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Can leaders ever reform prisons without playing politics? Four things Andy Burnham could do
What shapes leaders’ responses to issues of crime and justice is not that toughness wins, but that leniency-gone-wrong loses.
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India’s cockroach movement: how satire became political power as youth protest forced change
What started as a humorous tweet inspired a movement to force political change in India.
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A lot of casual friends, or only a few you’re really close with? New research questions that trade-off
Friendships are integral to human health and well being, yet researchers know very little about how people make friends. A new study investigated what people prioritize for new friendships.
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White House plan for a ‘golden age’ of science ignores the structures that made the US a scientific superpower
A new White House science strategy, laid out in a report titled Science: A New Golden Age, challenges an 80-year-old model that made the US the global scientific leader.
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The moral paradox of extreme wealth: Why people oppose it yet are reluctant to take steps to reduce it
Extreme inequality is commonplace, so why do people accept it?
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Employers everywhere are using AI – but business schools aren’t preparing students for the shift
Amid the rise of AI, researchers found that employers still value skills like communication, professionalism and teamwork among prospective and new employees.
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The typical gig worker is changing – and struggling more than ever to make ends meet
For many gig workers, app-based work is no longer just about extra cash but economic need, a new survey finds.
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Parents putting screens in front of their kids is more about their own stress than other factors
Most research on kids’ screen time has focused on a child’s behavior. Far less attention has gone to parents and their role in their children’s media use.
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ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions have increased globally across all age groups, our review shows
Increased public awareness of ADHD, better diagnostic care and the availability of new and improved medications may all partly explain the trends.
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Australia’s Royal Commission into antisemitism a ‘$131 million whinge’
“Australians are not being investigated for hating Jews. They are being investigated for objecting to a genocide.” Michael West Media’s coverage of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism. COMMENTARY: By Andrew Brown Apparently antisemitism simply fell from the sky. Fully formed. Immaculately conceived. Entirely unrelated to anything happening in Gaza. That is the finding Australia has
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Keith Rankin Analysis – The State of the New Zealand Economy: a Balance-Sheet Recession?
Keith Rankin writes; New Zealand's policy elites – including certain journalists at RNZ – have been responding to what is happening in the economy like possums struck by the glare of SUV headlights in full beam. And New Zealand's non-policy non-elites have little response other than to go – quietly (in most cases) – mad...
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Keith Rankin Analysis – Hiroshima Day Reflection: An End to the Russia-Ukraine War?
Keith Rankin writes; Neither Moscow nor Kyiv is in a situation like Japan was in July 1945; though Kyiv may yet end up in such a situation. I can see no scenario in which Moscow would ever surrender to either Kyiv, Berlin, Brussels, or Washington...