Today's Articles (28/7/2025)
Buy now, pay later, in debt forever?
“When you look at the world through that lens, it does seem as if everyone is happy and fit and attractive and rich – they don’t seem to work, but they have lots of clothing and luxury goods. But influencers are selling you an entertainment product… they’re selling an illusion.”
Then there’s the age-old crux of consumerism: the silent belief that if we acquire new and better things, we can make ourselves better – make ourselves whole. It’s a crushing disappointment when that feeling wears off the instant a package arrives on Sadie’s doorstep, replaced by a scorching sense of shame that kicks into overdrive whenever she opens the Klarna app.
Mineral v chemical sunscreen: Which one should you be using?
In fact, modern titanium dioxide and zinc oxide only reflect or scatter 4-5% of the UV range, an authoritative, peer-reviewed 2015 study found. They absorb the other 95%.
Indeed, scientists have been aware that inorganic sunscreens absorb UV since the 1980s – so much so that the authors of the 2015 study already seemed exasperated with having to provide even further proof. Their study emphasised "yet again", they wrote, "that the true function of these insoluble 'physical' or 'mineral' UV filters is in fact identical to that of the soluble 'chemical' UV filters.
My Classroom Will Be AI-Free This Fall
I’m starting to wonder if I should just program Gemini to grade the papers that Claude has written, and we can all knock off early.
神奈川県から来た小学生は「恐竜に追いかけられたいです」と話していました。(A primary school student from Kanagawa said, "I want to be chased by a dinosaur.")