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Jan 16, 2025 | 
wng.org | Bekah McCallum
Reddit user Ava says she talked more to chatbots in the seventh grade than she did to her peers or family members. The middle schooler spent 2-4 hours a day exchanging messages with artificially intelligent bots on Character.ai. The app hosts millions of bots, some customizable and others ready-made AI personas crafted after fictional characters or celebrities. Ava believed the chat conversations helped her make up for a lack of social interaction.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
wng.org | Bekah McCallum
On Jan. 6, federal officials reported the first death of a U.S. resident from bird flu. Health officials had previously determined the virus, which typically affects animals, may have mutated after the Louisiana patient caught a strain from backyard poultry. Although the patient had underlying health conditions, the death raised questions about whether bird flu poses a growing threat to humans. Where did bird flu come from?
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
wng.org | Bekah McCallum
John Mark Yeats, president of Corban University, a private Christian college in Salem, Oregon, remembers deciphering more than 1,200 pages of federal regulations in 2020 when the Trump administration revised Title IX rules. He said the school then rewrote its policies to align with the Biden administration’s 2024 changes to Title IX, but before it could implement them, a court ruling last year exempted the school from following the guidance.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
wng.org | Bekah McCallum
RELIGION | Some disillusioned Protestants are pivoting to Catholicism
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
wng.org | Bekah McCallum
MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Tuesday, November 26th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day. Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard. NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: a soundtrack for the Creation story. Writing choral music is all in a day’s work for composer Dan Forrest. Recently, he wrote a 72-minute composition inspired by the Creation story. Here’s WORLD’s Bekah McCallum.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
wng.org | Bekah McCallum
NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Friday, November 15th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day. Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher. MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. This week, a theatrical adaptation from the Chronicles of Narnia saga opens for a two-week run at the Ark Encounter in Kentucky. Before the show hit the road, The Horse and His Boy completed a short tour of its home base in South Carolina. WORLD’s Bekah McCallum attended a performance and has this review.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
wng.org | Bekah McCallum
California companies now face a roadblock to selling information gleaned by analyzing people’s brains, thanks to a new law passed Sept. 28. Modern wearable devices bring neurotechnology to the average consumer: BrainBit headbands, for example, scan the user’s brain and can “broadcast” his mood to social media. A company called Emotiv offers a range of products, including Bluetooth earbuds, that electronically analyze the wearer’s attention level and cognitive performance.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
wng.org | Bekah McCallum
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
wng.org | Bekah McCallum
Digital artist Jason Allen spent more than 100 hours designing a piece for a contest, but the U.S. Copyright Office denied his copyright request because Allen created the artwork using artificial intelligence. Instead of using oil or acrylic for his Dune-inspired landscape, Allen fed 642 prompts into Midjourney, an AI image generator. The resulting image, titled “Théâtre D'opéra Spatial,” which is French for “Space Opera Theater,” won a digital art award at the Colorado State Fair in 2022.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
wng.org | Bekah McCallum
In China, employees will have to work further into their sunset years before cashing in on pension benefits due to a government plan to increase the national retirement age incrementally. The communist country, famous for its decadeslong one-child policy that it later amended to allow two and then three children, joins a trend of countries pushing back retirement to combat hemorrhaging pension funds as populations age and birth rates dwindle. On Sept.
