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 S65S46There 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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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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S56 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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S64There'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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S62The 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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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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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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S55S54Invisible 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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S40S36S39Porsche'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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S41Matt 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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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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S38S61S63S295 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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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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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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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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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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S66Alienation 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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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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S70S31S28Good 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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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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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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S32Tired 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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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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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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