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Learning Behaviors For Behaviors Experience A Similar Way To Humans

New innovations can spread like social media memes through insect colonies as bumblebees learn to solve problems.

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Can insects have culture? Puzzle-solving bumblebees show it's possible

A new study in PLOS Biology finds that bumblebees can learn to solve puzzles from each other — suggesting that even invertebrate animals may have a capacity for culture.

WEKU

Silicon Valley’s Obsession With Killer Rogue AI Helps Bury Bad Behavior

Sam Bankman-Fried made effective altruism a punchline, but the do-gooding philosophy is part of a powerful tech subculture full of opportunism, money, messiah complexes—and alleged abuse.

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Don't Just Hire 'Better Cops.' Punish the Bad Ones.

Convincing law enforcement officers that those who do wrong will suffer consequences is by far the most powerful tool for changing police behavior in the long run.

Reason

Police are still ticketing students in Illinois schools. A new bill would make that illegal.

CHICAGO — A new bill in the Illinois House aims to stop schools from working with police to issue students tickets for minor misbehavior, a harmful and sometimes costly practice that many districts have continued despite pleas to stop from the state’s top education officials.

Chicago Tribune

The retention problem: Women are going into tech but are also being driven out

By 2029, there will be 3.6 million computing jobs in the U.S., but there will only be enough college graduates with computing degrees to fill 24% of these jobs. For decades, the U.S. has poured resources into improving gender representation in the tech industry. However, the numbers are not improving…

The Conversation

3 ways to prevent school shootings, based on research

In the months leading up to his 2012 attack that killed 26 people in Newtown, Connecticut, a 20-year-old man exhibited a cascade of concerning behaviors. He experienced worsening anorexia, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder. His relationships deteriorated, and he became fixated on mass murders.

The Conversation

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Being healthy means more than just eating right

Creating positive habits and behaviors often starts with one simple change.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mocking MTG won't save us from civil war

It's not just trolling. Republican threats of civil war should be taken seriously

Salon

POINT: Alec Baldwin should not face criminal charges for an unintentional shooting

The unintentional shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021 on the set of the film “Rust” in New Mexico is tragic. But not all tragedies translate to criminal behavior and being accused of a crime.

Tribune News Service

Sibling aggression and abuse go beyond rivalry – bullying within a family can have lifelong repercussions

Nearly 80% of U.S. children grow up with a sibling. For many, brothers and sisters are life companions, close confidants and sharers of memories. But siblings also are natural competitors for parents’ attention. When brothers and sisters view parents’ love and attention as limited – or lopsided in favor of…

The Conversation

Flamingos’ Social Lives are Full of Cliques, New Study Reveals

A study on flamingos shows that the birds form subgroups based on similar personalities, including aggressiveness, openness, and submissiveness.

Inverse

School Teachers See Students Starving Affecting Their Behavior And Concentration In Class

The cost-of-living crisis is really beginning to kick in as nearly 4 in 10 teachers see children coming to school hungry.

Zenger

The Milky Way's Black Hole is Devouring a 278 Trillion Mile Gas Cloud

It could give us a front row seat to elusive black hole behavior.

Inverse

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How frontotemporal dementia, the syndrome affecting Bruce Willis, changes the brain – research is untangling its genetic causes

Around 55 million people worldwide suffer from dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease. Recently, the actor Bruce Willis was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, a rare type of dementia that typically affects people ages 45 to 64. In contrast to Alzheimer’s, in which the major initial symptom is memory loss,…

Salon

Why Republicans are so easily triggered

Curiously, it is the same reason why they are best equipped for the meme wars

Tribune News Service

FTD explained: Experts on brain disorder’s symptoms and treatment

Fans and followers of Hollywood icon Bruce Willis were shocked and saddened by the news of the actor’s diagnosis with frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, a rare form of dementia.

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‘This is where I draw the line’: when stan accounts turn against their idols

Hardcore fans build online lives around their favorite stars. But some behavior is too upsetting for them to endorse

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Racy holiday party with high schoolers leads to charges for ex-Claremont schools official

The former president of the Claremont school board and two other men have been charged in connection with a holiday party that drew an uproar from parents who said their high school children were offered alcohol and exposed to improper behavior by a “dirty Santa.”

Tribune News Service

What is frontotemporal degeneration?

Frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) is a group of neurologic disorders associated with changes in personality, behavior, language or movement. Some FTD forms are inherited, and some are not. Typically, people develop FTD symptoms before age 60.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: The first emergency: Teen mental health must be addressed to fix anything else

The past few years have gotten us used to bad news from the Centers for Disease Control, and this week was more of the same, yet this time it had nothing to do with COVID. The agency’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that about one in three high-school age girls…

Tribune News Service

Accused NYC attacker was unstable, violent in Las Vegas, records show

LAS VEGAS — Weng Sor showed signs of bizarre and apparently mentally ill behavior in Las Vegas in the years before he was accused of using a U-Haul truck to kill one person and injure eight in a rampage earlier this week in New York City.

WEKU

10 things to know about how social media affects teens' brains

Eye-opening testimony from a top scientist offers a useful primer on the role social media may play in the teen mental health crisis.

The Conversation

Do elementary school students do better when taught by teachers of the same race or ethnicity? New research finds: Not that much

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

Inverse

Insect Bites Reveal the Origins of an Elusive Plant Behavior

Symmetrical bite marks on leaf fossils reveal that some species have been sleeping with their leaves closed for at least 250 million years.

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