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 S63Apple's Updated Options for Ignoring Your Screen-Time Limit   With Apple Screen Time, you can manage how many minutes you allow yourself on any given app. In addition to the previously programmed snooze intervals of one minute, fifteen minutes, and the rest of the day, to better serve your horrible little life style, we've expanded our options to include:Snooze until I'm at the front of the line at the bagel shop, and they've just run out of everything bagels.
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S1Don't Let Your Company's Culture Stifle Leadership Development  All too often, leadership development programs don’t adequately account for the culture, norms, and system within which the leader is working. Leaders may be asked to think long term in a culture that fixates on immediate results, or they may be taught to collaborate across organizational boundaries when they’re rewarded for work within their own group. When leaders and leadership development practitioners fail to acknowledge the critical role of 1) a company’s culture and organizational context and 2) the most senior leaders’ role in shaping that context, they oversimplify and likely undermine their leadership development efforts. The author shares four strategies that Intuit has used to build a culture that reinforces, rather than inhibits, positive leader growth.
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S2AI Unlocks New Power for Employees: Are HR Leaders Ready? | Josh Bersin  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.A new dynamic for human resources is upon us: the era of intelligence, driven by artificial intelligence. As we now know from the phenomenon of ChatGPT, generative AI has the potential to unlock trapped information from thousands of sources in an organization. Once a company starts building a large language model (LLM), it can collect data from HR, finance, recruiting, and other systems like a vacuum cleaner. Every process document, training program, compliance rule, and policy that gets input into the LLM will suddenly be available to any employee by asking the system a simple question. The new freedom and power this technology offers has the potential to make accessing useful information easier and faster than at any time in the past.
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S3Should you trust personal finance advice from a 'finfluencer'?  When Yasmin Purnell started blogging in 2017, she planned to share her experiences of becoming a digital nomad. However, the creative-writing graduate and copywriter soon found visitors to her site were more interested in how she afforded her freelance lifestyle.Noticing the hunger for personal finance advice, UK-based Purnell, now 31, rebranded her website. The Wallet Moth – a blog offering finance and frugal-living advice – was born.
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S4Business in Russia: Why some firms haven't left  When the first airstrikes fell on Ukraine in February 2022, corporate executives with operations or holdings in Russia were forced to pick a side. This decision had significant implications. Russia remains a major business market, with a population of 145 million; its 2022 GDP was a staggering $2.24tn (£1.81tn), right behind France. Fleeing companies would leave a lot of revenue on the table.Yet amid a gruelling war, with tens of thousands of civilian casualties and widespread international condemnation of Russia, companies risked severe reputational damage by staying put. Plus, a mix of international pressure, sanctions and risks of Russian government interference offered strong reasons for companies to leave when the conflict began.
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S5How to make the perfect omelette  Joining a French restaurant kitchen is a baptism by fire. An apprentice has mere moments to make an impression, and, according to Yves Camdeborde, owner of Paris' four Avant-Comptoir restaurants, is frequently given a task whose outward simplicity conceals true technicity. To succeed is to garner favour; to fail is to show one still has much to learn. Such is the role, from corner bistros to Michelin-starred dining rooms, of the omelette.A French omelette, Camdeborde explained, stands out from versions where fillings are mixed right in with the eggs.
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S6The Simple Art of Rice: Seafood paella with lime  When James Beard award-winning chef JJ Johnson owner of the fast-casual restaurant Fieldtrip in Harlem, New York, was growing up, he had Sunday night dinners at his grandmother Bebe's house. Bebe loved to make paella for this weekly gathering, and Johnson loved to eat it. "For me, paella was just part of the culture," Johnson said.In his new cookbook, The Simple Art of Rice (published this September), Johnson includes a recipe for paella inspired by the one Bebe used to make. This is one of dozens of recipes in the book that dive deep into rice around the world. "You can use so many different rice dishes to learn about culture and people," Johnson said.
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S7Why 'wear, wash, repeat' makes sense  We all have certain items of clothing that we feel most comfortable in, and that we end up throwing on every day, even though we have 10 other garments that would fulfil the same purpose in the wardrobe. One pair of jeans that fits better than all the others, or one T-shirt that is just us, our best and truest identity in sartorial form. And as New York, London, Paris and Milan fashion weeks aim to create shopping momentum for autumn 2024's must-have new styles, many of us are reclining on the sofa or going for a walk in the park wearing the same jumper we have picked off the back of our bedroom chair every day for years. But why is that? And how do our lazy dressing habits make us sustainability supporters?Ruth Barrett and her partner Jordan got married a week before the pandemic shut Britain down. While the couple celebrated their wedding in the nick of time, they missed out on a honeymoon. In the grand scheme of things, the lost trip is not a big deal at all, Barrett says, but when she and Jordan were able to drive their car around their local area for a mini honeymoon a few months later, that felt very special. "Obviously there were so many other things that were so much more important," Barrett tells BBC Culture. "That were so distressing [at the time], but we got that little nugget of niceness."
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S8American Fiction review: Could Jeffrey Wright win the best actor Oscar?  In a year where many stars stayed away from the Toronto International Film Festival because of the actors' strike, it meant more focus was on the films, even if many considered this year's selection less than vintage. Nevertheless, there were a number of breakout movies, including Anna Kendrick’s Woman of the Hour, Azazel Jacobs' His Three Daughters and Christy Hall's Daddio – while the clear highlight was Cord Jefferson's American Fiction, which deservedly won The People’s Choice award, commonly cited as a harbinger for Oscar success. Past winners of the audience-selected prize include subsequent best picture victors Slumdog Millionaire, Green Book, Nomadland, The Kings Speech and 12 Years a Slave. American Fiction is an adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure, a satire on the US publishing industry. It's a showcase for Jeffrey Wright, who is magnificent in the role of a struggling intellectual author who dumbs down to write a bestseller.
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S9US policy of 'pragmatic engagement' in Afghanistan risks legitimatizing Taliban rule  For two decades, the conflict in Afghanistan occupied international attention and U.S. resources. But ever since American troops withdrew in 2021, the conflict has seemingly been viewed in Washington more as a concern localized to the region of Central and South Asia.This is due in large part to the U.S.’s shifting global priorities. The invasion in Ukraine and Chinese ambitions in the Pacific have meant that Afghanistan is no longer a top priority for the U.S. administration.
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S11Earthquakes and other natural hazards are a risk everywhere - here's how people are preparing in the US and around the world  Some places are more prone to hazards such as earthquakes, flooding and hurricanes, but there’s nowhere where the risk is zero. The good news is that humans can make good decisions to lower the odds of such hazards turning into disasters. Technology can help determine where to make investments to save the most lives.The terrible devastation caused by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in Morocco on Sept. 8, 2023, is the result of the presence of centuries-old historic buildings and the continued use of old construction methods such as clay bricks and unreinforced masonry. These building materials are prevalent worldwide, particularly in developing countries.
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S12S13AI won't be replacing your priest, minister, rabbi or imam any time soon  Early in the summer of 2023, robots projected on a screen delivered sermons to about 300 congregants at St. Paul’s Church in Bavaria, Germany. Created by ChatGPT and Jonas Simmerlein, a theologian and philosopher from the University of Vienna, the experimental church service drew immense interest. The deadpan sermon delivery prompted many to doubt whether AI can really displace priests and pastoral instruction. At the end of the service, an attendee remarked, “There was no heart and no soul.”
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S14S15EV sales growth points to oil demand peaking by 2030 - so why is the oil industry doubling down on production?  Robert Brecha is also affiliated with Climate Analytics, a global non-profit climate science and policy institute. Opinions and ideas expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Dayton or Climate Analytics. Electric vehicle sales are growing faster than expected around the world, and, sales of gas- and diesel-powered vehicles have been falling. Yet, the U.S. government still forecasts an increasing demand for oil, and the oil industry is doubling down on production plans.
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S16Rising number of 'predatory' academic journals undermines research and public trust in scholarship  There were an estimated 996 publishers that published over 11,800 predatory journals in 2015. That is roughly the same number of legitimate, open-access academic journals – available to readers without charge and archived in a library supported by a government or academic institution – published around the same time. In 2021, another estimate said there were 15,000 predatory journals.We are scholars of journalism and media ethics who see the negative effects predatory publishing is having on our own fields of journalism and mass communication. We believe it is important for people to understand how this problem affects society more broadly.
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S17S18S19Russell Brand: how the comedy industry uses humour to abuse and silence women  Recent allegations against comedian Russell Brand were published by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches. Brand has denied the allegations in a video posted to his Instagram account.Much discussion about the allegations has highlighted the possibility that celebrity status can be leveraged to abuse and silence women. There has not been as much attention, however, to the way Brand’s persona as a comedian and the specifics of the comedy industry may have influenced events.
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S20Positive outlook for local and export gas supplies for early 2024: ACCC  The outlooks for both local and export supplies of gas are positive for the early months of next year, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission inquiry’s September report. The inquiry, which provides regular information on east coast supply, says there will be sufficient gas to meet domestic demand as we go into 2024, while exports are predicted to be 9% higher in the first quarter, compared to the same quarter this year.
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S21Chatbots for medical advice: three ways to avoid misleading information  Bioethicist, Department of Health Ethics and Society, Maastricht University and Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel We expect medical professionals to give us reliable information about ourselves and potential treatments so that we can make informed decisions about which (if any) medicine or other intervention we need. If your doctor instead “bullshits” you (yes – this term has been used in academic publications to refer to persuasion without regard for truth, and not as a swear word) under the deception of authoritative medical advice, the decisions you make could be based on faulty evidence and may result in harm or even death.
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S22S23Nipah virus outbreak in India - what you need to know  There has been an outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in Kerala, India. Five people have caught the virus, two of whom have died. The authorities in the Kozhikode district, where the outbreak occurred, have instituted “containment zones” in the area and schools have been closed. Seventy-six people who came into contact with the infected are being closely monitored for signs of the disease.
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