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• Virginia Giuffre Raped by "Well-Known Prime Minister," Memoir Claims

  22-10-2025 17:41 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthVirginia Giuffre, one of the most prominent victims of Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking ring, claims in a posthumous memoir that she was brutally beaten and raped by an unidentified prime minister and that she feared she might die a sex slave. "In my years with them, they lent me out to scores of wealthy, powerful people. I was habitually used and humiliated—and in some instances, choked, beaten, and bloodied," Giuffre wrote of Epstein and...
  
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• Psilocybin and Mindfulness Can Curb Depression and Burnout, Study Finds

  22-10-2025 17:41 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsA new study announced Wednesday shows that psilocybin—the active compound in "magic mushrooms"—and mindfulness training can together ease depression and burnout among healthcare workers. Frontline healthcare workers struggling with depression after the COVID-19 pandemic saw significant relief from a treatment combining psilocybin group therapy with mindfulness training, according to a new study published in PLOS Medicine.
  
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• OpenAI Launches Web Browser in Challenge to Google Chrome

  22-10-2025 17:41 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Canadian Broadcasting Company - Top Stories NewsOpenAI said Tuesday it is introducing its own web browser, Atlas, putting the ChatGPT maker in direct competition with Google as more internet users rely on artificial intelligence to answer their questions. Making itself a gateway to online searches could allow OpenAI, the world's most valuable startup, to pull in more internet traffic and revenue. OpenAI has said ChatGPT already has more than 800 million users, but many of them get the se
  
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• U.N. Chief Defends Science and Meteorology As Trump Dismisses Both

  22-10-2025 17:40 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PBS ScienceThe United Nations chief delivered a strong defense of science and meteorology on Wednesday, praising the U.N. weather agency for helping save lives by tracking climate disasters around the world. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke to the World Meteorological Organization even while U.S. President Donald Trump has led an anti-science push and called climate change "a con job." In contrast, Guterres calls it an "existential threat."
  
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• Anthropic Launches Claude Life Sciences for Research Using AI

  22-10-2025 17:25 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsAnthropic on Monday announced a new service called "Claude of Life Sciences" that uses artificial intelligence in efforts to advance scientific discovery. Digital tools will allow researchers to make new discoveries with everything from AI-powered literature reviews to developing hypotheses, analyzing data, and regulatory submission, Anthropic said. This is the San Francisco-based tech company's first formal entry into life sciences research.
  
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• New Research Explores How People Know What They Know

  22-10-2025 16:33 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Association for Psychological ScienceIn today's world, the pull of new information is constant, ubiquitous, and limitless. To be knowledgeable citizens, people must sort through the mess and decide which sources are trustworthy, what information to absorb, and what to reject. Meanwhile, research psychologists are asking what underlies all this information processing: How do people know what they know? And how do they understand what others know?
  
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