Psychology
The most surprising thing about many conspiracy believers may not be what they believe. It may be how certain they are that everybody else believes it too. A major psychological study involving more than 4,000 U.S. adults found that people who endorsed conspiracy theories consistently overestimated their own
Artificial Intelligence
It began with something almost absurdly simple. An Apple AirTag. A used book. And a bookseller who wanted to know who was suddenly buying enormous quantities of obscure physical books. For months, booksellers had noticed unusual orders appearing through used- and rare-book marketplaces. Hundreds of titles. Sometimes thousands. Often
Beauty
Sadie Sink has reached the kind of career moment where two photographs can make her look like two completely different people. In one, she is Jean Grey. Intense. Watchful. Dangerous. A young mutant capable of manipulating minds and moving objects with thought, carrying the emotional weight of one of Marvel&
Artificial Intelligence
Sam Altman has offered a striking answer to one of the most persistent criticisms of artificial intelligence. How much water does ChatGPT really use? According to the OpenAI CEO, approximately 38,000 ChatGPT queries use as much water as producing a single almond in California. The comparison is memorable. It
Entertainment
VLC media player has passed another enormous milestone. More than 7 billion cumulative downloads have now been recorded for the famous orange-cone media player, extending the remarkable lifespan of a piece of open-source software that has survived multiple generations of computers, smartphones, codecs, streaming services and entertainment platforms.
TV Shows
When Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman premiered on ABC on September 12, 1993, audiences were technically getting another Superman television series. Yet it quickly became clear that the woman standing beside the Man of Steel was not going to remain in his shadow. Teri Hatcher's
World News
A legal fight involving three small Amish schools in New York has grown into a constitutional dispute that could affect religious liberty, parental rights, vaccination laws, and the future of one of America's largest Amish populations. Three Amish community schools have been fined a combined $118,000 for
Nature
A tiger disappears into a wall of sugarcane in northern India. There is no forest behind it. No national park. No wilderness stretching toward the horizon. There are farms, irrigation channels, villages, roads, livestock, and people working only a few hundred meters away. In the Terai landscape of Uttar Pradesh,
Philosophy
Long before women gained the vote in the United States or Britain, women connected to the Wesleyan and Holiness traditions were preaching to mixed audiences, leading revivals, organizing reform movements, founding ministries, writing theology, and insisting that a divine calling could not be invalidated simply because the person receiving it
Crime
Before dawn on February 17, 1970, military police entered an Army family apartment at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and discovered a horrifying scene. Colette MacDonald, who was pregnant, and her two young daughters, Kimberley and Kristen, had been killed. Colette's husband, Army physician Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, was alive
Crime
For decades, Marines were told Camp Lejeune was a place where their families could live safely while they served the United States. They drank the tap water, cooked with it, bathed their children in it, and filled baby bottles from faucets connected to the base's water systems. Some
History
At dawn on April 28, 1789, Fletcher Christian and a small group of armed sailors entered the cabin of Lieutenant William Bligh aboard the Bounty. Within hours, one of the most famous acts of naval rebellion in history was complete. Bligh and 18 men were forced into an overcrowded launch