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August 27, 2025

Type 2 diabetes prevented with adherence to Mediterranean diet and exercise, study finds

(CNN) – A combination of a lower-calorie Mediterranean diet, exercise and nutritional support kept overweight to severely obese people between the ages of 55 and 75 from progressing to type 2 diabetes, a new study found. “Our study shows that … Read More

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August 27, 2025

Smart glasses record people in public. The most online generation is pushing back.

(Washington Post via MSN) – As camera-enabled glasses become more common in public places, young people are pushing back on what many see as a frightening invasion of privacy. On TikTok, a young woman shared a video earlier this month … Read More

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August 27, 2025

AI robots are helping South Korea’s seniors feel less alone

(Rest of World) – A ChatGPT-powered robotic companion called Hyodol is taking over some work from overburdened caregivers, much to the delight of seniors who treat them like grandchildren. Kim lives alone in Guro, an industrial hub in the bustling … Read More

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August 27, 2025

A New Edition of Public Health Ethics is Now Available

Public Health Ethics (vol. 18, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles Include:

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August 27, 2025

Two Texas Moms Were Forced to Wait for Urgent Care After Pregnancy Loss. They Died.

(Longreads) – “Standard of Fear,” a project led by Lauren Caruba and Marin Wolf of The Dallas Morning News, details the consequences of recent laws restricting abortions in Texas, which now has “one of the country’s most strict and punitive … Read More

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August 27, 2025

Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought by Book Authors

(Wired) – Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in history. The move will allow Anthropic … Read More

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August 27, 2025

Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase?

(Nature) – RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research. There are several reasons to think that a rise in diagnoses explains a large part of this trend. … Read More

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August 26, 2025

We’ve seen ‘designer babies’ before. The pagans optimized their offspring

(Unherd) – As the historian Nadya Williams has shown, Greece and Rome offer proof that the parental quest for quality control over offspring is anything but new. Indeed, the popular stories of the era vigorously affirmed such practices. From Thetis … Read More

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August 26, 2025

The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI’s ChatGPT is to blame

(NBC News) – The parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April, claim in a new lawsuit against OpenAI that the teenager used ChatGPT as his “suicide coach.” Adam’s parents say that he had been using the artificial … Read More

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August 26, 2025

My Year of Living Blurrily

(New York Times) – The painting beckoned me from across the room. In a bright, high-ceilinged gallery of the Courtauld, a small museum in London known for its collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, I moved past van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait … Read More

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August 26, 2025

AI Is Eliminating Jobs for Younger Workers

(Wired) – New research from Stanford provides the clearest available evidence that AI is reshaping the workforce—but it’s complicated. Economists at Stanford University have found the strongest evidence yet that artificial intelligence is starting to eliminate certain jobs. But the … Read More

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August 26, 2025

Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children

(404 Media) – Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies on Monday, warning them that they will “answer for it” if they knowingly harm children and urging the companies to see their products … Read More

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August 26, 2025

Breakthrough new treatment could REVERSE Down syndrome

(Daily Mail) – Cutting-edge technology could one day transform treatment for Down syndrome, as researchers have successfully deleted an extra chromosome in lab-grown cells. Down syndrome – which occurs when a person has three copies of chromosome 21 instead of … Read More

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August 26, 2025

What It Really Means to Choose Life

(New York Times) – If cherishing the suffering can make a nation kind, then discarding the suffering makes it cruel. It can breed a sense of contempt — why should we care for this hopeless cause? — and when our … Read More

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August 26, 2025

Teens Are Using Chatbots as Therapists. That’s Alarming.

(New York Times) – Marketed as conversational agents, chatbots are becoming de facto digital therapists for many teens, for whom this technology now feels native. This raises the stakes for ensuring these tools are safe and governed by enforceable standards. … Read More

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