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Remote work is increasing isolation and harming mental health for millions of Americans, according to a major new study.
When the pandemic pushed millions of workers into home offices, Harvard Ph.D. student Emma Harrington was initially impressed by how productive she could be. But living alone, she soon experienced the downside: long stretches of profound isolation with almost no human contact.
That personal experience led Harrington and her colleagues to launch a large-scale investigation. Their study, analyzing data from more than 588,000 American workers, was published in the journal Science.
The findings are striking: remote workers now spend roughly one extra hour alone each day compared to those in non-remote jobs. This increased isolation is linked to significantly higher rates of mental distress, greater use of therapy, and more antidepressant prescriptions. The effects are especially severe for people living alone, who face an 83% higher likelihood of spending entire days with zero human interaction.
As remote and hybrid work becomes a permanent feature of modern life, the authors stress that companies and policymakers must actively address this hidden cost — ensuring that flexibility doesn’t come at the expense of human connection.
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When the pandemic pushed millions of workers into home offices, Harvard Ph.D. student Emma Harrington was initially impressed by how productive she could be. But living alone, she soon experienced the downside: long stretches of profound isolation with almost no human contact.
That personal experience led Harrington and her colleagues to launch a large-scale investigation. Their study, analyzing data from more than 588,000 American workers, was published in the journal Science.
The findings are striking: remote workers now spend roughly one extra hour alone each day compared to those in non-remote jobs. This increased isolation is linked to significantly higher rates of mental distress, greater use of therapy, and more antidepressant prescriptions. The effects are especially severe for people living alone, who face an 83% higher likelihood of spending entire days with zero human interaction.
As remote and hybrid work becomes a permanent feature of modern life, the authors stress that companies and policymakers must actively address this hidden cost — ensuring that flexibility doesn’t come at the expense of human connection.
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High school students in Rome have discovered a spectacularly preserved 1,800-year-old Roman luxury villa directly beneath their school gymnasium.
For years, students at Liceo Scientifico Cavour, located just steps from the Colosseum, passed down rumors of hidden chambers and underground passageways beneath their sports facilities. After a school protest, a group of adventurous teens explored the restricted basement areas, navigating dark corridors that led them to an old boiler room and, eventually, to remarkably intact ancient ruins.
Their Latin and history teacher, Claudia Marino, took the students’ claims seriously and alerted the Special Superintendency of Rome. Official excavations began in early 2026 and have since revealed a high-status second-century AD private residence, now known as the Domus Liceo Cavour.
The villa features vibrant Pompeian-red frescoes, intricate stucco ceilings, and a luxurious black mosaic floor. Inscriptions suggest it once belonged to wealthy Roman elites, possibly including Senator L. Fabius Gallus and later members of the prominent Umbrius family.
Plans are already underway to open the site to the public, with the very students who helped uncover the villa set to serve as official tour guides.
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For years, students at Liceo Scientifico Cavour, located just steps from the Colosseum, passed down rumors of hidden chambers and underground passageways beneath their sports facilities. After a school protest, a group of adventurous teens explored the restricted basement areas, navigating dark corridors that led them to an old boiler room and, eventually, to remarkably intact ancient ruins.
Their Latin and history teacher, Claudia Marino, took the students’ claims seriously and alerted the Special Superintendency of Rome. Official excavations began in early 2026 and have since revealed a high-status second-century AD private residence, now known as the Domus Liceo Cavour.
The villa features vibrant Pompeian-red frescoes, intricate stucco ceilings, and a luxurious black mosaic floor. Inscriptions suggest it once belonged to wealthy Roman elites, possibly including Senator L. Fabius Gallus and later members of the prominent Umbrius family.
Plans are already underway to open the site to the public, with the very students who helped uncover the villa set to serve as official tour guides.
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JUST IN: Decarlos Brown Jr., who fatally stabbed Iryna Zarutska, has been ruled UNFIT to stand trial for a SECOND time
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NEW: Taliban ban smartphone use for their members and government employees in Afghanistan.
Taliban members in several provinces have reportedly begun smashing their smartphones to show loyalty to the supreme leader
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Taliban members in several provinces have reportedly begun smashing their smartphones to show loyalty to the supreme leader
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The jobs report is putting on a show
On paper everything looks fine. 172,000 jobs added in May, unemployment parked at 4.3%, and the market popped the champagne right on schedule.
Go one layer down though and it gets ugly fast.
Full-time jobs actually dropped by 79,000 last month, sliding to 134.17 million, the weakest reading since December 2024. That's two straight monthly declines and four of the last five, with more than a million full-time jobs wiped out across that stretch.
And here's the kicker, full-time work as a share of total employment is down to 82.4%, basically where it bottomed in 2020 when half the country was stuck indoors.
So what's really going on here.
The top-line keeps climbing because part-time and lower-quality work is quietly plugging the hole, while the solid, full-time, pays-the-rent kind of job keeps thinning out. Hiring's already frozen at its slowest pace since April 2020, and wages are crawling at 3.4% while inflation runs hotter at 3.8%, so plenty of people are technically employed and still falling a little further behind every single month.
Now the part that actually matters down the road.
When the full-time base keeps shrinking and the cheap, flexible gigs carry the load, household incomes get wobbly, big-ticket spending starts pulling back, and an economy that lives and dies on the U.S. consumer starts running on fumes. That kind of thing usually shows up in the spending data months before any headline forces people to care.
And the Fed's boxed in. Cut rates to defend jobs and you pour fuel on the inflation already chewing through paychecks, hold them steady and you let the slow bleed in full-time work keep going.
Healthy headline, hollow core, and by the time the top-line number finally cracks, the rot underneath will already be months deep.
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On paper everything looks fine. 172,000 jobs added in May, unemployment parked at 4.3%, and the market popped the champagne right on schedule.
Go one layer down though and it gets ugly fast.
Full-time jobs actually dropped by 79,000 last month, sliding to 134.17 million, the weakest reading since December 2024. That's two straight monthly declines and four of the last five, with more than a million full-time jobs wiped out across that stretch.
And here's the kicker, full-time work as a share of total employment is down to 82.4%, basically where it bottomed in 2020 when half the country was stuck indoors.
So what's really going on here.
The top-line keeps climbing because part-time and lower-quality work is quietly plugging the hole, while the solid, full-time, pays-the-rent kind of job keeps thinning out. Hiring's already frozen at its slowest pace since April 2020, and wages are crawling at 3.4% while inflation runs hotter at 3.8%, so plenty of people are technically employed and still falling a little further behind every single month.
Now the part that actually matters down the road.
When the full-time base keeps shrinking and the cheap, flexible gigs carry the load, household incomes get wobbly, big-ticket spending starts pulling back, and an economy that lives and dies on the U.S. consumer starts running on fumes. That kind of thing usually shows up in the spending data months before any headline forces people to care.
And the Fed's boxed in. Cut rates to defend jobs and you pour fuel on the inflation already chewing through paychecks, hold them steady and you let the slow bleed in full-time work keep going.
Healthy headline, hollow core, and by the time the top-line number finally cracks, the rot underneath will already be months deep.
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According to the UK government, you’re considered a terrorist if you believe that Western culture is under threat from mass migration.
Yes, this is really on their website.
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Yes, this is really on their website.
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I want the old Tucker back, the one who went to war for our God-given right to f&ckable M&Ms
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WARREN BUFFETT IS TAKING HIS CHIPS OFF THE TABLE
The greatest investor alive just made his most serious warning in 60 years
He's 95. He's seen every crash since the 1950s
And right now he's holding nearly $400 BILLION in cash
The biggest pile any company has ever sat on in history
Let that sink in
The Oracle of Omaha doesn't want your "hot stocks."
He wants to be OUT
Here's what he actually said:
"We've never had people in a more gambling mood than now."
"A church with a casino attached."
Read that again
The man who told everyone to be GREEDY when others are fearful…
is now the most fearful he's ever been.
Why?
Look at one number almost nobody is watching.
The Buffett Indicator - his own favorite gauge - just hit 238%.
An ALL-TIME record. Higher than 2000. Higher than 2008.
What does that mean in plain English?
The entire stock market is now worth more than 2x everything the country produces.
Imagine paying $238 for a business that earns $100 a year
That's not investing. That's casino
And the house always wins
This is the same man who raised cash before 2008 while everyone laughed
The same man who survived every bubble by walking out BEFORE the music stopped
He's not buying the dip
He's building a fortress
For those new here:
I've called the exact market tops and bottoms for 11 years, including the tariff-war crash and the 2022 collapse
The next call will be even more important
When I make my next move, I'll post it publicly, like I always do
Not following me is your 1 mistake of 2026, soon you'll understand why.
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The greatest investor alive just made his most serious warning in 60 years
He's 95. He's seen every crash since the 1950s
And right now he's holding nearly $400 BILLION in cash
The biggest pile any company has ever sat on in history
Let that sink in
The Oracle of Omaha doesn't want your "hot stocks."
He wants to be OUT
Here's what he actually said:
"We've never had people in a more gambling mood than now."
"A church with a casino attached."
Read that again
The man who told everyone to be GREEDY when others are fearful…
is now the most fearful he's ever been.
Why?
Look at one number almost nobody is watching.
The Buffett Indicator - his own favorite gauge - just hit 238%.
An ALL-TIME record. Higher than 2000. Higher than 2008.
What does that mean in plain English?
The entire stock market is now worth more than 2x everything the country produces.
Imagine paying $238 for a business that earns $100 a year
That's not investing. That's casino
And the house always wins
This is the same man who raised cash before 2008 while everyone laughed
The same man who survived every bubble by walking out BEFORE the music stopped
He's not buying the dip
He's building a fortress
For those new here:
I've called the exact market tops and bottoms for 11 years, including the tariff-war crash and the 2022 collapse
The next call will be even more important
When I make my next move, I'll post it publicly, like I always do
Not following me is your 1 mistake of 2026, soon you'll understand why.
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Police said the attempted beheading by a Sudanese man in North Belfast, Ireland, is not being treated as terrorism
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