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Nobel Prize in medicine goes to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for work on mRNA Covid-19 vaccines | CNN -

This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their work on mRNA vaccines, which were crucial in curtailing the spread of Covid-19.

Karikó and Weissman published their results in a 2005 paper that received little attention at the time, the Nobel Prize committee said, but later laid the foundation for critically important developments that served humanity during the Covid pandemic.

The committee praised the scientists’ “groundbreaking findings” which “fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system.”

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Did Kennan Foresee Putin? - Foreign Affairs

In “America and the Russian Future,” his 1951 article in Foreign Affairs, the U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan plumbed the psychological forces that shaped the Soviet system. “No ruling group likes to admit that it can govern its people only by regarding and treating them as criminals,” he wrote. “For this reason there is always a tendency to justify internal oppression by pointing to the menacing iniquity of the outside world.”

This was an astute view of the Soviet regime during the final years of Stalin’s dictatorship, but it equally captures late Putinism today. As Kennan continued, “The outside world must be portrayed, in these circumstances, as very iniquitous indeed—iniquitous to the point of the caricature.” Thanks to the efforts of Russian President Vladimir Putin himself, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergei Naryshkin, and other “comrades,” the Putin regime has created an image of a West that is not only hell-bent on destroying Russia but also a hotbed of LGBTQ orgies and a violator of traditional values—which, until recently, the average Russian did not even think about at all.

Indeed, under Putin, the Kremlin has relentlessly used the outside world to justify the repression of its own population: every Friday, the Ministry of Justice designates a certain number of people and organizations “foreign agents,” its version of what, in Stalinist terminology, were called “enemies of the people”; and the prosecutor’s office identifies “undesirable organizations”—entities that according to the authorities are agents of Western values and thus threatening to the Russian people. A new high school textbook on twentieth-century and twenty-first-century history, and a new university textbook titled Fundamentals of Russian Statehood—an attempt to systematize the ideology of Putinism—portray the West as an eternal historic enemy.

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Improve Your Salary And Career By Speaking A Second Language - Forbes

If you speak a second (or third or fourth...) language, you may be way ahead in terms of your cognition and your career. And if you don’t, it may be an especially good investment of your time and effort—because the payoffs for being bi-lingual or multi-lingual are significant in terms of everything from pay and performance to your thinking and your relationships.

In a competitive job market, it makes sense to set yourself apart—and being multi-lingual may be exactly what you need to enhance your value to your current employer or a potential employer.

Benefits of speaking more than one language have been demonstrated in multiple ways. For example, students who knew more than one language performed two to three times better on exams compared with students who knew only one language, according to a study at New York University. And a study published in the Journal of Language, Identity and Education, found multi-lingual students performed better on all subjects, especially science and geography.

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34-year-old Kickstarter CEO credits his success to 2 traits: They're an 'essential skill set' - CNBC

If you ask Everette Taylor how he became CEO of crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, he'll tell you: "I got lucky."

The 34-year-old spent a chunk of his teen and young adult years battling homelessness and hustling to make ends meet, he says. He dropped out of Virginia Tech and founded an event marketing startup. Then, he sold the company and landed a VP of marketing job at another startup.

Taylor parlayed those experiences into a career in serial entrepreneurship and marketing strategy, ultimately helping him land the top job at Kickstarter in September 2022. Two soft skills helped him navigate that journey, he says: empathy and risk taking.

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