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How Teachers Fight Students’ Shortening Attention Spans Shorter Activities, Hands-On Projects, and Meditation

Today at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

The Washington Post reports that some teachers are now implementing “brain breaks” in their classrooms to cope with shorter attention spans, “including limiting screen time; cutting the time students spend on one activity; adding more engaging, hands-on projects; and practicing meditation.”Some teachers say the efforts are helping, at least a little… To engage students, teachers say they often...

Scrolling and worrying: the hidden dangers of DIY diagnosis

Today at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Clients no longer just describe their symptoms, they arrive with screenshots of dense articles, AI chatbot information and the phrase ‘I’ve done my research’

The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work

Ben* sat across from me, explaining how his low motivation, lethargy and trouble sleeping seemed like depression from content he had seen...

Australia is the world’s fourth-largest black truffle producer. Now scientists may have unearthed why

Today at 17:00 PM, via The Guardian

Understanding truffles is a ‘tricky proposition’ because most of the magic occurs underground

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Black truffles aren’t native to Australia, but since the first oaks and hazelnuts were planted in the 1990s, the local industry has flourished, becoming the largest producer outside Europe.

Now, scientists have identified the environmental...

Fans Angry Over Pokemon Go Champion’s Disqualification For Allegedly Shaking the Table

Today at 16:04 PM, via Slashdot

It’s “the curious case of… the Pokémon Go pro who celebrated too hard,” reports the gaming news site Aftermath. It all started on the first weekend in April… Firestar73, a competitive Pokémon Go player who placed seventh at last year’s world championships, managed to narrowly cinch a game-five finals win at the 2026 Pokémon Orlando Regional Championships after battling his way out of the...

Privacy Advocate Accuses US Government of Investing in AI-Powered Mass Surveillance

Today at 13:34 PM, via Slashdot

The Conversation published this warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna (also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences). The U.S. government “is able to purchase Americans’ sensitive data because the information it buys is not subject to the same restrictions as information it collects directly. The...

SpaceX bets the rocket farm on AI

Today at 11:30 AM, via TechCentral

Capital spending at SpaceX more than doubled last year, exceeding revenue and raising fears of further raises.

40 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster, More Countries Are Turning To Nuclear Power

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there’s a revival around the world, a trend that has been given a big boost by war in the Middle East. Over 400 nuclear reactors are operational in 31 countries, while about 70 more...

The remarkable turnaround at Intel

Today at 09:30 AM, via TechCentral

Soaring demand for AI inference workloads has seen Intel selling stockpiled CPUs once written off entirely.

UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres

Today at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zero

One vision of the UK’s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower.

The government departments responsible for these two visions do not appear to have agreed on their numbers.

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The tortoise and the hare: will China beat the US in the race back to the moon?

Today at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

The rival superpowers are ramping up preparations for a crewed lunar landing nearly six decades after the first moon walk

The world watched earlier this month as Nasa sent four astronauts around the moon – but to actually land on the surface the US is once again in a space race, this time with China. And China may well win.

Both countries plan to build inhabited lunar bases – the first...

Scientists believe birds’ skulls hold clues to inner lives of long-extinct dinosaurs

Today at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Early birds were like ‘T rex reincarnated’, says scientist who believes avian skulls offer insight into dinosaurs’ behaviour

T rex is often depicted as more brawn than brains, but now scientists are hoping to probe just what was going on inside its head, drawing on findings from another kind of dinosaur: birds.

Scientists have previously found some species of bird not only make and use tools,...

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