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Gifted And Exhausting? It’s Not Always Simple To Love A Brilliant Partner

Their brains are wired differently, and those living with a “High Intellectual Potential” individual can be a daily challenge. Sometimes, intellectual intensity is accompanied by a destabilizing emotional hypersensitivity.

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Cavallo, The Corsican Jewel Turned Playground For The Rich And Infamous

This 120-hectare islet with a notorious reputation, located between Bonifacio and Sardinia, is virtually off-limits to visitors by order of its private owners. While public authorities are seeking to regain control, the courts are now moving to put an end to the situation.

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The Well-Off Refugees Reshaping Uganda’s Housing Market

As well-to-do refugees settle in Kampala’s suburbs, Ugandans say they’re being priced out.

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The Hidden Pipeline Trafficking Women Into Domestic Slavery In Iraq

The Nepali government bars working abroad in Iraq for safety reasons. But more Nepali women are ending up there in abusive domestic work — including some who were trafficked.

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Rediscovering The Lost Art Of Curiosity In A Digital Age

The 21st century has made certain plots implausible. How can fiction manage to recapture suspense and longing?

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The Religion Of Scale, How America’s Evangelicals Measure Faith In Numbers

Why do a few U.S. megachurches boom while most barely survive? A decade of data reveals the secrets — and limits — of evangelical growth.

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The AI Therapy Illusion: Why ChatGPT Can’t Replace A Good Ol’ Shrink

Chatbots weren’t designed for mental health, but they’re increasingly used for therapy. What are the risks and benefits?

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A Backlash In Bangladesh Against Transgender Citizens

With conservatism on the rise, the capital’s third-gender and trans people retreat from public life, erasing the identities they once fought to display.

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Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Empire, Built On The Back Of Farmers’ Debt

Land reforms gave Zimbabweans farms — but contract tobacco deals have handed power to private companies.

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Standing With The People Of Gaza Is True Solidarity — And Maybe Nothing More

The fleet may not open a maritime corridor, and the hunger strike may not end the hunger, but their true strength lies in breaking the psychological isolation, in offering a sense that there is a moral refuge, even if it is materially powerless.

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I Prompt, Therefore I Am? How AI Is Changing Our Critical Thinking

Research, much if it by companies with deep investment in AI, suggests that chatbot interactions alter how users think.

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A Close-Up View Of The Vital Role Of “Trans Mothers” In Colombia

Mother figures don’t always look the same. In the lives of many trans people, that presence comes in the form of a trans mother — a role that is born out of love and chosen care.

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“How Do You Bear Responsibility?” Leo XIV’s Augustinian Colleague On The New Papal Method

Die Zeit speaks with Father Lukas Schmidkunz, who has known Robert Provost for a long time, about the man who has become Pope Leo XIV.

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What Happened In Vigo: A Personal Reckoning With Masculinity, Desire And Consent

In this deeply personal account, journalist Ignacio Pereyra looks back on his journey through desire, fear and what a moment in Vigo some 20 years ago taught him about the silence of masculinity.

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Al-Azhar And Her? How A Fatwa On Gender And Inheritance Threatens The Powerful Islamic Authority

Al-Azhar’s rooting of the idea of ​​unfairness in inheritance division, based on the logic that men deserve twice as much as women, leaves women without full entitlement. One legal scholar is challenging this longstanding edict, and with it the very authority of the venerated Islamic institution.

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An Atheist’s Farewell To The Good Pope

Our Naples-based Dottoré pays a non-religious, albeit emotional tribute to the late pontiff.

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Chrononutrition: The When We Eat May Matter As Much As The What

People who eat at the right times lose weight more easily, sleep better and live longer — according to chrononutrition influencers. But what does science really say? Intermittent fasters, listen up! 

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Can AI Step In To Shield Children from Online Predators?

Researchers in Norway and the U.S. are training artificial intelligence to address cybergrooming. Will it work?

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