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2026 – Citing middle-school level skills, UC faculty want to restore math, science testing for applicants
The letter cites a November report from UC San Diego’s Senate-Administration Workgroup on Admissions, which concluded that the number of students whose mathematical abilities were below the typical high school level had increased thirty-fold in…
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2025 – A link between problematic social media use and mental health in Greece: Sex and generation differences
Our findings revealed a positive correlation between problematic social media use and anxiety, which was unaffected by sex or generation. Additionally, a positive link was found between problematic social media use and depression, with a…
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2026 – The World Happiness Report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, found that excessive use of social media negatively impacts personal wellbeing.
“If you use social media for an hour a day, that’s great, you’re being connected,” says Michael Plant, Research Fellow at the Wellbeing Research Centre. “But the report did show a correlation between, the more…
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2021 – Social media damages teenagers’ mental health, report says
Heavy social media use was linked to negative wellbeing and self-esteem, regardless of a young person’s mental state, with more girls experiencing feelings of depression and hopelessness. One in three girls was unhappy with their…
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2025 – Three in four teens have used AI companions, and half use them regularly.
A third of teens have chosen AI companions over humans for serious conversations, and a quarter have shared personal information with these platforms. One third of teens surveyed say they have discussed serious matters with…
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2026 – Study finds that classical and jazz music have been decreasing in complexity
Jazz reached peak complexity in the 1950s – the era of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk – before steadily becoming simpler from the 1960s onward. Complexity of classical music increased and…
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2024 – Almost 50 percent of Spotify listeners will skip a song before it ends, and nearly one-quarter will skip it in the first five seconds.
[https://musicmachinery.com/2014/05/02/the-skip/]
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2024 – Song Lyrics Have Become Angrier, Simpler and More Repetitive
Overall, the analysis revealed that songs now use more rhyming words and choruses. “Across all genres, lyrics had a tendency to become more simple and more repetitive,” Eva Zangerle, the study’s senior author and a…