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 S43S41Will studying a new language interfere with any others you speak? | Psyche Ideas   is a staff writer at Psyche. Her science journalism has appeared in Vice, The New York Times and Wired, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.When Julie Sedivy’s father died, she returned home to the Czech Republic and discovered another loss: Czech, her native tongue. In her book Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self (2021), Sedivy, a language scientist in Canada, describes her experience with language attrition – the forgetting of a language once known, even one learned long ago. For her, language attrition felt connected to her learning English, which crowded out the Czech.
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S65S59How disappearance became a global weapon of psychological control, 50 years on from Chile's US-backed coup  For the few remaining women of Calama in Chile’s Atacama desert, September 11 holds a terrifying meaning. They understand the pain of watching forensic investigators meticulously scour through particles of dust, seeking to retrieve the tiniest fragments of lives brutally taken from the world. They know what it means to face devastating absence, knowing the bodies of loved ones will never be returned.Fifty years ago, in the early morning of September 11 1973, a US-backed coup led by General Augusto Pinochet began with Chile’s military taking control of strategic locations in the capital city Santiago, including the main radio and television networks. At 8.30am, a declaration was broadcast that the military was now in control of the country.
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S61S39A Single Website Has a Choke Hold on Surfing  Surfline made the sport more convenient for amateurs and professionals alike. Why do so many of them complain about it?Matt Warshaw still remembers the jolt of horror he felt when the camera went up. It was September 2000, a decade since he quit his job as the editor of Surfing magazine and fled the crowded breaks of Southern California for the cold, isolated waves of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. When he saw the cam on the flagpole at a beachfront house his friend was renting, he was livid, certain that the website it broadcast to, Surfline, would bring crowds to his favorite spot. He wrote his friend’s landlord a letter. “Tom, how could you do this to us?” he recalls writing. “You don’t really know what you’ve done here.”
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S647 red flags your teen might be in an abusive relationship -  Australian teens need adults to help them recognise red flags for potentially abusive relationships.The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates 2.2 million adults have been victims of physical and/or sexual violence from a partner since the age of 15. Almost one in three Australian teens aged 18–19 report experiences of intimate partner violence in the previous year.
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S36What Russia Got by Scaring Elon Musk  The billionaire isn’t the only one who’s been frightened into holding back help for Ukraine.One evening in September 2022, a group of Ukrainian sea drones sped out into the Black Sea, heading for Russian-occupied Crimea. Their designers—engineers who had been doing other things until the current war began—had carefully targeted the fast, remote-controlled, explosive-packed vessels to hit ships anchored in Sebastopol, the home of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. But the drones ran into a problem: Starlink, the satellite-communications system that Ukraine had been using since Russia invaded early last year, unexpectedly wasn’t working. This was a surprise to the engineers. Several people, in Ukraine and elsewhere, frantically called and texted Elon Musk, the owner of Starlink, to persuade him to enable the system.
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S40An FTX Executive Who Broke With the Others  Ryan Salame, who pleaded guilty to two charges last week, was known as a “budding Republican mega-donor.”This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.
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S44S55Canada's lack of recognition for gender-based violence is putting disaster survivors at risk  Canada has experienced an unprecedented wildfire season in 2023. People’s experiences with any disaster event are influenced by social- and place-based vulnerabilities. For example, where you live affects your exposure to different hazards including wildfires and floods. Pre-existing social vulnerabilities contribute to some populations having disproportionate impacts from these events, in both the short and long term. Social vulnerability factors that have a demonstrated effect on people’s experience with disasters include income, health, disability, age, race, and gender. These factors also intersect in ways that increase vulnerability for certain populations.
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S53The nose knows: How microbiomes and the smells they produce help shape behaviour in bugs, birds, beasts and humans  Microbes are an integral part of most, if not all multi-cellular organisms. In fact, these organisms are the way they are because of the tiny partners they house within and on them. These microbes constitute the microbiome: an “invisible organ” weighing approximately 2.5 to three kilograms in an adult human and much more in larger animals.This unique body part was made visible with the advent of modern molecular imaging technologies. In my book Microbiomes and their Functions, I explore how it works in partnership with other visible organs and engages in a variety of physiological functions essential for the development and survival of the hosts.
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S677 rules for a respectful and worthwhile Voice referendum  In October, Australians are, for the first time in a generation, going to the polls to vote in a referendum. Unfortunately, we’re out of practice in how to conduct ourselves in a referendum. This process is supposed to promote dialogue about the fundamental rules and identity of our nation.
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S37Photos: The Aftermath of Morocco's Deadly Earthquake  Rescue workers, aided by newly arrived foreign crews, are racing against the clock to find survivors amid the rubble of Morocco’s mountain villages, following Friday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake. More than 2,600 deaths and 2,500 injuries have now been reported, caused by the strongest earthquake to hit Morocco in more than a century. Gathered below are images from Marrakesh and villages in central Morocco, where both burials and rescue operations are ongoing. A view of a village destroyed by the earthquake, near Adassil, Morocco, on September 11, 2023. #
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S42S38Car Hackers Are Out for Blood  The rise of “smartphones on wheels” is ushering in cybersecurity risks that have never before existed on America’s roads.When a group of German hackers breached a Tesla, they weren’t out to remotely seize control of the car. They weren’t trying to access the owner’s WiFi passwords, nor did they want a way to steal credit-card numbers from a local electric-vehicle charging network.
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S57Trials of Canadian, U.S. uprising organizers show the limits of protest rights  The trial has begun for two major leaders of the so-called Freedom Convoy that occupied parts of Canada’s capital in early 2022. Two organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, are charged with mischief, obstructing police, counselling others to commit mischief and intimidation.At the same time, in the United States, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection on Capitol Hill. Several others involved in that uprising have also received long prison terms.
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S451,000-Year-Old Mummy With a Full Head of Hair Discovered in Peru /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/c3/3e/c33ea573-359d-4983-b631-7645af5744fe/gettyimages-1646264357.jpg) The remains belonged to the Ychsma culture, a group that lived in present-day Peru before the Inca came to powerArchaeologists have discovered a 1,000-year-old mummy in the Miraflores district of Lima, Peru. Perhaps the most striking feature of the new find is its hair: The mummy has long brown locks that have been incredibly well-preserved.
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S46Physicists Observe 'Unobservable' Quantum Phase Transition | Quanta Magazine  Measurement is the nemesis of entanglement. As entanglement spreads through a grid of quantum particles â as shown in this simulation â what if you measured some of the particles here and there? Which phenomenon would triumph?In 1935, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger, two of the most prominent physicists of the day, got into a dispute over the nature of reality.
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S54S56S66S60China makes developers pay compensation for their ecological impacts - here's how this unique scheme works  PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science, University of Oxford In 2017, the Chinese environmental NGO, Friends of Nature, sued the developer of a dam in Yunnan province in the country’s south west. The NGO alleged that the project’s environmental impact assessment had failed to fully capture how the dam would affect the surrounding rainforest, and particularly the endangered green peafowl that lives there. This weak assessment report was one reason why the project was granted consent and even highlighted as best practice by the local government.
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S70Five years on, Brisbane's e-scooters and e-bikes are winning over tourists and residents as they open up the city  Five years after being the first Australian city to introduce rideshare e-scooters, Brisbane is leading the way after many growing pains and a lot of learning.Cities around the world are making micromobility, such as e-scooters and e-bikes, part of their transport plans. They hope to reap the widely proven benefits of encouraging active transport such as walking and cycling, reducing car trips and traffic congestion, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, improving access throughout cities and promoting residents’ overall wellbeing.
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S62Girlhood misery, bullying and beauty combine for Laura Elizabeth Woollett's 'unlikeable' west-coast girls  With the post-menopausal generation reappraising what it means to be an older woman, the sheen of youth has become exposed. Women are told to fear the ageing process, but the truth is, I would not return to my teenage years, nor would any of the women I know. The worst part of growing older is watching the next generation go through it all again. Female bullying is central to Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s fourth book, West Girls, which aligns the misery of girlhood with the tyranny of conventional beauty. Weaving interconnected stories around a revolving cast of characters growing up in Western Australia, the novel cracks open the toxic power dynamics between a privileged huddle of “Blondes” and the culturally diverse girls they seek to marginalise.
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S52AU peacekeepers are leaving Somalia: what needs to happen to keep the peace  The phased withdrawal of the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (Atmis) began earlier this year and is scheduled to end in December 2024. The withdrawal of African Union (AU) peacekeepers poses risks for Somalia. For one, it may reduce the pressure on al-Shabaab at a crucial time during the Somali government’s latest offensive. These risks cannot be completely eliminated but there are important steps the Somali authorities and the AU must take before the mission’s exit.
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S51Lee review from TIFF: Kate Winslet scores her best ever role in this biopic of a Vogue model-turned WW2 photographer  Antony Penrose's biography of his mother is called The Lives of Lee Miller for good reason. She had so many. In New York, she was a great beauty who became a fashion model, then a fashion photographer. In Paris, she was a friend of Picasso and did art photography with Man Ray. But it was as a photographer during World War Two that she did her most enduring work, black-and-white photos that offered distinct, intimate views of how the war affected lives. She saw that a lone soldier's boot lying on a street could tell a story.More like this: - How a Vogue photographer fought World War Two - Lee Miller: In Hitler's bathtub - The photos of grief that symbolised the anti-war movement
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