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1 week ago

How Math Predicted the New Pope

Two weeks later 133 cardinal electors shuttered themselves inside Vatican City's Sistine Chapel to select the next pope. Outside the Vatican, prognosticators of all stripes scrambled to predict what name would be announced from the basilica balcony. Among the expert pundits, crowdsourced prediction markets, bookies, fantasy sportslike platforms and cutting-edge artificial intelligence models, almost nobody expected Robert Prevost. Where every known method of divination seemed to fail,
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fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Does Your Rage Change the World?

Intense negative emotions often produce disengagement, while visible peer involvement and positive states like happiness, purpose, and creativity better predict sustained action for social change.
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