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 S69Updates to Our Stadium's Bag Policy   Here at BitcoinSwaps.net Stadium, the safety of fans is our No. 1 priority. In an effort to increase venue security, we have updated our bag guidelines for all events.Clutches and other handheld bags must be no larger than 4.5 x 5 x 6 inchesâand yes, we use rulers to check. Anyone in possession of a bag exceeding these dimensions will be forced to discard it prior to entry. Plan accordinglyâwe'd hate to make you throw out the pencil case that you dug up last-minute when you realized that you don't own any mini-bags and that even the Ziplocs in your kitchen were too large.
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S3 Reconnecting When Network Ties Go Dormant  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.We’ve known for a while that relationships that have fallen into a state of inactivity — or become dormant ties — can be resurrected. As people venture back into professional social settings after having experienced pandemic-induced disconnection, they are particularly keen to revive these inactive ties. Such connections have the potential to be incredibly valuable: During the period of dormancy, former contacts have been learning new things and developing new networks that could yield advice, referrals, emotional support, and even tangible resources.
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S4The 1979 riot that 'killed' disco  For fans of disco and baseball alike, the night of 12 July 1979 is one to remember for all the wrong reasons. In a notorious promotional stunt, a Chicago DJ named Steve Dahl detonated a dumpster filled with disco records between White Sox games at Comiskey Park, leading to a riot. Years later, Dahl claimed that disco was "probably on its way out" but admitted that his stunt "hastened its demise". Nile Rodgers of the disco group Chic told biographer Daryl Easlea, "It felt to us like a Nazi book-burning."More like this:- Why disco should be taken seriously- Stunning music from the US's most notorious prison- The forgotten godfathers of hip-hop
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S5An inside look at the real Rupert Murdoch  This week came the momentous news from media mogul Rupert Murdoch that he is stepping down as chairman of his companies Fox and News Corp, handing the roles over to his eldest son Lachlan from mid-November.While Murdoch has said he will stay on in the role of Chairman Emeritus, it represents a major loosening of the reins for a man who has exerted such a huge influence over British and US media and politics for decades. A divisive figure on both sides of the Atlantic, he was recently the inspiration for the hot-headed patriarch protagonist of hit TV show Succession, Logan Roy, which followed a feuding media dynasty with distinct similarities to the Murdochs.
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S7S8Young people with sexual or gender diversity are at higher risk of stopping their HIV treatment because of stigma and harsh laws  Ending the AIDS pandemic – particularly in eastern and southern Africa – cannot be achieved unless more resources are channelled to meet the needs of key vulnerable populations.This is one of the themes that emerged during an AIDS conference in June in South Africa. Prejudice against particular groups – such as men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender communities – interferes with treatment regimes and people’s adherence to treatment. These groups are also at higher risk from HIV due to increased levels of stigma, discrimination, violence and criminalisation.
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S9S10How long will a loved one live? It's difficult to hear, but harder not to know  Planning for the future is difficult for people living with a life-limiting illness. Clinicians, based on their experience, can offer broad estimates of survival — in days to weeks, weeks to months, or months to years. However, patients and their care partners often want greater precision when arranging or making decisions about their care. An accurate prediction of survival can enable earlier conversations about preferences and wishes at the end of life, and earlier introduction of palliative care.
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S11Social media is a double-edged sword for the public image of Canadian labour unions  Union membership in Canada has been declining over the past four decades. In 2022, the percentage of employees who are union members fell to 29 per cent from 38 per cent in 1981. This decline has been partly attributed to the stagnant or outdated image of unions, which makes it difficult for some workers to relate to these organizations.There is hope that social media can breathe new life into the labour movement. Social media platforms offer unions the opportunity to communicate with their members, advocate for their causes, address grievances and rally public support swiftly and efficiently.
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S12Why Einstein must be wrong: In search of the theory of gravity  Einstein’s theory of gravity — general relativity — has been very successful for more than a century. However, it has theoretical shortcomings. This is not surprising: the theory predicts its own failure at spacetime singularities inside black holes — and the Big Bang itself. Read more: Our understanding of black holes has changed over time
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S13S14Debate: Why France needs the Fifth Republic  France’s current constitution is its fifth, and it’s built for stability – literally. Established in 1958 after the government collapsed in the throes of the Algerian War, the new constitution featured a president with considerable powers. That made the country’s governments more stable – a welcome change from the Third and Fourth Republics – but it’s also left opposition parties consistently frustrated.There have long been calls for greater proportionality in the National Assembly – then-President Francois Mitterrand heeded them in 1986, albeit in an attempt to prevent defeat in the legislative elections. In the last decade they’ve grown louder, however, with parties on the left and right insisting that the composition of the assembly should more closely mirror the results of presidential elections.
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S15Menendez indictment looks bad, but there are defenses he can make  Reactions came quickly to the federal indictment on Sept. 22, 2023, of New Jersey’s senior U.S. senator, Democrat Bob Menendez. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy joined other state Democrats in urging Menendez to resign, saying, “The alleged facts are so serious that they compromise the ability of Senator Menendez to effectively represent the people of our state.”The indictment charged Menendez, “his wife NADINE MENENDEZ, a/k/a ‘Nadine Arslanian,’ and three New Jersey businessmen, WAEL HANA, a/k/a ‘Will Hana,’ JOSE URIBE, and FRED DAIBES, with participating in a years-long bribery scheme … in exchange for MENENDEZ’s agreement to use his official position to protect and enrich them and to benefit the Government of Egypt.” Menendez said he believed the case would be “successfully resolved once all of the facts are presented,” but he stepped down temporarily as chairman of the Senate’s influential Committee on Foreign Relations.
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S16S17'Excavating something I barely had language for': two memoirs of disability and family explore Deafness and dwarfism  In my many years of reading and writing about disability and chronic illness, my preference leans toward books that look outward, rather than inward, in their approach to truth-telling. The intricacies of living in a marginalised body tend to feel more philosophical if they resist solipsism and reach toward the universal. I’m thinking about Fiona Wright’s essay collection, The World Was Whole, which focuses on suburban and urban houses and homes, and invites us to think about the body as home – and the question of what happens when the body fails us.
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S18America's leaders are older than they've ever been. Why didn't the founding fathers foresee this as a problem?  The US Congress has had no shortage of viral moments in recent months. Senator Dianne Feinstein seemingly became confused over how to vote. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell experienced two extended “freeze episodes” during press conferences. And several members of Congress mistook TikTok for the name of a breath mint (Tic Tac). The world’s oldest democracy currently has its oldest-ever Congress. President Joe Biden (80 years old) is also the oldest US president in history. His leading rival in the 2024 presidential race, former President Donald Trump, is not far behind at 77.
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S19S20We need urban trees more than ever -  Australians are bracing for a hot spring and summer. The Bureau of Meteorology has finally declared El Niño is underway, making warmer and drier conditions more likely for large parts of the country. And we’ve just watched the Northern Hemisphere swelter through their summer, making July 2023 Earth’s hottest month on record. We studied the effects of extreme heat on urban trees in Western Sydney during Australia’s record-breaking summer of 2019–20. So we hold grave concerns for the survival of both native Australian and exotic species in our urban forest. These stands of trees and shrubs – along streets and in parks, gardens, and yards – play vital roles in our cities. Trees improve people’s mental health and wellbeing, lower energy use, and reduce temperatures through shading and evaporative cooling.
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S21S22S23Labor and Albanese recover in Newspoll as Dutton falls, but the Voice's slump continues  Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A national Newspoll, conducted September 18–22 from a sample of 1,239, gave Labor a 54–46 lead, a one-point gain for Labor since the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago. Primary votes were 36% Labor (up one), 36% Coalition (down one), 11% Greens (down two), 6% One Nation (down one) and 11% for all Others (up three).
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S24S25S26Seals, swimmers, bat carers - exploring the world of the pale brown, oft-maligned Yarra River  Author Harry Saddler’s book on Melbourne’s Yarra River is an engaging account of his years exploring its native species and human communities. He acknowledges the river’s First Nations name of Birrarung, writing with a boyish enthusiasm. At times I felt his emotion jumping out of the pages, almost channelling David Attenborough’s passion for species and the environment.The book’s major focus is on Saddler’s obvious fascination with native animals. He delights in telling us about his adventures finding them on, in, and near to the Yarra. It sometimes reads like a police drama as be describes “staking out” the habitat of an elusive species. Night after night, Saddler keeps going back to potential hideouts. At one point he watches eleven sugar gliders emerge from a hollow in a river red gum, only metres from townhouses.
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S27S28How popular music videos drove the fight against the Islamic State  Almost a decade ago, the Sunni jihadist network known as the Islamic State (IS) declared the formation of an Islamic Caliphate after they captured the Iraqi city of Mosul in June 2014.In response, tens of thousands of Shia men joined a complex patchwork of militias to fight against IS. Many of these militias are notoriously violent and directly loyal to Iran’s theocratic state.
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S29S30Australian rugby has reached its lowest point. How did it get here?  The Wallabies have suffered a record-breaking defeat to Wales at the Rugby World Cup. This represents Australia’s worst result in a World Cup match and its biggest-ever losing margin to Wales. And it will almost certainly end Australia’s 2023 World Cup campaign at the group stage for the first time. Given pundits had suggested a strong World Cup performance was vital for the health of the game domestically, the horror result heaps further pressure onto a sport shrinking out of the mainstream and facing numerous challenges.
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S31Pezzullo story points to serious systemic problems in the Australian Public Service  The revelations in the Nine newspapers that Mike Pezzullo, secretary of the powerful Home Affairs department, shared with Liberal Party powerbroker Scott Briggs are certainly extraordinary. But, just like the revelations about Robodebt from the royal commission, they must not be treated as an isolated case but as evidence of serious systemic problems in the Australian Public Service (APS).So what is expected from public servants in terms of their relationship with government? The answer is in the Public Service Act, which states secretaries – those at the very top of each department – must uphold and promote the APS Values and Employment Principles. One of those values is impartiality:
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S32'Mum-shaming' of Sophie Turner is part of a problem that harms all parents  Like many celebrity divorces, the split of Sophie Turner and singer Joe Jonas has been accompanied by a flurry of rumours. It was reported that the breakup happened because the Game of Thrones actress “likes to party” whereas “he likes to stay at home”.There has been a swift backlash to this speculation. Commentators from Rolling Stone, Glamour, Vogue, Radio 4 Women’s Hour and others have denounced the rumours as misogyny and “mum-shaming”.
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S33Cartoons from the October 2, 2023, Issue  By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.© 2023 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Ad Choices
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S34Your Body Odor Might Reveal Crucial Information About Your Health  Researchers have been studying the discriminating potential of human scent for over three decades.From the aroma of fresh-cut grass to the smell of a loved one, you encounter scents in every part of your life. Not only are you constantly surrounded by odor, but you’re also producing it. And it is so distinctive that it can be used to tell you apart from everyone around you.
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S3565 Years Ago, A Ludicrous Sci-Fi Thriller Gave Leonard Nimoy His First Major Role  It’s fair to say Star Trek legend Leonard Nimoy had an inauspicious start to his career. He was required to say little more than “Yes, sir” while playing a Martian sidekick in the zombie-less Zombies of the Stratosphere. He went uncredited as a sergeant in the nuclear monster movie Them! And then he was miscredited as Leonard Nemoy in his first substantial genre role, a missing professor possessed by a parasitic life force blatantly constructed from pipe cleaners, in the Roger Corman-produced The Brain Eaters.Even the most ardent Trekkies would have trouble spotting him in the schlockfest, now celebrating its 65th anniversary. Not only is the future Spock sporting a Gandalf-esque beard and robes, but he’s largely filmed from afar while shrouded in a mysterious fog. Only his distinctive baritone, heard pontificating about the wastefulness of human civilization (“Ironic that Man should obtain his long-sought utopia as a gift, rather than as something earned”), gives any indication about the Godlike figure’s true identity. Still, as the man tasked with explaining all the madness that’s gone before, Nimoy’s late-in-the-day cameo is a pivotal one. And his big reveal makes The Brain Eaters one of the more intriguing sci-fis to emerge from the golden age of black and white B-movies.
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S36Dopamine Might Have An Unexpected Function That Could Reshape Our Understanding Of Brain Conditions  Dopamine is a brain chemical famously linked to mood and pleasure − but researchers have found multiple types of dopamine neurons with different functions Dopamine seems to be having a moment in the zeitgeist. You may have read about it in the news, seen viral social media posts about “dopamine hacking,” or listened to podcasts about how to harness what this molecule is doing in your brain to improve your mood and productivity. However, recent neuroscience research suggests that popular strategies to control dopamine are based on an overly narrow view of how it functions.
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S375 Years Later, Star Wars Is Finally Walking Back Its Dumbest Mistake  Most films have their fair share of production drama, but for Lucasfilm, it doesn’t get much messier than Solo: A Star Wars Story. Apart from a troubled production and disappointing box office return, the 2018 film wasn’t nearly as bad as Lucasfilm higher-ups have made it out to be. But in the five years since it first sped into theaters, Solo has come to define the studio’s very cautious, very divisive new strategy.Solo was one of a handful of planned spin-offs for some of the galaxy’s most beloved characters. It was meant to sire at least two sequels, and if it had made enough of a mark on the box office, it would have justified a whole trove of prequels in the same vein. Unfortunately, it’s become a cautionary tale instead. Solo is inadvertently responsible for Lucasfilm’s aversion to recasting and its newfound obsession with deepfake de-aging, and it may have also inspired the studio’s pivot to streaming.
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S38S3945 Home Products Skyrocketing in Sales on Amazon That Are Smart as Hell  Making your home easier to care for and more enjoyable to be live in just got easier, and these popular gadgets and gizmos on this list are going viral on Amazon with skyrocketing sales and lots of five-star reviews testifying to their quality and usefulness. From a space-saving roll-up drying rack that doubles as a trivet to an insecticide-free fly catcher that blends in with your decor, these items have earned a cult following because they offer clever solutions and convenient features — and they start at just $8.These drawer dividers will make having a messy junk drawer a thing of the past. They can be extended from 17.5 to 22 inches so that they can fit in various types of drawers. Each in this pack of four is made of water-resistant bamboo and has rubber pads on either end so as not to scratch surfaces.
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S40A Giant Futuristic Starshade Could Help Astronomers Spot Earth-like Planets  Since the 1930s, astronomers have used various ways to remove glare from a bright object to reveal fainter objects.The race is on to discover truly habitable Earth-like worlds. While we are starting to observe the atmospheres of large potentially habitable planets such as Hycean worlds with the telescopes we currently have, the most significant breakthroughs will likely come with the development of advanced specialized telescopes. These new designs will likely use a starshade to hide the glare of a star and allow us to directly observe its exoplanets. But will that be enough to study distant terrestrial planets?
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S4165 Cool Things That Seem Expensive but Are Cheap AF on Amazon  One of the many tricks to saving money is to buy stuff that looks expensive but isn’t expensive. With a little persistence and some shopping savviness, you can easily find everything from plush bed sheets to stylish hammock chairs at shockingly low prices. But if you don’t have time to scour the internet for deals? Not a problem, as I’ve put together this list of cool things that seem expensive, but are really cheap AF — and you can find them all right on Amazon. So what are you waiting for? Keep scrolling to see more.If you often find yourself needing more than two outlets, consider adding this extender to your wall. It adds four outlets, three USB ports, as well as one type-C port, making it easy to charge a variety of devices — all while built-in surge protection works to protect your devices from electrical spikes.
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S42Is Filtered Water Healthier Than Tap? There's One Crucial Overlooked Factor  Adulthood can comprise tiny, routine joys, like replacing the carbon filter in your water pitcher at precisely the right time. In fact, if you’re giddy at the idea of having a filtered pitcher, that’s a sure sign of growing older, and you are not alone. In 2022, the market for activated carbon filters was valued at $543 million, and is projected to swell to $4 billion by 2035.Ideally our tap water is clean and safe to drink by the time we turn on the faucet. These filters, for the most part, improve our tap water’s appearance and taste. So if there any value at all in an additional filter? Do these filters at all improve our health?
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S43'Ahsoka's Biggest Problem Has an Obvious Fix That Star Wars Keeps Ignoring  The first season of Disney+’s Ahsoka has been a bit of a mixed bag so far. While the series’ first six episodes have delivered plenty of standout moments, images, and potentially canon-shattering twists, they’ve also been dragged down by sluggish pacing, poor dialogue, and a general overreliance on Star Wars Rebels-inspired fan service. More than anything, Ahsoka has revealed the limits of the lore-heavy brand of storytelling that creator Dave Filoni has trafficked in for years.Many of the show’s ongoing flaws are either absent or not as obvious in Ahsoka Episode 6, which features the long-awaited returns of both Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) and Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi). However, while the episode finally starts to bring the promises of Ahsoka’s central premise to fruition, it’s also the installment that proves, once and for all, why the show would have been better off as a two-hour movie rather than an eight-episode TV series.
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S44S45The mundane becomes mesmerising in this deep dive into segmented displays | Aeon Videos  It’s likely that you’ve glanced at a seven-segment display thousands of times in your life without knowing what it was called, or even giving the design much thought at all. First invented in 1903 to help increase the speed of telegraph transmissions, in the 1970s the display began to appear on household devices, and persists on a great many household items today – even in the age of high resolution. In this video essay, the Dutch filmmaker, photographer and artist Michiel de Boer offers a surprisingly fascinating dive into the history and design of segmented displays, which, designed to overcome technical limitations, exist at the intersection of form and function. In doing so, De Boer also dives into his lifelong quest to build a better segmented display than the ‘double square’ design that has become ubiquitous.An artist and ants collaborate on an exhibit of ‘tiny Abstract Expressionist paintings’
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S46S47Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives  In 2022, the average employee experienced 10 planned enterprise changes — such as a restructure to achieve efficiencies, a culture transformation to unlock new ways of working, or the replacement of a legacy tech system — up from two in 2016. While more change is coming, the workforce has hit a wall: A Gartner survey revealed that employees’ willingness to support enterprise change collapsed to just 43% in 2022, compared to 74% in 2016. Navigating the pandemic asked a lot of employees — and while they delivered, it came at a cost. Relentless sprinting means many employees are running on fumes. To create more sustainable change efforts, leaders must prioritize change initiatives, showing employees where to invest their energies. They also must manage change fatigue by building in periods of proactive rest, involving employees in change plans, and challenging managers to help build team resilience.Business transformation will remain at the forefront in 2023, as organizations continue to refine hybrid ways of working and respond to the urgent need to digitalize, while also contending with inflation, a continuing talent shortage, and supply-chain constraints. These circumstances, which require higher levels of productivity and performance, also mean a lot of change: In 2022, the average employee experienced 10 planned enterprise changes — such as a restructure to achieve efficiencies, a culture transformation to unlock new ways of working, or the replacement of a legacy tech system — up from two in 2016, according to Gartner research.
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S48S49S50Rosalind Franklin Deserves a Posthumous Nobel Prize for Co-discovering DNA Structure  Awarding Rosalind Franklin a Nobel Prize posthumously for her role in DNA discovery is the honorable—and scientific—thing to doThe two most famous prizes in the world are the Academy Award for work in film and the Nobel Prize for work in science and medicine. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences grants posthumous awards for people who won in their category but died before they could attend the ceremony and, occasionally, for special recognition, as when Audrey Hepburn was awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993. It's time the Nobel Assembly did the same thing and awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize to British chemist and crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, whose research laid the foundation for the modern understanding of DNA.
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S51Discrimination Has Trapped People of Color in Unhealthy Urban 'Heat Islands'  People of color, more than other groups, live in neighborhoods prone to excess heat and the illnesses that go with itOn a July day in 2021 that would become blazing hot, dozens of community volunteers gathered before sunrise at the Scrap Exchange, a reuse center for art materials in Durham, N.C. Using heat-sensing instruments, they fanned out along prescribed routes through the city, collecting data on air temperature and humidity in the morning, afternoon and evening.
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S52OSIRIS-REx's Asteroid Samples Are Finally Down to Earth  OSIRIS-REx—the first U.S. mission to attempt a sample return from a space rock—has successfully sent materials from asteroid Bennu back to EarthAn extraterrestrial express delivery package from afar has landed safe and sound on Earth, bringing a multimillion-mile journey billions of years in the making to an end—and marking a new beginning in studies of the solar system’s history.
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S53How to Order Your Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests  Another Covid-19 variant is spreading, but there's an updated vaccine and four more free tests are available for every household in the US—including US territories and military addresses—starting September 25. While you don't need to panic, it's good to have tests on hand so you can find out if you have Covid. That way, you can prevent the spread of the virus to others.If you need a test right now, we have a guide to finding the best at-home tests and have outlined the process of ordering and taking tests below. Also, see our guides to the best N95 masks and other reusable masks we like. You can follow our Covid-19 coverage here.
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S54The Secret of How Cells Make 'Dark Oxygen' Without Light  Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and rocks beneath our feet there lies a vast biosphere with a global volume nearly twice that of all the world's oceans. Little is known about these underground organisms, who represent most of the planet's microbial mass and whose diversity may exceed that of surface-dwelling life forms. Their existence comes with a great puzzle: Researchers have often assumed that many of those subterranean realms are oxygen-deficient dead zones inhabited only by primitive microbes keeping their metabolisms at a crawl and scraping by on traces of nutrients. As those resources get depleted, it was thought, the underground environment must become lifeless with greater depth.In new research published in June in Nature Communications, researchers presented evidence that challenges those assumptions. In groundwater reservoirs 200 meters below the fossil fuel fields of Alberta, Canada, they discovered abundant microbes that produce unexpectedly large amounts of oxygen even in the absence of light. The microbes generate and release so much of what the researchers call "dark oxygen" that it's like discovering "the scale of oxygen coming from the photosynthesis in the Amazon rainforest," said Karen Lloyd, a subsurface microbiologist at the University of Tennessee who was not part of the study. The quantity of the gas diffusing out of the cells is so great that it seems to create conditions favorable for oxygen-dependent life in the surrounding groundwater and strata.
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S55The Best MagSafe Accessories for Your New iPhone  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 WIREDA Magnet is one of those things that always remain wondrous. As a kid, I used to chase a broken magnet with its repelling end and pretend it was a cop car chasing a robber. Now, it’s similarly satisfying to slap magnetic accessories to the back of an iPhone. It just clicks into place! No wires, screws, or clamps to deal with. It’s wonderful.
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S56How the Moon is helping us confirm Einstein's relativity  It is often possible to use data gathered for one purpose to study something else. For example, a recent paper used half a century’s worth of observations of the Moon’s orbit to perform subtle and precise tests of the nature of gravity, as well as some of the key assumptions that went into deriving Einstein’s theory of general relativity.Mass can be thought of as how much “stuff” an object is made of. It is what causes the gravitational force between two objects, and it is what makes objects difficult to move. Essentially, it is serving three different functions. First, mass generates a gravitational field that will exert a force on other objects, so we could call this “active gravitational mass.” Second, mass can feel the gravitational effects from surrounding objects, and we could call this “passive gravitational mass.” Third, mass resists changes in motion — which is why pushing a big rock is difficult — so we might call this “inertial mass.”
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S57Meet the Web3 "stakehodlers" revolutionizing capitalism  An American-born graduate of Canada’s McGill University, Jesse Walden — cofounder of Variant Fund, a leading Web3 venture capital firm — started his career in Montreal as a manager for emerging indie musicians like Solange Knowles and Blood Orange — the “types of artists you read about in Pitchfork,” he quipped. “Music is one of the most Luddite industries, when it comes to new technologies,” he told me. Walden saw an opportunity to help the artists he managed leverage technology platforms, “to reach their fans directly and monetize, independent of any major label third party.” Applying what he knew from his time in the music industry as an agent, Walden founded Mediachain, a blockchain data solution to help creators get paid for their work online. “Bitcoin was the best-known thing going in the crypto space in 2014. We were interested in what blockchains could do for different kinds of digital assets. We did all media assets like images, videos, songs,” Walden explained. Mediachain was a good idea, and many of its core concepts are now commonplace in the NFT market. In 2014, Mediachain’s time had not yet come, partly due to the lack of a good technology platform to make it work. “This was pre-Ethereum launch,” he said. “So, a little bit too early, frankly.”
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S58S59S60I Was Wrong About the Death of the Book  Fifteen years ago, in What Would Google Do?, I called for the book to be rethought and renovated, digital and connected, so that it could be updated and made searchable, conversational, collaborative, linkable, less expensive to produce, and cheaper to buy. The problem, I said, was that we so revered the book, it had become sacrosanct. “We need to get over books,” I wrote. “Only then can we reinvent them.”Umberto Eco was right when he said, “The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved.” When exactly the modern book was invented is a matter of debate. Was it by Gutenberg? No. He mechanized the manuscript. Was it half a century later, at the end of books’ incunabular phase, with the addition of the title page, page numbers, paragraph indentations, and other characteristics of the book as we know it? I think not. That describes the form of the modern book, not its soul.
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S61We Don't Need Another Antihero  In Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Elon Musk, the focus on psychology diverts us from the questions we should be asking about the world’s richest man.This past December, Elon Musk’s extended family gathered for Christmas. As was their tradition, they pondered a question of the year, which seemed strategically designed for Elon to answer: “What regrets do you have?”
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S62The Open Plot to Dismantle the Federal Government  Of the many targets Donald Trump has attacked over the years, few engender less public sympathy than the career workforce of the federal government—the faceless mass of civil servants that the former president and his allies deride as the “deep state.”Federal employees have long been an easy mark for politicians of both parties, who occasionally hail their nonpartisan public service but far more frequently blame “Washington bureaucrats” for stifling your business, auditing your taxes, and taking too long to renew your passport. Denigrating the government’s performance is a tradition as old as the republic, but Trump assigned these shortcomings a sinister new motive, accusing the civilian workforce of thwarting his agenda before he even took office.
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S63Putin Is Worried, So He Turned to Anti-Semitism  After Joseph Stalin died in 1953, an underground joke from my Moscow youth declared, the Politburo found three envelopes on the Soviet dictator’s desk. The first, inscribed “Open after my death,” contained a letter telling his successors to place his body next to Lenin’s in the Red Square Mausoleum. “Open when things get bad,” read the second envelope, and the note inside said, “Blame everything on me!” The third envelope, marked “Open when things get really bad,” commanded, “Do as I did!”Things must be really bad for Russian President Vladimir Putin, because he is resorting to one of Stalin’s preferred ways of holding on to power: appealing to anti-Semitism. Recently, Putin has made a series of remarks dwelling on the fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish. And in a discussion at an economic forum earlier this month, Putin mocked Anatoly Chubais, a half-Jewish former Kremlin adviser who fled Russia after its invasion of Ukraine last year and is reportedly living in Israel. “He is no longer Anatoly Borisovich Chubais,” Putin said, using his former aide’s first name and patronymic. “He is Moshe Izrayilevich, or some such.”
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S64All the Little Caesars  If we recognize strongmen’s incendiary showmanship, we always have a chance of ridding ourselves of them.Caesars are back, big caesars and little caesars, in big countries and little countries, in advanced nations and developing nations. The world seems to be full of self-proclaimed strongmen strutting their stuff, or waiting in the wings and plotting a comeback after a humiliating fall. And we thought it couldn’t happen here. How can these uncouth figures with their funny hair, their rude manners, and their bad jokes take such a hold on the popular imagination? How can anyone bear to listen to their endless resentful rants? Surely, they can’t get away with this? People will see through them before it’s too late.
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S65A Dark and Paranoid American Fable  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.Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is our staff writer Ross Andersen. Ross has written about a prospective woolly-mammoth reserve in Siberia, a grisly slaughter at the National Zoo, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s ambition to build a superintelligence. He is working on a book about the quest to find intelligent life beyond Earth.
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S66South Africa's Sharks Disappeared Without a Trace  To see a great white shark breach the waves, its powerful jaws clasping a shock-struck seal, is to see the very pinnacle of predatory prowess. Or so we thought. Several years ago, in South Africa, the world was reminded that even great white sharks have something to fear: killer whales.Long before they started chomping on yachts, killer whales were making headlines for a rash of attacks on South African great white sharks. The killings were as gruesome as they were impressive. The killer whales were showing a deliberate sense of culinary preference, consuming the sharks’ oily, nutrient-rich livers but leaving the rest of the shark to sink or wash up on a nearby beach.
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S67The Founder's Dilemma  Why do people start businesses? For the money and the chance to control their own companies, certainly. But new research from Harvard Business School professor Wasserman shows that those goals are largely incompatible.The author’s studies indicate that a founder who gives up more equity to attract cofounders, new hires, and investors builds a more valuable company than one who parts with less equity. More often than not, however, those superior returns come from replacing the founder with a professional CEO more experienced with the needs of a growing company. This fundamental tension requires founders to make “rich” versus “king” trade-offs to maximize either their wealth or their control over the company.
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S68Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?  Although there are many models of emotional intelligence, they are often lumped together as “EQ” in the popular vernacular. An alternative term is “EI,” which comprises four domains: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. Within those domains are 12 EI competencies, starting with emotional self-awareness in the self-awareness domain. Emotional self-control, adaptability, achievement orientation, and a positive outlook fall under self-management. Empathy and organizational awareness make up social awareness. Relationship management includes influence, coaching and mentoring, conflict management, teamwork, and inspirational leadership. Leaders need to develop a balance of strengths across these competencies. Assessment tools, like a 360-degree assessment that uses ratings from yourself and those who know you well, can help you determine where your EI needs improvement. To best improve your weak spots, find an expert to coach you.
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S70The Weirdest Sci-Fi Thriller of the Year Has an Ending You Have to See to Believe  Hulu’s latest low-budget horror offering No One Will Save You is no-holds-barred, delivering constant thrills, aliens, and a touching backstory all with almost no dialogue. According to writer/director Brian Duffield, this happened completely by accident. “I didn't realize it until I was halfway done,” Duffield tells Inverse. “I had this character in mind of Brynn, and I had her story, and then I slowly realized that I should mash it together with an alien movie. Just in the writing of it, I kind of surprised myself.” Duffield, who says he never outlines his scripts, still managed to deliver a dense story even without dialogue, and it all leads up to a shocking ending. But just what does it mean? Duffield explains how it plays out, and why he decided to end Brynn’s story that way.
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