_Center for Artifact Studies_. 2026This concise exploration of group psychology examines how human thinking is deeply shaped by social influence, shared identity, and cultural environments. Although people experience their beliefs as personal and objective, much of what they think and value is formed within groups. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, sociology, and real-world experie…

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(People) – James Daunt added that the chain bookstore may already be selling AI-generated books, “but we’re not really conscious of them” The CEO of Barnes & Noble is defending the sale of AI-written books. James Daunt, the chief executive … Read More

The article provides audiences with inside information on the lives of men. Yet even here, it reinforces the same patriarchal and negative values. This provides audiences with the straightforward sexist message that they should not be heard or seen. The ‘give aways for guys’ is a selection of present ideas for husbands, including function items like road tax licences and ties, but also a light-he…

How has the perception of women and women’s rights evolved over the last century? In the early 20th century, women obtained the right to vote. The women’s suffrage movement fought for the vote using direct action. Other institutions that were challenged included marriage, an idea challenged by the woman’s liberation movement. This conservative ideology limited women’s opportunities. Marriage was …

How does the front cover to the August 1964 edition of Woman encode audience appeal? The aesthetic of the model is pleasant. Her makeup and teeth construct hyperreal version of femininity which is more approachable than a ‘real’ woman A direct mode of address positions the middle aged female audience in a friendly position The model conforms to hegemonic female norms, which will appeal to a conse…

(BMJ) – Canada has become only the second country in the world to approve a generic form of the blockbuster drug Ozempic (semaglutide), made possible after its manufacturer, Novo Nordisk, did not pay a $C250 annual fee. Two generic versions … Read More

(Nature) – The de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences says it has developed a key technology for bringing back extinct birds and rescuing endangered ones: an artificial egg. The device — a 3D-printed lattice shell that protects a transparent silicone membrane — … Read More

Cannes film festival: Sachs’ film about an HIV-positive actor in the homophobic Reagan-era 80s is well-intended, but Malek’s mannered performance is hard to love This film from writer-director Ira Sachs gives us premium-strength, undiluted Rami Malek – but I have to say that his overripe performance and self-conscious mannerisms here are perhaps even more oppressively insistent for being conveyed…

(Nature) – Chinese start-up firms are supercharging their efforts to develop algorithms for brain–computer interfaces that help people to walk and talk. Chinese companies are racing to develop and deploy artificial-intelligence powered brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) that can help people to … Read More

At a meetup's networking session, someone dropped: "the new speech-to-speech feature in Teams is really cool". Microsoft Teams added the interpreter agent with realtime AI-powered speech-to-speech translation during calls. So the natural question: how complicated is building one with AWS ? And what performance does it deliver ? Meanwhile, for PyCon IT 2026, with an inclusivity goal, the plan was …

Your Terraform pipeline is green. The deployment completes without errors. You grab a coffee. Ten minutes later, you test your new Enterprise RAG application. It throws a 403 Forbidden . You open the Azure Portal, check the OpenAI Networking tab, and there it is: your Shared Private Link from AI Search is sitting in Pending . Nobody told Terraform to approve it. Nobody told you it even needed app…

An article circulating this week argues that faculty AI buy-in in higher education is a human factors engineering problem. The framing is correct. The path the piece describes skips the only two steps that matter, and the reason it skips them is structural, not pedagogical. Start with the framework on its own terms. Human factors engineering, as a discipline, is most rigorous in the places where …

We’ve been trying to figure out a real answer to a question that keeps coming up: how do you measure whether someone is actually good at Claude Code, Codex, and the other AI coding tools? Not "do they use them," but how good are they at using AI. The first metric we looked at, like everyone else, was token usage. It’s the only number you can pull out of the box. Anthropic and OpenAI hand you spen…

(USA Today) – As tick activity increases, experts advise taking extra care before spending time outdoors. Emergency room visits for tick bites have reached their highest levels for this time of year since 2017. Several regions of the United States … Read More

Gibson Dunn’s ERISA litigation update summarizes key legal opinions and developments during the past quarter to assist plan sponsors and … The post First Quarter 2026 ERISA Litigation Update appeared first on Gibson Dunn .

I’m taking a quantum field theory (QFT) class and we are now studying quantum electrodynamics (QED). The latest assignment is about computing the cross section of the Bhabha scattering of an ...