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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The use of fact-checking services spikes during major news events. Fortunately, the fact checkers have generally agreed in their assessments of whether news claims are true or false, according to researchers from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST). In their work, which is published in…

Most of us still call them UFOs – unidentified flying objects. NASA recently adopted the term “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP. Either way, every few years popular claims resurface that these things are not of our world, or that the U.S. government has some stored away.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter KillerI’m a sociologist who focuses on the interplay between individuals and groups, especially concerning shared beliefs and misconceptions. As for why UFOs and their alleged occupants…

The left image shows bottom-up diffusion, in which information spreads from person to person. The right shows top-down, in which information spreads from one authority. Credit: Barry Markovsky Most of us still call them UFOs—unidentified flying objects. NASA recently adopted the term "unidentified anomalous phenomena," or UAP. Either way, every few years popular claims resurface that these things are not of our world, or that…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As consumers, we are becoming more communal. Among other products we now share with strangers are shampoo and body wash in containers affixed to hotel suite showers as well as hand sanitizers in public dispensers at gyms, campuses, libraries, and other facilities. The benefits are several: hotels…

A large study covering 37 years from start to finish has revealed something about those who tend to stay up late: These night owls are more likely to die at a younger age, but due to smoking and drinking-related causes rather than how late they go to bed.Data on 22,976 Finnish adult twins were analyzed for the study, with 42.9 percent identifying as "somewhat evening types" or "evening types". Technically, this is our chronotype – our tendency to want to sleep or be active at certain times.Previous studies have suggested…

The study suggests that local inequality is associated with increased generosity among rich people in both places, which is contrary to findings at more aggregated geographical levels, pointing to contrasting implications of inequality at different spatial levels. Credit: Alexander Grey, Unsplash, CC0 (creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Rich individuals living in communities with greater levels of economic inequality…

Emily Blunt Reveals She Is Very Hard To Offend ( Photo Credit – Bang Showbiz ) Emily Blunt has admitted she sometimes forgives people “too quickly”. The 40-year-old star has admitted she is “hard to offend”, which has made her an ideal cast member for directors or fellow actors looking to avoid on set drama, and she has learned to “let things go”. Emily Blunt told Candis magazine: “It’s really hard to offend me. Emily Blunt further added, “I’m not somebody who likes to dwell on things or stew and stay angry – I just…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Faced with a growing number of options for where to enroll their children in school, parents quickly narrow their choices based on their own educational experience as students. That's what we found for a study published in March 2023 in Social Currents. Historically, parents have turned to their…

Out of Print carries “short fiction with a connection to the Indian subcontinent”. A number of writers who appeared in the magazine have gone on to publish well received books. What do you look for in stories sent to you? PREMIUM Indira Chandrasekhar, founding editor, Out of Print (Courtesy the subject) We have seen some remarkable successes – Tanuj Solanki, Tashan Mehta, Nisha Susan, for example. I like to think we have played a part in their development – both by providing a platform and by investing in their…

Master of musicals and EGOT winner Andrew Lloyd Webber revealed over the weekend that his son Nicholas Lloyd Webber, 43, has been hospitalized after battling stomach cancer for more than a year.The 74-year-old composer behind the smash Broadway musicals “Cats,” “Evita” and “The Phantom of the Opera” said that he is “absolutely devastated” to say that his eldest son is “critically ill,” according to a statement obtained Saturday by Playbill.“As my friends and family know, he has been fighting gastric cancer for the last 18…