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What happens when complete strangers sit down for a cup of tea?
See how artist #PierreSernet brought a Japanese tea ceremony to deserts and city streets around the world:
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Cinema has taught us to accept that some people are characters and others are extras: their fear makes the scene feel real, but their deaths rarely matter to the story.
Who are ‘the extras’ in real life?
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Type “compassion” into a translation tool and you'll get an answer in seconds.
But translation can't always tell you what a word means in the culture, history and relationships behind it.
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In this clip from our latest podcast episode, Dr. Paul Slovic (@PaulatDR) breaks down the phenomenon of psychic numbing and how human psychology struggles with mass tragedy.
Listen now: tnsr.org/2026/08/virtuous-vi…
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Can a song make us better prepared for a hurricane?
Researchers tested the idea across 11 Caribbean countries.
The answer isn't exactly what you might expect.
New story: bit.ly/4qJB5BE
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Can a song make us better prepared for a hurricane?
Researchers tested the idea across 11 Caribbean countries.
The answer isn't exactly what you might expect.
Read more: bit.ly/4qJB5BE
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Cognitive biases don’t disappear when the stakes become nuclear.
A new @NTI_WMD article explores Paul Slovic and colleagues’ research on how psychology shapes nuclear decisions.
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Would you put a bottle of wine in an emergency kit?
A wildfire preparedness guide suggests yes.
Discover why:
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What happens when a generation embraces the label meant to dismiss it?
India's "Cockroach Janta Party" began as satire. It has grown into a nationwide movement demanding accountability after repeated exam paper leaks.
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The World Cup ended.
But one final was played in Gaza.
Palestinian amputees gathered in a war-damaged stadium to recreate the championship match, a reminder that football can connect people far beyond the tournament.
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Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, has died at 56.
Her work reminded millions that countries are made of people, not stereotypes.
We revisit the legacy of the graphic memoir that changed how many readers saw Iran.
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Argentina's World Cup semifinal victory over England brought a decades-old territorial dispute back into the spotlight.
Our latest story looks at how the celebrations extended beyond football: bit.ly/4f8axGf
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Our latest piece challenges classical deterrence theory by exploring the limits of human rationality. @PaulatDR et al. argue that deep-seated cognitive biases, like psychic numbing, systematically distort high-stakes decisions regarding nuclear escalation.
ALT Scholar | "When Our Minds Go Nuclear: Rethinking Nuclear Strategy Through the Psychology of Risk and Decision-Making" by Paul Slovic, Missy Peterson, Rose McDermott, Daniel R. Post, and Daniel Västfjäll
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Explore how the psychology of risk shapes the nuclear age: tnsr.org/2026/06/when-our-mi…
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The volunteers searching through the rubble in #Venezuela weren't trained for this.
They are farmers, mechanics, and relatives who decided someone else's emergency was worth making their own.
Their stories deserve to be told: bit.ly/4p8qAax
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Rescue teams in Venezuela are doing more than searching for survivors. Videos from the response show volunteers calming people trapped beneath collapsed buildings, offering words of encouragement, and singing while carrying injured survivors to safety.
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📹 Rescatistas venezolanos se viralizan por su aliento a personas atrapadas. Su actitud ha sido aplaudida en redes sociales: "¡Cálmate, mi lesionado, que ya vamos a llegar!"
🔴 Sigue aquí la cobertura en vivo: tinyurl.com/8fk349zt
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The World Cup is often a story about nations.
For some players, it is also a story about displacement.
Antonio Rüdiger, Alphonso Davies, and Nestory Irankunda all have refugee backgrounds.
Their paths to the tournament began long before football.
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"The world cannot be understood without numbers, but it wouldn’t be understood with numbers alone."
We recently came across Domestic Data Streamers and their work turning data into human experiences. bit.ly/4uKolv8
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