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Want to use AI to improve your work? Have it disagree with you
Prompting AI models to contradict your ideas can improve your thinking about a problem.
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Month: October 2026
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79 deaths a day: South Africa’s diabetes crisis needs a new strategy
Diabetes is manageable. With timely support, people can lead long, healthy lives free from preventable complications.
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How Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is helping kids start reading when they’re very young
This free program mails an age-appropriate book monthly to each enrolled child from birth to age 5.
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More than 50 years after a North Dakota school district burned copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ the anti-war novel is still being censored
The battle over the novel offers a window into America’s long-running fight over what students should be allowed to read.
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Mangrove restoration is becoming big business, but benefits don’t always reach local people
Beyond the monetary value of carbon credits sits something more complex: every restoration project involves trade-offs, and somebody carries them.
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US regulators want to make corporate earnings reports less frequent, but investors have doubts
No federal rule proposal has ever generated so much opposition.
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Renoir and Love is a wonderful celebration of the fleeting joys of life
An exhibition that will leave most with a deep appreciation for Renoir as an artistic innovator and painter of the first rank.
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Seaweed strandings cause a stink – here’s why they harm your health
When free-floating patches of seaweed are pushed together by currents and winds, seaweed strandings can inundate the coastline with often devastating consequences.
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White nationalism’s appeal runs deeper than partisan politics
Nearly 1 in 7 white men under 30 in the US support white nationalism, and partisanship alone doesn’t explain who’s drawn to it.
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Police arrest two as protesters accused of blocking NZ aerospace summit
Asia Pacific Report Pro-Palestine protesters targeted Christchurch’s Te Pae Convention Centre today to highlight the National Aerospace Summit’s alleged ties with Israeli military. The protesters from Peace Action Ōtautahi started their action at Victoria Park from 7am, Allied Media reports. Police said two men, aged 56 and 23, had been arrested after vehicles were allegedly
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Rising CO₂ is making African savanna grasses grow more – what this means for grazing, fire and carbon storage
New research in the Kruger National Park has found that rising CO₂ in the atmosphere helps savanna grasses grow when less water is available.
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National Year of Reading: linguistic diversity should be central to reading for pleasure intiatives
Books in different languages do more than support language learning. They connect families, amplify diverse voices and make reading more inclusive.