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Macaques are surprisingly deft at keeping the beat to the Backstreet Boys
The post These Monkeys Hint at an Evolutionary Musical Mystery appeared first on Nautilus.
Central banks wield near-unlimited power over monetary policy, a policy which largely governs inflation, employment, and economic stability. This power ought to be subject to greater democratic oversight to ensure it aligns with the interests of us, the citizens. Over time, central banks have developed a sort of ‘policy bias’ where inflation control is prioritised […]
The massive mammals habituate to the presence of aerial monitoring thanks to their impressive memories
The post Elephants’ Drone Tolerance Could Aid Conservation Efforts appeared first on Nautilus.
Could a break from the liking, following, and subscribing salve the mental health of young people?
The post The Benefits of Social Media Detox appeared first on Nautilus.
The great problem with financialization is that produces higher returns than productive investments do. If you want to industrialize or stay industrialized, you will have lower profits than a financialized economy does. This leads to situations like the below: Generally US assets are highly valued and money tends to flow into the US over other […]
“Forget the sex; the real scandal here is the crime against language.” — Brian Phillips, The Ringer, on Olivia Nuzzi’s new memoir, American Canto, about her affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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“I desired. He desired me desiring. He desired to desire my desiring. It was turtles all the way down, except the turtles were boners.”
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“Our union represented the endless cycle of life, death, and rebirth, and the eternal, unending nature of time. Sometimes I didn’t know where the worm ended, and our love began.”
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“’I want to break both of us down into tiny particles and blend them together like so many mice to be fed to your falcon,’ I told him. Some men, lesser men, men who failed to engage with desire to the very hilt of their cocks—those men would have found these sentiments extreme. But with the Politician, they barely scratched the surface of his erotic carapace.”
Prescription drug manufacturers are benefiting from social media’s lack of regulation as influencers take over their marketing.
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
The post Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time appeared first on The Intercept.
Film is Fabulous! has helped de Montfort University archive a huge collection of TV scripts for Doctor Who and other cult British TV series.
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Steve Witkoff’s real-estate empire is bankrolled by a former adviser to Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a key architect of Moscow’s Ukraine negotiations
Heckling, expulsions and a power struggle between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana dominated the first major gathering of Britain's newest socialist party, reports Josiah Mortimer
Last month, the world received news of horrific atrocities coming out of the city of Al-Fasher in the Sudanese region of Northern Darfur, following its fall to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. The RSF have been engaged in a civil war against Sudan’s military dictatorship since 2023 and had maintained a brutal siege of […]
What would it mean to love a stranger just as you love your closest friends? A philosopher makes a case for ‘love ethics’
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By curating your family’s stories, rituals and relics, you’ll feel anchored – and create a bridge between the generations
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We might say that the most pessimistic predictions about the effects of the computer and internet age are being borne out in real time. Welcome to the future, where a belligerent US president works hand-in-hand with white supremacist tech moguls, using trade policy and threats to crowbar US-centric technology across the globe; AI-enabled slop, untruths […]
“Banning an entire news organization from press conferences hurts the public interest as people will lose access to independent reporting on matters of national importance.”
Pressure is building from the US for a Plaza Accord 2.0 as part of the US President’s attempts to ‘improve’ the US trade situation. I use the term ‘improve’ cautiously because the US President seems think that making it more difficult and expensive for US consumers and businesses to access imports from abroad is a…
I’ve been seeing more and more alarmism about the idea that, on current demographic trends, the world’s population might shrink to a billion in a century or two. That distant prospect is producing lots of advocacy for policies to increase birth rates right now. One of the big claims is that a smaller population will […]