A novel approach by South Korea to stop its rural areas from dying by paying people to live there appears to be working. Okcheon in North Chungcheong province saw its population grow by almost 1,000 i...
Survivors of the Eaton and Palisades Fires find healing and community working on a Rose Parade float to honor the lives and communities lost in last year's wildfires. (Image credit: Kirk Siegler/NPR)...
Article URL: https://kasurian.com/p/democracy-will-not-survive-consumption Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488652 Points: 4 # Comments: 0...
As an undergraduate student of anthropology long ago, I remember studying the phenomenon of “compartmentalism” as a hallmark of primitive cultures or societies – their capacity to hold contradictory b...
Jessie Ho recalls facing traumatic questions in court that focused on tiny details of her sexual assault case four years earlier, from whether the accused had used his left or right hand to why she ha...
In June 1989 following the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, the government cut telephone connections to foreign countries, an action aimed at limiting the ability of domestic opponents to communicate with...
Caroline Kennedy and Jack Schlossberg attend the 2017 Met Gala. Rabbani and Solimene Photography/Getty Images The Kennedy family has been prominent in US politics for over a century. The younger Kenne...
From street paramilitaries to Colombian insurgents, Venezuela is teeming with men with guns...
📋 Key Facts ✓ Prime Minister Starmer lacks a coherent social mobility plan according to a top government adviser. ✓ The chair of the So...
Firdaus Hashim has spent nearly two decades breathing life into the impossible. The Malaysian visual effects (VFX) artist has won multiple accolades for his painstaking, frame-by-frame artistry and ev...
Stranger Things actress Jennifer Marshall, who played Max's mom Susan, has called out her character's absence in the show's final season — and said that being able to film scenes would have helped fun...
For two weeks recently, most of my evenings were spent in Douyin’s live-stream section. On Douyin, TikTok’s sibling platform in China, shopping, entertainment and conversation blur into an endlessly s...
From political gaffes and diplomatic stumbles to courtroom fury and security breaches, many of Singapore’s viral moments in 2025 showed how quickly everyday incidents in the city state could turn into...
Elon Musk's X has partially restricted access to Grok's image editing capabilities amid growing backlash to the flood of nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors generated by the platf...
Article URL: https://www.danielbrendel.com/blog/24-are-we-tired-of-social-media-once-and-for-all Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46519622 Points: 9 # Comments: 3...
With the repressive machinery Maduro used still in place, many Venezuelans are scared to celebrate his departure....
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Pierre Thomas has the story of spreading unity and acceptance through the power of song this holiday season....
Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI This past weekend, the internet was set ablaze by a post on r/Confessions claiming to be from a software engineer-turned-whistleblower working at a food delivery app . "I...