Every day there are more and more headlines about artificial intelligence (AI) AI and its impact on life, the world and the future. The latest one is a good one, which is AI is creating more jobs than replacing them! This comes from the World Economic Forum, whose latest report forecasts that, over the next five … Read more
Ars Technica has reached out to the NIH and HHS for comment and will update this story with any new information provided. The agencies did not respond to comment requests from KFF. Kennedy’s misinformation Before becoming the top health official in America, Kennedy had long railed against vaccines, becoming one of the world’s most prominent … Read more
Immigration has been the central issue in Germany’s 2025 federal election campaign. Kristina Bakkær Simonsen and Tobias Widmann demonstrate how this debate has increasingly been framed in moral terms and examine what this framing means for how citizens engage with political issues and with one another. This Sunday, Germany will go to the polls in … Read more
What caught my eye this week. While the world potentially inched closer to World War 3 this week, Bitcoin fans had a more exciting horizon in mind. One where their love-hate digital asset finally boasted a six-figure price tag. Some $133m spent in election lobbying says Donald Trump will be a crypto-friendly president. Bitcoin was … Read more
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is routinely quoted as an indicator of whether things are getting better or worse within a society. Yet as Fabio Battaglia explains, it does a spectacularly poor job of measuring our actual wellbeing. Have you ever used Wikipedia? Chances are you probably have. But did you know that every time you … Read more