Exclusive: Høeg says she first learned about rumours of her departure through media reports before being told by FDA officials to resign or be terminated.

Engineer Alex Selimov keeps falling into the same trap: bad sleep, too much coffee, podcasts in his ears while he works, then HackerNews on every "break," then up too late because the caffeine and scrolling have him wired. Around 1 or 2 in the afternoon, his head starts hurting, and his motivation evaporates. — Read the rest

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The average human attention span shrank by roughly two-thirds between 2004 and the mid-2010s, with the steepest drop around 2012. That's from UC Irvine researcher Gloria Mark, and it anchors a New York Times op-ed by Cal Newport — Georgetown CS professor and author of _Deep Work_ — arguing that collective cognitive capacity is declining in ways data can now measure. — Read the rest

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The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.

“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…

We were talking about Maya Posch]’s rant on smartphones, “The Curse of the Everything Device”. Maya’s main point is that because the smartphone, or computer, can do everything, it’s hard […read more

The Trump administration’s attacks on journalists have a side effect: further exposing the violence of prisons.

Are all happy classrooms alike? Probably not. But perhaps there’s some qualities common to many of them. In the following guest post, Daniel Story, assistant professor of philosophy at California Polytechnic State University, suggests that among those qualities are care and connection. His experiences teaching this semester push against the dominant pessimistic narrative about today’s college…

PESHAWAR: A youth from North Waziristan who was reportedly abducted by unidentified individuals for sharing a viral video showing a young girl playing cricket in the region was released, it emerged on Saturday.

A viral video showing young cricketer Aina Wazir bowling in North Waziristan drew widespread attention on mainstream and social media. However, the abduction of the young man who filmed…