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 S1Why You Shouldn't Lie in a Job Interview   At some point, you may have even wondered: Can I exaggerate the truth during a job interview? Is it okay to reframe my past responsibilities to impress a recruiter? There’s a fine line between crafting a great answer and being dishonest. If you’re struggling to tread that line, here are examples of how to answer tough questions without compromising your ethics:
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S2Introducing Yourself as the New Manager  When forming first impressions, people usually evaluate two factors: competence and trustworthiness. If the initial impressions your team members are forming about you are unfavorable, it can have long-term consequences. Your introduction is about setting the tone for successful working relationships and a positive team culture right from the beginning. If you take the time to prepare for it, it will up your chances of getting it right, and the benefits will last far into the future.
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S35 Ways to Set More Achievable Goals  Still, most of us struggle to achieve the goals we set for ourselves. There are several reasons why: We set unattainable goals; we lack the motivation to follow through; we don’t really value the goal as much as we think we do. In some cases, there may be circumstances beyond our control — an illness, caretaking responsibilities, or a bad economy that forces us to rethink what we want to achieve.
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S4You Don't Have to Become "The Boss" to Grow in Your Career  The professional landscape has changed dramatically in the last several decades. With advances in technology, there are countless opportunities for people who want to focus their growth on developing specific skill sets and technical expertise. Many of these paths don’t involve managing a team.
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S5Are You Too Loyal to Your Organization?  Loyalty has many benefits at work. Without it, there is little trust, commitment, or sense of team. But there is also such a thing as overvaluing loyalty or being blindly loyal. Both research and real life have shown that overly loyal people are more likely to participate in unethical acts to keep their jobs and be exploited by their organizations. What can you do to harness the benefits of loyalty while mitigating the risks?
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S6Better Ways to Support a Colleague with Breast Cancer  Chances are, you’ll work with a person who is diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in your career. Do you know how to best support them during one of the most challenging times of their lives? In this article, five women who have undergone treatment describe ways their colleagues did — and didn’t — lift them up through their words and actions, both at the time of their diagnosis and beyond.
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S7Does Your Hybrid Strategy Need to Change?  Companies continue to struggle to design and implement a post-Covid return-to-office strategy that works for employees. To find the most workable alternative, they should focus on four factors: the needs of the work, the needs of the people, how work gets done, and the new managerial muscle required to manage a hybrid workforce.
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S8Should I Push To Make My Interim Leadership Role Permanent?  She’s taken a number of chances in her career and made some big pivots. Now, she’s been assigned to a senior role on an interim basis, but she’s not sure whether she should try to make the role permanent. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches her through the decision-making process to better understand what’s holding her back and the future she envisions for herself.
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S94 Ways to Make Work More Meaningful  Curiosity is not just a medium by which we achieve professional success, it’s also imperative to unlocking purpose and meaning at work. Curiosity about ourselves, our work, and our colleagues is the key to unlocking the significance behind our work. Adopting the mindset of curiosity with the intention of discovering purpose is made possible through four simple practices: crafting your work, making work a craft, connecting work to service, and investing in positive relationships. With these essentials in mind, we’re prompted to ask the right questions and come into each work day more intentionally, carefully, and mindfully.
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S10Operations in an Era of Radical Uncertainty  Operations have always been foundational to competitive advantage, but the nature of this relationship is shifting: Historically, the strategic goal of operations was to achieve scale in order to create a sustainable efficiency advantage. In recent years, winners have focused more on ensuring their operations and strategies were adaptive to changing and unforeseen circumstances, with resilience driving outperformance. In the era of radical uncertainty we are now entering, the next frontier of operations will be to enable optionality, which entails an even closer integration with strategy.
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S11Could mRNA make us superhuman?  Barely three years ago, Anna Blakney was working in a relatively inconspicuous, niche field of science in a lab in London. Few people outside of her scientific circles had heard of mRNA vaccines. Because none yet existed. Attendees at an annual conference talk she gave in 2019 could be counted in the tens, not hundreds. Today, she's in hot demand: an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and a science communicator with 253,000 followers and 3.7 million likes on TikTok. She was, she admits, in the right place at the right time to ride a once-in-a-generation wave of scientific progress. She even gave this new era a name: "the RNAissance".Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many people have now heard of – and have received – an mRNA vaccine, from the likes of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. But even when Blakney started her PhD at Imperial College London in 2016, "a lot of people were sceptical as to whether it could ever work". Now, "the whole field of mRNA is just exploding. It's a game changer in medicine," she says.
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S12Can a map of the ocean floor be crowdsourced?  Tucked inside a federal government building in the American Rockies is the world's best collection of seafloor maps. Occasionally a hard drive arrives in the mail, filled with new bathymetric – or seafloor – charts collected by survey vessels and research ships cruising the seas. The world's largest public map of Earth's oceans grows just a little bit more.Cloaked in ocean, the seafloor has resisted human exploration for centuries. Folklore and myths told of it as the domain of terrifying sea monsters, gods, goddesses and lost underwater cities. Victorian-era sailors believed that there was no ocean floor at all, just an infinite abyss where the bodies of drowned sailors came to rest in watery purgatory.
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S13What comes after the blockchain?  The crypto world’s highest flyers are looking shakier than ever. Sam Bankman-Fried is awaiting trial in a Brooklyn jail, and Binance is wilting under new scrutiny from the Department of Justice. A pair of upcoming books detail the excesses of the crypto boom, more or less dancing on its grave. Even for bulls and optimists, it is starting to feel like the party is over.That was on my mind when I sat in on Y Combinator’s Demo Day. Over two days, I heard more than 200 participants give lightning pitches for their business, hoping to attract investors. Given Y Combinator’s position as incubator of choice for most of Silicon Valley, Demo Day offers a pretty good sample of the current trends in the startup world. As you might expect, it also skews heavily towards the U.S., although there were projects mixed in from India, Mexico, and Kenya.
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S14Why thousands of young Chinese people use a pink dinosaur as their alias  Emily Yuan, a high school student in Guizhou, lives a double life on the Chinese internet. On her main social media accounts on WeChat and Weibo, Yuan shares photos of herself and posts about school events, like a recent debate competition, for her friends and family to see. But on her alternative accounts, on Douban and Xiaohongshu, Yuan goes by the username “momo,” paired with a profile picture of a pink cartoon dinosaur. Under this alter ego, Yuan posts controversial commentary on everything from K-pop to feminism. On a Xiaohongshu post about the health risks of childbirth for women, Yuan, or “momo,” commented, “If you truly love someone, why would you want them to undergo something as harrowing as childbirth?” Under the post, two more users jumped into the conversation, agreeing with Yuan — both were named momo.
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S15Readers Respond to the May 2023 Issue  I teared up after reading “Designing Life,” in which Philip Ball exquisitely describes how the undifferentiated cells of the early embryo create differentiated tissues, organs and a body, using a genome that does not contain design-plan instructions. The interplay of chemical, physical and electrical signals in the cells and their cooperative response are astounding.WENDY ROSENBLUM STAMFORD, CONN.As I read of the multiplicity of projects experimenting with living tissues in Ball's article, I realized that this is the complementary situation to that of engineers “playing around” with artificial intelligence. Both groups have little idea of what will emerge from their activities and how it will affect the rest of us.ARNOLD BANNER VIA E-MAIL
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S16Science News Briefs from around the World: October 2023  Mammals munching on dinosaurs in China, Greenland’s melted past, coral catastrophe in Florida, and much more in this month’s Quick HitsAustralia is the first country to legalize psilocybin and MDMA for the treatment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. As clinical trials for these and other psychedelics gain momentum worldwide, Australia could be a model for governments considering regulation of these substances as medications.
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S17'AI Anxiety' Is on the Rise - Here's How to Manage It  Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence have prompted big questions about the future of work and even human creativity. Experts have suggestions for how to manage all these unknownsIt’s logical for humans to feel anxious about artificial intelligence. After all, the news is constantly reeling off job after job at which the technology seems to outperform us. But humans aren’t yet headed for all-out replacement. And if you do suffer from so-called AI anxiety, there are ways to alleviate your fears and even reframe them into a motivating force for good.
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S18Scientists behind mRNA COVID Vaccines Win 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for mRNA vaccine discoveries that made highly effective COVID vaccines possibleThis year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to a transformative medical technology that significantly altered the path of the pandemic and saved millions: the mRNA vaccines against COVID. Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were jointly awarded the prize for advancements that have changed the field of vaccine development and researchers’ understanding of how messenger RNA (mRNA) interacts with the body’s immune system.
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S19It's Time to Hear from Social Scientists about UFOs  Whether or not UFOs exist, we need to pay attention to how they are influencing our politics and cultureUFOs, recently renamed unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), are attracting public attention in the U.S. in a way we haven’t seen for decades. Ex-government officials, prominent politicians, intelligence agencies, major news outlets and civilian scientists are all looking into the prospect of extraterrestrial visitors, making them no longer seem quite so far-fetched.
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S20The Assumptions You Bring into Conversation with an AI Bot Influence What It Says  A new study reveals an “AI placebo effect”: the same chatbot will respond differently depending on its users’ assumptions about artificial intelligenceDo you think artificial intelligence will change our lives for the better or threaten the existence of humanity? Consider carefully—your position on this may influence how generative AI programs such as ChatGPT respond to you, prompting them to deliver results that align with your expectations.
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S21The State of Large Language Models  We present the latest updates on ChatGPT, Bard and other competitors in the artificial intelligence arms race.LAUREN LEFFER: At the end of November, it’ll be one year since ChatGPT was first made public, rapidly accelerating the artificial intelligence arms race. And a lot has changed over the course of 10 months.
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S22An mRNA Pioneer Discusses How Her Work Led to the COVID Vaccines  Biochemist Katalin Karikó and her colleague Drew Weissman were recently awarded a $3-million Breakthrough Prize for their workEditor’s Note (10/2/23): Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on mRNA, which led to COVID vaccines that have protected billions of people. Karikó discusses some of the key advances in this interview from 2021.
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S23Giant Satellite Outshines Most Stars in the Sky  At times, the enormous BlueWalker 3 telecommunications satellite is brighter than some of the most iconic stars visible from EarthOn some nights, one of the brightest objects in the sky is neither a planet nor a star. It is a telecommunications satellite called BlueWalker 3, and at times it outshines 99% of the stars visible from a dark location on Earth, according to observations reported today in Nature.
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S24The truth about human population decline  With birth rates falling, the worldwide human population is getting older and smaller. According to traditional thinking, this spells a future of labor shortages, bankrupt social security systems and overall economic collapse. Before you panic about the end of life as we know it, political demographer Jennifer D. Sciubba has a thoughtful playbook for managing the new normal – including ideas on the future of work and migration – and a reminder that a resilient future relies on present-day action.
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S25This Exec Is Forcing Google Into Its First Trial Over Sexist Pay Discrimination  More than 20,000 fed-up Google employees staged a worldwide walkout in 2018 to demand a safer, fairer workplace for women after scandals over sexual harassment and unequal pay roiled the company. That fight was not an unqualified success: Pay equity data remains scarce and organizers say they suffered retaliation. But one victory—Google’s end to a forced arbitration policy requiring employees to privately settle disputes out of court—is at last bearing fruit.A pay discrimination trial against Google is scheduled to begin in New York later this week, the first since the company ended forced arbitration. Ulku Rowe, an executive in Google’s cloud unit, alleges that she was hired at a lower level and salary than equally or less qualified men and that Google retaliated when she complained, denying her promotion opportunities and even demoting her.
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S26How to Re-Waterproof Your Old Rain Jacket  Nothing is forever. Count the water resistance of your hardshell rain jacket among the things that wear out and disappear over time. That's right, outdoor rain jackets can become water-logged long before the stitches give out or the zippers begin to jam. You don't need to replace it, though. You can re-treat it as easily as misting a houseplant or doing the laundry.You know these rain jackets and rain pants by the most popular brand names of their fabrics, such as Gore-Tex and eVent. These days nearly every outdoor clothing manufacturer is creating their own proprietary fabrics that function basically the same way. To achieve water resistance, a DWR ("durable water-repellent") coating is applied to a semipermeable membrane that lets the jacket or pants ventilate body heat and perspiration. The coating means you shed raindrops like water off a duck's back, at least while the garment is still relatively new.
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S27Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes  This article was copublished with The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. Sign up for its newsletters here.Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined up with reported crimes, an analysis by The Markup has found, adding new context to the debate over the efficacy of crime prediction software.
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S287 Face Masks Your Kids May Actually Wear  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 WIREDFor three years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued complicated—and occasionally contradictory—guidance on when you should wear a mask, depending on whether you're inside, outside, vaccinated, or not vaccinated. But no matter how cautious you are, if you're a parent, there is one significant way you're probably getting sick: Your kid is now in school.
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S29The Biggest Hack of 2023 Keeps Getting Bigger  In a field of shocking, opportunistic espionage campaigns and high-profile digital attacks on popular businesses, the biggest hack of 2023 isn’t a single incident, but a juggernaut of related attacks that keeps adding victims to its score. In the coming months, more people, as many as tens of millions, could find out that their sensitive information has been compromised. But more still will likely never learn of the situation or its impact on them.Since May, mass exploitation of a vulnerability in the widely-used file transfer software MOVEit has allowed cybercriminals to steal data from a dizzying array of businesses and governments, including Shell, British Airways, and the United States Department of Energy. Progress Software, which owns MOVEit, patched the flaw at the end of May, and broad adoption of the fix ultimately halted the rampage. But the “Clop” data extortion gang had already orchestrated a far-reaching smash and grab. And months later, the full extent of the damage is still coming into view.
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S30The Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, Explained  On October 3, Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, is due to go on trial for fraud and conspiracy in a court in the Southern District of New York.Last fall, a report published by news outlet CoinDesk cast doubt over the health of FTX’s sibling company, Alameda Research, with which it had unusually close ties. When customers rushed to pull money out of the exchange, FTX couldn’t meet withdrawals. After a rescue deal from rival exchange Binance fell through, FTX filed for bankruptcy on November 11. A month later, Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas, where FTX was headquartered, and extradited to the US.
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S31The 15-Minute City Conspiracy Theory Goes Mainstream  Back in February, when a Conservative Party lawmaker in the UK’s House of Commons voiced support for the 15-minute city conspiracy, he was laughed at by his fellow members of Parliament. Now, eight months later, the British government is fully embracing the fringe conspiracy and placing it at the heart of government policy.“Right across our country, there is a Labour-backed movement to make cars harder to use, to make driving more expensive, and to remove your freedom to get from A to B how you want,” Tory MP Mark Harper told the party conference in Manchester on this morning. “I am calling time on the misuse of so-called 15-minute cities,” he added.
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S32Katalin Karik .jpg) No one expected the first Covid-19 vaccine to be as good as it was. "We were hoping for around 70 percent, that's a success," says Dr Ann Falsey, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, New York, who ran a 150-person trial site for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in 2020.Even UÄur Åahin, the co-founder and CEO of BioNTech, who had shepherded the drug from its earliest stages, had some doubts. All the preliminary laboratory tests looked good; having seen them, he would routinely tell people that "immunologically, this is a near-perfect vaccine." But that doesn't always mean it will work against "the beast, the thing out there" in the real world. It wasn't until November 9, 2020, three months into the final clinical trial, that he finally got the good news. "More than 90 percent effective," he says. "I knew this was a game changer. We have a vaccine."
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S33Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech  It was meant to be a week for women in tech—but this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration was swamped by men who gate-crashed the event in search of lucrative tech jobs.The annual conference and career fair aimed at women and non-binary tech workers, which takes its name from a pioneering computer scientist, took place last week in Orlando, Florida. The event bills itself as the largest gathering of women in tech worldwide and has sought to unite women in the tech industry for nearly 30 years. Sponsors include Apple, Amazon, and Bloomberg, and it’s a major networking opportunity for aspiring tech workers. In-person admission costs between $649 and around $1,300.
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S34S353 key principles for great conversation  Emily Chamlee-Wright discusses the principles of great conversations: humility, critical thinking, and sympathetic listening. Humility, not just deference to expertise, involves recognizing the complexity of the world and our own limited perspectives, promoting openness to learning from others. Critical thinking, identifying gaps in logic and evidence, enriches discussions by fostering depth and analytical engagement. Sympathetic listening involves understanding others’ viewpoints without immediate critique, encouraging empathy and respectful exploration.
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S36In Papua New Guinea, "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels" turned the tide of WWII  “Many a lad will see his mother and husbands see their wives / Just because the fuzzy wuzzy carried them to save their lives / From mortar bombs and machine gun fire or chance surprise attacks / To the safety and the care of doctors at the bottom of the track.” This is an excerpt from a poem written by Sapper Bert Beros, a Canadian immigrant serving in the Australian army during the Second World War. Beros wrote the poem while stationed at the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, where the Australians enlisted the help of natives to prevent the Japanese from seizing the capital city of Port Moresby.
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S37The American Bully XL and the problems with banning dog breeds  In mid-September, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that American Bully XL dogs would be banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act by the end of the year, calling them “a danger to our communities.” The move came in the wake of the death of a 52-year-old man after he was attacked by two American Bully XLs while walking on the sidewalk.Once banned, American Bully XLs will be prohibited from being bred or sold in England, Wales, and Scotland. Any of these dogs currently owned will have to be neutered and insured, as well as muzzled and leashed when in public.
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S38S39S40S41Paint drops form "fried egg" patterns if concentration, temp is just right  French scientists have been watching paint drops dry and monitoring the resulting patterns in hopes of finding ways to better control the drying process to reduce cracks and other imperfections. They found that some drops dried uniformly, while others wound up resembling fried eggs with pigmented "yolks" at the center surrounded by white, depending on pigment concentration and temperature, according to a recent paper published in the journal Langmuir.
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S42After being demoted and forced to retire, mRNA researcher wins Nobel  Biochemist Katalin Karikó and immunologist Drew Weissman won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Monday for their foundational research showing that chemical modifications to the molecular building blocks of messenger RNA (mRNA) could enable its use for therapeutics and vaccines—a realization crucial to the rapid development of the life-saving mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during the deadly pandemic.
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S43S44Dead grandma locket request tricks Bing Chat's AI into solving security puzzle  Bing Chat, an AI chatbot from Microsoft similar to ChatGPT, allows users to upload images for the AI model to examine or discuss. Normally, Bing Chat refuses to solve CAPTCHAs, which are visual puzzles designed to prevent automated programs (bots) from filling out forms on the web. On Saturday, X-user Denis Shiryaev devised a visual jailbreak that circumvents Bing Chat's CAPTCHA filter by tricking it into reading the inscription on his imaginary deceased grandmother's locket.
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S45S46Psychedelics plus psychotherapy can trigger rapid changes in the brain  The human brain can change—but usually only slowly and with great effort, such as when learning a new sport or foreign language, or recovering from a stroke. Learning new skills correlates with changes in the brain, as evidenced by neuroscience research with animals and functional brain scans in people. Presumably, if you master Calculus 1, something is now different in your brain. Furthermore, motor neurons in the brain expand and contract depending on how often they are exercised— a neuronal reflection of “use it or lose it.”
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S47College student sues Musk for falsely calling him a "psyop" in neo-Nazi brawl  On Wednesday, a Los Angeles-based 22-year-old college graduate, Ben Brody, sued Elon Musk for more than $1 million. Brody's lawsuit alleged that over a series of social media posts, the X (formerly Twitter) owner falsely identified Brody—described as a "shy young man"—as a participant "in a violent street brawl on behalf of a neo-Nazi extremist group" near Portland, Oregon, this summer.
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S50Artists Are Losing the War Against AI  OpenAI has introduced a tool for artists to keep their images from training future AI programs. It may not make a difference.Late last month, after a year-plus wait, OpenAI quietly released the latest version of its image-generating AI program, DALL-E 3. The announcement was filled with stunning demos—including a minute-long video demonstrating how the technology could, given only a few chat prompts, create and merchandise a character for a children’s story. But perhaps the widest-reaching and most consequential update came in two sentences slipped in at the end: “DALL-E 3 is designed to decline requests that ask for an image in the style of a living artist. Creators can now also opt their images out from training of our future image generation models.”
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S53Winners of the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2023  This year’s nature-photography competition attracted more than 8,000 entries in different categories celebrating the natural world: Animal Behavior, Camera Traps, Landscapes, Small World, The Night Sky, Underwater, Urban Wildlife, Wild Portraits, and an Under-17 award. Organizers at Nature TTL were once more kind enough to share some of the winners and runners-up below. Captions were written by the photographers and lightly edited for style. Crowd Control. Underwater Runner-Up. Every winter, enormous schools of herring migrate from the open ocean into the fjords of northern Norway and attract large numbers of big predators, such as orcas and humpback whales. Witnessing orcas feeding on herring using the so-called carousel feeding technique is very exciting but not easy to capture because of various factors: limited light and visibility, fast-paced action, plus cold surface and water temperature. Being able to freedive and capture the action in an ongoing feeding frenzy in these conditions is difficult, but I managed to capture this female orca splitting a herring bait ball. #
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S56These are the mental processes required to tell a convincing lie | Psyche Ideas  Dishonesty can have serious consequences: a lie on the witness stand might result in a wrongful conviction; deception during a business deal can lead to major financial losses; deceitful behaviour can damage close relationships. So it is not surprising that dishonesty has received significant attention from social and cognitive psychologists. Interestingly, despite the prevalence of dishonest behaviour and the ease with which some people seem to engage in it, psychological research suggests that it is often more complex – and more effortful – than it might appear to be.Lying often requires a significant proportion of one’s mental bandwidth, and it becomes more difficult when fewer cognitive resources are available. For instance, it might be relatively easy to invent an excuse for missing a work meeting while you’re sitting at home, but telling a convincing lie over the phone while navigating through traffic is more challenging. Sometimes honesty prevails simply because lying would require too much effort. In fact, research suggests that, in addition to more obvious factors – such as moral beliefs about honesty and corresponding emotions such as guilt – the tendency to lie is constrained by the cognitive effort it requires. As with any mental process, there are significant individual differences in the extent to which lying taxes cognitive systems. Identifying the sources of these individual differences should be helpful for understanding someone’s tendency to lie and their proficiency in doing so.
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S57S58S59Nobel Prize in Medicine Honors Two Scientists Who Enabled mRNA Vaccines /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/f9/d4/f9d446ca-b565-47c5-a766-5a104df57ce0/gettyimages-1701309267.jpg) Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman discovered a way to edit mRNA so it could be used in vaccines without getting attacked and destroyed by the bodyKatalin Karikó and Drew Weissman were awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries that contributed to the development of mRNA vaccines against Covid-19.
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S60Ex-Secret Service Agent's Account of JFK's Assassination Could Cast Doubt on 'Lone Gunman' Theory /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/49/00/49002efe-633c-4c50-9286-9302b773b286/gettyimages-615320656.jpg) Paul Landis’ new book refutes the idea that a single bullet injured both the president and Texas Governor John B. Connally Jr.When Secret Service agent Paul Landis spotted an intact bullet resting on the ledge of a seat in the back of the presidential limousine on the day of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, he reportedly pocketed it to ensure it wouldn’t fall into the hands of souvenir hunters or the press. Accompanying first lady Jackie Kennedy into the Dallas hospital where surgeons fruitlessly tried to save her husband’s life, Landis says he found himself next to the president’s stretcher.
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S61S62Archaeologists Uncover 9,500-Year-Old Woven Baskets and Europe's Oldest Sandals /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/04/79/0479aaca-f1b7-4c01-ad54-e7a38bb7f7a8/low-res_uah_cuevamurcielagos1.jpg) Items found in a Spanish cave are older than previously thought, a new study suggests, calling into question “simplistic assumptions” about early humansSpanish researchers have identified Europe’s oldest known sandals and uncovered the first direct evidence of basketry in hunter-gatherer societies of southern Europe. Using carbon-14 dating, the team estimates the baskets are roughly 9,500 years old—2,000 years older than previously thought—and the grass shoes could date as far back as 6,200 years.
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S63Pokémon Takes Over the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/ea/21/ea21a179-33e2-4b42-8c68-0e50ed0d507b/1-_pokemon_x_van_gogh_museum_-_pikachu_-_self-portrait_with_grey_felt_hat_-_vincent_van_gogh.png) The hat is familiar, its drab gray material rendered in rows and rows of short, thin lines. But under it, where you might expect to see the brooding, bearded face of Vincent van Gogh, you'll find a furry yellow face with large eyes and iconic red cheeks.Pikachu has taken the place of van Gogh in this portrait, one of six paintings now on display in "Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum," a new exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.Â
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S64Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines Win Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023 | Quanta Magazine  Quanta Magazine; source: Csilla Cseke/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (left); PixelPro/Alamy Stock PhotoThe Nobel Committee has awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their pioneering work in the development of mRNA vaccine technology, which made possible a timely vaccine response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus are credited with helping to curb the spread of the pandemic and with saving between 14.4 million and 19.8 million lives in just the first year of their use; mRNA vaccines played a major role in that accomplishment.
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S65You Need an Innovation Strategy  Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation strategy that aligns innovation efforts with the overall business strategy.Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices—such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation—and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble designing a coherent innovation system that fits their competitive needs over time and may be tempted to ape someone else’s system. And they will find it difficult to align different parts of the organization with shared priorities.
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S66Making the Case for the Resources Your Team Needs  Advocating for resources goes beyond the act of getting a “yes” to acquire more tools, personnel, or funds. It represents a deep commitment to your team’s success. It shows those you lead that you’re someone who understands their challenges, values their efforts, and is willing to champion their needs. Plus, with more resources at your disposal, your team can work more efficiently, innovate more effectively, and deliver higher-quality results, directly contributing to the bottom line. In this article, the author offers tips to help you make a compelling case.
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S67Want More Clarity on Generative AI? Experiment Widely | Lynda Gratton  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.The launch of generative AI represents an era-defining moment. Never before have so many people become so excited by a technology program. Within five days of ChatGPT’s release in November 2022, more than 1 million people (including me) had logged on to try it out. If financial investments are a predictor of growth, then the $12 billion invested in generative AI in the first five months of 2023 shows the depth of commitment.
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S68Foe review: Sci-fi thriller starring Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal is 'endlessly engaging'  Most futuristic films are so distracted by the neon, Blade Runner-inspired landscapes and high-tech gizmos that they lose sight of any human dimension. The wonder of Foe is that Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan, as a rural couple with an intense bond yet a fraying marriage, anchor the film to reality even as it gradually evolves into psychological horror and on to a purely sci-fi ending. Foe plays to the strengths of its actors, two of the most natural and subtle on screen, and is endlessly engaging even though it eventually stumbles into head-spinning narrative problems.More like this: - A 'jaw-droppingly distinctive' sci-fi - Emily Blunt is the only reason to watch Pain Hustlers - Lee could be Winslet's best role yet
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S69Siya Kolisi: the South African rugby star's story offers valuable lessons in resilience  In the world of sports, some stories transcend the boundaries of the game and become symbolic of something greater. Siya Kolisi’s journey from an adverse upbringing to becoming captain of a World Cup-winning South African rugby team, the Springboks, is one such story. Kolisi made history as the first black captain of the Springboks in a country where, because of apartheid and separate development, the professional sport was once an all-white affair. Rugby was firmly associated with white national pride, and now a black man from a humble background has become a national hero, reshaping the sport’s image.
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S70Early indicators of dementia: 5 behaviour changes to look for after age 50  Dementia is often thought of as a memory problem, like when an elderly person asks the same questions or misplaces things. In reality, individuals with dementia will not only experience issues in other areas of cognition like learning, thinking, comprehension and judgement, but they may also experience changes in behaviour. It’s important to understand what dementia is and how it manifests. I didn’t imagine my grandmother’s strange behaviours were an early warning sign of a far more serious condition.
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