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Meta Faces Nearly $1 Billion Penalty After Landmark Child Safety Ruling
Meta has been ordered to pay nearly $1 billion after a New Mexico judge found that Facebook and Instagram contributed to serious harms affecting children and teenagers. The ruling goes beyond a financial penalty. Meta has also been ordered to change how its platforms operate for younger users, putting some of the biggest social media…
Seattle’s Strangest Raccoon Has Become an Internet Sensation
A raccoon with an almost nonexistent neck has somehow become one of the biggest animal celebrities of the summer, and it all started with a few seconds of shaky phone footage in a Seattle neighborhood. Jimothy, a wild raccoon living in Ballard, has a rare physical condition that gives him an unusually compact appearance, but…
The Happiness Researcher Who Started Crossing Things Off His Bucket List
Arthur Brooks had spent years doing what most people are told will make them happy. By 50, the happiness researcher had worked through a bucket list he had written at 40, checking off every goal he once believed would make his life feel complete. The strange part came afterward. Instead of feeling satisfied, Brooks realized…
This Argentine Farm Dog Has Everyone Talking About His Selfies
A farm dog in Argentina has become an unlikely social media sensation after a series of photos appeared to show him casually taking selfies while on the job. Diego Cuadro rode into the fields of El Triunfo farm in 2016 with cattle to move. He rode back out with the beginning of the friendship he…
Woman Turns A Pink Hair Ban Into A Bizarre Workplace Wig Show
Emily Benschoter had a simple problem before starting her new hospitality job: her employer did not want to see her pink hair. There is a quiet tax most of us pay for a paycheck, and it never shows up on the pay stub. It is the tie you hate. The opinion you swallow. The small…
Gen X Has A Surprisingly Simple Retirement Plan
For decades, retirement has been sold as a destination. Work hard, save enough, reach the finish line, then finally have time for the hobbies you always imagined. But financial planner Benjamin Brandt keeps seeing something different with his Gen X clients. Instead of dreaming up an entirely new life for retirement, they are reaching backward…
Millions Are Discovering the Truth About Octopuses, and It’s Stranger Than Anyone Realized
A woman’s passionate rant about octopuses has captivated millions online, but it isn’t because she delivered some dramatic conspiracy or exaggerated claim. Instead, TikTok creator Sarah, known as @SarahMakesMeLaugh, simply argued that humanity has failed to appreciate one of the strangest animals on Earth. Her opening line, “We are severely underreacting to octopuses collectively,” sounded…
Reading May Be The Simplest Brain Workout You Already Own
For years, the hunt for better brain power has produced a parade of complicated answers. Supplements, apps, puzzles, productivity systems and increasingly elaborate routines have all promised to keep the mind sharp. But one of the strongest candidates may already be sitting on a bookshelf. Research into what happens inside the brain when people learn…
She Cleaned Yale Hospital For A Decade Then Returned As A Doctor
For 10 years, Shay Taylor-Allen pushed a cleaning cart through Yale New Haven Hospital. She cleaned patient rooms. She emptied trash. She even cleaned the office of the hospital’s chief executive. Now she is coming back to the same building as a doctor. Taylor-Allen, 32, has matched into an anesthesiology residency at Yale New Haven…
Scientists Found Biological Traces Of Parental Trauma In Children
The babies were too young to understand what happened in New York on September 11, 2001. Yet researchers found that their bodies appeared to carry traces of what their mothers had experienced. The clue was not in their memories or behavior. It was in their saliva, their stress hormones, and eventually in the way scientists…