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Why your dog eats grass

Why your dog eats grass

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. If your dog stops mid-walk to chew on a patch of lawn, you’ve probably wondered whether something is wrong. Of the delicious food options available to them, why would they choose leafy, bitter grass? Many owners assume the worst: that the dog has an upset stomach and is eating grass to make itself throw up. Dr. Melissa Bain doesn’t see it that way. “My dog enjoys it every day,” says Bain, a professor of clinical animal behavior at the University of California, Davis. “If we ever mow the grass, [he’ll] go out there and just start chomping on it.” To her, it reads as a snack, not a symptom. The idea that dogs graze to purge a sick stomach is one of the …

Apple Card Promo Offers Uber Cash Back With Uber Eats

Apple Card Promo Offers $30 Uber Cash Back With Uber Eats

Published by skeptic

Apple Card and Uber One users can earn up to $30 Uber Cash through August 31 by using their ‌Apple Card‌ on Uber Eats. Users can earn $10 Uber Cash each month in June, July, and August by making one eligible order per month on Uber Eats using their ‌Apple Card‌. Uber One members can earn $10 Uber Cash on one eligible grocery or retail order per month, now through August 31, when you check out with your Apple Card on Uber Eats. Shop food, health and beauty, pet supplies, and more. You could earn up to a total of $30 in Uber Cash, awarded by Uber, to use on Uber Eats orders. ‌Apple Card‌ users are also eligible to receive a six-month free trial of Uber One when signing up with your ‌Apple Card‌ and Apple Pay. After the six-month trial, your Uber One subscription will automatically renew at $9.99 per month. In addition to these promos, Apple partners with multiple vendors to offer three percent Daily Cash back on ‌‌‌‌Apple Pay‌‌‌‌ purchases made …

Mayor Eats His Words After Admitting He’s Delegating Work to 11 AI Agents

Mayor Eats His Words After Admitting He’s Delegating Work to 11 AI Agents

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Employees haven’t been shy about pushing back against AI in the workplace. In a clear disconnect, bosses are often gung-ho about the tech, while their underlings are more aware that it often spits out confident-sounding work that on closer inspection is filled with subtle errors that need to be manually corrected. That divide was on full display when the mayor of Vancouver admitted extensive AI usage to the public this week, per The Canadian Press. Earlier this week, Mayor Ken Sim participated in a press conference as part of the unveiling of two AI data centers coming to the city. In a slip of the tongue, Sim noted that he had “11 AI agents running,” doing “a lot” of his work in the background. His comments were immediately met with criticism, as noted by Daily Hive — some of which came from other local politicians. Clearly, the implication that the mayor could be handing off city-related duties to …

Greens Secure First Ever Directly Elected Mayor As Party Eats Into Labour's London Strongholds

Greens Secure First Ever Directly Elected Mayor As Party Eats Into Labour's London Strongholds

Published by Sam Flores

Green Party Zoe Garbett as she is announced as the new Mayor for Hackney during the count for the Hackney council election on May 08, 2026 in Hackney, England.  The Green Party has just had its first ever mayor elected in one of Labour’s London stronghold seats. Zoe Garbett, who previously ran to be London mayor, has just been elected as the mayor of Hackney. In her victory speech, she said: “People have made it clear they are desperate for an alternative to this failing Labour government. “It’s not old politics parties versus new parties. This is about a system of fear versus a movement of hope.” She added: “Today we start a fightback. “In this election, over and over, people kept telling me that they felt let down. People kept saying, ‘it’s hard for me and it’s hard for us’. Council services are failing those who need them most and people are struggling to make ends meet.” Garbett continued: “I’m going to change the system. That’s why you’ve elected me, to lead the fightback here …

Starmer ‘won’t walk away’ as Farage eats into England — live updates – POLITICO

Starmer ‘won’t walk away’ as Farage eats into England — live updates – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

Prime Minister Keir Starmer insists he’s sticking around but he’s already facing substantial losses as results from Britain’s biggest set of elections since 2024 pour in. With counting still underway, Starmer’s Labour has shed more than 250 councillors in England, with Nigel Farage’s populist-right Reform UK the main beneficiary. It’s already picked up its first council, in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Starmer — facing major questions over his leadership — has told reporters he won’t “walk away and plunge the country into chaos.” Reform has added more than 400 councillors to its tally — with the left-wing Greens and centrist Liberal Democrats also making modest gains. So far it’s been a rough night for the center-right Conservatives, who have shed scores of councillors, although can point to some brighter spots in London. In play are more than 5,000 English councilors in 136 councils, including all 32 London boroughs; six mayors in England; all 129 members of the Scottish Parliament; plus all 96 members of an expanded Welsh parliament, the Senedd.  Follow our live blog for results, reaction and …

Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users’ Confidence in Their Own Brains

Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users’ Confidence in Their Own Brains

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Researchers are growing increasingly suspicious that outsourcing intellectual tasks to AI is causing a range of cognitive deficits. A new study adds a wrinkle worth paying attention to: that use of the bots can eat away at users’ faith in their own abilities, resulting in lower confidence in their own independent reasoning. The new peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Technology, Mind and Behavior and flagged by TIME, found that those who showed a heavy reliance on AI were more likely to admit chatbots were “thinking” for them — and seem to show decreased confidence in their own ideas. By the same token, participants who took control over their AI’s output by editing, questioning, or scrapping it showed a greater confidence and sense of ownership over the final output, even though the tools used were the same. As the study’s author Sarah Baldeo — a PhD candidate in AI and neuroscience at Middlesex University — told TIME, the …

Boredom Eats the Soul | Mind Matters

Boredom Eats the Soul | Mind Matters

Published by Jenni Sidey

This republished article first appeared in New English Review The atheist Karl Marx—whose belief in moral autonomy and non-belief in Hell was his opium—said that religion was the opium of the people. But nowadays, it seems technology, consumerism and opiates have replaced that for many. When we see more and more people today behaving like clones of one another, it’s tempting to ask ourselves: Are we entering the darkest night in history? Just like the children in the movie Village of the Damned, most young adults, not all, seem to be in a trance, void of any spiritual dimension or intellectual philosophical worldview. In the movie The Ghost Breakers, the actor Bob Hope learns about what a zombie is like when Richard Carlson tells him: “A zombie has no will of his own. You see them some times, walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.” To which Bob Hope replies: “You mean, like Democrats?” Democrats, Republicans, it’s all the same; one often witnesses this lemming-like behaviour, especially with young …

Burger King president happily eats Whopper after mockery over McDonald’s CEO’s taste test

Burger King president happily eats Whopper after mockery over McDonald’s CEO’s taste test

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Burger King has escalated its long-running rivalry with McDonald’s, with its president publicly poking fun at the fast food giant’s CEO after his viral burger taste test drew widespread ridicule. McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski recently faced mockery over a video of himself eating the brand’s new Big Arch Burger. In the comments, people ruthlessly pointed out how uncomfortable he looked while eating the burger and suggested that dining at the chain was not a regular occurrence for the executive. Others said he took the “smallest first bite ever” of the huge burger. Burger King has now posted its response to the viral moment, sharing a TikTok video Monday of Tom Curtis, the president of Burger King U.S. & Canada, taking an enthusiastic bite of …

Prisoners had drugs and weapons ‘delivered to order… as if by Uber Eats or Deliveroo’ | UK News

Prisoners had drugs and weapons ‘delivered to order… as if by Uber Eats or Deliveroo’ | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

A gang that used drones to smuggle drugs, weapons and phones into prisons has been jailed by a judge who likened their operation to “Uber Eats or Deliveroo”. Harrow Crown Court heard that Shafaghatullah Mohseni, 29, had orchestrated dozens of “drops” to inmates across London and southeast England between 2 December 2024 and 26 February last year. Image: (Clockwise from top left) Mohammed Hamoud, Zahar Essaghi, Mustafa Ibrahim, Faiz Salah, Emanuel Fisniku and Hashim Al Hussaini. Pics: Met Police Jurors were also told that Hashim Al Hussaini, 28; Mohammed Hamoud, 22; Faiz Salah, 29; Zahar Essaghi, 51; Mustafa Ibrahim, 30; and Emanuel Fisniku, 25; assisted the operation by acting as lookouts and drivers, and also received payments for the illicit shipments. According to the Metropolitan Police, the seven would travel by car to the prisons, often in the early hours of the morning, and fly packages filled with contraband through cell windows. The force added that the gang was responsible for 75% of all drone drops into London prisons between December 2024 and February 2025. …