[Other] Whatever Happened to All Those Care Robots? (www.theatlantic.com)
Pepper is a social robot designed to assist and interact with humans, especially in elder care settings. However, despite high hopes, Pepper has struggled to gain widespread adoption in nursing homes and care facilities....
War-Gaming for Democracy (www.theatlantic.com)
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America’s Magical Thinking About Housing: The city of Austin built a lot of homes. Now rent is falling, and some people seem to think that’s a bad thing (www.theatlantic.com)
Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem (www.theatlantic.com)
Without paywall: archive.ph/Vf47N
A Glowing Petunia Could Radicalize Your View of Plants (www.theatlantic.com)
A bioluminescent petunia could help people recognize plants for the complex creatures they are.
Whatever Happened to the Urban Doom Loop? (www.theatlantic.com)
America’s superstar cities have avoided the post-pandemic death spiral—so far, anyway....
America’s Magical Thinking About Housing: The city of Austin built a lot of homes. Now rent is falling, and some people seem to think that’s a bad thing (www.theatlantic.com)
If you want to understand America’s strange relationship with housing in the 21st century, look at Austin, where no matter what happens to prices, someone’s always claiming that the sky is falling....
America’s Magical Thinking About Housing -- The city of Austin built a lot of homes. Now rent is falling, and some people seem to think that’s a bad thing. (www.theatlantic.com)
If you want to understand America’s strange relationship with housing in the 21st century, look at Austin, where no matter what happens to prices, someone’s always claiming that the sky is falling....
DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest (www.theatlantic.com)
People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think....
There Was No Russian Election (www.theatlantic.com)
Vladimir Putin staged an elaborate charade—so why did some western media outlets play along?...
DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest (www.theatlantic.com)
The geneticist Jim Wilson, at the University of Edinburgh, was shocked by the frequency he found in the U.K. Biobank, an anonymized research database: One in 7,000 people, according to his unpublished analysis, was born to parents who were first-degree relatives—a brother and a sister or a parent and a child. “That’s way,...
Are Gen Z Men and Women Actually Drifting Apart Politically? (www.theatlantic.com)
Why So Many Accidental Pregnancies Happen in Your 40s (www.theatlantic.com)
Conceiving after 35 is next to impossible—right?...
Crows Are the New Pigeons (www.theatlantic.com)
The Real Lessons of the Alabama IVF Ruling (www.theatlantic.com)
In fact, the case had essentially nothing to do with abortion. Three families pursuing IVF sued their clinic after another patient apparently wandered into the facility’s freezers without the staff realizing it and picked up a container of embryos. The extreme cold burned that person’s hand, causing them to drop the...
The costs of a phone-based childhood (gifted link) (www.theatlantic.com)
Winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2024 (www.theatlantic.com)
The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood (www.theatlantic.com)
By a variety of measures and in a variety of countries, the members of Generation Z (born in and after 1996) are suffering from anxiety, depression, self-harm, and related disorders at levels higher than any other generation for which we have data.
Donald Trump is a national-security risk - The Atlantic (www.theatlantic.com)
ADHD Is Different for Women (www.theatlantic.com)
Fruit Chaos Is Coming | Climate change is threatening to turn sublime summer stone fruits disgusting, or rob us of their pleasures entirely. (www.theatlantic.com)
The Oceans We Knew Are Already Gone (www.theatlantic.com)
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