Joanna Black

An Indigenous approach shows how changing the clocks for daylight saving time runs counter to human nature – and nature itself While the rest of nature rises and slumbers to lunar and solar cycles, humans work and sleep to the resetting of their artificial clocks.

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Inside Mongolia’s ‘Mars camp’: The extreme adventure that wants to turn tourists into astronauts | CNN For adventurers who’ve checked off Earth’s extremes, a new frontier offers an opportunity to be part of history.

Mars Experience being developed for tourists in Mongolia

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AI Rewrote Its Code When I Asked About Human Nature AI claims to explain human nature through psychology but reproduces Western bias. Here's how I exposed the system's hierarchical programming.

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Japan seeks to end living expenses aid to foreign doctoral students Japan's education ministry plans to restrict living expenses support for doctoral students to Japanese nationals only, a panel proposal showed Thursday after parliamentary debate over foreign students accounting for over a third of recipients of the public grants. The plan to abolish foreigners' access to living subsidies of 1.8 million…

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YouTube video by Asian Boss Why 99% of Small Businesses in Japan Could Be Wiped Out

This is so discouraging - many SME in Japan may be closed soon even if they are profitable

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Microsoft’s AI Starts Reading All Your WhatsApp, Signal Messages Be very careful what you send — here’s why.

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YouTube video by Times Of India Singapore PM Wong ROARS At Trump Tariffs, Shockwaves In U.S. & Europe ; 'Not Scared Of...'

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NIH freezes funds to Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them Move follows broader White House attack on Harvard funding and stop-work orders to contractors

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YouTube video by NowThis Impact O’Donnell’s Take: What Really Happened at the Trump-Musk Press Conference

"Delivering a picture of presidential subservience the likes of which we have never seen."
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Watch tense Oval Office argument between Zelensky, Trump and Vance | CNN Politics President Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky devolved into a shouting match, with the US president telling Ukraine’s leader “make a deal or we’re out” durin...

Meanwhile in the US

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Prime Minister of #Denmark #MetteFrederiksen speaks at the #SupportUkraine Summit in #Ukraine today. #SlavaUkraini #fyp #CanadianResisters #Europe #denmark🇩🇰 TikTok video by Canadian Resisters

Powerful speech from the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, at the the 'Support Ukraine' summit, marking the third anniversary of the Russian invasion, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 24, 2025.

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New study identifies differences between human and AI-generated text A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers set out to see how accurately large language models (LLMs) can match the style of text written by humans. Their findings were recently published in the...

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Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying The secret order would give the UK access to encrypted backups belonging to any user — not just Brits.

Meanwhile, the UK wants access to your encrypted data with Apple, no matter what country you are a citizen of

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Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.

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DeepSeek’s Popular AI App Is Explicitly Sending US Data to China Amid ongoing fears over TikTok, Chinese generative AI platform DeepSeek says it’s sending heaps of US user data straight to its home country, potentially setting the stage for greater scrutiny.

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