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Alex Pearlman shut the door on dreams of a standup comedy career almost a decade ago, pivoting from the stage to an office cubicle where he worked a customer service job.Then he started posting random jokes and commentary about pop culture and politics on TikTok. Just over 2.5 million followers later, he quit his nine-to-five and recently booked his first nationwide tour.Pearlman is among the many TikTok creators across the U.S. outraged over a bipartisan bill passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday that would…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A research team from the University of Oxford and the University of Glasgow has found that prepayment cards provided to U.K. asylum seekers by the Home Office are collecting their data and controlling their behaviors in ways that have highly detrimental impacts on their well-being. The research details the…

Empathy is the sensing of another's emotions and ability to imagine how they are feeling, a quality that seems in pretty short supply in large parts of today's world.The good news is, we might be able to spread empathy and compassion through social interaction. That's the conclusion of a new study from an international team of researchers which conducted four separate experiments designed to measure shifts in empathy based on the actions of more than 50 volunteers.Assessments of the participants showed empathy levels…

Credit: Routledge Co-locating homes on single suburban allotments to create smaller and more socially connected living options could help address the nation's housing crisis, according to a University of South Australia researcher. An architecture researcher from UniSA, Dr. Damian Madigan says a new land definition and co-located infill model he…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a new study published in the Tidsskrift for omsorgsforskning (Journal of Care Research), researchers from the Regional Center for Obesity Research and Innovation (ObeCe) at St. Olavs Hospital and the University of Agder uncovered human rights violations in five assisted living facilities for people with developmental disabilities in Central Norway. …

After a weekend of chaos at OpenAI, the company’s board of directors appointed former Twitch boss Emmett Shear interim CEO late Sunday. It was just the latest in a string of tumultuous changes at the AI company following Friday’s ouster of CEO Sam Altman, and left many wondering what kind of CEO Shear would be, why the board chose him, and how much he would differ from Altman.Shear was one of four co-founders of Justin.tv, launched in 2006. In June 2011, the site moved its gaming content to its new platform Twitch, which…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from University of Arkansas and Northeastern University have published a new Journal of Marketing article that examines social media disengagement—the psychological motivation to distance oneself from a brand on social media. The study is titled "For Shame! Socially Unacceptable Brand…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Scientific research must meet clear ethical guidelines to prevent harm to participants. However, research can also indirectly harm individuals and social groups, for example by shaping social perceptions and inspiring policy. Researchers receive little to no training on how to consider and minimize such harm. …

In the years that followed Billy Valentine’s first brush with fame – when he and his brother John scored a breakthrough with their Reagan-era protest song Money’s Too Tight (To Mention) – the veteran singer made peace with life away from the spotlight. “There were periods when ‘Billy Valentine’ wasn’t needed,” the 73-year-old humbly reflects today, via video call from his home in Los Angeles. “It just wasn’t my time.”But that all changed in 2020, as the pandemic took hold and the US was engulfed by chaos. “On television,…

Credit: IR Stone/Shutterstock It's easy to lose sight of just how accepting the UK now is as a nation. What were once pressing moral concerns have become simple facts of life for much of the public. The UK, in fact, now ranks as one of the most accepting countries internationally, as shown by new data from the World Values Survey. …