The consistent validation generative AI chatbots gives to their users becomes increasingly dangerous as people in vulnerable positions keep turning to them for advice. In 2025, over 19% of adolescents and young adults reported using AI chatbots for mental health advice. The problem with relying on artificial intelligence for psychological help lies in how chatbots are designed to respond to users. Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT learn and improve through human f

Have you ever woken up from a realistic dream and tried to remember what happened, but the details suddenly disappeared? You might remember being somewhere, talking to someone or feeling something very strong, but the actual experience becomes difficult to recall. This happens to many people, and it's connected to the way our brains work during sleep. During the night, our brains go through different stages of sleep including non-REM and REM sleep, which stands for rapid ey

High School can be frightening enough without telekinetic powers. In Prime Video’s new adaptation of Carrie, Stephen King’s teenage protagonist faces a familiar struggle in a modern setting: trying to fit in while becoming the target of her classmates’ cruelty. Released on October 7, the eight-episode series follows 16-year-old Carrie White, an isolated teenager raised by her controlling, highly religious mother, Margaret. When Carrie enters public high school, she must nav

Se você abrir o Spotify dos seus amigos, aposto que vai encontrar duas ou três músicas em comum, e esse padrão tem nome. Será que você escolhe mesmo o que ouve, ou apenas aceita o que o algoritmo coloca na sua frente? Esse padrão se chama homogeneização cultural: o processo pelo qual culturas diferentes se tornam cada vez mais semelhantes e perdem parte de suas particularidades, principalmente sob a influência da globalização. A internet, os filmes, as séries e as músicas pe

Originally I was going to write about the rise of the extremists and extreme politicians in the world as of recent times, but as I reflected upon the far right today, what I fixated upon was the opposition. Unable to get the opposition to these extreme ideals out of my mind I decided to shift my paper to talk about the unlikely tie connecting these revolutionaries, the Strawhats' Jolly Roger. If you are familiar with one piece you likely recognize what I'm talking about, if