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2026-08-24 @ 11.29.44 ∈ In English

The rise of electoral democracy
How elections spread, voting rights expanded, and political competition developed around the world over the last two centuries.
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2026-08-18 @ 12.37.37 ∈ In English

Why Do Men and Women Walk Differently?
[New study] suggests that the male pelvis evolved a natural shock-absorbing mechanism that may make long-distance walking more efficient. […] Neandertal pelvises were found to resemble those of modern human females in most measurements and proportions rather than those of modern human males.
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2026-08-15 @ 20.18.59 ∈ In English

How Anthropic plans to watermark Claude's AI-generated text
When watermarking is used, choices are still made at random, but the source of the randomness is different. Instead of using an arbitrary random number generator to pick the next word, watermaking uses [a] key and a few words that come before to settle what word the model should pick.
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2026-08-11 @ 11.10.11 ∈ In English

138 million children are in child labor. What does this actually mean?
According to a UN report published last year, there are 138 million children in child labor. In this article, we look at what this estimate exactly captures.
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2026-06-16 @ 15.41.03 ∈ In English

Experts probe 'shock' arrival of mosquito virus in Scotland
In April, UK authorities said that Usutu virus had been identified in blackbirds in Scotland for the first time. Despite climate change pushing temperatures higher, scientists still thought it was too cool in Scotland for Usutu to thrive.
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2026-06-15 @ 12.52.23 ∈ In English

Research reveals how parenting styles influence children's honesty
The studies suggest this is not out of defiance, but rather a way for children to cope with self-criticism, the pressure to perform and the fear of making mistakes.
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2026-06-14 @ 15.50.32 ∈ In English

Dragonfly and damselfly migrations crisscross planet, with 100 species confirmed
[Only] 1.5% of all dragonfly and damselfly species migrate (or 2.9% including possible migrants)—but the migrations can include millions of individuals, and some travel thousands of kilometers.
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2026-06-10 @ 18.13.40 ∈ In English

People have an inherent preference for counterclockwise motion, study reveals
[The vast majority of people studied preferred counterclockwise turning. Culture or gender made little difference.] Only age showed a noticeable but small change, in that younger people followed this pattern more strongly.
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2026-06-10 @ 12.08.07 ∈ In English

Gleam-glum effect reveals emotional word cues in children as young as five
Overwhelmingly, study participants paired the made-up words with "ee" sounds with the pictures showing happy animals, and the made-up words with "uh" sounds with the pictures showing unhappy animals.