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What Motivates Public Sector Workers?
There is a certain type of person who chooses to work for the government. They are not, by and large, drawn by the pay. Nor, in an era of contractor-heavy, cost-cutting public administration, are they seduced by lavish resources. What motivates them, researchers have long…
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How Teenagers Can Protect Themselves From Misinformation
Teenagers now spend much of their waking leisure online: scrolling, sharing, and, at times, stumbling into misinformation, toxicity, and performative feuds. The question for parents and schools is no longer whether adolescents should inhabit the digital world, but how they might…
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English Still Dominates Science, But Its Share Is Shrinking
The lingua franca of global science has long been settled. Walk into any laboratory from Lagos to Lahore, and the journals on the shelf, the posters on the wall, and the grant applications on the desk will almost certainly be written in English. For researchers whose mother…
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Guaranteed Income Helps Artists Avoid Poverty
The starving artist is one of capitalism’s most durable myths — the idea that penury sharpens creativity, that the muse arrives only when the rent is overdue. A new study from researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Indiana University, Appalachian State University,…
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The Implications When Managers Burn Out
Every office has one: a manager whose weary disdain for the job seems to seep into the team like damp through a poorly insulated wall. Colleagues grow listless. Enthusiasm curdles. Somehow, what began as one person’s private disenchantment becomes the shared property of an…
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The Homeless Crave Permanent Housing, But Finances Make It Impossible
Ask someone sleeping rough in Portland, Oregon, what they want, and the answer is almost insultingly obvious. They want a home. Not temporary accommodation hemmed in by curfews and room inspections. Not a shelter bunk shared with strangers in various states of crisis. Just a…
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The AI Benefit That Is Neither Automation Or Innovation
If we were to ponder what AI’s “killer app” was, there might not be a consensus yet, but to most economists, the answer would be automation (to cut costs) and innovation (to produce new ideas). While both of these are important, a recent paper from UC Berkeley suggests that AI’s…
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Is Society Willing And Able To Regulate AI?
The battle to regulate artificial intelligence has always felt a bit like having a pea shooter in a gun fight. The tech industry not only has almost limitless resources to spend on lobbying, but also has access to the finest talent. As a result, it feels like governments around…
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Our Neighborhood May Be Aging Us Prematurely
Where one lives may shape not only one’s prospects, but one’s cells. Researchers at New York University report that neighbourhood conditions are associated with biological ageing, suggesting that disadvantage can become embedded at a molecular level. Their study focuses on…
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Can AI Help Older People Stay Active?
Artificial intelligence can produce behaviour-change messages that older adults broadly deem acceptable. Yet a new study from the University of Michigan suggests that recipients’ attitudes towards the technology—and their awareness of its use—shape how such messages are judged.…
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Parents Lack Confidence That Schools Are On Top Of “Nudification” Apps
Fewer than half of parents believe their children’s schools are equipped to handle the risks posed by “nudification” apps—tools that use artificial intelligence to generate sexualised images. A small survey of 57 parents and caregivers across six London schools found that only…
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Should We Use Emojis At Work?
Office communication has always been a minefield. Now, apparently, it comes with pictograms. A new study by researchers at the University of Ottawa examines how emoji use in workplace instant messages affects the way senders are judged — and finds that the stakes are higher than…
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Is Perfectionism At Work Due To Managers?
Perfectionism, long treated as a personal affliction, may in fact be a managerial one. According to research from the University of Florida Warrington College of Business, the consequences of striving for flawlessness hinge less on an individual’s own standards than on whether…
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Why Do Bosses Reward “Dark Traits”?
Most people, asked to describe their ideal subordinate, would reach for words like “reliable”, “collaborative”, and “trustworthy”. They would not reach for “manipulative”, “callous”, or “selfish”. Yet individuals with precisely those qualities—collectively described by…
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How Traffic Adds To Urban Heat
Urban warming has many culprits: concrete, glass and the steady replacement of greenery with hard surfaces. To this list, scientists at the University of Manchester add a more prosaic contributor—traffic. In a paper that seeks to sharpen how cities’ heat is modelled, the…