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Dr. ChatGPT is getting remarkably good at diagnosing health problems – but actual doctors are still better at weighing treatment options
Uncertainty is common in medicine, and AI isn’t very good at navigating it.
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Hurricane season is here: Federal flood insurance carries 2 moral hazards – which you face depends largely on how wealthy you are
Subsidized insurance makes waterfront property seem safer than it is for wealthier buyers, while many low-income homeowners face repeat disasters with no help.
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Your phone screen doesn’t have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing
A photographer describes how your phone camera flattens and dulls the colors in photos – and how to regain an appreciation for the wide spectrum of colors.
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Maps are powerful political tools shaping a nation’s past, present and future – counter maps allow everyday people to reclaim the narrative
From who gets to vote to how people travel and where taxpayer dollars are funneled, politicians and urban planners wield maps to control public imagination.
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Getting disability benefits got harder after the Social Security Administration’s staff was slashed and program rules were changed by Trump
Researchers learned from dozens of interviews that the usual ways of resolving complex cases, escalating issues and holding the authorities accountable no longer work.
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What happens to debt when someone dies?
Whether or not there’s a will, the results are the same.
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For 2 centuries, Latter-day Saints have revered religious freedom – but their definition is evolving
Latter-day Saints have long valued the US Constitution’s promise of religious freedom – but the church has also tested its boundaries.
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Black teachers improve outcomes for all students, but the profession remains largely white
Many Black teachers were pushed out of classrooms from the 1950s through ‘70s. Despite new recruitment programs, the teacher workforce remains mostly white.
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The World Cup and human trafficking: What the research reveals about the real risks at major sporting events
Public awareness campaigns around the World Cup and other sporting events are well intentioned – but not backed by research.
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Pro-Palestinian activists plan protest against ‘Israeli pond’ diplomacy push in Pacific
Asia Pacific Report Israel is working with US Christian Zionists to make the Pacific “an Israeli pond” to help deliver votes in the United Nations, warns the advocacy and protest movement Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA). National spokesperson Rinad Tamimi said in a statement today that PSNA would picket the Fiji High Commission in Wellington
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In an age of ‘heteropessimism’, straight romcoms can make us cringe – but the story’s different when it comes to queer love
It’s hard to root for a story where boy meets girl and they live happily ever after in a time when that is happening less in real life.
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Turkish democracy on trial: how Erdoğan’s rule has undermined justice and weakened his rivals
Nullifying the leader of Turkey’s main opposition party is the latest in a string of measures that are taking the country down the road to autocracy.