I turn up late to meetings to dodge small talk. Am I wrong?
Credit: Carlo Bollo/Alamy The case I hate small talk. People who know me would be surprised to hear…
Scientists Reconstruct Sound of Jurassic Insects
Using lasers, computer models and AI, researchers reconstructed the calls of 165-million-year-old relatives of modern crickets and katydids…
Vitafoods Asia 2026 show floor preview: Exhibitors M-Z
In this final round of the three-part preview stories, find out some of the innovations that you can…
A confidence expert shares a simple body language gesture that signals a person is trustworthy and confident
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People systematically under- and overestimate public engagement in climate action
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‘It’s just his AI and my AI going back and forth’: how ‘social offloading’ erodes work relationships
Stop if you’ve heard this one before: An employee received a message from her boss and didn’t quite…
‘Being mentally ill is not a crime’: Valley departments train to address a mental health crisis | Local News
Mental health crisis training for law enforcement
With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, 21…
They don’t know how to talk to their kids
The scene lasts about 30 seconds but communicates a lifetime of ultrawealthy dysfunction. Roman Roy, desperate to impress…
Training language models to be warm can reduce accuracy and increase sycophancy
Dataset construction We selected conversations from ShareGPT Vicuna Unfiltered (https://huggingface.co/datasets/anon8231489123/ShareGPT_Vicuna_unfiltered), one of the only large-scale and publicly available…
Why working out together is harder than it looks (and what it taught us about love), Lifestyle News
I remember the first workout my wife and I had when we first decided to embark on a…
The science influencers going viral on TikTok to fight misinformation
One of Simon Clark’s most popular TikTok videos begins with him playing the part of a clueless climate…
Are health influencers making us sick?
Bad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked Our Health Deborah Cohen Viking (2026) Previously, when you felt ill, you…