Health & Wellness
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The High-Stakes Fight Between Hegseth and Anthropic
[ad_1] Humanity’s real problem, the great biologist Edward O. Wilson once remarked, is that “we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.” There is no better proof for this aphorism than the American military’s escalating spat with Anthropic, the creator of the artificial-intelligence model Claude. If the most fervent believers are correct, AI might…
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Ice Dancing on the Factory Floor: SEW’s AGVs Glide with Cisc…
[ad_1] Even though the Olympics have just wrapped up, I still find myself thinking about the grace and precision of ice dancing. That’s probably why this video of German manufacturer SEW’s new factory reminds me so much of the sport. Like skaters, the autonomous guided vehicles (AGVs) gliding through SEW’s plant in Brumath, France needs…
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Gene therapy access is limited by cost and geography : NPR
[ad_1] Dustin Vidrine stands outside his house in Lafayette, La. Annie Flanagan for NPR hide caption toggle caption Annie Flanagan for NPR Dustin Vidrine’s sight is disappearing — shrinking, really. He has retinitis pigmentosa, a rare, inherited eye disease that runs in his family. By the time he was in his 20s, he noticed that…
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How to Support Your Liver (Without Extreme Detoxes)
[ad_1] One of the questions I get all the time is how to do a liver detox. When to do it, how to do it, and what liver cleanse is best. It’s become almost expected in wellness circles that at some point we’ll need to “detox” our liver. Over time, though, I began to question…
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New Study Shows Hobbies Help People Find More Meaning in The…
[ad_1] You can feel it in everyday conversations: the coworker you meet on Monday who’s already counting down to Friday, that friend who cancels plans because they’re “exhausted.”1 There’s no question about it — more and more people are struggling with chronic fatigue and work-related stress. In fact, 6 out of 10 employees in major…
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Today’s Atlantic Trivia Questions and Answers, Week 18
[ad_1] If you put any stock in the ability of IQ tests to assess intelligence, we humans have spent the past century steadily getting smarter. (And if you don’t put any stock in them, well, we humans have steadily gotten better at IQ tests.) Because IQ is a standardized measure, humankind’s average score still sits…
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New AI repos catalog at Cisco DevNet Code Exchange
[ad_1] Now you can discover MCP servers and AI Agents related to Cisco technologies https://developer.cisco.com/codeexchange/ai/. In Code Exchange, with thousands of code repositories, you can find examples created and maintained by Cisco engineering teams, community contributors, and individual developers. As of now, two official MCP servers are available: Splunk and ThousandEyes, as well as community-building…
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A safe space for girls who’ve faced sexual violence : NPR
[ad_1] “Let’s listen to one another.” That’s what the word toyokana means in Lingala, a local language in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the Toyokana Center in the capital city of Kinshasa, listening is their mission. It’s a facility for girls to come to be treated after sexual assault — and also to be…
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How to Build a Nervous System–Friendly Home
[ad_1] Ever come home after a long, stressful day and felt even more stressed once you stepped inside? Or if you’ve been at home all day with the kids and the mess and the noise has you wanting to pull your hair out? Our homes can be a welcoming, safe space, or they can add…