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Gaslighting was the most-read psychology topic on Wikipedia, but PubMed lists just 98 papers on it in a decade
Comparing Wikipedia views with PubMed paper counts for 27 psychology topics from 2016 to 2025, gaslighting drew 27.9 million views but only 98 research papers, while burnout had 23,541 papers and 1.9 million views.
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Trypophobia was Wikipedia’s most-read phobia of the past decade, with 16.2 million views
Our count of 10 years of Wikipedia pageviews across 36 phobia articles puts trypophobia first with 16.2 million views from 2016 to 2025, though agoraphobia has drawn more readers since 2025.
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Climate change, not human overhunting, likely wiped out North America’s largest animals
A study in Nature Communications finds that populations of mammoths and other giant mammals in North America tracked shifts in climate, rather than the spread of human hunters.
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Dutch IKEA store apologizes for yellow stickers on customers without a mask
IKEA in Delft dropped a voluntary yellow sticker for shoppers who could not wear a face mask after people online compared it to the yellow star of the Second World War.
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Dog personality changes as dogs age, but in predictable ways
A Michigan State University study of more than 1,600 dogs found that canine personalities shift over a lifetime, much as human personalities do, and that owners play a part.
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Booking.com gave its CFO a 20 million euro bonus after taking 100 million euros in aid
Booking.com changed its pay rules so that its finance chief could receive about 20 million euros for 2020, a year in which it took pandemic support, and later repaid the Dutch wage aid after a public outcry.
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Cannabis use both helps and hurts entrepreneurial creativity, study finds
Entrepreneurs who use cannabis came up with more original business ideas, but those ideas were also judged less feasible, according to a Washington State University study.
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8 Ahrefs Rank Tracker alternatives for precise ranking monitoring
Eight well known rank tracking tools that can stand in for Ahrefs Rank Tracker, and what to look for when choosing one.
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5 honest takes on Character.AI
Our editorial assessment of Character.AI, the chatbot platform built around AI characters, from its creative appeal to its emotional risks.
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Your Free Yearly Horoscope: A Guide for Every Sign
A yearly horoscope offers a big picture view of the months ahead. Here is how to read one, plus a short general theme for each zodiac sign.