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 S69China's youth unemployment problem has become a crisis we can no longer ignore   Youth unemployment is a global problem, but in China the rate - 21.3% - is particularly alarming, not just because it’s high, but because it could affect other economies and geopolitical relations.The release of the rate, which more than doubled the pre-COVID rate of May 2018, coincided with China’s National Bureau of Statistics announcing it would no longer report age specific data because it needed to “improve and optimise labour force survey statistics”.
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S1What to Do If Your Boss Is Super Passive-Aggressive  Passive-aggressive behavior from a manager often manifests as a boss appearing agreeable on the surface while letting deeper problems brew below. This may look like continuously finding gentle ways to shut down your ideas without a thoughtful explanation or a boss who practices nonverbal, dismissive behaviors like rolling their eyes at you, ignoring you while you speak, or responding to you with sarcasm. How can you navigate this kind of relationship?
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S2How to Use Your Privilege to Even the Playing Field  Privilege is defined as “a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.” The key word here is “granted.” Privilege can be shared. But it can only be shared by someone who already has it. Privilege cannot be willed into existence by someone who lacks it. If you are in a position of privilege, here’s how to level the playing field:
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S3I'm Not an Imposter -- So Why Do I Feel Like One?  Before every lecture I give, I scan the audience from my space on the stage. It’s almost always made up of accomplished professionals. Some are directors, engineers, managers, and executives. Most hold bachelor’s or master’s degrees and have years of experience in their fields. Also, almost all of them are white.
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S45 Ways to Develop Talent for an Unpredictable Future  We may not know what tomorrow’s jobs will look like, but we can safely assume that when people are more curious, emotionally intelligent, resilient, driven, and intelligent, they will generally be better equipped to learn what is needed to perform those jobs, and provide whatever human value technology cannot replace. Rather than betting on specialists or forcing people into specific niches, organizations need to focus on expanding people’s talents. What we need is not just re-skilling or up-skilling, but pre-skilling: that is, being able to future-proof talent and reinvent peoples’ careers before we even know what tomorrow’s jobs and in-demand skills will be. This article makes five broad recommendations for preparing your workforce for an uncertain future.
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S5Transform Business Operations with Process Mining  The most effective companies we interviewed use process mining to generate operational insights at scale, identify process inefficiencies, define targeted actions, and measure process improvements — all of which lead to value realization. It is often a major cultural change to fully embrace this level of process management. Leaders describe a cultural journey from a hero-focused company to a process-focused company. The goal is to establish efficient processes with consistent, smooth execution rather than relying upon local heroes to save the day.
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S6October 16, the Amys Are Back  How do you recover from a failure? What’s it really like—and what does it take—to serve on a board? Do our career aspirations influence our decision, if and when we marry somebody, to keep or change our last name? How does going through a divorce affect us at work, and for how long? If we have a disability, how can we get the understanding and assistive technology we need to do our job?
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S7The Soviet spacecraft cemetery in the Pacific  In the middle of the South Pacific, around 2,688km (1,670 miles) from the nearest dry land, is a frigid patch of anonymous ocean – a deadly place of giant, ever-shifting swells, dramatic skies and storm-force winds. "The Southern Ocean is many shades of grey and can have huge waves… it's exciting and a little scary," says Dee Caffari, a record-breaking British sailor and one of few people on the planet to visit this remote place.In this distant spot, the furthest from any solid ground on Earth, there is little chance of rescue if you get into trouble. The only signs of life are triangular shark fin-like sails just above the water line in the distance – if you happen to visit at the same time as The Ocean Race, an annual round-the-world yachting competition. If not, you're out of luck.
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S8How Netflix crushed the Latin American password black market  In March 2022, Netflix announced changes to its pricing policy, starting in several Latin American countries: Users sharing accounts with people outside their home would now incur extra charges. Subscribers in Latin America protested vocally. In Argentina, they posted screenshots confirming they’d canceled their subscription.Despite the initial outcry, Netflix’s new pricing scheme appears to be working. The company has reported that subscribers are once again signing up across Latin America. New data from piracy intelligence firm EtherCity, shared with Rest of World, also shows that restricting password sharing seems to have stifled account resales. The practice, in which account access is sold online at a reduced price, is a popular way of pirating Netflix in Latin America.
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S9The Flu Vaccine Works - In a Way Most People Don't Appreciate  It’s like clockwork: first comes a brisk fall breeze, then comes the public health push to get a flu shot. But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s messaging this year might look a little different from previous vaccination seasons. The agency has launched a messaging campaign dubbed “Wild to Mild” that uses adorable critters to illustrate how a vaccine can tame a bout with the flu by reducing its strength from that of an elephant or a lion to that of a mouse or a kitten.The framing might come as a surprise to those used to a blunter way of talking about vaccines: get vaccinated or get sick. But Wild to Mild is designed to be a more honest, nuanced portrayal of the benefits of the influenza vaccine, which scientists have long recognized is better at reducing serious infections than at preventing infection altogether.
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S10Zoom Time May Be Linked to Discontent with One's Own Appearance  The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of digital connection: In the absence of in-person gatherings, many people instead found themselves face-to-face with their co-workers and loved ones on a screen.
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S11S12The Industrial Metaverse: Why a New Report Calls It the Future of Manufacturing  Paul Wellener — Principal, U.S. Industrial Products & Construction Practice, Deloitte — joins the show to discuss the company’s new report that looks at the future of the manufacturing sector and why it’s being referred to as the “Industrial Metaverse.”©2023 Knowledge at Wharton. All rights reserved. Knowledge at Wharton is an affiliate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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S13Curbing the 'Kansas Two-step': How Data Analysis Sheds Light on Police Bias  Data analysis performed by Wharton and Princeton experts proved key in a recent federal court case over the Kansas Highway Patrol’s unconstitutional treatment of out-of-state drivers.The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas is crediting research from experts at Wharton and Princeton with helping to win its federal court case against the Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) over unconstitutional treatment of out-of-state drivers.
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S14How to Get Mergers and Acquisitions Right  Companies can get their M&A act right if they pick their targets wisely, avoid overstating expectations of synergies, and manage cultural dynamics correctly, says Wharton’s Emilie Feldman.The buzz is back around mergers and acquisitions (M&As) as businesses explore consolidation within their industry ranks as a way to survive or thrive in challenging times marked by high interest rates and fears of a recession. For instance, the recent standoff in Hollywood between writers and producers sparked talk of a rash of M&As. More broadly, a familiar theme returns: Why do many M&As fail and how can they pay off?
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S15Why Shameless Self-promotion Backfires at Work  Tooting your own horn at work is important, but including others in your symphony of accomplishments will make you more likeable, according to new research from Wharton’s Maurice Schweitzer.If you want to brag about your accomplishments at work without sounding self-absorbed, take a lesson from professional athletes.
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S16Ram  Fifteen years ago, Uruguay was experiencing an energy crisis brought on by its reliance on fossil fuels; today, the nation produces 98 percent of its electricity from renewable sources (and even exports extra energy to neighboring countries). How did they turn things around so quickly? Uruguay's former secretary of energy, Ramón Méndez Galain, explains how they pulled off this unprecedented shift -- and shares how any other country can do the same.
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S17Work has changed. Why haven't resumes?  Resumes are a mainstay of the job application process — despite little evidence that they actually help job-seekers or employers get what they want. So why are we still so preoccupied with them? HR leader Nicos Marcou dives into the absurdity of these one-page documents (or can they be two pages?) and offers an update on how companies should think about hiring qualified candidates.
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S18'Aggro Dr1ft' Is Built on AI and Video Games--Shouldn't the Movie Be More Fun?  Sometime in the late 1990s, filmmaker Harmony Korine undertook a project that, in many ways, still defines his artistic ambition. The abandoned documentary Fight Harm saw Korine trawling the streets of New York City, instigating brawls with random passersby. (Leonardo DiCaprio and magician David Blaine reportedly served as the film's camera operators, which speaks to the kind of hipster-celeb bona fides Korine boasted at the time.)There were rules: Korine could only egg on people bigger than him, and he could never throw the first punch. It's a posture he has been perfecting throughout his career: a provocateur who is also on the defensive, an instigator who can roll over and play victim. Here is a guy who literally begs to get punched in the face. But take the bait, and he wins. This attitude makes Korine's films extremely frustrating to write, or think, about. His latestâwhich is, by its director's reckoning, meant to revolutionize filmmaking itselfâproves especially vexing.
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S19Meta Quest 3 Review: Huge Hardware Bump, But Who's It For?  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 WIREDThis feels new, different … exciting even. What is “this”? Typing. Specifically, typing on an ethereal keyboard that's floating right in front of me, hovering atop my actual real-world office desk.
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S20Deepfake Audio Is a Political Nightmare  As members of the UK’s largest opposition party gathered in Liverpool for their party conference—probably their last before the UK holds a general election—a potentially explosive audio file started circulating on X, formerly known as Twitter.The 25-second recording was posted by an X account with the handle “@Leo_Hutz” that was set up in January 2023. In the clip, Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour Party leader, is apparently heard swearing repeatedly at a staffer. “I have obtained audio of Keir Starmer verbally abusing his staffers at [the Labour Party] conference,” the X account posted. “This disgusting bully is about to become our next PM.”
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S21The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation  In the wake of Hamas’ deadly attacks on Israel this weekend—and the Israeli military’s response—journalists, researchers, open source intelligence (OSINT) experts, and fact-checkers rushed to verify the deluge of raw video footage and images being shared online by people on the ground. But users of X (formerly Twitter) seeking information on the conflict faced a flood of disinformation.While all major world events are now accompanied almost instantly by a deluge of disinformation aimed at controlling the narrative, the scale and speed at which disinformation was being seeded about the Israel-Hamas conflict is unprecedented—particularly on X.
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S22The Best Early October Prime Day Deals  Amazon will launch a shopping event called Prime Big Deal Days on October 10 and 11, aka Prime Day Part II. As usual, many of these Prime Day deals will require a Prime membership, though you can take advantage of a 30-day trial. In the run-up to the October Prime Big Deal Days event, we've rounded up some early deals worth your time and money. Right now, there are already deals on Amazon hardware like Kindles, Echo speakers, and Eero routers, but we've also found discounts on work-from-home gear, headphones, and plenty more.Updated October 9, 2023: We've added discounts on the Echo Studio, Amazon Fresh, and one from the Red Cross, and crossed out expired deals.
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S23Unity CEO John Riccitiello Steps Down After Pricing Blowup  Unity president and CEO John Riccitiello is retiring from the company, as well as from his role as chairman and a member of the company board of directors, effective immediately. The company has appointed James Whitehurst as interim chief executive officer. Riccitiello is expected to “advise Unity to ensure a smooth transition” as Unity begins a “comprehensive search” for a new CEO, the company said in a press release announcing the move.Riccitiello’s sudden retirement comes mere weeks after a massively unpopular move on Unity’s behalf to change its fee structure for its eponymous cross-platform game engine; its pricing would have included a new “runtime fee,” a 20-cent charge to developers every time a player installed a game after it reached 200,000 downloads and $200,000 in revenue. That change would have also taken place retroactively, meaning developers with games already in progress or even released would be included. Hundreds of developers released statements denouncing Unity, with some even calling for Riccitiello’s resignation. The uproar from across the game industry led to Unity walking back some of those changes.
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S24The Israel-Hamas War Erupts in Digital Chaos  After an attack on Israel by Hamas on Saturday, Israel declared war and fighting escalated throughout the weekend. As the death toll mounts on both sides and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) prepares an offensive, hacktivists in the region and around the world have joined the fight.Within hours of Hamas militants and rockets entering Israel, such “hacktivist” attacks started to spring up against both Israeli and Palestinian websites and applications. In the short period since the conflict escalated, hackers have targeted dozens of government websites and media outlets with defacements and DDoS attacks, attempts to overload targets with junk traffic and bring them down. Some groups claim to have stolen data, attacked internet service providers, and hacked the Israeli missile alert service known as Red Alert.
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S25The Best All-Clad Cookware Deals Right Now  Not all cookware is created equal. Anyone who has purchased a cheap starter set of pots and pans will know—after a few years (sometimes months), the nonstick coating flakes off, the handles loosen, or the entire surface becomes warped and uneven. Buying cheap gear only to replace it is a waste of time and money. It may be some of the most expensive kitchenware you can buy, but All-Clad comes highly recommended by WIRED reviewers and culinary experts. They're spendy, but these pots and pans are reliable and practically last forever. Like, forever forever. So how do you snag this coveted cookware at stomachable prices? One surefire way to save money on All-Clad is by shopping its Factory Seconds sale, which comes around every few months. We go into more detail and list our favorite discounts below. This current Factory Seconds sale ends on October 11 at 11:59 pm ET.
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S26S27Why being uncertain is a hidden strength  From a young age, society teaches us to avoid expressing uncertainty: Saying, “I don’t know,” is a hallmark of failure and shame throughout our formative school years. But former professional poker player Annie Duke contends that admitting uncertainty reflects a more accurate understanding of reality.Not only does being certain provide a false sense of security, it can close our minds to new information, hinder the fair calibration of our beliefs, and inhibit fruitful collaboration. Duke also highlights the crucial difference between confidence and certainty: while the former can be beneficial in specific contexts, like facing an opponent in poker, the latter can lead to overconfidence and hubris.
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S28Good leaders break the mold. Great leaders constantly remake it  For all the talk of building the future and charting new paths, business leaders can be a remarkably conservative bunch. And that makes a certain common sense. Their reputations, company success, and even the well-being of their employees ride on the decisions they make. If something worked yesterday, one can hope it still works tomorrow. If a mission steered them through troubled days before, it becomes the doctrine for future decisions.But left unquestioned and unexamined, those old habits can just as easily lead to mistakes. Yesterday’s passions can become barriers to new opportunities. The molds we once created for ourselves — which seemed to fit us so perfectly back in the day — tighten to inhibit professional and personal growth.
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S295 schools of philosophy that died out  Some of the world’s oldest surviving texts are dedicated to philosophy. In many ways, no school of philosophy ever fully dies, as a good idea can endure over millennia. On the other hand, there are plenty of schools of thought in which nobody seems to claim membership anymore. Here, we look at five schools of thought that died out, and whether we can see any trace of their intellectual legacy today.Mohism is one of the many philosophies that arose in China during the “Hundred Schools of Thought” era. Named after the Chinese thinker Mo Di (also known as Mozi), the school was once large enough to compete with Confucianism. Much like Confucius, Mozi traveled around the various Chinese states spreading his ideas. He had a similar lack of success in getting a government to accept them wholesale. However, his followers were well-organized and highly regarded for their skills in statecraft, philosophy, and the building of defensive fortifications.
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S30The loneliest roads in America  Go road-tripping across America with four-time poetry Pulitzer prize winner Robert Frost, and this is what happens: At every fork in the road, he chooses the road less traveled. And so you end up on each state’s loneliest road.Actually, that’s not how this map came about. It owes more to bureaucratic bean-counting than to poetic obstinacy. Telematics specialists at Geotab gathered 2015 data from the U.S. federal government’s Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) to find, for each state, the route with the lowest annual average daily traffic (AADT). HPMS data covers interstates, U.S. routes, and state routes over 10 miles long. That excludes Washington, DC, by the way. (The nation’s capital apparently doesn’t feature any major road of at least that length.)
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S31S32Tired of shortages, OpenAI considers making its own AI chips  OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and DALL-E 3 generative AI products, is exploring the possibility of manufacturing its own AI accelerator chips, according to Reuters. Citing anonymous sources, the Reuters report indicates that OpenAI is considering the option due to a shortage of specialized AI GPU chips and the high costs associated with running them.
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S33Maya reservoirs relied on aquatic plants like water lilies to help keep water clean  The ancient Maya city of Tikal relied on urban reservoirs to supply water during periods of drought. They essentially built "constructed wetlands" that relied upon key minerals and aquatic plants and other biota to keep the water supply potable, a "self-cleaning" approach similar to that employed in constructed wetlands today, according to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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S34Report: Apple is already designing a lighter Vision Pro to fix "neck strain"  When it jumps into a new market for the first time, Apple has a long history of releasing intriguing first-generation devices, followed by second- or third-generation revisions that realize the full potential of the original idea. Examples of this phenomenon include the second-generation iPod, which expanded compatibility beyond the Mac; the iPhone 3G refresh that increased cellular data speeds and ushered in the App Store; the 2010 MacBook Air refresh that switched to all-SSD storage and defined the template for the modern laptop; and the long-lived iPad 2, which did most of the same things as the first iPad but in a much faster and lighter package.
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S35Dealmaster: Pre-Amazon Big Deal Days tech deals that don't require a Prime membership  Amazon's second big sale-a-thon of the year is coming this week, but you don't have to wait for the savings to drop during the retailer's Prime Big Deal Days. There are plenty of bargains to be found from Amazon rivals, including laptops from Lenovo, tech gear and gadgets from Best Buy, and vacuums from Target. Whether you need a new ThinkPad laptop or an Apple MacBook, this list has you covered. Of course, Amazon is inescapable, so we've also included a few pre-Prime Day deals as well.
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S36S37S38S39Porsche's Macan EV comes out in 2024--we drive the prototype  MARINA DEL REY, Calif.—Porsche's plans to electrify 80 percent of its product range by 2030 requires the German automaker to offer more than just Taycans. Other than the 911, which probably won't be a battery-electric vehicle (unless and) until solid-state batteries alter the energy-to-mass calculations, that means everything else in the lineup will need to trade engine, exhaust, and fuel tank for a battery pack and an electric motor or two. And it's starting with its second-best-selling model, the Macan crossover.
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S40S41Matt Gaetz Is Half Right  In January, when GOP insurgents in the House first sharpened their swords against Kevin McCarthy, their goal was to weaken his power. They wanted a speaker with less control over committee assignments, and committees with real authority to hold hearings, mark up bills, and bring them to the floor; they made him agree to that pesky “motion to vacate,” allowing one member to call for a vote on removing him. “In the modern House, we’ve strayed far from [a] Member-driven process, and Regular Order is rarely followed,” argued the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, in a late 2022 letter from the group’s chair, Representative Scott Perry.In ousting McCarthy from the speakership last week, Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida and several Freedom Caucus members still clamored for regular order, a legislative process in which bills are deliberated on committees with input from various members before getting to the floor. But Gaetz and company were madder about something else—that the speaker they had purposefully weakened at the beginning of the year had gone ahead and compromised with Democrats to pass a spending bill.
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S42This Debacle Will Transform Israel  The history of the Israel Defense Forces is a history of failure followed by exceptionally rapid recovery. Israel’s elite paratrooper units were born from organizations created after a series of botched retaliation raids in the early 1950s. Its armored corps became one of the world’s best after a dismal performance in 1956. Other units were created after a failed attempt in 1974 to rescue hostages held in the town of Ma’alot. Israel’s brilliant suppression of Syrian air defenses in 1982 resulted from staggering aircraft losses in 1973’s Yom Kippur War, and so on.Each time, after failure, the IDF adapts, as it will today. It is helped in doing so by a tradition of brutal self-scrutiny. Almost all of the documentation of the Agranat Commission after the 1973 war has been declassified; eventually that of the Winograd Commission, which delved into the failures of the 2006 Lebanon War, will be as well. In each case, heads rolled—ministers of defense, chiefs of staff, and even prime ministers. Following the current debacle on the Gaza border, the same is likely to occur. What hundreds of thousands of Israeli protesters alarmed by a proposed judicial reform could not do to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, five or six grim-faced retired judges, generals, and civil servants probably will.
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S43A Simple Solution for Keeping Microplastics Out of the Water Supply  Sponges. Is there anything they can’t do? For millennia, humans have used dried natural sponges to clean up, to paint, and as vessels for drinking; we’ve even used them as contraceptive devices. Whether synthetic or natural, sponges are great at ensnaring tiny particles in their many pores. And as scientists around the world are beginning to show, sponges’ cavity-filled forms could provide a solution to one of our era’s biggest scourges: microplastic pollution.In August, researchers in China published a study describing their development of a synthetic sponge that makes short work of microscopic plastic debris. In tests, the researchers show that when a specially prepared plastic-filled solution is pushed through one of their sponges, the sponge can remove both microplastics and even smaller nanoplastics from the liquid. These particles typically become trapped in the sponge’s pores. Though the sponges’ effectiveness varied in experiments, in part depending on the concentration of plastic and the acidity and saltiness of the liquid, optimal conditions allowed the researchers to remove as much as 90 percent of the microplastics. They tried it with liquids as varied as tap water, seawater, and—why not—soup from a local takeout spot.
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S44How We Find Our Place in the Universe  A collaboration that includes the United States, China, and Russia points us toward a better future.All of us living things have to find out where we are and where we are going. Earth’s first cell had only a dim chemical feel for its immediate liquid surroundings. But it multiplied fruitfully, and the animals that flowed from its lineages are able to navigate whole seas and continents. Birds have developed an inner sense of the Earth that allows them to traverse entire hemispheres. By animal standards, these are impressive feats of orientation, but they are crude compared with those that human beings have achieved. Our most sublime such effort is a global collaboration to build, over the course of decades, a network of more than 30 radio observatories that work together to situate our planet within a mind-bending volume of space.
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S45What Do You Know About 1491?  The past few decades have seen more and more research that changes changes the popular narrative about America before Columbus.In elementary school, I learned a rhyme about Christopher Columbus sailing the ocean blue in 1492. High school expanded that understanding to a still-simple narrative: Very few people lived in the undeveloped Americas, and the invading Europeans brought a disease that wiped out the few who did.
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S46There Are No Rules  States and quasi-states are using extreme, uninhibited violence against civilian populations.The “rules-based world order” is a system of norms and values that describe how the world ought to work, not how it actually works. This aspirational order is rooted in the idealistic aftermath of the Second World War, when it was transcribed into a series of documents: the United Nations Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN Genocide Convention, and the Geneva Conventions on the laws of war, among others. In the more than seven decades since they were written, these documents have frequently been ignored. The UN Genocide Convention did not prevent genocide in Rwanda. The Geneva Conventions did not stop the Vietnamese from torturing American prisoners of war, did not prevent Americans at Abu Ghraib from torturing Iraqi prisoners of war, and do not prevent Russians from torturing Ukrainian prisoners of war today. Signatories of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights include known violators of human rights, among them China, Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela. The UN Commission on Human Rights deteriorated into parody long ago.
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S47The Israeli Military Wasn't Ready for This  Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel has laid bare an uncomfortable truth: The fearsome reputation of the Israeli military, like that of Israeli intelligence services, may be overdue for a revision.Israel has an excellent air force and elite special-operations units, but its conventional line units—made up mostly of conscripts—are neither particularly well trained nor well disciplined by American standards. These units are still demonstrably superior to those of Israel’s adversaries from wars gone by, such as Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. But today Israel faces highly disciplined and motivated nonstate foes in southern Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, and its military does not seem to have a clear advantage over them at the unit level.
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S48This War Isn't Like Israel's Earlier Wars  The parallels between this crisis and the Yom Kippur War of 1973 are striking, but superficial. The differences are what will shape the conflict to come.On Saturday night, I was seated on the first El Al plane to fly from the United States to Israel since Hamas had attacked my country. Many airlines had canceled flights to and from Israel, but El Al had refused to grant the terrorists that victory. Though we took off after midnight, sleep was impossible. My mind writhed thinking of the reports of unbearable Israeli casualties, the images of the captured and the dead, and the prospect of wider war.
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S49Images of the Mass Kidnapping of Israelis by Hamas  Human-rights groups are collecting evidence of war crimes by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians.More accounts are emerging of kidnappings, rapes, and torture committed by Hamas terrorists against Israeli civilians. So far, at least 150 Israelis, most of them apparently civilians, were kidnapped by Hamas gunmen and stolen across Israel’s border with Gaza. Among the kidnapped are elderly women and small children. Human-rights groups are tracking these kidnappings as evidence of war crimes.
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S50Hamas's Attack Confounds Middle East Experts  Even those who understand the fundamentalist group best are struggling to understand what they are trying to achieve.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.
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S51Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Promises to Spoil the Election  After several months campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, Kennedy announced his “very painful” decision to leave the party’s primary.Three words told the story. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign had billed this afternoon’s event in Philadelphia as a “much-anticipated announcement.” Of course, that specific phrase may have been more true than intended.
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S52'We're Going to Die Here'  A firsthand account of tragedy and heroism from the slaughter that left more than 900 Israelis deadWhen I first heard that Israeli civilians were being massacred on the country’s Gaza border, I thought of my friend Amir Tibon. Amir is an exceptionally talented journalist who is fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, and English, and who has devoted his life and skills to humanistic coverage of what can often be a dehumanizing region. His writing includes award-winning reporting on efforts to achieve a two-state solution and a biography of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
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S53Adapting to the neurotypical world is not the same as conforming | Psyche Ideas  is a licensed master social worker, author and advocate for trauma survivors and transgender youth. He loves showing other neurodivergent authors that they can write books and guiding them to get their stories finished and out into the world. His debut novel is Reinventing Hannah (2020). He lives in New York.I was first diagnosed with what was then called Asperger’s syndrome when I was 33, after years of finding some tasks easy that others found impossible, while also not being able to grasp other, basic skills. I taught myself to read at the age of four, and I spent most of my childhood with my nose in books meant for much older people instead of playing with other kids in the playground.
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S54Invisible Electron 'Demon' Discovered in Odd Superconductor | Quanta Magazine  Physicists have detected an unusual "demon" wave of electrons that is invisible to electromagnetic radiation.In 1956, David Pines formulated a phantom. He predicted the existence of seas of electric ripples that could neutralize each other, rendering the overall ocean motionless even as individual waves ebbed and flowed. The oddity, which came to be known as Pines' demon, would be electrically neutral, and therefore invisible to light â the definition of tough to detect.
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S55S56 Five Ways Leaders Can Turn Pushback Into Progress  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.Effectively responding to pushback may well rank as one of the most important competencies that leaders can possess, and it’s especially critical during times of transition, like returning to the office post-pandemic. Such resistance to an organizational policy, directive, or decision can take many forms, ranging from voicing concerns and raising questions to active opposition and sabotage.1
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S57How much it costs to attend the Burning Man festival  It's not easy – or cheap – to pop up a bustling city from empty desert ground. But that's exactly what happens at the Burning Man festival, held annually in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.Burning Man started in 1986 at a San Francisco beach with 35 people united by "the pursuit of a more creative and connected existence in the world"; this week, nearly 70,000 people are making their way out of the muddy desert after Burning Man's 37th year. The now nine-day festival has morphed into a massive brand and destination, where so-called "Burners" from around the world build a civilisation together from scratch, complete with art installations, healing camps, inspiring talks and live DJs.
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S58Crystal Wahpepah's Native American corn thumbprint cookies  Corn is the lifeblood of Native American communities. It has been at the heart of many Indigenous cultures throughout the Americas for over 3,000 years. It's not just sustenance; it's a sacred plant that holds deep meaning. Among indigenous North American tribes, the Corn Mother is a maternal figure who is believed to be responsible for the origin of corn, and the first to give her people instructions on how to grow it. It is the American Indians who taught Europeans to grow, harvest and use corn in their diets, thus introducing the grain to a new continent when they brought it back home."When it comes to corn," said Crystal Wahpepah, the owner and head chef of Wahpepah's Kitchen in Oakland, California, "it's such an honour to still have it after all these [centuries], how strong it still is [in our community]."
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S59Why Martin Scorsese fears for the future of cinema  On the eve of the release of his new epic western crime drama, Killers of the Flower Moon, the great US filmmaker Martin Scorsese is sitting with me in a hotel suite overlooking New York's Central Park lamenting the state of contemporary Hollywood films. In a wide-ranging interview for the BBC's Talking Movies programme, he says of the current spate of blockbuster franchises: "They're not for me… as I get older I'm trying to figure out where the hell to spend my time. I can't do it with them."The sentiment is in keeping with an oft-quoted interview he gave four years ago to Empire Magazine, in which he stated that Marvel superhero movies resembled "theme parks" and were "not cinema".
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S60Liberia elections 2023: three things the next president must do  On 10 October, 46 political parties and 20 presidential candidates will compete for two million registered votes at 5,000 polling stations in 15 counties. Liberia is more divided than it has been since the end of its 14-year civil war in 2003. The war ended with the signing of a peace agreement, but its scars are still visible across the country.
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S61S62The Israel-Hamas war: No matter who loses, Iran wins  There will be only one winner in the war that has broken out between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. And it is neither Israel nor Hamas.In an operation coined “the Al-Aqsa Storm,” Hamas, whose formal name is the Islamic Resistance Movement, fired thousands of rockets into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters infiltrated Israel by land, sea and air. Hundreds of Israelis have been killed, more than 2,000 injured, and many taken hostage.
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S63S64There's a hidden source of excess nutrients suffocating the Great Barrier Reef. We found it  The Great Barrier Reef is one of Australia’s most important environmental and economic assets. It is estimated to contribute A$56 billion per year and supports about 64,000 full-time jobs, according to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. However, the reef is under increasing pressure. While much public attention is focused on the impacts of climate change on the Great Barrier Reef and the debate around its endangered status, water quality is also crucial to the reef’s health and survival.
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S65S66Alienation and hidden histories: 'unsettling' new Australian stories reveal a distorted world  Three new Australian short-story collections are very different in their style and approach to short-form fiction. However, these books – by veterans of the form David Cohen and Laura Jean McKay, and debut writer John Morrissey – are united by their tendency to cross genres and present the contemporary world in distorted (and occasionally disturbing) ways. Review: The Terrible Event – David Cohen (Transit Lounge); Gunflower – Laura Jean McKay (Scribe); Firelight – John Morrissey (Text)
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S67Australia's teacher workforce has a diversity problem. Here's how we can fix it  Alice Garner was affiliated with the Victorian Department of Education between 2014 and 2019 when employed as a secondary school teacher. During this period she was a member of the Australian Education Union. Australia’s teaching workforce does not reflect the diversity of the Australian community, a situation that has far-reaching implications for our education system.
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S68There are 750 unidentified human remains in Australia. Could your DNA help solve one of these cold cases?  Jodie Ward is also employed by the Australian Federal Police as the Program Lead of the National DNA Program for Unidentified and Missing Persons. She was involved in applying forensic investigative genetic genealogy to the unidentified human remains case found on Kangaroo Island, which assisted the South Australia Police to identify the remains as belonging to William Hardie. The National DNA Program for Unidentified and Missing Persons commenced in July 2020 and is currently funded under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (Cth) until December 2023.Yesterday it was announced the Australian Federal Police (AFP) National DNA Program for Unidentified and Missing Persons used advanced DNA technology to assist South Australia Police resolve a 40-year-old missing persons case.
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