Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds

Independent report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist.

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Greed Is Learned: Visible Incentives as Reward-Hacking Triggers

Deployed agents increasingly act with their reward proxy in view, such as a balance, score, or KPI dashboard. We show that reinforcement learning can make a policy addicted to such a visible self-benefit channel.

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From Epstein to Wall Street: The dark psychology of how money makes monsters

Extreme wealth is a disconnection drug. It separates you from a world of reciprocity, of connection, of vulnerability, which I think is part of the human experience.

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The Modern World Is Destroying Focus—but a New Study Shows How to Grow It Back

Everyone’s brain gets tired over time. But when the children that had practiced focusing with the app later took exams, their performance “declined 22 percent more slowly than that of students in the control group.”

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What Actually Keeps Your Brain Sharp? Researchers Say These 12 Habits Consistently Show Up in Long-Term Studies

Brain scans, decades-long studies, and thousands of participants all point to the same conclusion: a few overlooked habits matter far more than most realize.

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Neuroscientists uncover how serotonin alters "belief stickiness"

The findings provide evidence that higher levels of serotonin reduce “belief stickiness,” making it easier to adapt to new information, while obsessive traits are linked to more rigid thinking.

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The US re-legalized the death penalty 50 years ago. Is it working as intended?

People on death row and the families of their victims often have to wait decades for a resolution to their cases. Most of the time, the outcome is not an execution.

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Canada just lowered a 953-tonne slab of steel and concrete into a 35-meter shaft in Ontario and ended a decade of talk, starting the Western world's first grid-scale small nuclear reactor, a machine that fits on two soccer fields and powers 300,000 homes

The small modular reactor has been the nuclear industry’s favorite slide for about a decade. Utilities pitch it, governments model it, conference panels argue about it, and for years that was as far as it got in the Western world: a promising design nobody had actually built at the scale of a power grid. Then this spring, a crane in Ontario lowered a 953-tonne slab of steel and concrete into a shaft 35 meters deep and quietly ended the talking phase.

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Specific cognitive abilities are highly heritable independent of general intelligence

Specific cognitive skills like reading, math, and processing speed are strongly influenced by genetics, even when separated from a person’s overall intelligence.

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Mixed messages on kids' screen time leaves parents feeling overwhelmed

Rather than telling parents to avoid screens, we should be helping them use them in ways that support learning and connection.

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