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 S70'Biological Recycling' Would Be Truly, Truly Amazing   On an overcast spring morning in 2012, Federica Bertocchini was tending to her honeybees close to where she lived in Santander, on Spain’s picturesque northern coast. One of the honeycombs “was plagued with worms,” says the amateur apiarist, referring to the pesky larvae of wax moths, which have a voracious—and destructive—appetite.Bertocchini picked out the worms, placed them in a plastic bag, and carried on with her beekeeping chores. When she retrieved the bag a few hours later, she noticed something strange: It was full of tiny holes.
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S42Every country can make a difference - but carbon reductions need to be realistic and fair  This weekend, the world’s major economies will convene in Delhi for the G20 summit. On the table will be the common goal of limiting global temperature rise as climate chaos becomes ever more evident.When we talk about limiting climate change, we’re really talking about the global carbon budget set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Basically, we have a two-thirds chance of holding global heating to 1.5℃ if we keep future emissions under 400 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide. At current emission rates, we’ve got just under five years left before we blow through that limit.
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S49You Need to Watch the Most Devastatingly Brilliant Sci-Fi Movie on Netflix ASAP  A man stares blankly ahead of him. Next, an image of a child playing happily with a dog. Back to the man again, with the same expression. Although, do we read fondness in that blank face? Nostalgia? Serenity? Suddenly, we switch to an image of a child in a coffin. Back to the man — this time, his expression is clearly one of grief and sadness.But that’s not the case. This man’s expression has stayed the same throughout these images; we’re just projecting our own emotions onto his blank canvas of a face. This mental phenomenon is called the Kuleshov effect, pioneered by Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. Kuleshov used it to prove the power of film editing, particularly of the montage. He asserted that filmmakers could harness the emotional reactions that viewers brought to a particular image and fundamentally change their perceptions.
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S64Two New Toxic Birds Discovered  Locals in Papua New Guinea called the birds spicy. When University of Copenhagen evolutionary ecologist Kasun Bodawatta handled feathers from the Regent Whistler and the Rufous-naped Bellbird, his eyes teared up and itched like he was chopping onions. It was the ecologist's first experience with toxic birds.The island's toxic birds were first described scientifically in 1992, and researchers have since identified a few more species. Their feathers and skin all carry the same type of potent neurotoxin found in South American poison dart frogs. If these substances, called batrachotoxins, bind to neurons' sodium-channel proteins, they cause the neurons to fire nonstop. High-enough doses can cause muscle paralysis and death.
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S58How to Write a Resignation Letter  Should you write a resignation letter? In most cases, quitting a job doesn’t require one. However, there are some situations in which you want to write one, the author explains in this piece. She outlines what those reasons are and offers advice for how to actually write one, including tips on what not to say. The article also includes a template you can use with sample language.
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S63Pakistan's tech workers are fleeing the country in droves  In early 2022, Zain Imran was applying for jobs at prominent startups in Pakistan — including at Airlift, an e-commerce platform that was poised to become the country’s first unicorn. Imran had recently moved back to Pakistan with a master’s degree in cybersecurity from a prominent university in the U.S. “I had heard about the speed at which things were being scaled up [at Airlift] and so I was really energized and excited to work for a Pakistani company growing at that massive scale,” the 28-year-old told Rest of World.But then Airlift laid off 31% of its workforce; by the summer, the company had shut down entirely. “My plan was never to leave Pakistan, but I saw that things were changing, companies were folding, VC funding was drying up, there were hiring freezes,” Imran said. A friend told him about a role at a big tech platform in Singapore. Imran applied, sailed through his interviews, and relocated in August 2022.
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S57How Diversity Can Drive Innovation  In this research, which rests on a nationally representative survey of 1,800 professionals, 40 case studies, and numerous focus groups and interviews, we scrutinized two kinds of diversity: inherent and acquired. Inherent diversity involves traits you are born with, such as gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Acquired diversity involves traits you gain from experience: Working in another country can help you appreciate cultural differences, for example, while selling to female consumers can give you gender smarts. We refer to companies whose leaders exhibit at least three inherent and three acquired diversity traits as having two-dimensional diversity.
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S66Reading for Pleasure Helps Kids' Brain Development  The simple and fun act of reading for pleasure in early childhood produces better cognition, mental health and educational attainment in adolescenceThe following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.
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S60How to Define, Develop, and Communicate Your Personal Brand  Your personal brand is the combination of your skills, the values your present, and the impression you leave on others. While actively building your personal brand may seem like a selfish endeavor, it’s far from it. It’s an empowering choice. Doing so can give you control over your professional development, network, career, and overall well-being. It can even make you more visible — and therefore, more satisfied — in your current job.
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S39S62The animals that could be dreaming  Young jumping spiders dangle by a thread through the night, in a box, in a laboratory. Every so often, their legs curl and their spinnerets twitch. The retinas of their eyes, visible through their translucent exoskeletons, shift back and forth."What these spiders are doing seems to be resembling – very closely – REM sleep," says Daniela Rößler, a behavioural ecologist at the University of Konstanz in Germany. During REM (which stands for rapid eye movement), a sleeping animal's eyes dart about unpredictably, among other features.
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S46A Novel That Links Climate Change and the Death of Salvador Allende  Salvador Allende’s election, in 1970, to a six-year term as President of Chile—though he got to serve only about half of it—was one of those rare moments which give the world reason to believe there might be an alternative to the rapacious, greed-based way we have always run things. He had campaigned on a series of profoundly power-threatening reforms he called the “Chilean road to socialism,” and his peaceful assumption of the Presidency—after three failed runs—seemed like something of a miracle. Over furious, often U.S.-backed opposition, he unleashed a torrent of changes, some of them socialist boilerplate (nationalizing the copper industry, redistributing farmland, supplying milk to schoolchildren) and others more visionary, such as the remarkable Project Cybersyn, aiming to link the then nascent technology of computers to factories and even to citizens’ homes as a way of managing the economy and exploring direct democracy. For a thousand days or so, the nation, and the watching world, seemed transformed. Comparisons to the American Camelot that John F. Kennedy conjured would be fair up to a point. Both figures bear out the sad truth that nothing lends itself to mythmaking, political or otherwise, like the vacuum left by an untimely death.Allende’s government was violently overthrown on September 11, 1973, by forces led by General Augusto Pinochet, who held power for the next seventeen years. Allende died in the coup; his closest political associates were executed, “disappeared,” jailed, or exiled. Those who survived found themselves recast from people actively building a more just tomorrow into something like curators of historical memory. Most widely known among these, for the past five decades, has been the writer Ariel Dorfman—who, born in Argentina and raised in New York, became a Chilean citizen at the age of twenty-five and served in Allende’s government as a “cultural adviser.” Now eighty-one, Dorfman has a résumé that is quite fantastic, as broad as it is long; to cite the fact that he once wrote the book for a musical that won the Korean equivalent of a Tony Award (indeed, five of them) risks making him sound like a dilettante. He is best known in this country as the author of “Death and the Maiden,” a powerful allegorical play—later adapted into a movie—about a woman confronting her torturer in a period of supposed societal reconciliation. And the book (written with Armand Mattelart) that first made his reputation in the West, “How to Read Donald Duck”—a slim, brutal, Marxist undressing of the American pop-cultural export machine—was a generation ahead of its time. When I was a college student, it altered my view of the world. (And, possibly, my father’s, too: the news that he had worked his whole life to send his son to college to study Disney comics launched him into a kind of culturally conservative apoplexy from which he never really recovered.)
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S50Oxygen Could Be Even More Critical to Alien Civilizations Than We Thought  Most life as we know it needs oxygen, but developing advanced technology needs even more oxygen.We have no way to estimate how many civilizations might develop the technology for interstellar communication. But University of Rome astronomer Amedeo Balbi and University of Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank suggest that we could start by figuring out how many planets have atmospheres with enough oxygen to start a fire. They published their work in a recent preprint paper (which has not yet been peer-reviewed).
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S65A Bold Attempt to Save Wild Ocelots from Extinction  Researchers will inseminate female ocelots in zoos with sperm from the few remaining wild ocelots, then train kittens for the wildResearch veterinarian Ashley Reeves had a rough week in mid-August. She had hoped to artificially inseminate ocelots at three zoos as part of a project to save these small, elegant spotted cats in the wild. But one female failed to ovulate, another had complications with her egg, and sperm for the third had lost much of its motility—its ability to travel into the oviduct and fertilize an egg—during shipment to the zoo, all of which made pregnancy less likely. Although Reeves finished the procedures, she won’t know for if they worked until another month passes. “What we are trying to do is very complicated,” she says.
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S51'Samba de Amigo: Party Central' Can't Stay on Beat  A multiplayer game with the word "party" in its title should, at minimum, be able to liven up obligatory family gatherings or occupy a group of people too inebriated to hold a conversation but not ready to go home yet. Call this the Mario Party Mandate. Samba de Amigo: Party Central fails this crucial test so thoroughly that it’s hard to imagine what audience it was even made for.If you didn’t know that Samba de Amigo: Party Central is the sequel to a well-loved rhythm game, you’re probably not alone. The original Samba de Amigo was released in arcades in 1999 and on the (beautiful and perfect but doomed) Dreamcast in 2000. Since then, the only entries in the series have been an updated version of the Dreamcast game and a 2008 Wii port that failed to live up to its predecessor’s charm.
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S35Is it okay to kiss your pet? The risk of animal-borne diseases is small, but real  Our relationship with pets has changed drastically in recent decades. Pet ownership is at an all-time high, with a recent survey finding 69% of Australian households have at least one pet. We spend an estimated A$33 billion every year on caring for our fur babies.While owning a pet is linked to numerous mental and physical health benefits, our pets can also harbour infectious diseases that can sometimes be passed on to us. For most people, the risk is low.
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S48Netflix's 'One Piece' Nails One Vital Truth About Anime Adaptations  One Piece is the rare good live-action anime adaptation. Here’s the reason why it succeeds.The genre of live-action adaptations of manga or anime often has a reputation of being “cursed.” And there’s a pretty good reason for this — it’s a graveyard of underwhelming projects, ranging from Dragonball Evolution, to Ghost in the Shell, to Death Note, to the recent Cowboy Bebop. Few of them ever manage to live up to their source material, which makes Netflix’s One Piece series seem like a fantastical outlier. It’s not perfect, but it comes the closest to “breaking the curse” of live-action adaptations, mainly due to how much it trusts the energy of what it’s based on.
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S34My teen is addicted to vaping. How can I help them quit and manage their withdrawal symptoms?  The Australian government is cracking down on vaping. Recreational vapes of any type – whether they contain nicotine or not – will be banned from retail sale across Australia after legislation is introduced (though the date is yet to be set).Rates of teen vaping have been rising rapidly in Australia, from 0.8% of 14- to 17-year-olds describing themselves as a current vaper over the past six months in 2018 to 14.5% in 2023. Among 18- to 24-year-olds, 19.8% have been a current vaper over the past six months.
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S36Marine heatwaves don't just hit coral reefs. They can cause chaos on the seafloor  Most of us know what a heatwave feels like on land – sweltering heat for days. But oceans get heatwaves too. When water temperature goes over a seasonal threshold for five days or more, that’s a marine heatwave. They do their worst damage in summer, when the ocean is already at its warmest, but they can occur any time of year. Over 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases has gone into our oceans. So it’s no surprise marine heatwaves are getting much more intense and more frequent. This year has been off the charts. From April this year, the world’s average ocean temperature has been the highest ever recorded.
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S41S47Can Teachers and Parents Get Better at Talking to One Another?  It was a weekday afternoon in the spring when my son’s kindergarten teacher got in touch about the ghost teen. During a social-studies unit about families, the teacher reported, my son had regaled his classmates with tales of his eighteen-year-old brother, who picks him up every afternoon at dismissal. I laughed out loud when I received this note, which was sent via ClassDojo, the messaging app used by our public elementary school in Brooklyn. My son has no brother of any age, and yet I could picture this brother immediately—I imagined him, for some reason, as one of the seniors from “Dazed and Confused,” leaning against his scuzzy, old Pontiac parked just outside the school gate, a Marlboro Red hanging from his lips, Foghat wafting from the tape deck. But the teacher did not seem amused. She asked me to talk to my kid about the importance of “being honest,” and to “review with him who is in his family.”I felt reluctant about this assignment because, perhaps like many parents, I enjoy it whenever my son makes some edits to reality. It freshens my own slumped and desiccated imagination and offers a glimpse of his inner world—an alternate universe in which he has flown to Tokyo all by himself, designed a train that can travel infinity miles per hour, and built a robotic arm that can see the future. And it’s not like this fantasy big brother was an outlier: an unscientific sampling of my friends revealed numerous boys who had sisters but fibbed about having brothers, girls with brothers who fibbed about having sisters, and only children who fibbed about having siblings of any gender. Some told me that they added fake siblings to family drawings that they turned in at school. One child cut out pictures of kids from magazines and presented them as her kin. Another talked about her nonexistent little sister enough that her teacher congratulated her dad on the birth of his new baby.
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S43S31Dogs don't see life through rose-coloured glasses, nor in black and white  Professeur Titulaire. École d'optométrie. Expertise en santé oculaire et usage des lentilles cornéennes spécialisées, Université de Montréal For a few months now, I’ve been treating six-year-old Samuel, who has the beginnings of myopia. He’s very quick for his age and often asks me questions about tests I give him, and about what I see inside his eyes.
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S67Working in Extreme Heat Is Dangerous. We Must Make It Safer  Extreme heat is becoming more common across the U.S. The federal government and employers owe workers better safety measuresAt 6 A.M. on a sweltering Saturday in June 2021, Sebastian Francisco Perez began work at Ernst Farm and Nursery, south of Portland, Ore. A recent immigrant from Guatemala, Perez was installing irrigation pipes for trees used in home and business landscaping.
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S61Avoid These Pitfalls When Measuring Your Strategy's Performance  This article explores three common traps that managers fall into when measuring their strategy’s performance and explains how to avoid them. The first trap is when the strategic framework and measurement system don’t align. To fix it, you must organize both around key stakeholders. The second trap is when companies measure what they do rather than what they achieve. To fix this, focus on stakeholder outcomes. The third trap is a lack of focus. To fix it, cascade rather than amalgamate your metrics.
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S40S68This Lesbian Monkey Love Triangle Tells Us Something Really Interesting About Darwin's 'Paradox'  A “Darwinian paradox” is that homosexual activity occurs even though it does not lead to or aid in reproduction. But if you visit three capuchin monkeys in Los Angeles, they’ll show you how beneficial their liaisons are.Natalia Reagan: Animal Tracks Inc is located about 40 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. This animal sanctuary takes in former exotic pets and entertainment industry animals and gives them a new lease on life. The menagerie includes several capuchin monkeys, kangaroos, wolf hybrids, a baboon named Chrissy and my BFF, a six-banded armadillo called Frank the Tank.
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S30Poor police practices are endangering 2SLGBTQ+ survivors of intimate partner violence  Intimate partner violence is a prevalent and growing issue in Canada. According to Statistics Canada, there were 114,132 police-reported victims of intimate partner violence in 2021, marking the seventh consecutive year of increased rates of violence.Intimate partner violence refers to harmful behaviours perpetrated by a current or former partner over another. This can include physical, sexual, emotional or financial abuse and coercive control.
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