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Psychology

How to Catch a Social Media Manipulator in 27 Seconds

You scroll Facebook. Your aunt shares a political story. Then your high school friend. Then a news page you vaguely remember liking in 2014. Weird coincidence? Maybe. Or maybe you’re watching a digital puppet show—scripted, rehearsed, and performed by pages secretly working together. Here’s the kicker: researchers have now figured out how to spot these […]

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Psychology

How to Stop a Conspiracy Theory Before It Starts

Wait—You Can Inoculate Someone Against a Conspiracy Theory?! Sounds wild, right? Like slapping on a tin-foil helmet before someone even mentions aliens at Area 51. But according to a new scientific review, that’s pretty much the idea—and surprisingly, it works. Researchers just combed through nearly 7,200 people’s data across 25 studies to figure out which […]

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Psychology

Is Religion Dying? Not Everywhere—and Definitely Not for Everyone

You’re sipping your coffee, scrolling headlines. One says religion is on the decline. Another talks about the rise of the “nones.” Maybe you’ve even noticed it in your own life—fewer people at church, less talk of faith at school or work. But hold up. What if the global story of religion isn’t that it’s disappearing—but […]

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Psychology

High Diversity, Low Inclusion: Baseball’s DEI Blind Spot

Baseball fans love stats. Home runs. WAR, fWAR, bWAR. OBP, WHIP But there’s one stat that’s been getting a lot of attention lately: diversity. Major League Baseball (MLB) scored an impressive A+ in coach diversity and an A in player diversity, according to annual report cards by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports […]

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Psychology

The Test That Flipped the Script on Police Bias

What if everything you thought you knew about detecting discrimination was—statistically speaking—flawed? That’s exactly what a group of researchers just uncovered when they applied a powerful new method to millions of police stops in California. And the results? Jaw-dropping. The test didn’t just suggest racial bias in policing—it confirmed it in a way we’ve never […]

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Society

Why Some Happy Workers Slack Off—And What Makes Others Thrive

We’ve all worked with that person—you know, the one who seems genuinely cheerful every day, loves the job, brings cookies to team meetings… and somehow doesn’t quite get anything done. Meanwhile, there’s the moody wizard who grumbles through the day but hits every deadline like clockwork. So here’s the million-dollar question: Is being happy at work actually […]

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Society

How Early Humans Turned Hippo Bones into High-Tech Tools

Picture this: A group of early humans gathers around a massive hippopotamus carcass, stone tools in hand. But instead of just slicing up dinner, they do something completely unexpected—they start chipping away at the hippo’s bones. Fast forward 1.5 million years, and archaeologists have uncovered the world’s oldest known bone tool workshop in Tanzania’s Olduvai […]

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Society

Is Bluesky the Future of Social Media or Just Twitter 2.0?

We’re on Bluesky now, so check us out there. But is it worth our time? If you’ve ever rage-quit Twitter (or X, as it’s now awkwardly called), you’re not alone. Plenty of users have packed their digital bags in search of a better social media home. Enter Bluesky, a decentralized, invite-only platform that promised to […]

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