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Learning in the age of information: how access counterfeits understanding, and how to tell knowledge from wisdom

AI

The Illusion of Understanding: Why Digital Access Doesn't Equal Knowledge

Instant access to information has created a dangerous confusion between having answers at hand and truly understanding them. Research shows this abundance actually undermines both knowledge and wisdom in measurable ways.
Research suggests the move that makes someone feel heard in a disagreement may not be telling them their heart is in the right place — in a preregistered experiment with 558 US adults, a stranger who guessed at their reasons and called them valid had

AI

Validating Arguments Beats Praising Intentions in Online Disagreements, Study Finds

A preregistered experiment with 558 US adults found that acknowledging an opponent's reasoning and calling it sound produced stronger relational effects than complimenting their motives—but neither approach shifted actual opinions.
The psychology of why reading makes us smarter and happier, and why one half of that is firmer than the other

AI

Reading's Real Rewards: What Science Actually Shows About Smarter Minds and Happier Hearts

The widespread belief that reading makes us both smarter and happier contains truth, but the evidence supporting each claim differs significantly in strength and certainty.
Filipinos call it gigil: the urge to clench your hands or squeeze something because it is almost unbearably cute — Yale psychologists only began experimentally studying the same strange response in 2012, eventually describing it as “cute aggression"

AI

The Science Behind Gigil: Why We Want to Squeeze What We Love

When something is unbearably cute, our bodies respond with an urge to pinch, squeeze, or bite—a phenomenon Filipinos have long called gigil. Now researchers are beginning to understand why tenderness and aggression are so closely intertwined.
From voice command to robotic arm: how agentic AI on the edge is changing the factory floor

AI

Voice Commands Meet Factory Robots: How Edge AI Is Reshaping Industrial Automation

Foundation models running directly on edge devices are eliminating the need for expensive cloud infrastructure in manufacturing, letting operators control robotic systems through natural language instead of specialized training.
A New Home for Battery-News

Climate Tech

Battery-News Joins New Independent Platform Combining Media, Training and Industry Networks

The battery industry publication is now part of PEM Share GmbH, a newly formed independent company that merges journalism with professional development, events and connections across manufacturers, researchers and emerging companies.
AI’s first visible employment shock may be hitting the bottom rung of the career ladder: by June 2026, employment among 22–25-year-olds in highly AI-exposed occupations was running 19% behind their less-exposed peers, largely because companies were h

AI

The Quiet Crisis: How AI is Closing Entry-Level Doors Before Young Workers Even Know They're Shut

New analysis of US payroll data through June 2026 reveals a troubling divergence in early-career hiring, with young workers in AI-exposed fields falling 19% behind their peers in less-exposed roles—driven not by layoffs, but by companies simply choosing not to hire.
Researchers followed 1,793 BT call-centre workers for six months and found that a one-point rise in weekly happiness was associated with roughly 12% higher sales productivity—not because employees worked longer, but because they converted more calls

AI

The 12% Happiness Boost: How BT's Call Centre Study Measured Mood's Real Impact on Sales

A six-month study of 1,793 British Telecom workers found that rising happiness correlated with higher sales—but the effect came from better conversations, not longer hours. The researchers used weather and window exposure as a natural experiment to isolate the causal link.