“Dominican Sisters Open Mic” [is] a new podcast produced by the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, in Ann Arbor. While the topics themselves might sound weighty, the conversations are often quite wide-ranging, like a dialogue between two, well, sisters. (Kircher, The New York Times)
Read MoreJerusalem’s major holy sites are shuttered and families are dejected and exhausted ahead of Passover and Easter as the Iran war enters its fifth week. The mood stands in stark contrast to a usual spring, when longer days herald a period of family gatherings and an influx of tourists for the major Jewish and Christian holidays. (Lidman, AP News)
Read More[Scientists] have identified specific design elements that encourage compulsive use and are especially difficult for growing brains to resist. And they've pinpointed what elements companies could change to make the social media design that is safer for children. (Chatterjee & Wroth, NPR)
Read MoreAs of 2023, the last data available from Pew Research Center, there were about 111 million single adults ages 18 and up in the United States. That was a sizable increase from 70 million in 1990. (LaGorce, The New York Times)
Read MoreParents and dermatologists have raised concerns about how children as young as ten are being lured into buying beauty products, after Italy launched an investigation into two cosmetic giants. (Lyons & Eccles, The Times)
Read MoreOpenAI said in a brief social media message Tuesday that it was "saying goodbye to the Sora app" and that it would share more soon about how to preserve what users already created on the app. (AP/NPR)
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