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/ 10 months agoWhat is IVF? A nurse explains the evolving science and legality of in vitro fertilization
IVF is a decades-old procedure that has allowed increasing numbers of prospective parents to have children. Evolving legislation may put it...
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/ 10 months agoWe’ve been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958
Enthusiasm for the capabilities of artificial intelligence – and claims for the approach of humanlike prowess –has followed a boom-and-bust cycle...
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/ 10 months agoClimate comedy works − here’s why, and how it can help lighten up a politically heavy year in 2024
Jokes can be a healing contagion as they expose hypocrisy, spark laughter and open minds.
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/ 10 months agoBias hiding in plain sight: Decades of analyses suggest US media skews anti-Palestinian
How the media talks about suffering on one side compared with the other can often reveal bias in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
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/ 10 months agoHow teens benefit from being able to read ‘disturbing’ books that some want to ban
Amid calls to ban certain books from libraries and schools, research shows that students benefit when they have the ability to...
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/ 10 months agoA personal tale of intellectual humility – and the rewards of being open-minded
Daryl Van Tongeren explains what it means to be intellectually humble, and why it’s so important right now on The Conversation...
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/ 10 months agoCan Trump be prosecuted? Supreme Court will take up precedent-setting case to define the limits of presidential immunity
In a case that will make legal and political history, the US Supreme Court will consider whether Donald Trump is immune...
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/ 10 months agoMounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores
Two new high-profile studies add to the increasingly worrisome picture of how even mild cases of COVID-19 can have detrimental effects...
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/ 10 months agoW.E.B. Du Bois’ study ‘The Philadelphia Negro’ is still relevant 125 years later – Elijah Anderson explains why
Over a century ago, white Philadelphia elites believed the city was going to the dogs – and they blamed poor Black...
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/ 10 months agoMore than 100K Michigan voters pick ‘uncommitted’ over Biden − does that matter for November?
Organizers of the protest had set a goal of 11,000 uncommitted votes to show dissatisfaction with Biden’s support of Israel in...
