In April 1945, US soldiers found a train near Magdeburg holding about 2,500 Holocaust prisoners. For decades, most never learned who they had saved that day.
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Tipping Culture Is Out of Control? Tip Guilt Isn’t Generosity
Tipping culture feels out of control because the screen turns toward you and waits. Here is why pressure tipping isn’t generosity, and how to tip without guilt.
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Autism Life Expectancy: A 14-Year Gap, Much of It Avoidable
Autism life expectancy was 64.9 years in a new study of 2 million people, nearly 14 years under the US average. Much of the gap has causes we can prevent.
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What Is a Third Place? Why Life Feels Like Two Rooms
What is a third place? Ray Oldenburg’s 1989 definition turns on two words most people read past – and they explain why inviting friends over never fixes it.
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Teach You a Lesson: Why the World Wants Revenge Right Now
Teach You a Lesson topped Netflix’s non-English chart for four straight weeks. The reason 60 million of us watched a revenge squad is not what you’d think.
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Labor Share of Income Hits a Record Low — and It Isn’t AI Yet
Labor share of income fell to its lowest level since 1947 while profits hit a record. Here is what the economist who flagged the gap says is really behind it.
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WiFi Can Now Identify You — No Camera, No Phone Needed
Researchers showed ordinary WiFi can identify you with almost perfect accuracy — no camera, no phone in your pocket. Here is how it works, and what it misses.
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Compassion Fatigue Has No Official Name. That’s the Problem
Compassion fatigue is not a diagnosis, and the one official label that exists leaves most carers out. Here is what it actually is – and what genuinely helps.
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The Meta Settlement Isn’t Really About Screen Time
The Meta settlement asks for time limits. But two of its quietest changes have nothing to do with time at all — and they point at something much older.
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Mechanical Turk Is Closing. It Was Never a Machine.
Amazon’s Mechanical Turk closes September 30 after 21 years. It was named for a chess machine with a person hidden inside, and it worked exactly the same way.