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From the Archives: What really worries many professors isn't AI per se, it's what lies behind students' willingness to cheat: feeling overwhelmed; doubts about their abilities; weak reading and study skills; not valuing assignments; and pressure for perfection.

Research has found that, though open offices often foster a symbolic sense of organizational mission, they are damaging to workers’ attention spans, productivity, and creative thinking. So why does the open-office plan persist?
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The listing for these “stealth mode” dots does not mince words about what they're designed to do: “Block or dim that bright white recording light with these precision-cut vinyl dots.”

At an event commemorating the 200th birthday of the United States, a sitting Supreme Court Justice was invited to celebrate "the memory of the Founders and the document they drafted in Philadelphia."

Justice Thurgood Marshall declined

"I think everybody's lost the ability to think for themselves."

Students - voiced by actors - explain how they use AI to cheat on university exams and assignments, as part of a Newsnight investigation.

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“The world becomes like a torture chamber, and then nobody believes you.”

Millions of people suffer debilitating reactions in the presence of certain scents and chemicals. One scientist has been struggling for decades to understand why—as she battles the condition herself.

Advice | Enabled by institutions, students choose self-indulgence instead of self-denial and self-esteem instead of self-questioning. They do not understand that those choices will eventually cause more unhappiness than the more difficult paths they chose not to walk. chroni.cl/45gqZjk

Movies now relentlessly signpost their meaning and intent. “Artists and audiences sometimes defend this legibility as democratic, a way to reach everyone,” Namwali Serpell writes. “It is, in fact, condescending.”

Opinion: The university's therapeutic approach to, well, everything, is part of how we got in this mess. chroni.cl/3Z8121p

They figured out that people didn’t care about the “art” of NFTs so they just took the clubbiness and applied it to what they call coins. Same useless gambling, no layer of pretense.

The Coinbase hack has heightened concerns about physical safety, as hackers gained access to data that could identify and track down customers with large holdings, making them prime targets for criminals

Portugal is taking online disinformation and fake news seriously. As part of a broader attempt to encourage media literacy, it’s offering 15-18 year olds a free digital subscription to a range of respected newspapers and magazines as well as online upstarts that don’t spread lies. (Monocle)

Column: For all of the pushback from Michigan throughout the Conor Stalions Caper, the school keeps ending up with suspended head coaches. Benching Sherrone Moore for games 3 and 4 this upcoming season seems like one more flippant response. bit.ly/452xd5U