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“Brain rot” has been announced as the Oxford word of the year for 2024, amid concerns over endless social media scrolling and mind-numbing content

Merkel, who in her new memoir raises fears for the western democratic order with Donald Trump as US president, has also expressed deep concerns about the outsized role to be played in Trump’s administration by Elon Musk

‘No sign’ of promised fossil fuel transition as emissions hit new high

Ein BDSM-Terminus als "Wort des Jahres"...

open source map of the world, deployable as a single static file on cloud storage

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China posts slowest economic growth in 18 months as optimism fades over stimulus

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street artists such as Stik, Inkie and My Dog Sighs, they say there’s a ton of groundbreaking work available to consume if you open your eyes to i

Jet Rocket was the world's first flight simulator game, the first first-person shooter game, and the first game in which the player made their way through a virtual world (known as an "open world" game)

Clicker games are the product of stripping a game down to nothing but the microtransactions and trading elements, which is likely why the developers of “Banana” don't care if it's bots or humans playing, so long as users are buying and trading content. They're earning about 10% of every sale between players, human or not

Olympic swimmers wear masks as concerns over Covid rise across camps

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Melodies in chart-topping music have become less complex, study finds

Scientists say changes since 1950 could partly be due to new genres such as stadium rock, disco and hip-hop

Women should be at centre of climate policies as they face increased rates of violence and homelessness after disasters, researchers say

I just listened to Wu-Tang Clan’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. As music, it’s good. As art, it’s truly great

How the climate crisis affects our brains
Scientists are just starting to discover how extreme heat and weather is linked to neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s and motor neurone disease – and can even affect babies in the womb. What can we do about it?

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One in three 18- to 24-year-olds now report symptoms indicating they have experienced a common mental health problem, such as depression or anxiety disorder, compared with one in four in 2000.

This figure was not the result of a quick and dirty snapshot poll. It was one result from a three-year research programme by the Resolution Foundation