The disappearance of a respected monk from his Buddhist temple in central Bangkok has revealed a sex scandal that has rocked Thailand, with allegations of blackmail, lavish gifts and a string of dismissals raising questions about the money and power enjoyed by the country’s orange-robed clergy.…

Bad luck comes in threes, according to the saying. And this week three ethereal oarfish, nicknamed “the doomsday fish”, have washed up on the shores of Australia and New Zealand. Two headless specimens were found near Dunedin and Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island, following the discovery of…

Dailydave mailing list archives By Date By Thread (the root of the root and the bud of the bud) From: Dave Aitel via Dailydave Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:22:11 -0500 Memories and thoughts are the same thing, someone tried to explain to me recently. You have to think to remember, in other words. This…

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? . Baby boomers, they're just like us. Or, rather, we're just like them. And by "we," I mean millennials. The inevitable march of time often means turning into your parents,…

Funding for public K-12 schools in the U.S. is based on enrollment. More students mean more money. In 31 states, public schools use the previous year’s enrollment numbers to determine the current year’s funding, which makes it easier to soften the financial blow when enrollment declines. In the rest…

Doomscrolling happens to the best of us. Algorithms across social platforms are finely tuned to feed you content and posts that keep you locked in. It can be hard to pull yourself away even when you’re consuming a barrage of news about the state of the world online. While we certainly don’t…

The Verge Loading ... Video description: A bowl of spaghetti and meatballs at an elegant table setting in front of a laptop screen that shows messages being exchanged with an AI chatbot. Friend or Faux? Millions of people are turning to AI for companionship. They are finding the experience…

Imagine it’s Monday morning, too cold and too dark, but once that alarm goes off, you know you’ve got to rally. The kids have to get to school. You’ve got to get to work. And, of course, your ever-growing to-do list hangs over your head like a dark cloud, somehow both too threatening to ignore and…

Boadicea There's a story about Zig Ziglar, the motivational speaker. A woman approached him at one of his seminars, begging him for help. She said she hated her job. Her boss was horrible. Her coworkers hated her. What should she do? Well, Zig told her to shut up and stop complaining. He said she…

We live in an Age of Uncertainty. Not just because of the global threats to societies, but many face unprecedented insecurity at a personal level, particularly the younger generations. None of us know what is going to happen, and we might as well face up to it. And that’s the first lesson in making…

Ever since my early teens, I knew I wasn’t cut out for formal learning. When a topic excited me, I set my own pace and stayed well ahead of the class; this frustrated my teachers more than it impressed them. And when I lacked passion for a particular subject, the faculty never cared to help. In…

An estimated 140 women and girls across the world die at the hands of their partner or family member every day, according to new global estimates on femicide by the UN. The report by UN Women found 85,000 women and girls were killed intentionally by men in 2023, with 60% (51,100) of these deaths…

Maxwell Tabarrok is an economics researcher at Dartmouth College and the author of the Maximum Progress substack. Maximum Progress is a blog about the economics, history, science, philosophy, and culture surrounding a single graph: World GDP Over the Last Two Millennia, The Great Fact, The Hockey…

Opinion June 18, 2024 5 min read We’ve Hit Peak Denial. Here’s Why We Can’t Turn Away from Reality We are living through a terrible time in humanity. Here’s why we tend to stick our head in the sand and why we need to pull it out, fast Donna Grethen Objectively speaking, we are living through a…

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10 years ago, I started my freshman year of college. This is the advice I needed to hear, not the advice you need to hear. In fact, some of it may be actively bad for you. See Should you reverse any advice you hear? You are overly obedient. You not only do what people tell you to do, but find it…

What if luck was a skill? The proposition sounds absurd, and yet we all know people who seem to be good at being lucky. They don’t try that hard and nice things just keep coming: they meet the right people at the right time, narrowly catch all trains and never get pooped on by birds. If we’re are…

Consider a hypothetical couple: Cathy and Max. Cathy tells Max she feels like it’s been too long since they had sex, and Max responds that it seems to him like they just had sex. They look at a calendar to see who is right, and remember they had sex seven days earlier. Both feel justified: Cathy…

They are problems of success, really, these modern ills. Social media addiction, gaming disorders, the compulsive over-eating of sugar and processed gloop: they are products of a society with more than enough food, leisure time and boredom, and without the life-or-death excitement that kept our…

Updated at 9:43 a.m. ET on October 11, 2024 The truth is, it’s getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality. As Hurricane Milton churned across the Gulf of Mexico last night, I saw an onslaught of outright conspiracy theorizing and…

A small nuclear reactor that can run for eight years or more without water is scheduled to go online by 2029 in Saskatchewan, Canada. In November, Saskatchewan’s government announced an $80 million CAD (about $59 million USD) project from the Saskatchewan Research Council to demonstrate the…

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about me I am 18, born in 2006. This is generally a good thing as I am in the prime of life currently. I am not one of those people who think they were “born in the wrong decade”, I think I was born at the perfect time to take advantage of superlinearly growing technological advancements. the…

By travelling to the centre of the Earth via seismic waves scientists have discovered a ring-like structure within the swirling pool of molten metal known as the outer core. Research published in the journal Science Advances has identified a doughnut-shaped region within the outer core, parallel to…

Brain dump before you go to sleep Spend two minutes each evening sketching out how your tomorrow will look, on a notepad or in your Notes app, for more productive mornings, says Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author of Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less. “It gives your creative subconscious time…

This just in: money apparently does buy happiness. A new study conducted by a senior fellow at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania found an increasingly positive association between money and happiness. Matt Killingsworth, who tracks happiness for his large-scale research project,…

The collapse didn’t happen the way people expected. It was more like the Hemingway character who said when he went bankrupt that it happened “two ways, gradually, then suddenly.” Disasters were happening but there was sufficient time between them that people were able to separate them in their…

In May earlier this year, Romany Gypsy Wendy Smith went to the high court and successfully challenged a new law that effectively criminalised the travelling way of life. Even among the many Romany Gypsies and Travellers who are settled and no longer travel, the victory was seen as symbolic because…

A year on from writing "Truth in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", much of what I had feared has come to pass. In fact, in many cases things are worse than I expected. I would never have imagined a year ago that Google would kill web searching as we know it. I did not expect absolutely every…

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Jeshua Erickson 3 min read· Apr 28, 2024 -- I’m drawn to concepts or book titles that appear contradictory. So, naturally, “Slow Productivity” by Cal Newport appealed to me at a basic level. I work in cybersecurity as a security architect, so I could be considered a “knowledge worker.” Newport…

Explore vs. Exploit: The Pattern-Novelty Balance 12/10/2025 Understanding how oscillating between exploration and exploitation unlocks maximum enjoyment from life #philosophy #meaning #personal Revisiting the AI Bubble 07/10/2025 Why a major crash, AGI, and millions of jobs replaced aren't mutually…