$4.99 vs. $5.00: The Psychology Explained

$4.99 vs. $5.00: The Psychology Explained

You know $4.99 is basically $5. You have known this your entire life. You know that the one cent between those two prices is functionally meaningless and that no reasonable adult would describe them as different amounts of money. And yet, every time you encounter a...
The Scientology Speedrun Trend, Explained

The Scientology Speedrun Trend, Explained

On March 31, an 18-year-old TikTok creator named Swhileyy walked into the Church of Scientology’s Hollywood information center wearing Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses, jogged past a confused staffer, ducked under a raised arm, hit a stairwell, found a fire exit, and...
What 3,600 Americans Actually Consider Wrong

What 3,600 Americans Actually Consider Wrong

Ask most people whether the United States is morally divided, and they’ll say yes without hesitating. That answer is partly correct. But a sweeping new Pew Research Center survey of 3,605 U.S. adults — asking whether 15 specific behaviors are morally wrong,...
The AI Abuse Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight

The AI Abuse Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight

A photo downloaded from Instagram. A $10 app. About 60 seconds. That’s all it takes for a teenage boy to generate a fake nude image of a classmate and share it with an entire school. A new investigation from WIRED and Indicator has mapped the full scale of what...
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