Are Classroom Screens Making Kids Dumber? A Neuroscientist Says Yes, and He Has the Science to Back It Up

A neuroscientist and former teacher is sounding a loud, uncomfortable alarm: the screens we installed in classrooms to help children learn may actually be doing the opposite. Jared Cooney Horvath’s argument is not a nostalgia trip. It’s a science-backed challenge to one of education’s most expensive assumptions.

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Your Child’s School Photo Is Online. Who Else Is Looking At It?

Every sports day, every nativity play, every prize-giving ceremony gets photographed and pushed onto a school website or social feed. It feels wholesome. But a creeping question is starting to demand an answer: once those images are out there, who actually controls them?

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August 16, 2026
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The Welshman Who Refused to Be English: Aneurin Donald Takes His Pride to Lord’s

He left Glamorgan years ago, swapped the valleys for the Midlands, and now wears a Trent Rockets shirt. But Aneurin Donald has never stopped being Welsh, and he wants the cricketing world to remember that, especially at Lord’s.

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August 16, 2026
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Uganda Volleyball Federation Takes a Hard Look at Its Own Rulebook

Governing bodies do not always make headlines for doing the right thing, but the Uganda Volleyball Federation just might deserve one. At its annual General Meeting, federation officials sat down to fix the fine print that has long needed updating. The agenda was clear: get the rulebook right.

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August 16, 2026
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Health

A Child’s Innocent Question Did What Years of Warnings Could Not: How Omulangira Ndausi Finally Kicked Cigarettes

It wasn’t a doctor’s ultimatum or a health scare that made Omulangira Ndausi put down his cigarettes. It was a child. A single, disarmingly honest question from his boss’s young son cut through years of habit and rationalisation in a way no adult ever managed. This is that story.

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August 16, 2026
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Politics

Winnie Byanyima Says Besigye’s Treason Case Is Really About Silencing Anyone Who Dares Oppose Museveni

Speaking from her home in Kasangati, Winnie Byanyima delivered a sharp and unflinching verdict on her husband’s ongoing legal ordeal: this was never just about Kizza Besigye. It is about what happens to anyone bold enough to challenge Yoweri Museveni. And according to her, the answer has always been the same.

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August 16, 2026
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Pauline Hanson Wants Australians to Raid Their Super to Survive. Is She Right?

With mortgage stress biting hard and grocery bills climbing, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has reignited one of Australia’s most contentious financial debates: should everyday Australians be allowed to crack open their superannuation to survive the present, even at the cost of their future? It is a question that splits economists, politicians, and ordinary workers right down the middle.

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The Mobile Game Where You Play UK Prime Minister Is Beating Minecraft on the Charts

A British mobile game that puts you in the hot seat at Downing Street has done the unthinkable: knocked Minecraft off the top of Apple’s paid games chart. Built by a solo developer in Manchester, No 10: Full Confidence turns Westminster chaos into addictive gameplay, and it turns out millions of people are very much here for it.

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August 15, 2026
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Sports

Heat Beats Djokovic Before Tirante Even Has To: Argentina’s Rising Star Stuns Tennis World in Cincinnati

The sun did half the work, and Thiago Tirante did the rest. Novak Djokovic, one of the sport’s all-time greats, was brought to his knees at the Cincinnati Open by a combination of brutal conditions and a fearless Argentine who refused to blink. Nobody saw this coming.

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August 15, 2026
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How a Farm Clinic in Lira Is Changing the Way Uganda’s Farmers Grow, Manage, and Get Paid

In Lira, something quietly significant took place at one of Uganda’s most respected agricultural research institutions. Farmers, scientists, and financiers sat in the same room, and actually listened to each other. The results could reshape how northern Uganda feeds itself.

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