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For the average American, it’s three hours and fifteen minutes. We touch our phones 2,617 times every twenty- four hours.

— Johann Hari Stolen Focus (2022)

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At the moment false claims spread on social media far faster than the truth, because of the algorithms that spread outraging material faster and further.

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The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.

around one in five car accidents is now due to a distracted driver.

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The greatest trick the rich — and their cheerleaders on the right — ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn’t exist. Out here in the real world, it is more real and more rigid than it has been for a century.

There is an emerging scientific consensus that global warming is making hurricanes more intense and more destructive. It turns out that Katrina fits into a pattern that scientists and greens have been trying to warn us about for a long time.

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