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A magic pill or a mass experiment?
Natasha Yates | June 30, 2024The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it – sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society’s dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies.
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Reverse the polarity
Mark Taylor | June 30, 2024British science fiction institution Doctor Who has undergone many changes over its 60+ years, but the latest incarnation of the time traveling enigma has split fandom down the middle.
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A handful of seashells
Amelia Anderson | June 30, 2024Along with the births, weddings and funerals, it’s the little moments that make up a life, the ones only you notice, the ones which stay with you a while.
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Speak free or die
Mark Taylor | June 29, 2024Free speech is not merely about the right to speak; it is about the right to think. It is about the fundamental human dignity that comes from being treated as a rational agent capable of processing information and forming one’s own conclusions. To deny this right is to deny our very humanity.
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Safe havens for wildlife
Open Forum | June 29, 2024In a groundbreaking new article, a coalition of conservationists and researchers have shown how we can protect Earth’s remaining biodiversity by conserving just a tiny percentage of the planet’s surface.
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Trade rules should encompass digital trade
John Denton | June 28, 2024The shift to digital technology calls for the movement of data and information across borders, with all stakeholders depending on seamless and uninterrupted information flows across companies and countries.
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Flat Earth society
Anders Furze | June 28, 2024Although every piece of evidence says the Earth is a sphere orbiting the Sun, there are still some people who think our planet is flat, and they all have YouTube channels.
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Rolling back ransomware
Erza Aminanto | June 28, 2024Criminals around the world use malicious software to lock access to a victim’s data and demand a ransom for its recovery, so what can we do to protect ourselves?
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Beyond the hype
Ridoan Karim | June 27, 2024Is AI development is on an unstoppable exponential trajectory that we humans can’t control, or is the technology stagnating as its insatiable hunger for power and training data outstrips its commercial potential.
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What the experts say…on pharmacy vapes
Open Forum | June 27, 2024Vapes will only be sold over the counter in pharmacies after the government agreed to amend its vaping legislation to secure the support of the Greens. What do the experts say?
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We must defend Taiwan
Asha Clark | June 27, 2024A clear commitment by the West to defend Ukraine would have spared Europe three years of war, and its time for a similar pledge to protect Taiwan from China’s imperial ambitions and deter a war in the Pacific.
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Fighting disease with AI
Open Forum | June 27, 2024Fully automated diagnostic techniques, including liquid handling robots, are poised to improve the lives of millions of people living with inflammatory diseases around the world.
