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‘Honestly, he kind of sucks’: trash-talking can feel great but is it really bad for you?
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Venting can help us bond, but it can also leave a sour taste in your mouth – where is the line, and why do we love doing it? It’s a rush to realize you dislike the same person as someone else. There’s a delicate, intoxicating dance: throwing out oblique criticisms and prowling around the edges until one person takes the leap and bravely says: “Honestly, they kind of suck.” Soaking up the golden rays of your rightness and another’s wrongness can feel exhilarating. Then, sometimes, th...

  4 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

Homeless Advocate Takes On A.C.L.U., and It’s Personal
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Jennifer Livovich started a nonprofit to give socks to the homeless population in Boulder, Colo. She lost it, and more, in a legal and policy dispute.

  4 decembrie 2023 | NYTimes

Virgin Galactic shares plunge as Branson rules out further funding
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British billionaire alarms investors by stating space tourism company has enough cash to operate ‘on its own’ Shares in the space tourism group Virgin Galactic tumbled on Monday after its founder, Sir Richard Branson, ruled out further funding. The British billionaire alarmed investors by stating in an interview that the loss-making business has enough cash to operate “on its own”, weeks after it announced job cuts and a pause in commercial flights from next year in an effort to save ca...

  4 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

More than 1,000 climate scientists urge public to become activists
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‘We need you,’ says Scientist Rebellion, which includes authors of IPCC reports on climate breakdown, as diplomats meet for Cop28 Cop28 live – latest updates Wolfgang Cramer’s first involvement with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was in the 90s. He worked on the second assessment report, delivered in 1995, which affirmed the science of anthropogenic climate breakdown. At that point, no one could say they did not know what was happening. Almost three decades on, Cramer was...

  4 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

‘Wobbly spacetime’ may help resolve contradictory physics theories
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Scientist proposes framework for reconciling mathematically incompatible theories of quantum mechanics and Einstein’s gravity At the heart of modern physics is a gulf that scientists have spent more than a century trying to bridge. Quantum mechanics gives an apparently flawless description of the forces that dominate at the atomic scale. Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has never been proven wrong in its predictions of how gravity shapes cosmic events. But the two theories are...

  4 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

Starwatch: Venus, Spica and a crescent moon meet at dawn
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The ‘morning star’ will be joined by the brightest star of Virgo and a waning moon in both hemispheres There is a beautiful triple meeting in the dawn sky this week. The brilliant “morning star” of Venus is close to Spica, the brightest star of Virgo, the virgin. On the mornings of 8 and 9 December, the already pretty pairing will be joined by a thin waning crescent moon. On 8 December, the moon will be closest to Spica and will have 22% of its visible surface illuminated. A day later, ...

  4 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

Researchers create AI tool with a nose for fraudulent wine
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Machine learning used to analyse compounds in a bottle of wine and trace them back to estate Fraudsters who pass off ropey plonk as a high-end tipple may soon have artificial intelligence on their case; scientists have trained an algorithm to trace wines to their origins based on routine chemical analyses. Researchers used machine learning to distinguish wines based on subtle differences in the concentrations of scores of compounds, allowing them to track the wines back not only to a particular...

  4 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

I used to be a huge people pleaser, but when I became seriously ill I finally learned to say no
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After being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, I stopped trying to please everyone else. Now I have better relationships and a healthy, joyful life I’m a recovering people pleaser. Suppressing and repressing my needs, desires, expectations, feelings and opinions used to be as natural to me as breathing. To me, it was normal to tell people what they wanted to hear (read: lie) to make them feel better. Yes, I’ll be there for Christmas. Yes, I’ll do that for you. Yes, I can fit that in. A...

  3 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

Covid inquiry: 10 questions facing Boris Johnson
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The former prime minister will come under scrutiny and these are the pressing issues It is expected that Johnson will make an apology at the inquiry, conceding that the government was too slow in realising the severity of the virus, and blaming a lack of preparation. Continue reading...

  3 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

Cells of people living in greener areas age more slowly, research finds
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Greener neighborhoods can slow ageing process of human cells but effects of environmental racism can erase any benefits Many studies have shown that people living in greener neighborhoods have several health benefits, including lower levels of stress and cardiovascular disease. But new research indicates that exposure to parks, trees and other green spaces can slow the rates at which our cells age. The study, published in Science of the Total Environment, found that people who lived in neighbor...

  2 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

AI laser that reads heartbeat through the throat could replace stethoscopes
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New invention, which can be set up at home, promises to transform the way we monitor our health, say scientists Scientists have developed a laser camera that can read a person’s heartbeat at a distance and pinpoint signs that they might be suffering from cardiovascular illnesses. The system – which exploits AI and quantum technologies – could transform the way we monitor our health, say researchers at Glasgow University. Continue reading...

  2 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

Boris Johnson’s legacy will be shaped by Covid inquiry appearance
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Discredited ex-PM faces a demolition job in one of the few policy areas to which he and his allies still cling Even at the height of his popularity, Boris Johnson routinely avoided close questioning – to the extent of once hiding in a fridge to dodge a TV inquisitor. The former UK prime minister is likely to be dreading next week’s appearance at the Covid inquiry. And he probably should. It is no exaggeration to say that events on Wednesday and Thursday at the inquiry’s repurposed office ...

  2 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

‘It wouldn’t exist’: Viagra inventor tells how Welsh miners began its rise
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Dr David Brown says erectile dysfunction drug, subject of a BBC drama, could have been scrapped if a miner hadn’t spoken out It was the ultimate serendipitous discovery: a failed heart medication that became a multibillion-dollar erectile dysfunction drug. But the blockbuster story of Viagra could have ended differently were it not for the frankness of the Welsh miners who took part in a clinical trial just before the drug was due to be scrapped, according to Viagra’s co-inventor. Speaking ...

  2 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

China Respiratory Illness: U.S. Health Officials Say Cause is Known
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A surge of children has been hospitalized in China for respiratory illnesses, but international health authorities said the cause was common viruses and bacteria.

  1 decembrie 2023 | NYTimes

Singing to babies is vital to help them learn language, say scientists
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Study finds infants first understand language via rhythm and tone rather than individual sounds A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P … How many would read this to that tune? According to scientists from the University of Cambridge, there’s more to the earworm than infuriating parents across the English-speaking world – they have found that singsong speech is crucial to helping babies learn language. Continue reading...

  1 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com

Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge
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Examination of remains in hospital grounds uses DNA analysis and other disciplines to build ‘biographies’ Archaeologists at Cambridge University have reconstructed the “biographies” of hundreds of the city’s ordinary medieval residents by examining their skeletons in detail, using a wealth of scientific data to fill out the life stories of poor or disadvantaged people whose names were never recorded. By examining the bones of more than 400 adults and children who were buried in the gr...

  1 decembrie 2023 | TheGuardian.com