An estimated 5 million Italians are in need of mental health support but are unable to afford it. An estimated 5 million Italians are in need of mental health support but are unable to afford it. My friends in Italy are using AI therapists. But is that so bad, when a stigma surrounds mental health? State provision for psychological health services is lamentable.

A voice-operated computer assistant is set to be used in space for the first time on Monday – its operators hope it proves more reliable than "HAL", the treacherous speaking computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Called Clarissa, the program will initially talk astronauts on the International Space Station through tests of onboard water supplies. But its developers hope it will eventually be used for all computer-related work on the station. Clarissa was designed with input from astronauts. They said it was difficult to perform the 12,000 procedures necessary to maintain the ISS and conduct scientific experiments while simultaneously reading through lengthy instruction manuals. "Just try to analyse a water sample while scrolling through pages of a procedure manual displayed on a computer monitor while you and the computer both float in microgravity," says US astronaut Michael Fincke, who spent six months on the station in 2004.

Clarissa may have been the one to explain it all back in the 1990s but actress Melissa Joan Hart has been explaining plenty herself during a recent string of interviews. Hart, who played a precocious teen girl in Nickelodeon's "Clarissa Explains it All" and a precocious teen witch in ABC and the WB's "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch," made headlines recently when she told People that she not only was supporting Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, but she was working as the campaign's Connecticut chairwoman. The actress has been making publicity appearances for the 20th anniversary of "Sabrina," which debuted Sept. 27, 1996, but the juiciest tidbit from Hart's latest spate of interviews isn't about "Sabrina" but about "Clarissa." When asked by Us Weekly about the possibility of a reboot of either series, Hart waved off the thought of returning to her teenage witchy ways. But when it came to "Clarissa," Hart said, "There is some talk about'Clarissa,' so we'll see which way that goes."