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01/12/2024 - 14:48

There’s a somewhat forgotten idea from psychology that can help explain why. It’s called the region-beta paradox, and it describes a common... →

23/11/2024 - 16:06

The analogy of information as sugar is not just rhetoric. A 2019 study by researchers at Berkeley found that information acts on... →

06/11/2024 - 14:25

Coincidentally, my first romantic relationship came to an end just five months later. I found it much easier to speak about – years of... →

16/10/2024 - 17:56

In its Poverty, Prosperity and Planet report, the World Bank said the setbacks of recent years meant the goal set by the UN of ending... →

09/10/2024 - 13:53

The survey, released by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, also found that Israelis were dissatisfied with the state of... →

03/10/2024 - 16:36

It's now been well established that in heterosexual relationships, women also do more of the hidden labour – the... →

25/09/2024 - 18:04

But historians of the future may struggle to understand fully how we lived our lives in the early 21st Century. That's because of a... →

07/09/2024 - 16:41

The left-wing French economist Thomas Piketty, who is regarded as the principal proponent of the thesis, calculated that the income share... →

25/08/2024 - 11:18

The wandering Jew is alive and well, according to a study published on Monday by the Pew Research Center on the migration habits of... →

17/08/2024 - 13:49

Key Facts Tablet use at 3.5 years old “was significantly associated” with a tendency to anger and frustration a year later, according... →

08/08/2024 - 11:58

A 20-minute hot shower wasn't enough. Neither was a dip in a single hot tub; as soon as one grew cold, she would enter another one cradling... →

26/07/2024 - 14:49

The July results from the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) monthly survey, published on Tuesday, paint a grim picture. The data was... →

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