Online ‘brainrot’ isn’t ruining children’s minds – it’s a new way of navigating the modern internet theconversation.com/online-brain...

The ‘Mind’ diet is good for cognitive health – here’s what foods you should put on your plate theconversation.com/the-mind-die...

Donald Trump and the Republican Party know that they are likely to be voted out of power in November 2026. The tools they are counting on to prevent this are the same ones being deployed by the largest technology companies: big data sets and vast computing power.

This divorced adulterer who covets other men's wives, constantly bears false witness, steals (elections), kills (fishermen), and plays golf every sabbath has obviously never opened a Bible. But, in fairness, he's never opened any other book either.

This is important www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

Trump 2.0’s second year may be even worse than the first. So, what can you do? Here are the 10 most important actions you can take in 2026. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-can-do-in-2026

Russia conducted a false-flag attack on Putin's residence and forgot the "flag" part. The CIA confirms that Putin is lying and Russia is full of sh*t.

Put down your phone and engage in boredom – how philosophy can help with digital overload theconversation.com/put-down-you...

What do trees remember? theconversation.com/what-do-tree...

The evolution of digital nomadism: from hi-tech hacker spaces to crypto coworking theconversation.com/the-evolutio...

This should be the first thing Trump is impeached for. Easy to prove and easy for the public to understand.

Huge online scam operations are flourishing in war-torn Myanmar – I travelled there to find out why theconversation.com/huge-online-...

How Hannah Arendt can help us understand this new age of far-right populism theconversation.com/how-hannah-a...

What the world can learn from Uruguay as the global housing crisis deepens theconversation.com/what-the-wor...

I've now watched the censored 60 Minutes report on CECOT. If you watched it too—and if you have any decency at all—I'm sure you came to the same conclusion I did: winning elections won't be enough; people like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem will need to be charged and imprisoned.

Why so many young people in China are hugging trees theconversation.com/why-so-many-...

The cost of chocolate is soaring, but blaming cocoa prices doesn’t give the whole picture theconversation.com/the-cost-of-...

The enduring power of journalism in a world of more media and less freedom theconversation.com/the-enduring...

Meet today’s hunt saboteurs – ‘doctors, teachers, even farmers’ working with police to bring illegal fox hunts to justice theconversation.com/meet-todays-...

Imran Khan’s Sons Tell Mehdi Their Father Is Being Tortured in Solitary Confinement open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Can ‘miracle’ heaters really warm your home for pennies? The physics says no theconversation.com/can-miracle-...

⌛🚨⌛🚨⌛ Release the Files‼️ The final days of the longest countdown 🎉 #epstein #resist #nokings #releasethefiles #maxwell #vote #elections

UK to re-join Erasmus+ – here are six benefits of the European exchange scheme theconversation.com/uk-to-re-joi...

How family gatherings unlock forgotten childhood memories that help us understand who we really are theconversation.com/how-family-g...

Rob Reiner on Christian nationalism

Slop, vibe coding and glazing: AI dominates 2025’s words of the year theconversation.com/slop-vibe-co...

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd... Keir Starmer facing questions from senior MPs on his record as prime minister - live updates - BBC News

David Lammy is one of the best £102,640 worth of blood-soaked investments made by UK Israeli operatives

Reform’s Danny Kruger said David Lammy “should go home to the Caribbean” & wasn’t suspended Sarah Porchin said it "drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people full of Asian people" & wasn’t Laura Anne Jones their only Senedd member said “Chinki” & wasn’t #Racism hiding in plain sight

Polar bears are adapting to climate change at a genetic level – and it could help them avoid extinction theconversation.com/polar-bears-...

ADHD: girls’ symptoms are often missed in school because they don’t fit stereotypes – new research theconversation.com/adhd-girls-s...

Conspiracy theorist Mike Benz will start looking for proof of non-existent plots at USAID. He won't find any. What then? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The dude who has worn the same "OCCUPY MARS" t-shirt 3,708 times is complaining that our sense of fashion has calcified.

"While many prominent athletes, including LeBron James and Stephen Curry, criticized the Trump administration during its first term, fewer have done so during its second. 'I feel like I’m sometimes screaming into the void,' Martina Navratilova said."

"I will not be quiet. Not speaking out — it equals resignation." Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:

In a HUGE win for federal workers, our essential services, and working people across the country, the bipartisan Protect America’s Workforce Act has passed the House! The fight continues in the Senate. When we fight, we WIN!

Q: At the end of this year, those extended Obamacare subsidies expire. What's your message to those 24m Americans who will see their premiums go up? TRUMP: Don't make it sound so bad. Obviously you're a sycophant for Democrats. You're obviously a provider of bad news for Republicans.

What looks like ‘overdiagnosis’ is really a system struggling to provide continuous care theconversation.com/what-looks-l...

I’ve worked in public libraries for 20 years, today was the first time we’ve had to tell someone they couldn’t bring their chainsaw in the library.

“The guy who bedazzled this room in gold thinks your child has too many pencils.” - Jimmy Kimmel

Trump’s disastrous admissions in this interview reveal again that he is profoundly, catastrophically unfit to be making any of these decisions. trib.al/uK0NyGF

A reminder that before the Trump admin/RFK took over this year, the U.S. had officially declared measles eliminated in 2000.

Oh right

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

Thinking of that time when my dad, himself a doctor, was thrown by a horse on a trail ride. Punctured his spleen, internal bleeding, got him to an ER just in time. He lived another 20 years. With two hours delay, probably wouldn't have. We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.

You know, if Sarwar and his party object to Offord and his filthy ilk then they could, as they have been promising to do for over 100 years, abolish the House of Lords. Instead of packing it with their cronies and electoral failures too. Wankers.

Nnena Kalu has won the 2025 Turner prize – working with her has inspired my work and academic research theconversation.com/nnena-kalu-h...

How misinformation may be fuelling teen vaping theconversation.com/how-misinfor...