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Adults who take the same walk at the same time every evening may not be creatures of rigid habit; they may have found that repetition in the body can help the mind finally set something down

A 25-year Northwestern study of people over 80 with memory as sharp as adults decades younger found that diet and exercise habits varied widely among them, but strong social connection was the one trait they consistently shared

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Venezuela's earthquake response was not built by the state or the UN — it was assembled in three hours by diaspora coders with Claude and Replit, and that inversion is the real story

Diaspora coders assemble Venezuela earthquake response in 3 hours with AI tools

The American dream can be put in a number, and that number has halved: 9 in 10 children born in 1940 grew up to out-earn their parents; for those born in the 1980s it is now about 1 in 2

Intergenerational economic mobility in the U.S. has dropped significantly, with only half of those born in the 1980s out-earning their parents.

Nearly a million wallets have lost $3.8 billion on Trump's memecoin while the president cleared $636 million — and the SEC has formally declared the whole arrangement outside its jurisdiction

In 2010, a Brigham Young University psychologist named Julianne Holt-Lunstad analyzed 148 separate studies of 300,000 people to compare the mortality risks of various lifestyle factors — and found that chronic loneliness increases a person's risk of dying

Research indicates that chronic loneliness increases mortality risk, while strong social connections are linked to longer lifespans.

We assume tech clusters form around talent, but the AI boom is increasingly chasing cheap power — how Northern Virginia, Iowa and Ireland became data-centre capitals

The AI boom is shifting the geography of tech clusters as companies prioritize access to cheap power over traditional talent hubs.

People who fall asleep with the television on aren't lazy or undisciplined — many learned in childhood that voices in another room meant the house was safe, and the nervous system still reads the equation the same way decades later