Fact check: The US is the UK’s third largest source of natural gas
Data show that the UK imported more gas from Norway than from the United States. Source link
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A simple “blank screen” test revealed a key fact about the psychology of neuroticism
A recent study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences provides evidence that people with higher levels of neuroticism tend to naturally focus their thoughts on life problems and uncertainties when their minds are at rest. This default tendency to dwell on negative topics suggests a reason why these individuals frequently experience unhappiness and distress even without any immediate stressors. By exploring what people think about during idle moments, scientists hope to better understand the mental habits that contribute to everyday anxiety. Psychologists describe neuroticism as a broad personality trait that predisposes individuals to experience negative emotions like stress, anxiety, and sadness. People who score high in neuroticism tend to experience more mental health issues, including generalized anxiety and depression. In the past, scientists have usually studied neuroticism by looking at how people react to negative events or external threats. Emotional reactivity means experiencing a larger-than-normal emotional spike in response to a stressful event. However, this focus on emotional reactivity fails to explain why highly neurotic people often feel distressed even when nothing particularly …
Fact check: Did Reform UK break its promises on council tax?
This article focuses on council tax in England (local taxes are devolved in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales). The figures throughout are based on council tax rates set by upper-tier local authorities in England (London boroughs, metropolitan boroughs, county councils and unitary authorities) for Band D properties, excluding parish precepts, for 2026/27. Source link
This is how we do it: ‘The fact he’s comfortable enough with his sexuality to be intimate with other men is so hot to me’ | Life and style
Sandra, 48 double quotation markI never thought, when I was a pregnant Catholic teenager, that I’d have this lifestyle, but my God, it’s fun After my first marriage ended 15 years ago, I felt as if I had a ton of catching up to do when it came to sexual experiences. I’d become a wife and mother in my late teens, and my first husband had been quite conservative, in bed and out. With three children at home, I only really had the bandwidth for casual encounters, so I began responding to Craigslist ads for no-strings-attached sex – until I spotted a more romantic post by Miguel during one late-night trawl, and impulsively hit “reply”. The first time I slept with him a fortnight later was a revelation; he was just so eager to learn what turned me on, and before long we’d become a couple. When, a few months in, Miguel mentioned that he and his first wife used to swing, I was intrigued. With male partners, I’m quite submissive, but I’d always wondered …
The Fact That Anthropic Has Been Boasting About How Much Its Development Now Relies on Claude Makes It Very Interesting That It Just Suffered a Catastrophic Leak of Its Source Code
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Earlier this year, the head of Anthropic’s blockbuster Claude Code AI agent Boris Cherny boasted that “pretty much 100 percent” of the entire company’s code is AI-generated. “For me personally, it has been 100 percent for two plus months now, I don’t even make small edits by hand,” he tweeted at the time. But the glaring cybersecurity implications of giving an AI agent full access over a computer to carry out complex tasks — something experts have been ringing the alarm bells over for a while now — isn’t coinciding during a period of competence for the company: it confirmed on Tuesday that parts of the internal source code for its Claude Code had leaked, which is extremely bad. “No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed,” a spokesperson told CNBC, in an apparent effort to focus on the bright side. The news comes less than a week after news of Anthropic’s upcoming “Claude Mythos” AI …
Fact check: Meningitis B vaccine and false ‘lockdown’ claim
It is also worth noting that the vaccine protection is very good, but not perfect. Dr Bharat Pankhania, senior clinical lecturer in public health medicine at the University of Exeter Medical School, said the vaccine offers about 70-90% protection against the most common forms of menB meningococcal disease, and about 50-70% protection against the most invasive forms. Source link
The present is a story your brain assembles after the fact
JIM AL-KHALILI: My name is Jim Al-Khalili and I’m Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey. My book is called On Time, the physics that makes the universe tick. Is the present an illusion? Even in Einstein’s special theory of relativity, we can appreciate the concept of a now, an absolute universal present moment simply doesn’t make sense. One can imagine two events. I can experience two events that to me seem to have happened at the same time. They are simultaneous events. Now, if I know they took place at an equal distance from me, then even though it’s taken some fraction of a second for the light from those two events, the signal to reach my eyes, I can work back with and say, “Well, if I saw them happening at the same time, going back, they must have actually, like flashes of light. Those flashes of light will have happened simultaneously because I’m halfway between them and I saw them happen at the same time.” But for another observer moving past …
Fact check: No reliable data exist to compare incomes of homes with heat pumps
A 2024 evaluation asked heat pump grant recipients about their incomes. Source link
US media coverage of the war in Iran: Fact, fiction and propaganda – Scoop
To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again SCOOP © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 13/03/2026 – 16:17Modified: 13/03/2026 – 16:18 12:43 min From the show Reading time 1 min Polls in the United States suggest the war in Iran is unusually unpopular compared with past US military conflicts. There has been propaganda, video-game footage and facts spun into fiction, but also excellent reporting and crucial analysis of the innocent lives lost. This week, FRANCE 24’s media show Scoop looks at US media coverage, and our guest is Negar Mortazavi, an Iranian-American journalist and political analyst. By: Source link
Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Bombed Iran Due To A ‘Feeling, Based On Fact’
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt became the subject of much social media mockery on Wednesday for her explanation behind President Donald Trump’s recent decision to bomb Iran. The administration has offered a series of shifting reasons for the strikes, but Leavitt added one more to the mix: vibes, basically. During Wednesday’s press briefing, a reporter from The Independent asked why the administration “can’t say what the imminent threat against the United States was” that required the US to launch Operation Epic Fury. The press secretary declared that she would “explain to you exactly what led the president to make the decision” — and it seemed to boil down to feelings. “This decision to launch this operation was based on a cumulative effect of various direct threats that Iran posed to the United States of America, and the president’s feeling, based on fact, that Iran does pose an imminent and direct threat to the United States of America,” she said. Leavitt called Iran “the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism,” said it was “rapidly and …