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Britain Unveils Sweeping Ban On Social Media For Under-16s

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from NBC News: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a sweeping ban on social media use for those under 16, joining other countries around the world seeking to protect children online. “It’s a big step for our country,” Starmer said in a recorded video message released Monday. “Social media is making our children unhappy and unsafe,...

How Does One Brain Speak Two Languages?

Yesterday at 19:45 PM, via New York Times

A new study of bilingual speakers suggests that a single “grammatical engine” in the brain can power multiple languages at once.

Jazz Icon Abdullah Ibrahim dies

Yesterday at 19:25 PM, via The South African

91-year-old Cape Town-born jazz icon Abdullah Ibrahim was famous for songs like ‘Mannenburg’.

Raphaël Dubois knew why we walk anticlockwise | Letters

Yesterday at 19:17 PM, via The Guardian

Readers respond to an report on experiments that have shown a left-turn bias among humans

It is not quite true to say that no one knows why people prefer to turn left and walk anticlockwise (Report, 10 June). Research by the French professor of physiology Raphaël Dubois in the 19th century revealed the existence of a phenomenon in the natural world that he called the “antikinetic gyratory...

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