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Technology

Stop calling it social media - these firms don't care what we want

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and their ilk were meant to let us chat freely in a digital public square, but the firms running social media are just as corporate as old media, says Annalee Newitz

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Health

Weight loss advice isn't based on good evidence

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein speaks at SESSION 5 at TED2022: A New Era. April 10-14, 2022, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Photo: Gilberto Tadday / TED

Humans

How I gave a TED talk on dark matter

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Humans

Why I love the proliferation of green roofs and living walls

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Technology

What hackers get up to when left on an island in the Pacific

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Environment

Will Chile's new constitution make it the first truly green state?

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Space

Why general relativity is known as a background independent theory

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Humans

My quest for an eco-friendly green lawn

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Humans

Mistakenly calling AIs 'sentient' is more dangerous than we think

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Environment

Cumbria coal mine should be a no go for new levelling up secretary

Greg Clark must think twice before giving the green light to the UK's first new coal mine in decades. It would be indefensible on climate grounds, says Adam Vaughan

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Physics

What does it mean when we say that space-time is expanding?

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Society

We should celebrate the diversity and knowledge of farmers' markets

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Society

Digging into the return of an 80-year-old meme, the turbo-encabulator

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Environment

Eating green means considering biodiversity as well as climate change

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