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.
Author: Chloe Bird
The anti-Semitic attack on Bondi Beach has given rise to unnecessary controversy at a time when we should be united against this scourge and showing compassion for the victims. The resurgence of anti-Semitism around the world is too serious to be used as a political ploy, especially by the Israeli prime minister
In several Latin American countries, there is renewed interest and advocacy to reactivate bilateral ties with Taiwan, after years of broken political promises and economic contracts.
Fashion is a phenomenon that reaches far beyond clothes, influencing social and cultural behaviors. Is there a way to not be a slave to them?
What explains why 51 years after Pinochet’s coup, Chile has elected someone who is nostalgically fond of dictatorship? The far-right candidate focused on immigration and insecurity, with rhetoric inspired by Trump and Milei.
Europe sends part of its textile surplus to unregulated hubs, sometimes returning it to the same country of origin, tripling emissions in the process.
The United States has seized a Venezuelan oil tanker, attacking the country’s main source of income in an escalation of pressure aimed at bringing down the Maduro regime. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who is in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, supports the U.S.’s pressure tactics. But our Americans ready to revive imperialism?
For several years now, experts from various fields of medicine and psychology have expressed concern about the possibility that children are starting puberty at an earlier age than previous generations. What evidence supports this claim and what are the consequences?
Amnesty International has published a report accusing Hamas of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The report is particularly significant given that the human rights organization had previously accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. It’s a timely reminder that the law applies to everyone.
OpenAI, Nvidia, Microsoft… all caught inside the same investment circle. Here’s why the AI bubble is poised to pop.
Donald Trump has doubled down on his criticism of Europe, calling it “weak” and “ decaying,” and of Ukraine, which he said has no chance because Russia is “bigger.” Why so much hatred?
Knowledge is acquired when students grasp the essential characteristics of the subject being studied and are able to transfer them.
The Israeli army chief of staff has described the separation between the two areas of Gaza as a “new border,” raising fears that the situation will become permanent when it was only supposed to be temporary pending the second phase of the “Trump plan.” But that plan may be destined to go nowhere.
The National Security Strategy, an official document released Friday in Washington, delivers a sharp attack on Europe while echoing far-right themes. It signals a break with the Europe we know, one that threatens support for Ukraine and the continent’s security.
Trump’s interventions seem to correspond less to a conventional impulse toward peacemaking than to an attempt to secure strategic advantages for his country.
The Russian president’s visit to India is significant, indicative of the major moves aimed at redefining the world order — just like Emmanuel Macron’s trip to China.
Threatened with extinction by rising sea levels, the archipelago is building the world’s first floating city to house its population — with a little help from Dutch experts.
Christophe Gleizes’s sentencing on appeal by an Algerian court has sent shockwaves just as all signs pointed to a thaw in relations between Paris and Algiers. The apparent, perhaps temporary, failure of diplomacy has put Paris in an awkward position and reignited the campaign to support the journalist.
The 21st century has made certain plots implausible. How can fiction manage to recapture suspense and longing?
French President Emmanuel Macron has multiple and perhaps conflicting priorities as he lands in China to meet President Xi Jinping.
Donald Trump and Nicolas Maduro spoke on the phone, but the U.S. president gave him an ultimatum to resign and leave the country. The alternative is likely to involve military action, which would disregard international law.
While Vladimir Putin describes Volodymyr Zelensky’s authority as “illegitimate,” the French foreign minister asserts that he has “every right to lead his country toward peace.” The weakened Ukrainian president is in Paris at a decisive moment in the conflict.
As we mark the 50th anniversary of Franco’s death, it is important to remember the private acts of memory and remembrance, especially as far right forces are rising again.
The U.S. president won’t invite South Africa to the next G20 on American soil and is cutting all funding to the country, accusing it of carrying out a genocide against Afrikaners. Official denials have changed nothing — Donald Trump is continuing to pursue South Africa with his absurd vendetta.
Instead of bringing home knickknacks, some travelers choose to collect tattoos — etching their memories into skin rather than stowing them on a shelf. Whether carefully planned or struck by impulse, these journeys suggest that ink itself has become a kind of passport. And sometimes, the whole point of the trip.
Because of her comments that a Chinese attack on Taiwan would constitute an “existential threat” to Japan, the Japanese prime minister has been facing Beijing’s wrath for three weeks. Taiwan is the central issue in East Asian tensions, and Donald Trump has stepped in with characteristic ambivalence.
“Peace won’t be made by failed diplomats or politicians living in a fantasy land” tweeted Vice President Vance to explain why professionals are being dismissed, both on Gaza and Ukraine. The delegitimization of expertise is a major trend of our time.
Choosing a partner from another culture often comes with a fight to make the relationship work. The challenges are unpredictable, and the emotional toll — as well as the effort required — can be immense.
To Kyiv and the Europeans, the American 28-point plan for Ukraine looks like a demand for surrender, but Sunday’s negotiations in Geneva with the Americans attempted to amend it, at the risk of making it unacceptable to the Russians. The Trump method is once again in question.
Venezuela is being held hostage. Rather than outrage, the appearance of a U.S. armada has produced an almost sacrilegious sigh of relief in many. But is even that enough?
A controversial warning from France’s Army Chief of Staff coincides with sabotage in Poland and a divisive Russian-American plan for Ukraine, raising concerns about Europe’s security.
An investigation has been opened into Grok, Elon Musk’s generative AI, after it gave Holocaust-denying answers. The problem comes from the reference data it uses and from differences between Europe and the United States. This raises questions about digital regulation at a time when Europe wants to ease the few rules that currently exist.
In a world of excessive information, genuine and authentic freedom nowadays is not in accessing more, but in knowing what to give up.
An accident in an illegal mine near Kolwezi, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has left at least 70 people dead. It is yet another tragedy in a region where hundreds of thousands of people work with no rules or safety measures, extracting the minerals used in our digital devices. It’s the latest chapter of a recurring story of exploitation.
This isolated Central Asian nation, ruled by a tightly controlled regime and sitting on vast natural gas reserves, is being driven to seek new energy markets as the war in Ukraine reshapes global supply routes.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is expected in Washington on Tuesday, a visit that is preceded by a series of contradictory signals that reflect the kingdom’s current standing with the U.S. president. Every detail of the trip will be closely examined, especially in Israel.
Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart’s 1970s classic How To Read Donald Duck still offers a mirror to today’s politics and media circus — from Uncle Scrooge to Uncle Sam. Its thesis has been both reaffirmed and turned on its head in the Trump era.
Smartphones have transformed the way we go about our lives. Street names, squares — even the very sense of place itself — seem to have vanished.
For declaring that a Chinese attack on Taiwan would be an “existential threat” to Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has been the target of a hostile campaign in China. The Taiwan issue remains explosive, especially given Donald Trump’s ambiguous stance.
Political change in Paris and German mediation led to the release of writer Boualem Sansal in Algiers. A victory for diplomacy over confrontation.