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Confused about donations

A suite at a New York Knicks game costs more than $30,000. Is that a donation to the team? Why do we differentiate between the money spent on a Super Bowl ticket and the check we write for a worthy cause? Does calling it a “donation” make it more valuable or less valuable to

Majority consensus reached on Iran's next supreme leader

DUBAI, March 8 (Reuters) - The clerical body that will choose Iran's next supreme leader, succeeding the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has more or less reached a majority consensus, Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri said on Sunday. The Mehr news

War in the Middle East: latest developments

Here are the latest events in the Middle East war on Sunday: - Fuel depots hit - Fuel distribution in the Iranian capital has been temporarily halted after US-Israeli strikes on depots, an official said. Huge fires burned after the strikes on five facilities in and around

Beyond hope and hype: five certainties in the AI storm

The just-published Anthropic paper by Massenkoff and McCrory is a genuinely careful, well-intentioned and much-needed piece of work. The authors build a thoughtful exposure measure, draw on real usage data, apply a clean difference-in-differences framework and find limited