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Our Love-Hate Relationship With AI Is All About How Our Brain Works

Why do some people love using artificial intelligence tools while others feel anxious or suspicious of them? The answer isn’t just about how AI works. It’s about how we work.

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Ideas Society

Hatred As Resistance? The Politics Of Legitimate Emotion

Is it possible to think about hatred in terms that do not reject it outright? Are there groups in society who are allowed to hate and others who are not? These are questions fundamental to today’s politics of resistance.

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Does AI Suffer? Should AI Have Rights? The Culture War Brewing Over Machine Sentience

As artificial intelligence begins to mimic pain and emotion, a new moral frontier is emerging — and society is poised to fracture along deep ideological lines over whether machines deserve rights, empathy, or even love.

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Geopolitics Society

“I’m Still Here” — Brazil’s Oscar Contender Is A Timely Portrait Of The Evils Of Dictatorship

A personal journey through memory, loss, and resilience — reflecting on Eunice Facciolla Paiva’s quiet strength, Marcelo Paiva’s storytelling, and the haunting echoes of dictatorship in today’s world. It’s a rare Oscars Best Picture nominee from Brazil.

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Future Society

Here’s Why Your Smartphone Never Appears In Your Dreams

Despite hours of scrolling, smartphones hardly play a role in our dreams. Yet their absence may actually demonstrate our dependence on them.

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Society

Men, Feelings And Fears: Talking Never Helped Anyone, Right?

Being aware of our own vulnerabilities is not a sign of weakness — it’s what makes us human. But as Ignacio Pereyra writes, reflecting on his own experience as a man and a father, there’s still a fairly long way to go before the “club of men” understands the value of opening up about their fears.

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In The News

Federer And Nadal, Or The Privilege Of Being Celebrated For Crying

The picture of the two tennis stars holding hands and crying has already become iconic. Is there a risk that we are glorifying the gesture of two privileged, heterosexual, white men? Or can it also show a way forward for men to show vulnerability?

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In The News

“Emotional Stripping,” A Pop Idol’s New Path To Exposure

Billie Eilish and Demi Lovato represent a new kind of performance artist for our confessional times.

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Society Terror in Europe

Our Age Of Collective Panic, So Hard To Keep Calm And Carry On

Terrorism and social networks contribute to the exacerbation of a general feeling of fear, as recent incidents in New York and the South of France have shown.

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Geopolitics Ideas Terror in Europe

What To Do With The Emotions Of Paris? A Case For Rage

In the wake of wanton terror, psychology replaces practically everything, from social life to and information. Emotion is now political — and strategic.

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Future Society

Unmasking The Mystery Of Why People Touch Their Faces

Why do our hands wander toward our faces: stroking chins, scratching eyebrows, rubbing noses? German researchers have discovered the neurology and psychology at play.

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