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The brain isn’t hardwired to read – here’s how we pull it off and why some are better at it than others

For an experienced reader, recognising the words on this page feels effortless. Yet, evolutionarily speaking, your brain shouldn’t be able to read. Reading has existed for too short a time to have shaped a dedicated centre in the brain.

The Conversation

Cathie Wood Adds 210K Shares to a Rising AI Bet With Upside of 102%

Wall Street believes this Cathie Wood-approved stock has more room to run.

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Global firm to axe 30 jobs in Scottish city office despite £100m turnover

A GLOBAL personal development firm has announced it will cut 30 jobs from one of its offices in Scotland, despite an annual turnover of almost £100…

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The LA Times gives mealy-mouthed AI the last word on its opinion pieces

Is it raining? Yes—and also no.

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Writing long reads for The Conversation can be ‘instrumental’ in developing research – Insights story updates

Each story for Insights, The Conversation’s longform investigative series, typically takes months to produce, building on years of academic research. And of course, these deep-dive investigations don’t just stop when the story is published.

The Conversation

Insights – The Conversation’s long reads section

Insights is The Conversation’s award-winning longform and investigations series.

The Conversation

South Africa’s controversial ‘race quota’ law stirs debate

Decades after the end of apartheid, severe inequality persists with around 40% of Black South Africans unemployed.

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From discovering insulin to unearthing a double agent, our pick of Insights long reads in 2022

From toxic career rivalries and abandoned spies to the future of Africa’s lions and David Bowie’s environmental credentials, Insights long reads have covered them all in 2022.

The Conversation

Doddie Weir lights up Abertay University graduation day

The rugby legend - who is battling Motor Neurone Disease - is the champion of a multi-million pound campaign to find a cure for the condition.

Daily Record

Export restrictions push up food prices 65% in two years

Moves by governments globally to restrict exports are exacerbating price rises and increasing food insecurity, according to the latest report from ABARES.

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Conversation Insights wins journalism award for climate coverage

You may remember seeing an article we published in April last year in which climate scientists, James Dyke, Wolfgang Knorr and Robert Watson, set out the problems inherent in the idea of net zero. Climate activist Greta Thunberg said the article was “one of the most important and informative texts…

The Conversation

100 years of the BBC: the rebels who reshaped broadcasting – and paid the price

In his 1941 book The Power Behind the Microphone, Peter Pendleton Eckersley, the BBC’s former chief engineer, described his “dream” for the future of radio and television:

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