year olds a free digital subscription to a range of respected newspapers and magazines as well as online upstarts that don’t spread lies. (Monocle)
May 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Portugal is taking online disinformation and fake news seriously. As part of a broader attempt to encourage media literacy, it’s offering 15-18 year olds a free digital subscription to a range of respected newspapers and magazines as well as online upstarts that don’t spread lies. (Monocle)
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Column: For all of the pushback from Michigan throughout the Conor Stalions Caper, the school keeps ending up with suspended head coaches. Benching Sherrone Moore for games 3 and 4 this upcoming season seems like one more flippant response. bit.ly/452xd5U
Suspending Sherrone Moore Shows Michigan’s Flippancy in Ongoing Connor Stalions Saga
The Wolverines self-imposed the two-game ban for the third and fourth matchups of the 2025 season ahead of a Committee on Infractions hearing next month.
bit.ly
May 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Column: For all of the pushback from Michigan throughout the Conor Stalions Caper, the school keeps ending up with suspended head coaches. Benching Sherrone Moore for games 3 and 4 this upcoming season seems like one more flippant response. bit.ly/452xd5U