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  • JailsPolitics

    How America got addicted to prisons and jails, from the former prosecutor who wrote ‘Mass Incarceration Nation’

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  • London busSuccess

    There’s a silver-bullet solution to big cities’ remote work and transit crises, says author of ‘The Great American Transit Disaster’

    By Nicholas Dagen Bloom and The Conversation
  • The Weddell Sea Party, August 1915, from a collection of lantern slides, which belonged to Reginald James. Back row:- Worsley, Wild, Kerr, Hussey, Cheetham, How, McLeod, Holness, McNish, McCarthy, Hurley, Bakewell, Green, Stephenson. Second row:- Lees, Marston, Shackleton, Crean, James, Vincent, Macklin. Seated:- Rickenson, Wordie, Clark, McIlroy, Greenstreet, Hudson. Caption in ‘South with Endurance’ (London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2001) reads:- “The crew of the Endurance, 1 September 1915”, Antarctica. Artist Frank Hurley. (Photo by Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)Leadership

    Ernest Shackleton gets credit for rescuing his doomed Antarctica voyage—but it’s his navigator’s leadership that saved their lives

    By Daniella McCahey and The Conversation
  • Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor and U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman speaks during his 2022 U.S. midterm elections night party in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., November 9, 2022. REUTERS/Quinn GlabickiMind

    John Fetterman shows how depression can become an emergency. Experts say to watch for these signs of crisis

    By John Williamson and The Conversation
  • Elon Musk, the Chief Engineer of SpaceX, speaking about the Starlink project at MWC hybrid Keynote during the second day of Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona, on June 29, 2021 in Barcelona, Spain.<br /> (Photo by Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images)Tech

    SpaceX is rolling out Starlink satellite internet in Africa but access is still wildly unaffordable for most people

    By Marian Selorm Sapah and The Conversation
  • The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. Illustration was published in 1870Environment

    Bringing back the ancient Dodo bird is an ethical minefield and ‘de-extinction’ probably isn’t the fairytale you think it is

    By Risa Aria Schnebly, Ben A. Minteer, and others
  • Can washing your hands help stop the evolution of antibiotic resistance? Mathematically, it’s possible.Health

    One easy way to fight the evolution of antibiotic resistance: Hand washing

    By Kristofer Wollein Waldetoft, Georgia Institute of Technology and The Conversation
  • UAW workers on strikeSuccess

    Detroit’s giant auto union is having a historic election after a series of scandals. Get ready for more strikes and higher car prices.

    By Stephen J. Silvia and The Conversation
  • Woman burning sageSuccess

    Walmart and Anthropologie encourage you to burn sage. I’ve studied paganism for 30 years and it’s cultural appropriation.

    By Helen A. Berger and The Conversation
  • Mathias Cormann

    Corporations are laughing at the idea of paying taxes as nearly $1 trillion goes offshore every year, researchers say

    By Ludvig Wier, Gabriel Zucman, and others
  • Young couple looking the digital camera together.Tech

    Gen Zers are buying old digital cameras because they’re more challenging and more meaningful

    By Tim Gorichanaz and The Conversation
  • Two high school students working on a science project, building a mechanical object in class together.Tech

    ChatGPT could become a personal tutor to millions of students if it learns lessons from the robot teachers that came before

    By Anne Trumbore and The Conversation
  • A farmer harvests wheat in Culver, Kansas, US, on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. Crop futures sank in the US, with wheat closing the week at levels not seen since before Russias invasion of Ukraine, as concern mounts that a global economic slump might hobble demand for farm commodities. Photographer: Arin Yoon/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTech

    Farmers have been fighting for ‘right-to-repair’ laws for years and supporters say a toothless new new agreement doesn’t go far enough

    By Leland Glenna and The Conversation
  • asian woman stretching using foam roller while live streaming via phone on a tripodHealth

    Two researchers studied hundreds of fitness influencers and pinpointed how they game social media algorithms to grow their audience

    By Ashley Roccapriore, Tim Pollock, and others
  • A man overwhelmed by papers and information.Tech

    The attention economy has never been more cutthroat—Forget critical thinking, it’s time to get good at ‘critical ignoring’

    By Ralph Hertwig, Anastasia Kozyreva, and others