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They Use It Daily and Fear It Weekly
Elon University's Imagining the Digital Future Center surveyed 1,505 American adults in May and published the results this week as a report called Human Purpose in Peril, written by Lee Rainie and Janna Anderson. Two numbers from it sit next to each other and do not agree. Sixty-five percent said they had used a large language model in the past week, up from 52 percent in early 2025. Sixty-four percent agreed that by replacing human beings in...
Experience Does Not Interpret Itself
There is a person in almost every organisation who has done the job well for years and still, quietly, does not think of themselves as someone who does the job. New research in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, based on in-depth life narrative interviews with 22 organisational leaders, gets at why. The finding is that people developed a stronger leader identity by making meaning of their experiences across different stages of their...
The Survey Asked a Different Question
For two decades, national surveys have shown that overall rates of teenage cannabis use in the United States have stayed relatively flat. That figure has been cited, constantly and reasonably, as evidence that legalisation has not affected young people. A study published in Addiction this week, led by Alisa Padon of the Public Health Institute with investigators at Kaiser Permanente, looked at something else. It tracked new diagnoses of...
Something in the Voice
Researchers analysing medical records from more than 833,000 American adults over fifty found something they had not gone looking for. People diagnosed with a voice disorder and no hearing loss had a 58 percent higher risk of developing cognitive impairment or dementia than matched controls. People with a voice disorder and hearing loss had more than double the risk. The comparison is what makes it striking. Hearing loss is currently considered...
They Bought a Bridge to Sell the Desert
Travel publishers produce a great many lists of overlooked Arizona towns, and buried in the current crop is the single best lesson about place-making that commerce has ever produced. In 1958 Robert McCulloch, a chainsaw and oil man, bought 3,353 acres on the east side of Lake Havasu and set about developing it. The problem was immediate and total: the land sat far from any centre of population, in a very hot, arid climate, and the estate agents...