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AI and the Future of Work: Are Entry-Level Jobs Disappearing? Artificial Intelligence

AI and the Future of Work: Are Entry-Level Jobs Disappearing?

New evidence on how AI is actually used at work finds no unemployment shock among the most exposed workers, and none yet among the class of 2026. It finds something quieter instead: fewer young people getting in. What that means for emerging economies like India, for policy, and for anyone whose sense of self is bound up with a job.

Losing Weight, Losing Muscle: The Protein Paradox Nobody Talks About Health

Losing Weight, Losing Muscle: The Protein Paradox Nobody Talks About

The world is losing weight. It's also losing muscle. Crash diets, GLP-1 drugs, and caloric restriction all strip lean mass alongside fat. The science of protein, resistance training, and metabolic adaptation says there's a better way, but the data is complicated.

The Mountain Broke: Inside the August 2026 Nepal-Tibet Floods Climate

The Mountain Broke: Inside the August 2026 Nepal-Tibet Floods

A rock-ice avalanche on Langtang Lirung sent more than 100 million cubic metres of debris into the Bhote Koshi river system on 26 August 2026. What followed is the deadliest cryosphere-driven disaster in Nepal's recorded history.

Beyond Chatbots: The Data-Driven Rise of Agentic AI Artificial Intelligence

Beyond Chatbots: The Data-Driven Rise of Agentic AI

In 1966, ELIZA could fake a therapy session using twenty lines of pattern-matching script. In 2026, an AI agent browses the web, executes code, fact-checks its own claims, and delivers a finished research brief without a human touching a keyboard. Here is the data behind the most compressed capability leap in technology history.