Should the U.S. fear TikTok?
The U.S. is considering banning the hugely popular video-sharing app TikTok, over concerns that its Chinese ownership poses a threat to national security. What’s to fear about TikTok?
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Point taken: In celebration of darkness
Recently, we explored why Earth needs darkness just as much as it needs light. We asked listeners in the On Point VoxPop app to go outside at night with their phones and describe what they saw and heard.
First person: Why clownfish need darkness
Emily Fobert is a research fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia. In the lab, Emily studies how light pollution affects marine life.
First person: Behind a scientist's discovery of a tongue-replacing parasite
Professor Nico Smit specializes in aquatic parasitology at Northwestern University in South Africa. Many years ago, while working on his Ph.D., Smit ran across something special in the coastal waters...
Essential trust: What trust is, why we need it and what happens when it's lost
In an On Point special series "Essential trust," we explore how trust is created, from the neural networks of an individual human brain, to institutions and societies at large.
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