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 S69How female Fauvists were some of history's most audacious painters   She almost always wore black, but in Woman with a Hat (1905) so many colours swirl around the canvas that Amélie Matisse's dress is an indeterminate shade. She was a brunette, but her hair is a streak of fiery red paint, and her nose and forehead are green.Putting the wind up the snooty Paris art scene at the Salon d'Automne of 1905, works such as this one with their noisy, unnaturalistic colours and childish flattened forms were dubbed "Fauves" (wild beasts) by a critic − and the name stuck.
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S1How Retailers Can Capitalize on the "Refund Effect"  In 2022, U.S. consumers returned 16.5% of purchases, costing retailers an estimated $816 billion in lost revenue. Research suggests that cross-selling products during the return process is an effective strategy to reduce this revenue loss. Across a number of experiments, researchers found that consumers treat refunds as money already lost, so it’s less painful to spend these funds on another purchase, so long as cross-selling occurs before the money is reissued to the customers’ original payment method and consumers initially expected to keep the goods they were planning to buy. The researchers also found that this “refund effect” applies across categories. Creating return policies and practices informed by the refund effect can reduce revenue loss from product returns in a way that benefits both consumers and retailers.
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S2When a Coworker Leaves: Our Favorite Reads  A study from January 2023 found that almost 70% of Gen Z and millennial employees in the U.S. planned to leave their jobs this year. So odds are, you’ve also had to deal with a coworker, boss, or direct report leaving your company in the last few months. If these conflicting emotions sound familiar, here’s my advice on how to deal with each one:
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S3How to Support New Workers' Mental Health  We usually think of new entrants to the workforce as young people and recent graduates, but the cohort can also include existing workers entering new types of employment, such as frontline workers transitioning to office work, gig workers moving to salaried roles, or people moving from unpaid caregiving to formal employment. Each iteration of the “next-gen” workforce is the complex byproduct of an evolving society and environmental factors. Once you contextualize new entrants and understand the unique forces that drive them, you can more effectively and meaningfully support their mental health at work. The authors present three actions to guide your strategy.
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S4AI Adoption in U.S. Health Care Won't Be Easy  Artificial Intelligence has the potential to improve every aspect of health care. AI applications can accelerate scientific discovery, help physicians and nurses make better decisions, improve medical advice for patients, and reduce the sometimes-crushing burden of paperwork. But history suggests that the U.S. health sector struggles to put innovations like AI into practice, due in part to what economists call “switchover disruptions,” the costly phase-in period for new technologies that can upend profitable operations. To reduce switchover disruptions for AI and accelerate adoption, health care innovators must build trust in AI with three critical constituencies: providers, patients, and the public.
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S5How Off-the-Shelf Tech Can Make Factories More Profitable  Too often, smaller companies are intimidated by the high costs, complexity, and long installation times that high-end smart factory systems can require. This is short-sighted. Companies can see big financial benefits by utilizing existing data and simpler technologies to reduce waste, labor costs, overhead, and utility expenses.
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S6Why are women less likely to ask questions in public?  Over the years I've presented dozens of radio shows and chaired hundreds of public events in front of live audiences. The Q&A at the end is an important part of the session and so I want everyone to feel comfortable enough to ask their burning question. But however much I try to make people feel relaxed, as the hands go up, there are always more men than women ready to ask a question and often those first hands all belong to men.It's possible of course that women have fewer questions they want to ask, which is fair enough. But countless times, in the queue for the ladies loos afterwards, women from the audience have told me the question they had wanted to ask, but didn't. Invariably it's an excellent question.
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S7China's AI boom depends on an army of exploited student interns  In March 2021, during her third year at a vocational school in Shandong province, Lucy worked as an intern at a data annotation center. For four months, she spent eight hours a day sitting in her office, sorting through audio files, tagging images of children on surveillance camera footage, and differentiating trees from pedestrians in videos used to develop automated driving systems. She stayed at a four-person dorm provided by the company, and earned over 1,000 yuan ($137) a month — about 80% of the local minimum wage — which was just enough to cover her daily expenses.When Lucy enrolled in the school’s computer science program, she thought she would learn to code and become a programmer. But in reality, her work was no different from an assembly line job. “It was very boring. We didn’t learn anything,” Lucy told Rest of World, speaking under a pseudonym to avoid being identified. But the school demanded that the whole class complete the internship, or else they would not be allowed to graduate.
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S8India's child care workers say government tracking app makes their job harder  One day in 2021, Poonam, a government-appointed child care worker in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, received an abrupt warning: Start using the government’s newly launched Poshan Tracker app to track your daily work, or face legal action.Poonam had worked at her job for 16 years at that point, and used notebooks to track her daily tasks. She was willing to move her work to the app, but did not own a smartphone. “Initially, the government said we will be given phones after we purchased SIM cards,” she told Rest of World, requesting to be identified by a pseudonym as she feared government backlash. But the smartphone was never provided, and in March this year, Poonam spent 12,000 rupees ($145) of her own money to buy one so she wouldn’t lose her job.
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S9High-Tech Cars Might Be More Trouble Than They're Worth  Drivers may sacrifice safety and privacy in exchange for the advanced tech features in their “smart” carsModern cars are often described as “computers on wheels.” They come with automated driver assistance systems, large display screens, Internet connections and a multitude of ways to sync with smartphones.
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S10Decarceration and Crime Do Not Go Hand in Hand  The pandemic provided a natural experiment, one that suggests fewer people in jail does not lead to more crimeCOVID fundamentally altered how states administer justice. Arrests dropped, and prisons nationwide released inmates on an expedited basis.
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S11Nearby Worlds May Tell Us How Life Might Look in Our Galaxy  TRAPPIST-1 could make or break the extended push to make red dwarfs an astrobiological priorityIn the constellation Aquarius, invisible to the naked eye, lies a star that might change history. Home to seven mysterious planets—each around the size of our own Earth—the TRAPPIST-1 system is regarded by some as the crown jewel of astronomy’s efforts to find life in the Milky Way. With not one, but three worlds orbiting in the so-called habitable zone, where water can flow and life can thrive, TRAPPIST-1 is one of humanity’s best and brightest opportunities to chase the discovery of a lifetime.
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S12To Get Kids Interested in Science, We Have to Let Them Do Science  A pilot program for high schoolers offers a blueprint in getting students involved in cutting-edge particle physics researchIn 10 years the U.S. will turn on a brand-new particle accelerator that stands to unlock new secrets about the fundamental structure of matter. This machine, called the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), will be built at the Brookhaven National Laboratory facility in Upton, N.Y.
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S13Moon Landing Denial Fired an Early Antiscience Conspiracy Theory Shot  Apollo moon landing conspiracy theories were early hints of the dangerous anti-vax, antiscience beliefs backed by politicians todayI was recently in the attic of my house, going through old possessions in preparation to move across the country. Covered in dust and starting to get cranky from the effort, I found a sealed box labeled “VHS tapes.” I brought the box down to my office, grabbed a box knife, and opened it.
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S14How Antisemitism and Professional Betrayal Marred Lise Meitner's Scientific Legacy  Letters between Lise Meitner and the chemist Otto Hahn reveal how she struggled with Hahn's failure to credit her work and condemn the Nazi atrocitiesWe continue the story of Jewish physicist Lise Meitner, the first person to understand that the atom had been split. This is the second in a two-part series featuring new letters from and to Lise Meitner translated by author Marissa Moss, author of The Woman who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner (2022). The letters show the fraught and complex relationship between Otto Hahn and Meitner, and the role that antisemitism played in the decision to give the Nobel Prize in 1944 to Hahn and not to Meitner.
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S15S16S17NASA Wants to Make UFO Studies a Real Science  NASA has appointed a director of unidentified anomalous phenomena research to advance that area of scientific investigationPurported sightings of space aliens have long been relegated to pseudoscience, but NASA is ready to bring them into the scientific realm.
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S18S19Can the US and China take on climate change together?  Climate change doesn't care about ideological divides, says policy analyst and China expert Changhua Wu. Here's what she says the US can learn from the progress China has made on the clean energy revolution -- and why collaboration instead of competition is the key to avoiding climate catastrophe.
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S20Natalie Cargill: How to solve the world's biggest problems  Sometimes the world's biggest issues can seem so intractable that meaningful change feels impossible. But what if the answer has been right in front of us all along? What if the answer is actually throwing money at the problems? In this thought-provoking talk, philanthropic advisor Natalie Cargill shares what might happen if we came together to spend 3.5 trillion dollars on fixing the world. And, yes, she also has a plan for where to get the money from. (Followed by a Q&A with Anna Verghese, executive director of The Audacious Project.)
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S21Apple Changes Everything (Again)  It's September, which means Apple has announced yet another round of new iPhones. During a typically bombastic media event at the company’s headquarters on Tuesday, September 12, Apple showed off regular and Pro versions of the iPhone 15, as well as a couple of new Apple Watch models and a smattering of software enhancements that aim to make moving around with your devices easier. The big news—though something Apple quickly glossed over in its presentation—is that the company has finally eschewed its proprietary Lightning connector in favor of the ubiquitous (and European Union–mandated) USB-C standard. It's a big change, but one that Apple doesn't exactly seem happy to have been forced into making.This week on Gadget Lab, we dive into all the details about everything Apple announced this week, from the hardware to the software to the services.
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S22The Best Video Doorbell Cameras  If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDAs people who receive a lot of packages, we in the Gadget Lab have a foolproof way of making sure an important delivery shows up: Just step into the shower. If you’re sitting at your desk with your shoes on, waiting and ready, I guarantee that every knock or ring will be from someone trying to convert you to an obscure and weirdly expensive religion.
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S23No, This Is Not an Alien. Here's Why  It was like an alien unboxingâbut they were just Nazca mummies from Peru. Toward the end of a public hearing in the Green Room of the Chamber of Deputies Congress of Mexico, Jaime Maussan, ufologist, journalist and host of the Mexican television program Tercer Milenio, announced a surprise. The well-known researcher had the audience's attention at this historic session focused on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs)âbetter known as UFOs.Before the hearing began, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna, the deputy of Morena, Mexico's governing party, asked the participants to stand up and swear to tell the truth. Among the audience were Ryan Graves, a retired US Navy pilot lieutenant who had earlier testified in the US Congress regarding his experience with unidentified objects, and Abraham "Avi" Loeb, an astrophysicist, director of the Harvard Astronomy Department, and leading proponent of a theory that an alien spaceship has already landed on Earth. When it was Maussan's turn to speak, he gave a signal to open two tiny sarcophagi containing the bodies of two "nonhuman beings."
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S24NASA Didn't Find Aliens--but if You See Any UFOs, Holler  Seventy-six years after the infamous Roswell incident, when a high-altitude balloonâor somethingâcrashed in southeastern New Mexico, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has now officially weighed in on UFO sightings. Don't get too excited: They haven't proven, or disproven, the existence of aliens. Instead, the report released today by the agency's independent study team describes how NASA should assess new reports of "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP), a term that federal agencies use in place of UFOs (unidentified flying objects). It stresses that the agency should make use of machine learning and artificial intelligence as analytical tools, but that first it needs higher quality data to analyze."NASA searches for the unknown in space. It's in our DNA," said NASA administrator Bill Nelson, speaking at a press conference this morning. "The top takeaway from the study is that there is a lot more to learn. The NASA study did not find any evidence that UAP have an extraterrestrial origin, but we don't know what these UAP are." Nelson described the team's project as part of a broader effort "to shift the conversation about UAP from sensationalism to science," to reduce the stigma associated with making UAP reports, and "to make sure that information is shared transparently around the world."
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S25Don't Count on Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer to Jump-Start an AI Revolution  You’d have to be pretty brave to bet against the idea that applying more computing power and data to machine learning—a recipe that birthed ChatGPT—won’t lead to further advances of some kind in artificial intelligence. Even so, you’d be braver still to bet that combo will produce specific advances or breakthroughs on a specific timeline, no matter how desirable.A report issued last weekend by the investment bank Morgan Stanley predicts that a supercomputer called Dojo, which Tesla is building to boost its work on autonomous driving, could add $500 billion to the company’s value by providing a huge advantage in carmaking, robotaxis, and selling software to other businesses.
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S26Libya's Deadly Floods Show the Growing Threat of Medicanes  Storm Daniel, which has killed at least 5,000 people in Libya, with 10,000 more missing, was no normal weather. This rare, destructive, subtropical monster was supersized by unusually warm Mediterranean waters. When it slammed into the Libyan coast, it did so with such force that it caused two dams inland to collapse, releasing a tsunamic wall of water down the Wadi Derna river that destroyed much of the eastern city of Derna. This kind of stormâknown as a "Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone," or medicaneâis rare. The climate crisis, counterintuitively, will make these storms rarer. But, when they do hit, they could be bigger than ever before.Medicanes are the smaller siblings of the hurricanes and typhoons that barrage coastal locations around the world. As Hurricane Lee has shown over the Atlantic Ocean, warm water and humidity can quickly turn major storm systems into life-threatening monsters. And as the planet warms, more storms will get super big, super quick.
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S27The Hyundai Kona Electric Isn't a Rolls, but It Charges Like One  If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDHyundai’s first-generation Kona Electric was something of a darling. It was efficient, looked good, and made electric motoring a little more accessible for those without Tesla money to play with. Now 2023’s new Kona Electric (2024 for US punters) aims to keep the good times rolling with a new look, fresh tech, and more luxury than you’d expect from a B-segment crossover.
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S28Inside the Senate's Private AI Meeting With Tech's Billionaire Elites  US senators are proving slow studies when it comes to the generative artificial intelligence tools that are poised to upend life as we know it. But they'll be tested soonâand the rest of us through themâif their new private tutors are to be trusted.In a historic first, yesterday upwards of 60 senators sat like school childrenânot allowed to speak or even raise their handsâin a private briefing where some 20 Silicon Valley CEOs, ethicists, academics, and consumer advocates prophesied about AI's potential to upend, heal, or even erase life as we knew it.
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S29Which iPhone 15 Model Should You Buy?  The iPhone 15 is here and it comes with quite a few drastic changes. The 11-year-old Lightning charging port has been replaced by USB-C, the notorious notch at the top of the screen has disappeared to make way for the Dynamic Island, and on the iPhone 15 Pro models, the long-lived mute switch has been phased out for a programmable Action Button. It's a lot! But which iPhone 15 model is best for you? And does any model have enough enhancements to make an upgrade worth the money? If you've been mulling these questions ever since Apple debuted the new handsets, don't worry—I'm here to help. Below, I break down the differences between all four iPhone 15 models, which one is right for you, and whether you should upgrade at all. Check out our Best MagSafe Accessories, Best Apple 3-in-1 Chargers, and Best MagSafe Power Banks for more Apple recommendations. We'll be testing the devices and iPhone 15 cases soon.
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S30Could dark matter be made of gravitons?  One of the most puzzling observations about the Universe is that there isn’t enough matter — at least, matter that we know of — to explain how we see things are gravitating. On Solar System scales, General Relativity and the masses we observe do the job just fine. But on larger scales, the internal motions of individual galaxies indicate the presence of more mass than we observe. Galaxies in clusters move around too quickly, while X-rays reveal an insufficient amount of normal matter. Even on cosmic scales, extra mass has to be present to explain gravitational lensing, the cosmic web, and the imperfections in the Big Bang’s leftover glow.While we typically invoke a new particle of some type, one intriguing idea is purely gravitational: could dark matter be made of gravitons alone? After all, the other known forces in the Universe — the electromagnetic force, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force — are all inherently quantum in nature, and those forces are mediated by particles that we’ve detected. Although we aren’t sure whether gravitation truly is inherently quantum, and we’ve never directly detected the hypothetical graviton, perhaps it would make sense if the force-carrying particle of gravitation, itself, were responsible for what we perceive as dark matter.
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S31We must learn from science that "intelligent failure" is the key to success  Although most of us are familiar with the concept of DNA — the nucleic acids that determine so much of who we are — few of us have tried to manipulate these tiny naturally occurring chemicals to enhance their application in lifesaving therapeutics or game-changing nanotechnologies. That is what Dr. Jennifer Heemstra, working with the other members of her thriving research laboratory at Emory University, does for a living. On the frontier in any scientific field, a thoughtful hypothesis not supported by data is the right kind of wrong. Scientists don’t last long in their fields if they can’t stand to fail. They intuit the value intelligent failure brings. It would be a lie to claim these failures aren’t disappointing. They are. Like Olympic bronze medalists, however, scientists and inventors learn healthy ways to think about failure.
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S32The U.S. may have the largest known lithium deposit in the world  Straddling the border of Oregon and Nevada rests McDermitt Caldera. Barren and desolate, the crater-like depression pockmarked with crags and scars might seem bland and lifeless to the layperson’s eye, but the real treasure is what lies just below ground. The 616-square-mile region could be home to the world’s largest known lithium deposit.Lithium, the soft, light, silvery metal is increasingly ubiquitous these days. That’s because it is integral to the batteries used in laptops, smartphones, electric vehicles, grid storage, and pretty much every portable electronic device. Demand for the element, which these days is often called “white gold,” is forecast to rise to 1.5 million metric tons per year by 2028, a 66% increase over what humanity uses today. From there, it’s likely to rise even further and faster.
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S33How to recycle plastic with enzymes  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 that 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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S34James Webb Space Telescope finds promising life chemistry on a strange world  That Earth is unique we all know. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be here asking questions about other worlds. But nature never ceases to amaze, and recently the James Webb Space Telescope just confirmed once again that reality is stranger than fiction.We now know that most stars have planets orbiting around them. As of today, we have confirmed the existence of 5,514 exoplanets in 4,107 planetary systems, with 928 systems having more than one planet. So roughly, 25% of stars host planetary systems containing 2+ planets and, quite possibly, with moons going around them.
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S35S36More countries are concerned about the iPhone 12's EMF radiation profile  For many people, the iPhone 12 effectively disappeared from the market on Tuesday, when Apple introduced iPhone 15 models and stopped selling the 12, first released in October 2020. In Europe, however, the iPhone 12 remains a notable device, as a number of countries are following France's lead in looking into the device's electromagnetic profile.
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S37S38S39The Pixel Tablet is actually just a few spare parts in a half-empty body  Google and iFixit keep trucking along with their official parts store partnership. The latest device to get a parts selection is the Pixel Tablet, along with a whole bunch of repair guides with the usual lovingly detailed teardown photos. The Pixel Tablet did not draw a whole lot of attention when it launched in June, so this also counts as the Pixel Tablet teardown we've seen out there on the Internet, and, wow, is it interesting.
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S40S41S42Birds' problem-solving skills linked to song complexity  One of the ways we try to understand the origins of human intelligence is by looking at its equivalents elsewhere in the animal world. But that turns out to be more complicated than it might seem. Humans have a large package of behavioral traits that we lump together as intelligence, while many other creatures only have a limited subset of those traits. Some aspects of intelligence appear in species widely scattered across the evolutionary tree, ranging from cuttlefish to giraffes.
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S43Meet the winners of the 2023 Ig Nobel Prizes  Curious about why geologists lick rocks or how many nose hairs there are on a human cadaver? Perhaps you'd like a snazzy dead wolf spider to use as a biodegradable robotic gripper? How about a "smart toilet" that analyzes your urine stream and fecal deposits while taking a picture of your anus for good measure? These and other unusual research endeavors were honored tonight in a virtual ceremony to announce the 2022 recipients of the annual Ig Nobel Prizes. Yes, it's that time of year again, when the serious and the silly converge—for science.
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S44Private AI summit with senators, titans of tech garners controversy  On Wednesday, US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hosted an "AI Insight Forum" in the Senate's office building about potential AI regulation. Attendees included billionaires and modern-day industry titans such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Sam Altman, and Jensen Huang of Nvidia. But this heavily corporate guest list—with 14 out of 22 being CEOs—had some scratching their heads.
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S45Alabama Republicans Think the Supreme Court Is Full of Partisan Hacks  To hear the Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices tell it, they are not partisan hacks. And it is unfair for anyone to suggest otherwise.“This Court is not comprised of a bunch of partisan hacks,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett insisted in a 2021 speech at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center, named after Senator Mitch McConnell. “Judicial philosophies are not the same as political parties.”
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S46How to Talk to People  Making small talk can be hard—especially when you’re not sure whether you’re doing it well. But conversations are a central part of relationship-building. Radio Atlantic is pleased to share this episode of How to Talk to People. The social scientist Ty Tashiro and the hairstylists Erin Derosa and Mimi Craft help describe what it means to integrate awkwardness into our pursuit of relationships.
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S47The Secret to Appreciating 'Garfield'  For well over 40 years, a fat orange cat has been a linchpin of American culture. It’s time to accept that.It’s late August, and I am cracking up as I read a brand-new Garfield comic. Panel one: Garfield, lying belly-down in his cat bed and wrapped up in a blanket, wears a bored expression as he thinks, Time to get up and start another day. Panel two: Garfield, in the same position but now smiling to himself, thinks, Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Panel three: Garfield has fallen back asleep, a tell-tale Z suspended above his head. My appreciation for the comic partly stems from the elegance of the cartooning, the way Garfield creator Jim Davis and his team manage to convey three distinct cat moods (apathy, private joy, sleepiness) in just a few ink strokes. It also has to do with the way I can immediately connect Garfield’s face to that of my wife’s tabby, Helen, whom I have observed for thousands of hours during our cohabitation.
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S48Biden's Labor-Climate Dilemma  In his first year in office, Joe Biden said he intended to be “the most pro-union president leading the most pro-union administration in American history.” So it must have stung when the leader of the one of the most prominent unions in the country, the United Auto Workers, recently loosed an unsparing attack against him.In June, after the White House announced a $9.2 billion loan to the Ford Motor Company to help it produce electric vehicles, UAW president Shawn Fain put out an irate statement complaining that the money would go toward “low-road jobs” and that Ford, not its workers, would benefit. “Why is Joe Biden’s administration facilitating this corporate greed with taxpayer money?” he wrote. Fain, a hard-charging new leader elected to his position in March, has accused Biden of doing too little to ensure that the jobs created by his ambitious EV agenda are well-paid union jobs, and is withholding the UAW’s endorsement of Biden for reelection. For months, Fain has also threatened a UAW strike against Detroit’s three big automakers ahead of a contract deadline tonight, in part over fears of job losses resulting from the transition to EVs.
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S49The Only Productivity Hack That Works on Me  Productivity is a sore subject for a lot of people. Philosophically, the concept is a nightmare. Americans invest personal productivity with moral weight, as though human worth can be divined through careful examination of work product, both professional and personal. The more practical questions of productivity are no less freighted with anxiety. Are you doing enough to hold on to your job? To improve your marriage? To raise well-adjusted kids? To maintain your health? What can you change in order to do more?Anxiety breeds products, and the tech industry’s obsession with personal optimization in particular has yielded a bounty of them in the past decade or two: digital calendars that send you push notifications about your daily schedule. Platforms that reimagine your life as a series of project-management issues. Planners as thick as encyclopedias that encourage you to set daily intentions and monthly priorities. Self-help books that cobble together specious principles of behavioral psychology to teach you the secrets of actually using all of the stuff you’ve bought in order to optimize your waking hours (and maybe your sleeping ones too).
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S50Donald Trump Has Never Had to Hide in a Fridge  In Britain, a televised interview with a politician is a chance to hold power to account. The American broadcast media, with few exceptions, prefer to lob softballs instead.There is much to be learned about power and the press from the fact that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson once evaded a reporter’s tough questions by hiding in an industrial fridge.
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S51The Senate's Deep and Dirty Secret  The Senate "hold" procedure is making the institution's basic work impossible, and every member seems fine with that.What is a “hold” in the Senate? This is not a question that many casual observers of American politics would normally ask. But Tommy Tuberville, the senator from Alabama, has made it a more urgent one with his blanket hold on all key military promotions that have to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Tuberville’s action, now in its seventh month, has kept hundreds of military leaders, including top officials, in limbo, doing real harm to the nation’s armed forces.
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S52Why Are Women Freezing Their Eggs? Look to the Men.  A new book explores the “mating gap” and why women are struggling to find a male co-parent.The struggling American man is one of the few objects of bipartisan concern. Both conservatives and liberals bemoan men’s underrepresentation in higher education, their greater likelihood to die a “death of despair,” and the growing share of them who are not working or looking for work. But the chorus of concern rarely touches on how male decline shapes the lives of the people most likely to date or marry them—that is to say, women.
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S53What Ukraine Knows About the Future of War  Western military advisers are criticizing Kyiv’s war effort, but the Ukrainians have gained expertise of their own.If the anonymous voices quoted by U.S. news outlets in recent months are any indication, many Western military experts think that they know how to fight Ukraine’s war better than the Ukrainians do. American officials, NBC News reported last month, have “privately expressed disappointment” about how Ukraine had deployed its soldiers and believe that Kyiv’s forces “have not necessarily applied the training principles they received” from NATO militaries. Yet despite such scolding, the Ukrainians keep conducting their war their way. Despite exhortations to gather more forces in the south and try to cut through Russian lines, even if that means exposing more soldiers to enemy air attacks, Ukrainian forces—stymied by minefields—have proceeded more cautiously, conserving personnel in what could be a protracted conflict with a far more populous nation. They have opted instead to attack, using homegrown weapons systems as well as those provided by allies, Russian supply chains and command-and-control facilities deep behind the front line while also focusing on destroying artillery closer to the fighting.
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S54Slack Is Basically Facebook Now  “Oh,” I slacked my Atlantic colleagues earlier this week, beneath a screenshot of a pop-up note that Slack, the group-chat software we use, had presented to me moments earlier. “A fresh, more focused Slack,” it promised, or threatened. On my screen, the program’s interface was suddenly a Grimace-purple color. I sensed doom in this software update.Slowly, over the days that followed, complaints about the new Slack started trickling into our chats. “folks I cannot handle this new version of slack and will be taking the rest of the month off,” one Atlantic staffer said. “I am reverting to sending physical memos on personal letterhead,” posted another. “all my slacks are: I hate the new slack,” slacked Adrienne LaFrance, the magazine’s executive editor. (Later on, she messaged me separately to see if I would write about Slack’s terrible new format.)
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S55America Just Hit the Lithium Jackpot  About 16.4 million years ago, magma surged through a raised mound near Nevada’s present-day border with Oregon and began spreading an unholy orange glow outward over the region. At the time, landscape-spanning lava flows regularly gurgled and hissed across the area, releasing enough carbon dioxide to warm the Earth’s atmosphere. This particular eruption was special, though, at least according to a paper published late last month in Science Advances, which claims that underneath the volcano’s extinct crater is a thick brown clay that is shot through with what could be the largest-known lithium deposit on the planet. If the discovery holds up, and the lithium is easy to extract and refine—both big ifs—this ancient geological event could end up shaping contemporary geopolitics, and maybe even the future of green energy.Lithium is a blessing nearly as old as time itself. Immediately after the Big Bang, the universe was a dark and roiling plasma, too hot and chaotic for stable nuclei to form. It needed to expand and cool for a few minutes before it could begin generating atoms. Most of these primordial particles were hydrogen and helium, but for every 10 billion or so of hydrogen, a lone lithium atom would pop into existence. A thin mist of this lightest of all metals soon stretched across the entire cosmos. Much of it was later destroyed by various cosmic processes, but fortunately the universe has since made more and deposited it, as a kind of endowment, into the clouds of gas and dust that condense into stars and their orbiting planets.
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S56The Truth About Hunter Biden's Indictment  Long happy to trade on his famous name, the president’s son now reckons with the other side of his prominence.Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, was indicted today on three counts of gun-related crimes. Federal prosecutors in Delaware allege that Hunter Biden lied on paperwork when he bought a revolver, saying he did not use illegal substances, and then possessed the pistol while on narcotics.
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S57Kids Deserve Privacy Online. They're Not Getting It.  Today’s children face a world of constant surveillance. Their very sense of self is at stake.Childhood is the crucible in which our identities and ambitions are forged. It’s when we sing into our hairbrushes and confide in our diaries. It’s when we puzzle out who we are, who we want to be, and how we want to live our lives.
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S58Tracing the Decline of Trust in America  Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.Do you trust America’s institutions more than, less than, or as much as you did a decade ago? Why? Feel free to respond generally or to focus on one particular institution, or more, in your emails.
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S59When Americans Abandon the Constitution  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.Our excerpt from a forthcoming biography of Mitt Romney has many people talking about the Utah senator’s principles and character, but we should be deeply alarmed by Romney’s warning about the Republican Party.
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S60Improve your relationships with the science of perspective-taking | Psyche Ideas  has been a professor at Harvard and at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Currently, he teaches and directs the PhD programme at the Johns Hopkins School of Education in Baltimore.The acrimonious exchanges between overly invested parents and underpaid youth soccer referees are almost their own spectator sport. Acts of offensive shouting and name-calling are defended with imperious warnings and penalty cards. Neutral onlookers would swear that the arguing sides had witnessed completely different events. However ridiculous this game-day behaviour may seem, it epitomises why so many of our relationships go awry.
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S61S62S63Archaeologists Discover More Than 100 Ancient Drawings in a Spanish Cave /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/09/40/09405539-5af3-4158-a886-965d60b1376a/partly_flooded_chamber_which_contains_most_of_the_parietal_motifs_credit_a_ruiz_redondo_v_barciela_x_martorell.jpg) Many of the works, estimated to be at least 24,000 years old, employ a rare clay painting techniqueTwo years ago, when a team of archaeologists spotted a painting of an extinct wild bull called an auroch on the wall of a cave in Spain’s Cova Dones, located in Millares, near Valencia, they knew it was important. While Spain has the largest number of Paleolithic cave art sites, most are concentrated in the country’s northern region, while few have been documented in Eastern Iberia.
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S64Alleged Alien Corpses Displayed to Mexican Congress Did Not Convince Scientists /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/ad/4d/ad4d36bd-4d89-455e-8e37-a2bfe56a3f56/aliens.jpg) Self-described UFO expert Jaime Maussan, whose claims of extraterrestrials have been debunked in the past, said the specimens were “non-human”Two specimens alleged to be the remains of “aliens” were presented before the Mexican Congress on Wednesday by a self-proclaimed “ufologist” who has previously engaged in pseudoscience and false claims regarding extraterrestrials.
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S65Machine Learning Aids Classical Modeling of Quantum Systems | Quanta Magazine  Understanding the quantum universe is not an easy thing. Intuitive notions of space and time break down in the tiny realm of subatomic physics, allowing for behavior that seems, to our macro sensibilities, downright weird.Quantum computers should allow us to harness this strangeness. Such machines could theoretically explore molecular interactions to create new drugs and materials. But perhaps most important, the world itself is built upon this quantum universe â if we want to understand how it works, we probably need quantum tools.
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S66Global Supply Chains in a Post-Pandemic World  The U.S.-China trade war and the supply and demand shocks brought on by the Covid-19 crisis are forcing manufacturers everywhere to reassess their supply chains. For the foreseeable future, they will face pressure to increase domestic production, grow employment in their home countries, reduce their dependence on risky sources, and rethink strategies of lean inventories and just-in-time replenishment, which can be crippling when material shortages arise.This article provides advice to make your supply chain more resilient without sacrificing competitiveness. Start by mapping the full extent of your supply network to identify both direct and indirect sources. Determine how quickly those that are most vital for you could either recover from a disruption or be replaced by an alternative. Address the vulnerabilities by diversifying your suppliers or stockpiling essential materials. Explore production-process improvements or new technologies—such as automation, continuous-flow manufacturing, and 3D printing—that could lower your costs or increase your flexibility when faced with a shock. And revisit your product strategies: Offering consumers more choices isn’t always better.
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S67S68"I had big 'why not' energy": The workers sliding into recruiters' DMs  Before copywriter and creative director Sarah Jenkins went freelance, she spent three years at a small advertising agency – one she courted via "a combo of DM-slide and cold email".After admiring the agency's work from afar, she messaged the creative director, a casual acquaintance, on Facebook. After the director responded positively, 40-year-old Jenkins, based in Missouri, US, emailed the founder and CEO the same day.
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S70Humility is the foundation to a virtuous life  The default psychological setting for human beings is an unavoidable self-centeredness. We each stand at the center of our own thoughts, feelings and needs, and thus experience them in a way that we cannot experience the thoughts, feelings and needs of others.“ … Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence … it’s pretty much the same for all of us.”
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