A recent New Yorker article, “Is Cognitive Dissonance Actually a Thing?”, strongly implies that the answer to that question is “No.” The article arrived at this answer by considering a 1956 ...

In 1876, in an office on Manhattan's Nassau Street, with a mighty staff of three, the first legal aid organization dedicated to defending low-income people in the United States was born. Within its ...

Anthropic's Claude chatbot has been updated with support for inline visual content that will help it provide clearer answers. Claude can now create custom visuals like charts, graphs, and diagrams.

A discussion on how turn-earning at ski areas presents a unique setting, and a complicated psychological landscape, for the human-powered skier. Our skis skidded and chattered as we descended each ...

The state filed the changes the day before a legal hearing with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Amy Pinter chants along with about 30 fellow supporters with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation outside of ...

A year after the Trump administration began the dismantlement of USAID, it is initiating a new round of significant cuts to foreign assistance. This time, programs that survived the initial purge ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Wednesday, 25 children with severe visual impairment were given high-tech vision aids and taught how to use them from the non-profit “Sight Savers America.” Some of the devices ...

Rabah Arezki is director of research in economics at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Clermont-Ferrand, France. The collision of two trends should concern us all more: the ...

Last summer, the Dalai Lama was having a party in Dharamshala for his 90th birthday, and Bethany Morrison, a newly appointed State Department official, was eager to meet with him there. Inconveniently ...

WASHINGTON — Seven months after the Trump administration shut down the US Agency for International Development, foreign aid is more efficient, effective and America First than ever, according to a ...