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 S59Girl Math, or a Too-Big-to-Fail C.E.O.?   In the world of girl math, cash is not real money, buying on sale is aform of saving, and cosmetic procedures is an “investment in yourfuture self.” —CBSNewsIf I did something hard today, like firing fifty thousand people, I deserve a little treat, like a nice, juicy blood boy, and whatever I spend on it doesn’t count.
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S2S3How Generative AI Is Changing Creative Work  Generative AI models for businesses threaten to upend the world of content creation, with substantial impacts on marketing, software, design, entertainment, and interpersonal communications. These models are able to produce text and images: blog posts, program code, poetry, and artwork. The software uses complex machine learning models to predict the next word based on previous word sequences, or the next image based on words describing previous images. Companies need to understand how these tools work, and how they can add value.
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S4Keep Your Team on Track Amid Cost-Cutting, Layoffs, and Uncertainty  It’s natural for workers to feel distracted and lose their drive when times are tough. In this article, the author shares insights from three experts on management and motivation. Their recommendations include keeping team meetings short and quick and devoting more attention to one-on-one check-ins; seeking out ways to provide team members with more autonomy, growth experiences, and opportunities to do meaningful work; and offering space and time to talk openly about your employees’ concerns.
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S5The Burden of Proof for Corporate Sustainability is Too High | Andrew Winston  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.Throughout 2023, tech companies have continually laid off workers. The year started with Amazon and Salesforce cutting 18,000 and 8,000 people, respectively, and sector momentum grew into the spring. An article in the April/May 2023 issue of Fortune magazine asserted that companies were “swapping exuberance for efficiency” and pointed out that they had collectively laid off more than 150,000 people since January. (By August, that number was up to nearly 225,000.)
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S6How 'strike culture' took hold in the US in 2023  On 14 September, when members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union walked off the job at three Midwest auto factories owned by General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, it seemed a fitting way for the US labour movement to cap this year's summer of strikes. And collective action is only continuing.In 2023, we've seen labour stoppages in industries of all types. Beginning in May, Hollywood screenwriters in the Writer's Guild of America (WGA) walked the picket line for 148 days before reaching a tentative deal. Actors' union SAG-AFTRA, also struck in July, and remain off the job. Starbucks workers are participating in an ongoing series of labour actions; and frontline workers including nurses, hotel staff and pilots have also walked out, with some work stoppages continuing. There have also been major near-misses: in July, the package delivery company UPS narrowly averted a strike at the eleventh hour that would have been the largest single-employer labour stoppage in US history.
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S7Spicy curried mung bean sprouts  Ruta Kahate is a woman on a mission to demystify Indian cooking – particularly Indian spices – for an American audience.This cookbook author, chef and restaurateur wants people to know that it is possible to make Indian food "without a gazillion spices". This is why she chose just six of them to star in her latest book, 6 spices, 60 dishes: Indian Recipes That are Simple, Fresh, and Big on Taste, published in January 2023. The book is a follow up to 5 spices 50 dishes, her 2007 book that went out of print a couple of years ago. As she explained, "People are intimidated by spices, or they are just unsure and don't know how to use them."
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S812 of the best TV shows to watch this October  Today, David Beckham is best known as the head of a celebrity family, husband of Victoria and father of Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper, almost famous for being famous. This four-part documentary, co-produced by Beckham's own production company, looks back at what made him famous in the first place, his career as an astonishingly good athlete, whether he's called a footballer as in the UK or soccer star as in the US. The series goes back to his childhood, with comments from his mum and dad, moving through his grapples with fame and success and on to the present. Actor Fisher Stevens, known for playing the slimy communications tsar Hugo in Succession, directs, but he is no newcomer. His previous films include the 2016 climate change documentary Before the Flood and the 2021 drama Palmer, with Justin Timberlake. It may well offer an intimate portrait of its subject, though possibly not an objective one.Fresh from contacting spirits by toying with an embalmed hand in this summer's hit horror film Talk to Me, Sophie Wilde has a much more down-to-earth role in this new Netflix series as teenaged Mia, who has spent months in a hospital recovering from an eating disorder. When she returns to school, she realises she has missed so much that she creates a bucket list to catch up. The items she is determined to check off that list include getting drunk, doing karaoke, going on a first date, and breaking the law. She is very determined. Everything Now is the latest show to take teenagers' real-life issues as a starting point, then exaggerate enough to be entertaining without losing relevance. Glamour UK captured the tone when it called the show a must "if you loved the cheeky high school angst of Sex Education and Heartstopper". Stephen Fry is the other notable cast member, as Mia's therapist.
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S11S12S13S14HIV self-test kits are meant to empower those at risk -  University of Johannesburg provides support as an endorsing partner of The Conversation AFRICA.In 2016, the World Health Organization recommended HIV self-test kits as a way for people to confidentially test for HIV in their homes or other private places. Each kit contains detailed instructions on how to administer the test and read the results without the help of a clinician. However, the instructions advise confirming results in a health facility to improve access to care, especially for those with a positive reading.
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S15S16Nigeria's new blue economy ministry could harness marine resources - moving the focus away from oil  Isa O Elegbede is presently affiliated with the Lagos State University and with many international and local NGOs, such as Geo Blue Planet, IUCN/CEESP/TGER; he is also the president of Sayne Development Foundation and Executive director of Pearlrose Foundation. He has received a fellowship grant from Ocean Frontier institute (OFI) in Canada and several international organisations in the past.Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced a new ministerial portfolio in August: Marine and Blue Economy. This was welcome news as it renewed hope for economic development outside the oil sector. We asked marine sustainability and blue economy expert Isa Olalekan Elegbede to explain how the ministry could benefit Nigeria.
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S17Argentina's economic crisis: whoever wins presidential election is on a collision course with the IMF  Argentina is heading to the polls on October 22 for a presidential election dominated by another profound economic crisis. In September, annual inflation in Latin America’s third-largest economy hit 124%, its highest since 1991. This was after a devaluation of nearly 20% in the peso amid pressure on the government from major creditor the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stop artificially propping it up. To curb the inflation, Argentina’s central bank raised the benchmark rate of interest to a horrific 118%.
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S18Long COVID patients are much more likely to have multiple organ abnormalities  It wasn’t that long ago that some people speculated that long COVID was all in the mind – a psychosomatic illness. Thankfully, that period of speculation is now behind us. We have compelling evidence that long COVID is very real and very harmful.I’m the lead investigator on an ongoing study called C-More which looks at the long-term harms caused by COVID. Our latest findings, published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, show that nearly a third of people who were severely ill with COVID have multiple organ abnormalities on MRI five months after they were discharged from hospital. This is based on a sample of 259 people who were hospitalised with COVID and 52 in the control group who did not catch COVID.
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S19Glaciers can give us clues about when a volcano might erupt  Globally, there is about one volcano erupting each week. Volcanic unrest kills an average of 500 people every year and costs the global economy roughly US$7 billion (£5.7 billion). With one in 20 people living somewhere at risk of volcanic activity, every effort that can be made to improve the monitoring of volcanoes is important. This is especially true for volcanoes covered by glaciers – roughly 18% of all volcanoes on Earth. When these erupt, the consequences can be among the deadliest of all natural disasters.
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S20Mercury: shrinking planet is still getting smaller - new research  Planetary scientists have long known that Mercury has been shrinking for billions of years. Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, its interior has been cooling down as internal heat leaks away. This means that the rock (and, within that, the metal) of which it is composed must have contracted slightly in volume. It is unknown, however, to what extent the planet is still shrinking today – and, if so, for how long that is likely to continue. Now our new paper, published in Nature Geoscience, offers fresh insight.
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S21Three steps for getting over social media envy - advice from a psychologist  In the past, you may have envied your neighbour when they bought a new car or went on holiday abroad when you could not. Although these feelings of envy would have been perfectly valid, they were isolated incidents that would last for a short period of time. Today’s world is vastly different, as we carry comparison machines around with us in the form of mobile phones. The rise of social media has had many benefits but also given rise to social media envy when users perceive the perfect lives of others – even though they are rarely as perfect as they seem on the surface.
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S22New species of cobra-like snake discovered - but it may already be extinct  Around the world, natural history museums hold a treasure trove of knowledge about Earth’s animals. But much of the precious information is sealed off to genetic scientists because formalin, the chemical often used to preserve specimens, damages DNA and makes sequences hard to recover. The Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe, a mountain chain on the border with Mozambique, create a haven of cool and wet habitats surrounded by savannas and dry forest. They are home to many species that are found nowhere else.
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S23Navigating the risks and benefits of AI: Lessons from nanotechnology on ensuring emerging technologies are safe as well as successful  Twenty years ago, nanotechnology was the artificial intelligence of its time. The specific details of these technologies are, of course, a world apart. But the challenges of ensuring each technology’s responsible and beneficial development are surprisingly alike. Nanotechnology, which is technologies at the scale of individual atoms and molecules, even carried its own existential risk in the form of “gray goo.”As potentially transformative AI-based technologies continue to emerge and gain traction, though, it is not clear that people in the artificial intelligence field are applying the lessons learned from nanotechnology.
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