Can Disgusting Images Motivate Good Public Health Behavior?

Graphic images have long been tools of campaigns against smoking and STDs. Researchers want to know if can they work for infectious diseases like Covid.

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‘Civic Fan Fiction’ Makes Politics a Dysfunctional Team Sport

The internet’s fandom-generating culture creates fantasies of the powerful that imprison us in their delusions.

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The Trendy, Spendy Future of Tech-Enabled Indoor Farming

Apps and sensor-laden gadgets are helping farmers shift from the fields to indoor food-growing operations. But these innovations still don’t make it easy.

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The Race to Hide Your Voice

Voice recognition—and data collection—have boomed in recent years. Researchers are figuring out how to protect your privacy.

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Rising Food Prices Will Make Obesity Rates Worse, Not Better

When faced with food insecurity, studies show that people gravitate toward cheap, energy-dense meals that are bad for their health.

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How the Kremlin Infiltrated Russia’s Facebook

VKontakte was created to empower free speech, but it has instead enabled government censorship and arrests.

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Tension Inside Google Over a Fired AI Researcher’s Conduct

Google employees claim a senior researcher fired earlier this year sought to undermine two more junior AI researchers by suggesting their results were wrong or even falsified.

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How Ants Inspired a New Way to Measure Snow With Space Lasers

Photons wander through snow like ants through a nest. That inspired a clever new NASA technique for measuring the fluffy stuff from orbit.

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You Need to Update iOS, Chrome, Windows, and Zoom ASAP

Plus: Google patches 36 Android vulnerabilities, Cisco fixes three high-severity issues, and VMWare closes two “serious” flaws.

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‘Thinkwashing’ Keeps People From Taking Action in Times of Crisis

When it comes to issues like climate change, too many let the perfect become the enemy of the good, while the world burns.

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The Multifarious Multiplexity of Taika Waititi

He makes big movies and little movies, funny movies and sad movies—but mostly big-little funny-sad movies. Waititi is a bundle of contradictions.

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This Startup Wants You to Eat Ground-Up Chicken Bones

A Finnish company says it has found a way to incorporate bone into ground chicken, lowering the production cost and environmental impact of the meat. But will anyone eat it?

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This Punk Band Will Definitely Land in Your Spam Folder

It's a tough digital world out there for a musical group called the Viagra Boys.

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How to Fix the US Baby Formula Shortage

Importing formula will provide quick relief, but reforming the program that provides free formula to low-income families would help more in the long term.

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Companies Are Hacking Their Way Around the Chip Shortage

The supply chain issues have no end in sight, so manufacturers are being forced to improvise.

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Good Luck Not Accidentally Hiring a North Korean Scammer

DPRK hackers are tricking their way into jobs with western firms. A US government alert reminds employers they're on the front lines—and potentially on the hook.

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8 Gardening and Plant-Based Video Games for Spring

Test your digital green thumb with farming simulators, cozy growing games, and peculiar indies.

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Let’s Get Our Shit Together—Literally

It's time to build the Poop Ark, a centralized collection of the entire animal kingdom's feces, for research, de-extinction, and more.

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A Father-Son Team Solves a Geometry Problem With Infinite Folds

The result could help researchers answer a larger question about flattening objects from the fourth dimension to the third dimension.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter Plans Would Mean Less Free Speech for Many

The platform has a history of standing up to governments. Its billionaire suitor wants to follow their rules to the letter.

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