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Australians say they want to own, not rent, their AI future

Some cautious applause, scepticism, a lot of noise in-between. And at face value, what surprised me was just how clear the majority of Australians appeared to be about what happens next. A national survey of 1,001 Australians we commissioned the day...

‘Narcissist’ bosses often oppose WFH – and of course the reason why is all about them

Research published last month found narcissistic leaders – those with a tendency to be self-centred and entitled – were more likely than others to resist remote work. Why? The study concluded “it interferes with their motivations for power and...

Ozempic has no owner. Not a person, not a family, not a parent company, and the reason why is stranger than the drug itself

If you tried to buy Novo Nordisk today, you couldn’t. That’s not a comment on the price, though the market cap has recently sat somewhere north of half a trillion dollars. It’s a comment on the legal architecture. The...

In 2025 the World Health Organization put a number on loneliness, and it was grim: it now touches about one in six people on...

On 30 June 2025 the WHO Commission on Social Connection reported that about one in six people worldwide are affected by loneliness, and that it is linked to more than 871,000 deaths every year. That works out to roughly...

Local Research Targets Innovation at Intersection of Biotech and Agriculture

Genome British Columbia is funding three research projects aimed at developing technology-forward tools to help farmers protect the region’s fruit and vegetable crops, which export more than $1 billion in products annually. Sally Greenwood, Chief Operating Officer at Genome BC,...

Many people assume those who build powerful AI must grasp how it thinks, but in an important sense they cannot: even a model’s own...

Here is a claim that sounds like it must be wrong: the people who build the most capable AI systems in the world often cannot give a complete, reliable explanation of why a model produced one answer instead of...

Koonkie Captures Capital for Innovation Supporting Ecological Restoration

A biological analytics and software company specializing in large-scale DNA data has garnered federal capital for a special project. Vancouver-based Koonkie works with mining companies, consultants, universities, and even NASA to solve complex data challenges in natural and industrial systems,...

People who keep the same four or five books on their nightstand for years without ever finishing them aren’t disorganised, they’ve built a small...

The books have been there for years. A memoir with a bookmark stalled at page 47. A novel someone gave you three birthdays ago. A collection of essays you keep meaning to finish. Something spiritual you read when you...

We picture loneliness as an old person’s burden, yet a global 2023 survey found this may not be the case: across 142 countries, adults...

There is a mental image most of us reach for without thinking. Loneliness looks like an elderly person in a quiet house, the phone that rarely rings, the empty chair across the table. It is the picture behind a...

In 1901, Greek sponge divers sheltering from a storm off the island of Antikythera stumbled onto a Roman shipwreck and hauled up a corroded...

Elias Stadiatis surfaced off the coast of Antikythera in the spring of 1900 wearing a copper diving helmet and canvas suit, and told his captain he had just seen a heap of rotting corpses on the seabed. The captain,...
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I’m hooked on Peak Design’s new City bags

Integrated BagLev hooks keep Peak Design’s City Line crossbody bag and backpack off the dirty ground. | Photo by...
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