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It’s another sticky summer evening. You’re too hot to sleep. Surely an ice-cold shower is the best way to cool off and drift away quicker? Not really, says Mike Tipton, a professor of human and applied physiology at the University of Portsmouth.“If you’re trying to go to sleep, the last thing you want to do is go into a freezing cold shower,” he says. The shock of cold water immersion causes the body to produce adrenaline and cortisol, stress hormones designed to keep us alert. “That’s just about the last thing you want before you go to bed.”double quotation markTo cool down before…

While protests over the NEET question paper leak have shown the strength of democracy, it has also brought Gen Z into the limelight. In an interaction with TNIE, Jayaram, Director of Valley School and Secretary of Bangalore Education Centre (BEC) – Krishnamurti Foundation India, speaks on the education system, exams, success, failure and aspirations of the young. Excerpts.The NEET question paper leak triggered the recent protest, but as an educationist do you see deeper issues behind the growing frustration among students? What steps should schools, parents and students take?What we seem to have understood as education is schooling, which I…

Lawyers representing Adeniyi Adeyemi, the man accused of establishing the fake Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC), have accused several federal institutions of validating and facilitating the council’s operations. In a statement signed by his legal team on Sunday, the lawyers questioned why investigators had focused criminal proceedings on their client alone. “If the SGF, the Accountant-General, the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Head of Service, the Budget Office, the EFCC, the National Assembly and the heads of Nigeria’s primary security architecture all verified, processed, funded and officially interacted with this agency over an extended period, how can a single…

An intelligence-led operation by the Department of State Services (DSS) has resulted in the death of over 60 suspected bandits in Bakori Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State. Security sources disclosed that a notorious bandit kingpin, Idi Abasu Aiki, believed to be responsible for several attacks by bandits across the Northwest states of Katsina and Zamfara, was among those neutralized during the operation. According to the sources, the operation was backed by members of the Katsina State Community Vigilantes and specially trained hunters, four of whom were killed by the bandits. One of the sources said that over 200…

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The researchers note, however, that Anthropic’s 97 percent detection rate likely applies to full scam conversations including the appeal for a fake investment, not the relationship-building phase they focused on, which includes far less conspicuous language. Their findings about Claude’s willingness in many cases to impersonate a human, the researchers note, were carried out with the latest version of Anthropic’s chatbot. The efficiency of using AI for scam relationship-building contrasts with the researchers’ findings from their broad survey of scam workers, which found that they use LLMs only as a supplementary tool for refining their scams. The reason for that…

Abu Ibrahim Abdulkarim Politics occasionally rises above the arithmetic of elections to become a profound moral statement. Such moments transcend the immediate contest for power and redefine the language of leadership itself. Governor Uba Sani’s nomination of Comrade Jerry Adams as his running mate for the 2027 governorship election is one such defining moment. More than the selection of a deputy governorship candidate, it is a deliberate reaffirmation of a governing philosophy that has consistently sought to replace suspicion with trust, exclusion with inclusion, and division with shared citizenship. In a state whose history has often been punctuated by painful…

In a day of action at Syston Brook, volunteers mucked in to shovel “absolutely solid” silt out of the concrete-bottomed channel, which was then removed by the Environment Agency.Hick said: “It was a lot of hard work but we had fun, it was great.”It’s been quite fortunate this year because we didn’t have any floods in January, thank goodness, for the first time in a couple of years.”It was one of those jobs we’d have liked to have got done last year, but there was more water and a lot more stuff upstream that needed to be shifted first.”It’s trying…

Wales have become the first nation to publicly withdraw backing for Gianni Infantino’s bid to continue his leadership of Fifa.It follows the loss of confidence in the Fifa president following his scrapped plans to sell stakes in its competitions to private investment firms.The Football Association of Wales (FAW) has confirmed “its withdrawal of support for the candidature of Mr Gianni Infantino for re-election as Fifa president for the 2027-2031 term”.Infantino’s lucrative plan sparked a global outcry, with European football’s governing body Uefa threatening to boycott all Fifa competitions, including the World Cup. Uefa and Concacaf – which oversees football in…

By Ayo Onikoyi Nollywood actress Teniola Aladese has opened up about her dating life, revealing that she is currently not in a relationship while describing herself as a strict person when it comes to dating. Aladese made this known during an appearance on Pulse Nigeria’s Drink or Spill, where she was asked about her current relationship status. “I am trying my best, guys. I date, but currently I am not dating,” she said. The actress, who was also asked to name the most dramatic celebrity she knows, mentioned fellow actress Bisola Aiyeola, describing her as one of the most dramatic…