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 S66 Our Guide to the Fall 2023 Issue   Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.Top Takeaways: Research shows that innovators have a poor track record of predicting which of their own ideas will result in breakthroughs. This matters because some ideas that appear to be incremental at first eventually prove to be blockbusters. Discovery is a necessary first step, but it is not sufficient for assessing how promising an opportunity might become. Rather, taking more ideas to incubation gives both the company and the broader market a chance to learn about them and their potential. It also allows for unanticipated use cases to emerge.
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S1Hard Work Doesn't Always Lead to Success  If you feel that you’re putting in the hours and not achieving the desired results, increasing your efforts may not be the answer. When people fail, it’s not because of a lack of effort but because their effort was misdirected or misaligned with their interests. People who make informed and intelligent choices about the work they choose to focus on have been quicker to reach success. If you’re new to an organization and want to get ahead, or just entering the workforce and trying to figure out where to focus your efforts, use these insights to guide you.
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S2The Myth of the CEO as Ultimate Decision Maker  Chief executives are responsible for guiding corporations, so the role inevitably requires making many decisions. But people overestimate the level of personal involvement CEOs have in this process. Instead of making decisions, CEOs tend to shape decisions, by designing the process, choosing when to participate directly, and monitoring the work — a selective process that mirrors the choices CEOs must make when carrying out other responsibilities.
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S3How to Compete with a Fast-Growing Disruptor  In this episode, Harvard Business School professor Tatiana Sandino explains how OXXO CEO Eduardo Padilla responded to this strategic challenge. Instead of opening more stores as quickly as possible, he focused on improving the company’s culture and operations. The company implemented management systems across its locations and then used those systems to gain new economies of scale.
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S4How the Best Chief Data Officers Create Value  Despite the rapidly increasing prominence of data and analytics functions, the majority of chief data officers (CDOs) fail to value and price the business outcomes created by their data and analytics capabilities. It comes as no surprise then that many CDOs fall behind expectations and have short tenures. The authors conducted 17 in-depth interviews with CDOs who are largely considered to be at the frontier of the role. Based on the interviews, they synthesized where CDOs can create value and how they can measure and price it. Beyond strategies for creating and demonstrating value, they provide insights into qualitative and quantitative measurements that data analytics leaders are currently adopting.
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S5How Do I Handle a Bad Boss?  ELAINY MATA: What makes a boss bad? Would you be able to tell the difference between a boss who’s just not great at their job, or maybe your personalities are just clashing a bit versus a boss that’s actually toxic. Welcome to New Here, honest conversations and practical advice to help you play the game called “Work.” I’m Elainy Mata, and this week we’re talking about how to handle your first bad boss.
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S6Worker Safety Needs to Be Central to Your Company's Operations  Especially in high-hazard industries, there’s nothing more central to your firm’s operations than worker safety. By making worker safety central to a firm’s operations, not only are lives saved and injuries prevented, but there is a greater commitment among the entire workforce, from the CEO on down to the shop floor, to achieving operational excellence. In this article, the author highlights a unique strategic partnership that helped the electrical transmission and distribution construction industry control injuries and fatalities caused by exposures to workplace hazards. It identifies numerous best practices that any industry or firm can apply to reduce injury rates and improve worker safety, so that employees and your company can thrive.
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S7Sea sponges offer lifeline to women in Zanzibar  As a gentle morning breeze blows across the Zanzibar shore, Hindu Simai Rajabu walks through knee-deep water to reach a shallow lagoon off the coast of Jambiani, Tanzania, where her floating sponge farm is located.Sporting shiny goggles and with a snorkel placed on top of her headscarf, Rajabu wades through the Indian Ocean, her laughter at the experience of being filmed mingling with the sound of the crashing waves.
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S8Apple suppliers Foxconn and Luxshare are scrambling for 45,000 workers  On a recent Friday in August, a few workers lined up outside Foxconn’s electronics assembly factory in the Bac Giang province of Vietnam, printed CVs in hand. Humidity hung over the sparse queue as 30-year-old truck driver Nguyen Thanh Cong waited to be interviewed. “I don’t know what they make here,” he told Rest of World with a shrug. Keen or not, by the following week, Cong was on the factory floor, pulling night shifts to make iPhone charging cables.Vietnam is the world’s third-largest manufacturing hub for smart devices from brands like Apple and Samsung. With Apple under pressure to expand manufacturing away from China, its suppliers, like Foxconn and Luxshare-ICT, are hiring rapidly in Vietnam to meet renewed orders for AirPods and chargers. Foxconn is recruiting some 24,500 assembly workers in the country’s north, according to a local media report. Rival Luxshare is hiring 24,000. These are massive recruitment numbers, considering tens of thousands of factory workers were pushed out of work during the recent slump.
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S9Domestic work in Vietnam: The 5-star butler who naps on the steps  When she was younger, Bui Thao My tried every job she could think of that didn’t require a degree or an investment. From laboring on a factory floor to selling snacks outside a school and running a street food cart, she did it all. Throughout her various jobs, she longed for a stability she struggled to find.Things took a turn in 2012, when My came across a recruitment ad by JupViec, then a newly founded agency that connected domestic workers with clients. Over a decade later, My is one of the top-performing workers for the company, a gig platform that now offers in-home services such as cleaning and cooking.
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S10Mathematicians Think Saudi Arabia's Ambitious 'Line' City Should Be a Circle  Despite efforts to make a planned city in the Saudi Arabian desert sustainable, its layout could create problems In October 2022 construction work began on a megaproject called “the Line,” a 106-mile-long city in the Saudi Arabian desert. The plan is for nine million people to live within a mere 13 square miles—an area comparable to Burlington, Vt., which is home to only about 45,000 inhabitants.
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S11Bees 'Buzz' in More Ways Than You Might Think  A honeybee swarm has as much electric charge as a thundercloud, and the insects’ mass movements in the atmosphere might even have some influence on the weather.Jeff DelViscio: Hi Science, Quickly listeners. This is Jeff DelViscio, executive producer of the show.
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S12Vivitrol, Used to Fight Opioid Misuse, Has a Major Overdose Problem  A recent examination of Vivitrol’s clinical trial data uncovered many hidden overdoses. Its preferential use in the criminal justice system must stopAbout 100,000 Americans die each year from overdoses, primarily caused by opioids like illicitly manufactured fentanyl. Fortunately, we have two treatments for opioid use disorder proven in multiple studies to reduce the death rate by 50 percent or more. These are methadone and buprenorphine. This data should make these drugs the gold standard for treatment. But a third medication—often promoted based on a pivotal trial that we now know missed some key overdose data—also vies for that position.
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S13S14Ancient Human Fossil Trip to Space Raises Questions and Criticism  The decision to send hominin bones on a commercial spaceflight has raised eyebrows among paleontologistsOn a bright Friday morning last week, a Virgin Galactic spacecraft travelled 88 kilometres above Earth to the edge of space. On board were two Virgin Galactic pilots, an instructor and three passengers — and the remains of two ancient-human relatives that lived hundreds of thousands of years ago in southern Africa.
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S15Humans Have Crossed 6 of 9 'Planetary Boundaries'  Scientists analyzed nine so-called planetary boundaries and found humans are currently transgressing sixHuman activity is turning Earth into a world that may no longer adequately support the societies we’ve built, scientists warn in a new study charting whether and by how much we have surpassed nine “planetary boundaries.”
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S16Why Hurricane Lee Is Growing Bigger  Hurricane Lee is no longer a Category 5 storm but has grown in size as it has trekked farther northHurricane Lee has churned itself into a sprawling storm, with hurricane-force winds stretching more than 100 miles in each direction from the eye of the storm as it heads northward, far off the East Coast of the U.S.
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S17S18Becky Kennedy: The single most important parenting strategy  Everyone loses their temper from time to time — but the stakes are dizzyingly high when the focus of your fury is your own child. Clinical psychologist and renowned parenting whisperer Becky Kennedy is here to help. Not only does she have practical advice to help parents manage the guilt and shame of their not-so-great moments but she also models the types of conversations you can have to be a better parent. (Hint: this works in all other relationships too.) Bottom line? It's never too late to reconnect.
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S19Why Some Animals Thrive in Cities  Eat almost anything. Sleep almost anywhere. These, it seems, are the secrets to surviving in the city as a wild animal. Among the species that dominate urban spaces—pigeons, cockroaches, rats, foxes—these are the most obvious characteristics successful city dwellers have.But they aren’t the only tactics for urban survival. A new study has uncovered four very different sets of traits that animals use to prosper in the city. “There isn’t one-size-fits-all for how different species or different taxa respond to urbanization,” says Amy Hahs of the Green Infrastructure Research Group at the University of Melbourne, who led the research. Understanding how different types of animals adapt to the city in different ways, and what drives these changes, could help us improve urban biodiversity, and with it the overall health of our urban environment.
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S20Marie Kondo and the Manhattan Project  Stan Ulam knew he was moving to New Mexico, but he didn’t know exactly why. Ulam was a Polish-born mathematician—and later, physicist—who first came to the United States in the late 1930s. In 1943, after Ulam had obtained American citizenship and a job at the University of Wisconsin, his colleague John von Neumann invited him to work on a secret project. All Von Neumann could reveal about the project was that it would involve relocating, along with his family, to New Mexico.If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more.
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S21Quan Millz Was the Biggest Mystery on TikTok. Until Now  Reaction videos started flooding TikTok this summer, all of them with the same question: Who is Quan Millz? The answer varied depending on the person, but each new response carried with it some variation of curiosity, shock, and excitement. “If you enjoy watching shows like Paternity Court,” one TikTok user commented, “or old school Maury Povich, if you’re old enough to remember Jenny Jones and Ricki Lake, you too might enjoy this reading experience.” Read another caption: “Quan Millz is so unhinged we must protect him at all costs.”
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S2211 Great Deals From Samsung's Fall Sale  if you've been eyeing Samsung's latest devices but simply can't stomach the prices, you're in luck. The company is currently holding its Discover Fall Sale Event, with sales on smartphones, tablets, TVs, and more, through September 17. And while some of these discounts exist on Samsung's own site, we've also included additional deals through Amazon and Best Buy—all of which you can find below. Special offer for Gear readers: **Get **WIRED for just $5 ($25 off). This includes unlimited access to WIRED.com, full Gear coverage, and subscriber-only newsletters. Subscriptions help fund the work we do every day.
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S23Autoworkers Prepare to Strike for a Place in the EV Future  Ethan Surgenavic was excited to begin work at a new electric vehicle battery-cell plant in Ohio’s Mahoning Valley last summer. The Ultium Cells plant is a joint venture of General Motors and South Korea’s LG, and he grew up in the area when GM was known for well-paid, unionized jobs. “I thought this might be my opportunity to get in on the ground floor of something great,” the HVAC technician says of his job on the leading edge of the EV boom. Then he started work.The lithium in EV batteries can react violently with water, and Surgenavic’s job involves controlling humidity in the battery plant’s rooms to precise levels. But he says wages are too low to attract enough qualified workers to maintain the huge building. When Ultium opened, production workers started at $16.50 an hour and maxed out at $20 an hour, a level far below GM’s own plants and one that 28 US senators called “a national disgrace” in a July letter to battery plant owners. Ultium staff voted to unionize with the United Auto Workers (UAW) in December, but are still bargaining their first contract. Chemical spills, exposures to toxic substances, and other safety problems have landed Ultium with $31,000 in fines from US federal regulators, with six investigations still open. Ultium spokesperson Katie Burdette says the company prioritizes safety and works with UAW-appointed safety representatives, but Surgenavic and others say the shiny green EV revolution isn’t looking so good for workers so far.
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S24Can 'Monster Hunter Now' Pull Niantic Out of Its Slump?  On his walk toward Niantic’s office in the Bay Area one day, senior producer Sakae Osumi noticed everyone staring up. There was an eclipse happening, as good a reason as any to tilt back and gaze into the sky, but Osumi had another thought: What if a team working on a Monster Hunter–themed game could replicate the situation—but trade in the sunglasses and celestial event for a phone and a giant mean creature?Monster Hunter Now is not just the answer to that particular question, but a bigger, more existential problem plaguing Niantic. In 2016, the mobile developer captured lightning in a bottle when Pokémon Go combined the company’s augmented reality technology with the mega-popular franchise, allowing players to embark on their very own Pokémon adventure wherever they were. It was (and still is) a worldwide phenomenon: more than 1 billion downloads and annual events across the world (and possibly millions of dollars lost from players unwisely opting to play while driving).
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S25Astronomers spot the first "bounce" in our Universe  If you were to look at the Universe on the absolute largest of cosmic scales, you’d find that galaxies cluster together in an enormous web of structure. Individual galaxies form along the threads of the web, with rich groups and clusters of galaxies forming at the nexuses where the threads meet. In between those threads are giant void regions, with far fewer galaxies than average, and some voids that are so deep they seem to harbor no galaxies at all. This web, to the best of our knowledge, is dominated by dark matter’s gravitational effects, but it’s only the normal matter — made of protons, neutrons, and electrons — that winds up forming the stars, gas, and dust that we can observe.However, there ought to be an extra structural effect that isn’t so easy to see: a clustering feature known as baryon acoustic oscillations. Dating back to the very early stages of cosmic history and caused by normal matter getting “bounced” away from a clustering center, it leaves an imprint that looks a bit like a cosmic bubble: where galaxies are more likely to be found a specific distance away from another rather than slightly closer or farther away. Although this feature has been seen statistically before, no individual “bounce” or “bubble” has ever been seen before.
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S26In medieval Ireland, ships sailed across the sky  A tale from thirteenth-century Ireland: One day, when the people of Clonmacnoise were gathered in church, they spotted a ship sailing through the sky high above them. As they watched, the ship dropped its anchor, which scudded along the ground before catching on the church door.Soon a man came swimming from the firmament, trying to free the anchor. But the people of Clonmacnoise took hold of him and wouldn’t let him leave. The bishop realized that the man was drowning in the air, as if he was being held underwater, and ordered his congregation to let him go. Up swam the mysterious sailor, away into the air.
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S27How to grow your brain by moving your body  Did you know that just three months of consistent exercise can boost your brain function? Exercise neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki explains how working out can strengthen your cognitive abilities. According to Suzuki, even just ten minutes of walking can alleviate anxiety and depression because of the neurochemicals released during exercise. She shares a study showing how participants who were previously sedentary experienced notable improvements in their baseline mood, prefrontal function, and hippocampal function after engaging in only two to three exercise sessions per week over several months.
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S28Here's what your music preferences reveal about your personality  Every December since 2016, Spotify has run a hugely popular campaign where users get stats on which musicians and genres they listened to the most. The virality of the campaign lies in the fact that people think that the kind of music they listen to says something about them. Research linking personality types to music preferences suggests that they are right.Previous studies have hinted at a biological basis for music preferences. Hormones and environment shape the music someone likes. Scientists also have previously explored the relationships between particular music preferences and personality traits. A 2022 paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology looks at these relationships on a cross-cultural scale.
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S29How psychedelics may therapeutically alter the link between your two "selves"  When we think of altered states of consciousness, we tend to picture the brain or mind swirling in a psychedelic funhouse. This bias has influenced the scientific study of altered states, with psychedelic science focusing almost exclusively on the relationship between the mind and the brain. But what if consciousness has more to do with what’s below the neck than what’s between the ears? An emerging understanding of consciousness suggests that it may be rooted more deeply than cerebral interactions — specifically, in the body’s intrinsic sense of its internal state, or “interoception.” Psychedelics could offer a window into the relationship between interoception and consciousness, potentially enabling people to experience the intricate dance between the two in novel and beneficial ways.
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S30The holiness of reality  For Julian Huxley, science was spiritual. The biologist, brother of the novelist Aldous Huxley and grandson of “Darwin’s Bulldog” Thomas Henry Huxley, thought evolutionary ideas hinted at humanity’s destiny: to safeguard the future of life on Earth and, by learning more about ourselves and the universe, expand the possibilities of humanity’s potential. Rejecting the idea of the supernatural gave him enormous “spiritual relief,” he wrote in his 1927 book Religion Without Revelation. Understanding reality scientifically was a religious endeavor. Part of what it meant to be spiritual, he wrote, was:
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S31Unity's new "per-install" pricing enrages the game development community  For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold. That goodwill has now been largely thrown out the window due to Unity's Tuesday announcement of a new fee structure that will start charging developers on a "per-install" basis after certain minimum thresholds are met.
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S32S33Feds open up $100 million funding for EV charger reliability grants  On Wednesday the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation announced it is accepting applications for grants to improve electric vehicle charger reliability. The Joint Office has $100 million to spend in this area to fund grants to repair or replace malfunctioning or broken EV chargers. The money was set aside as part of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program, which allocated $5 billion for a national network of EV chargers by 2027.
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S34S35Biden called Arizona fab a "game-changer." Analyst calls it a "paperweight"  A new report has revealed that America may be quickly approaching a major roadblock in its bid to become a global chips leader by the end of the decade. Employees of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)—which is leagues ahead of competitors in mass production of advanced chips— told The Information that TSMC has no plans to build a packaging facility in the US.
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S36S37S38AI can now generate CD-quality music from text, and it's only getting better  Imagine typing "dramatic intro music" and hearing a soaring symphony or writing "creepy footsteps" and getting high-quality sound effects. That's the promise of Stable Audio, a text-to-audio AI model announced Wednesday by Stability AI that can synthesize music or sounds from written descriptions. Before long, similar technology may challenge musicians for their jobs.
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S39Even more Google layoffs: This time it's "significant" cuts to recruiting  Google was once a company that lavished its employees with perks and didn't do layoffs, but that's not the Google of 2023. Even after the 12,000 layoffs from about January to March, a second round of Waymo layoffs in March, and the Waze layoffs in June, Google is now doing another round of layoffs. This time, it's in the recruiting division. Semafor was the first to report that Google is laying off "hundreds" of people in its global recruiting organization as part of an overall plan to reduce the number of people it hires in the near future. If you don't have job openings, you don't need recruiters.
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S40S41The Conservative Censorship Campaign Reaches Its Natural Conclusion  Mitt Romney is leaving the Senate. The depths of cynicism and hypocrisy inside his own party drove the decision, McKay Coppins reports.Four years ago, The New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project, a series of essays aiming to place “the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative,” sparked heated debate.
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S42A Warning From Another Time  Mitt Romney is leaving the Senate. The depths of cynicism and hypocrisy inside his own party drove the decision, McKay Coppins reports.We would all do well to remember Newton Minow’s prescience about the dangers of new technology—and his optimism, too.
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S43I Never Called Her Momma  Mitt Romney is leaving the Senate. The depths of cynicism and hypocrisy inside his own party drove the decision, McKay Coppins reports.This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here.
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S44The Charter-School Movement's New Divide  Mitt Romney is leaving the Senate. The depths of cynicism and hypocrisy inside his own party drove the decision, McKay Coppins reports.A Catholic charter in Oklahoma would represent a profound shift for American education—and for the charter-school movement itself.
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S45Rainbow Queen Encyclopedia  Mitt Romney is leaving the Senate. The depths of cynicism and hypocrisy inside his own party drove the decision, McKay Coppins reports.my ex wanted a pet pig, so we imagined it. even gave the thing a name, rubbed its invisible head before bed—
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S46The Atlantic's October Cover Story: Senior Editor Jenisha Watts Writes About Her Escape From a Harrowing Childhood  Mitt Romney is leaving the Senate. The depths of cynicism and hypocrisy inside his own party drove the decision, McKay Coppins reports.After growing up in Lexington, Kentucky, Jenisha Watts came to New York City as a young journalist determined to make sure that no one would ever know her past. But Watts, a senior editor at The Atlantic, now writes with remarkable candor about the heartrending circumstances of her life for the first time in the cover story of The Atlantic’s October issue. In “Jenisha From Kentucky,” Watts details what it was like to grow up in a crack house in Lexington, and how she survived it. As a young child, Watts became a de facto parent to her four younger siblings; the children routinely witnessed crack use by their mother, Trina, as well as by neighbors and strangers. “Sometimes the cops would come, four or five at a time. My siblings and I would lie in bed as they walked through our dark apartment with flashlights, their staticky walkie-talkies impossible to understand. In the morning we’d see that they’d trashed the place: flipped mattresses onto the floor, pulled out drawers. My Aunt Soso says they once found drugs hidden in the cereal boxes.” Watts’s mother sometimes left the children home alone for long stretches of time without enough to eat. Eventually the children were separated, Watts to live with an aunt in Florida and then later with her grandmother back in Kentucky; her brothers and sisters went into foster care and group homes. Of her time in Florida, Watts writes: “I would walk down to a payphone near a convenience store where I could call my granny collect to ask about Trina and my siblings. That’s how I learned that the state had taken them away … They were all gone.”
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S47You Should Worry About the Data Retailers Collect About You  Mitt Romney is leaving the Senate. The depths of cynicism and hypocrisy inside his own party drove the decision, McKay Coppins reports.A man walks into a Minneapolis-area Target, angry about coupons his teenage daughter received for baby clothes and cribs. “Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?” he asks a store manager. Except, his daughter really was pregnant. Target had tuned a marketing-prediction model so tightly that it could successfully tell what was happening inside her body, before even the girl’s family knew.
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S48Stress Drinking Has a Gender Divide  Mitt Romney is leaving the Senate. The depths of cynicism and hypocrisy inside his own party drove the decision, McKay Coppins reports.More than a decade ago, when Holly Whitaker worked a director-level job at a Silicon Valley start-up, insecurities haunted her. She feared never being enough, never getting ahead. “There was just an inability to be with myself,” she told me, “and that manifested as fear.” She often sought comfort in alcohol. The relief would start even as she anticipated drinking; at the first sip, she began to feel warm and right; numb, but also energized.
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S49Photos From Libya's Devastating Floods  On Sunday, a Mediterranean storm brought record-setting rainfall to much of Libya, filling rivers, overwhelming dams, and sweeping away entire neighborhoods in several coastal towns. Local authorities said that more than 5,100 people have been killed by the powerful flooding. Derna was one of the worst-hit cities after two dams failed and torrents of water rushed through its streets, destroying dozens of buildings. Foreign rescue crews are still arriving, lending assistance to local teams who are working to find any survivors among the debris. People look at the damage caused by flooding in Derna, eastern Libya, on September 11, 2023. #
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S50Why Has a Useless Cold Medication Been Allowed on Shelves for Years?  Mitt Romney is leaving the Senate. The depths of cynicism and hypocrisy inside his own party drove the decision, McKay Coppins reports.You wake up with a stuffy nose, so you head to the pharmacy, where a plethora of options awaits in the cold-and-flu aisle. Ah, how lucky you are to live in 21st-century America. There’s Sudafed PE, which promises “maximum-strength sinus pressure and nasal congestion relief.” Sounds great. Or why not grab DayQuil in case other symptoms show up, or Tylenol Cold + Flu Severe should whatever it is get really bad? Could you have allergies instead? Good thing you can get Benadryl Allergy Plus Congestion, too.
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S51S52What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate  Mitt Romney is leaving the Senate. The depths of cynicism and hypocrisy inside his own party drove the decision, McKay Coppins reports.In an exclusive excerpt from my forthcoming biography of the senator, Romney: A Reckoning, he reveals what drove him to retire.
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S53What to Know About Fall COVID Vaccines  Mitt Romney is leaving the Senate. The depths of cynicism and hypocrisy inside his own party drove the decision, McKay Coppins reports.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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S54How to calm your nightmares | Psyche Guides ![]() is a licensed psychologist in private practice. She provides telehealth services for adults with sleep, anxiety and stress-related concerns throughout California. Her education and training in behavioural sleep medicine occurred at the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.Nightmares are an almost universal experience. They can begin as young as age two and a half, and the majority of adults report having nightmares at least occasionally. While many people have infrequent, one-off nightmares, many others have repeated nightmares with a common theme or focus. As you can see in the following illustrations, there is considerable variety in the content and impact of nightmares; do any of these seem similar to your experiences?
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S55Museum Drops Ban on Photographing Picasso's 'Guernica' /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/cf/37/cf37a496-784d-4249-b3dd-2c7dc2271eaf/gettyimages-1247012404_1.jpg) After enforcing the rule for three decades, officials say that lifting it will prevent overcrowding and attract younger audiencesIn 1992, Pablo Picasso’s 26-foot-long painting Guernica arrived at Spain’s Reina Sofía Museum. Since then, museum officials have enforced a rule: No photos.
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S56S57Ancient Mosques Damaged in Morocco Earthquake /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/de/27/de271259-7a73-4b3f-a1d1-6b0a7b083ec3/gettyimages-1655294342.jpg) The country of Morocco is reeling from its deadliest earthquake in more than 60 years, a 6.8 magnitude event which has left more than 2,000 people dead. Much of the worst of the damage occurred in the ancient city of Marrakesh, 150 miles south of Casablanca, and the nearby Atlas Mountains. Marrakesh’s old city, or medina, has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1985, and the quake wreaked havoc on its buildings, some of which have stood for many hundreds of years. Marrakesh was first built in 1070 by Yūsuf ibn Tāshufīn of the Moroccan Almoravid empire, and the city served as the Almoravid capital before falling to another Muslim dynasty.
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S58Why Germany's Wild Boars Are Radioactive /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/9c/7f/9c7f3357-fd6d-42d9-b4aa-653f58ee9d12/gettyimages-1128529824.jpg) Fallout from nuclear tests conducted in the mid-20th century may contribute to the high levels of radiation seen in the animals today, a new study findsFrom weapons tests to destructive accidents at power plants, human nuclear activity has contaminated the Earth with radioactive material. These unstable particles can spread long distances and remain in the environment for hundreds of years, accumulating in plants and the bodies of animals.
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S59S60S61S62'Species Repulsion' Enables High Biodiversity in Tropical Trees | Quanta Magazine  The effect of "species-specific repulsion" is not immediately evident in the distribution of trees in this aerial view of the canopy of the Barro Colorado Island forest, but models suggest that it contributes to the observed patterns.For ecologists, tropical rainforests hold many enigmas. A single hectare can contain hundreds of tree species, far more than in forests closer to the poles. Somehow these species coexist in such dizzying abundance that, as naturalists and ecologists have sometimes noted, tropical forests can feel like botanical gardens, where every plant is something new.
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S63When Blind Hiring Advances DEI -- and When It Doesn't  As a decision-making strategy, “blind hiring” involves blocking evaluators from receiving potentially biasing information about a job candidate until after an evaluation of their application materials are complete. Most famously, the tactic was used to boost the hiring of women in orchestras by having people audition from behind a screen that concealed their gender. But there’s a body of research that’s been conducted since that 2000 study showing that, while the strategy is generally effective, there are situations in which it might not help you diversify your candidate pool. The author outlines this research, and suggests three questions you should ask in order to get the most out of a blind hiring approach.Inspired by the results of the famous orchestra study — where symphony orchestras began hiring more women by having people audition from behind a screen that concealed their gender — some major organizations are now using a “blind hiring” strategy to help achieve goals related to diversity. The typical blind hiring process involves stripping information from job application materials before review that could signal applicants’ memberships in specific groups and cue discrimination. Though not yet widespread, this de-biasing strategy is gaining traction: A recent survey of over 800 U.S.-based HR practitioners indicated that about 20% worked for organizations that used blind hiring and about 60% were familiar with it.
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S64S65Don't Eliminate Your Middle Managers  Organizations have long seen middle management as ripe for cutting whenever times get tight, and the current moment is no exception. The authors believe that this is a costly mistake. Human capital, they say, is at least as important as financial capital, and middle managers, who recruit and develop an organization’s employees, are the most important asset of all—essential to navigating rapid, complex change. They can make work more meaningful, interesting, and productive, and they’re crucial for true organizational transformation. But if managers are to fulfill this promise, leaders must reimagine their roles, push to more fully understand their value, and train, coach, and inspire them to realize their potential as organizational linchpins.
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S67Leading AI Is Still Leading | Abbie Lundberg  Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.Generative AI has consumed a lot of media and business oxygen this year, and rightly so. Not only are its capabilities novel and impressive, but it might be the biggest leap in the “consumerization” of information technology since the emergence of the iPhone in 2007. Anyone with a browser can create content, sound, and images with AI — artificial intelligence in the hands of the masses! Business leaders are eager to understand the impact, good and bad, that it will have on their organizations.
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S68 Protecting Society From AI Harms: Amnesty International's Matt Mahmoudi and Damini Satija (Part Two)  Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.At Amnesty Tech, a division of human rights organization Amnesty International, Damini Satija and Matt Mahmoudi leverage their expertise in technology and public policy to examine the use of AI in the public sector and its impact on citizens worldwide.
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S69Why are CEOs still so intent on taking worker attendance?  Employers have dangled all sorts of perks – free food, concerts and on-site yoga – to entice employees back to the office, with varying degrees of success. Now, some are taking a more drastic approach: tying in-person office attendance to employee performance reviews.Google and JPMorgan have each told staff that office attendance will be factored into performance evaluations. The US law firm Davis Polk informed employees that fewer days in the office would result in lower bonuses. And Meta and Amazon both told employees they're now monitoring badge swipes, with potential consequences for workers who don't comply with attendance policies – including job loss. Increasingly, workers across many jobs and sectors appear to be barrelling towards the same fate.
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S70Pain Hustlers review: Emily Blunt is 'the only reason to watch this'  Don't confuse the recent Painkiller, an earnest Netflix series about a fictionalised pharmaceutical company and the opioid epidemic, with the new Netflix film Pain Hustlers, which has a similar story about a different fictionalised company and a tone that goes for entertaining long before it turns earnest too. Why the creators of one of these projects didn't flinch and change the title is a good question.And while Pain Hustlers is a perfectly fine title, the film probably should have been called Liza Drake, the name of the sales rep played by Emily Blunt, who single-handedly almost saves this tone-deaf drama from itself. As the rags-to-riches heroine who finds herself in the midst of a morally compromised situation, Blunt creates a character who is engaging, smarter than she's given credit for, and hungry to improve her hardscrabble life as a single mother with an adolescent daughter. She makes the film watchable, but is the only reason to watch.
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