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6 Genuinely Great Movies With Way-Too-Low IMDb Ratings
The Internet Movie Database, IMDb, is a compendium of movie information, allowing fans to scour through their favorite filmmaker or actor’s filmography with ease. It also allows all of its registered users to rate films as they see fit. While the site uses a weighted average scheme to try and weed out ratings made in review bombing attempts, it’s not…
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Artificial intelligence tools expand scientists’ impact but contract science’s focus
Wang, H. et al. Scientific discovery in the age of artificial intelligence. Nature 620, 47–60 (2023). Article ADS PubMed Google Scholar Hopfield, J. J. Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 79, 2554–2558 (1982). Article ADS MathSciNet PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Hopfield, J. J. Neurons with graded response have collective computational…
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Age-tailored therapies needed for treating the young and old with sepsis
In an evolving health landscape, emerging research continues to highlight concerns that could impact everyday wellbeing. Here’s the key update you should know about: Dealing with an infection isn’t as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and monitor its immune response to prevent collateral damage. This regulation, called disease tolerance, is crucial to…
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FDA wants suicide warning removed from weight-loss drugs
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE US Senate targets sexual deepfakes amid furor over Grok images on X Senator Dick Durbin spoke with reporters at the Senate subway on Capitol Hill on Jan. 8.Mariam Zuhaib/Associated Press The US Senate unanimously passed legislation Tuesday that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images in response to a widening uproar over a flood…
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Is The Bull Market Back?
Key points: Bitcoin is showing considerable strength in the short term, opening the gates for a rally to $100,000 and then to $107,500. Select major altcoins are showing strength, but Monero (XMR) is leading from the front. After the sharp rally on Tuesday, Bitcoin (BTC) bulls are attempting to extend the gains above $97,000. The strong inflows of $753.8 million…
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There’s an intensifying kind of threat to academic freedom – watchful students serving as informants
Texas A&M University told philosophy professor Martin Peterson in early January 2026 that he could not teach some of Greek philosopher Plato’s writings that touch on “race and gender ideology.” The university’s local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, an organization of professors and academics in the U.S., quickly denounced this requirement. Peterson, in response to his university’s…
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‘The settlers brought the violence’: the ethnic cleansing of a West Bank village | Middle East and north Africa
Five decades in the south Jordan valley were ending in a day, and Mahmoud Eshaq struggled to hold back his tears. The 55-year-old had not cried since he was a boy, but as he dismantled the family home and prepared to flee the village where his whole life had played out, he was overwhelmed by grief. While Eshaq’s children loaded…
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Superhero flicks in ’26. Comic-book movies to be excited about
A primer on comic-book movies, and superhero shows, coming from Marvel and DC in 2026, and which ones are worth your attention. This article is based on a episode of “Meet Me Here,” KUOW’s arts and culture podcast. If there are two movies you should mark your 2026 calendars for, according to Seattle film critic Tim Hall and myself, it’s…
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Wife can claim 25 pc of husband’s income as maintenance: HC
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court, in a significant ruling, on Tuesday, January 13, stated that a wife’s maintenance amount can be up to 25 per cent of the husband’s income, dismissing a husband’s petition challenging a family court’s order to increase the payable alimony. The husband, Suresh Chandra, approached the High Court in December 2024, challenging a Shahjahanpur Family Court…
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What to know and when to use them
I (Katelyn) have escaped to the Amazon, where the internet cannot even reach me. So this week, I left the YLE keys with my team and our good friend—and scientific communication rockstar—Dr. Jess Steier. You’re in good hands. Jess, take it away… I have two kids in elementary school, a petri dish if there ever was one. Every day during…
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