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Get them while they're young | Science

"Everything I've ever learned about marketing, I learned in church," says Andrea, one of the people featured in this film. Ain't this the truth. It's astounding and disgusting to see the striking parallels between the strategies used by large corporations to get children hooked on cigarettes and those used by churches to brainwash children into

John Mayer apologises after using N-word in Playboy interview | John Mayer

John Mayer has apologised for using a racist epithet in a recent interview with Playboy magazine, after a number of prominent black musicians aired their disapproval. Mayer, 32, told an interviewer: "Someone asked me the other day, 'What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?' And by the way, it's sort of

Jonathan Fenby | The Guardian

Jonathan Fenby is a British writer, journalist and analyst. He is the author of Will China Dominate the 21st Century? and is China chairman at Trusted Sources research group. He edited the Observer newspaper from 1993 to 1995 and then the South China Morning Post from 1995 to 1999. Other books include Tiger Head, Snake

New AI can guess whether you're gay or straight from a photograph | Artificial intelligence (AI)

An algorithm deduced the sexuality of people on a dating site with up to 91% accuracy, raising tricky ethical questions Artificial intelligence can accurately guess whether people are gay or straight based on photos of their faces, according to new research that suggests machines can have significantly better gaydar than humans.

The myth of Marilyn Monroe: how her sex bomb image buries the truth

Six decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroes tumultuous life and death still holds us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, her biographer sorts fact from fiction In May, a portrait of a woman sold at auction in New York for $195m (157m): a record for an artwork by an