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 S46Kia EV3, EV4 concepts look like the future, will soon be a reality   Kia is staring down an ambitious goal. The company wants to increase its global electric vehicle sales to 1 million units annually by 2026, further ramping up to 1.6 million by 2030. New products like the EV5 crossover and EV9 SUV will certainly help with this push, but smaller, more affordable EVs will be crucial to Kia's success, as well. That's why, despite being called concept cars, the new EV3 and EV4 are thinly veiled glimpses into Kia's next round of production EVs.
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S61The Left Abandoned Me  After the brutal violence committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians, I looked around for my friends on the left and felt alone.“Did they really decapitate babies?” my 14-year-old daughter asked me yesterday. She was pointing to a text message on her phone from a friend. “They’re saying they found Jewish babies killed, some burnt, some decapitated.” And I froze. Not because I didn’t know what to say—though in truth I didn’t know what to say—but because for a moment I forgot what century I was in. All of the assumptions I had made as a Jewish father, even one who had grown up, as I did, with the Holocaust just a few decades past, were suddenly no longer relevant. Had I adequately prepared her for the reality of Jewish death, what every shtetl child for centuries would have known intimately? Later in the day, she asked if, for safety’s sake, she should take off the necklace she loves that her grandparents had given her and that has her name written out in Hebrew script.
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S64Photos: Dire Conditions in Gaza  As Israel hits the region with retaliatory air strikes, the UN warns of a humanitarian crisis.Israel continues to hit Gaza with air strikes in retaliation for Hamas’s surprise attack that has so far killed 1,300 people in Israel and wounded thousands more. An additional 1,400 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
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S60The Israeli Crisis Is Testing Biden's Core Foreign-Policy Claim  The initial reactions of Biden and Trump to the attack have produced exactly the kind of personal contrast that Biden supporters want to project.President Joe Biden’s core foreign-policy argument has been that his steady engagement with international allies can produce better results for America than the impulsive unilateralism of his predecessor Donald Trump. The eruption of violence in Israel is testing that proposition under the most difficult circumstances.
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S31This Water Bottle Spouts Smells at You While You Sip. It Stinks  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 WIREDThe Air Up is a hydration device that smells at you. The water bottle is just like many other water bottles except for a depression around the hole where the water comes out. It is here, around the spout, that you snap in a ring-shaped pod infused with a fruity scent. Then, when you take a swig, you also take a sniff. The sensations of taste and smell are commingled enough to trick your brain into thinking you’re sipping fruit-flavored water, even though the scent puck never actually flavors the water inside.
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S45Ask Ethan: Are singularities physically real?  One of the most important advances in all of physics was the development of Einstein’s General Relativity: our greatest and most predictively powerful theory of gravity. Replacing the idea of a “gravitational force” that acts on objects that never physically touch one another with the notion that all objects exist within the fabric of spacetime, and that the curvature of spacetime determines how those objects will move, is a concept that many — even professionals — still struggle to wrap their heads around. However, it comes along with consequences: certain configurations of matter-and-energy within spacetime inevitably lead to a condition that marks an effective “end” or “beginning” to spacetime itself, more commonly known as a singularity.But are these singularities necessarily physically real, representing something profound that’s occurring within the Universe? Or might there be some way to avoid them, perhaps signaling a very different scenario than space and time themselves ceasing to exist? (At least, as we understand them.) That’s what Patreon supporter Cameron Sowards wants to know, as he writes in to ask:
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S56S63Israel Must Not React Stupidly  If 10/7 was Israel’s 9/11, as many of the country’s leaders have said, the meaning of the comparison is not self-evident. Its implications still have to be worked out, and they might lead to unexpected places.The horror is comparable, but the scale isn’t. The 1,000 or more civilians butchered on Saturday by Hamas are, relative to Israel’s population, many more than the 3,000 killed in the United States by al-Qaeda; a proportionate number of dead on 9/11 would have been close to 40,000. Al-Qaeda, a transnational group based in the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan, had the ability and will to strike terror anywhere in the world, but it could not destroy the United States. Hamas threatens Israel’s very existence—both in principle, according to the genocidal goals set out in its founding manifesto and subsequent statements, and also in practice, as an arm or ally of the more powerful entities in the region that share its aims, Hezbollah, Syria, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. Facts like these suggest that the analogy has no more value than most historical comparisons.
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S62What America Could Look Like in 2050  “I feel like it is a race, and I do not have the crystal ball to see the outcome,” one reader argues.Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.
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S57The Protestant Sleep Ethic  This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here.Early in the coronavirus pandemic—not long after public-health experts began coining terms such as coronasomnia to describe one of the side effects of the growing crisis—hotels began embracing a new genre of travel. The “sleep retreat” was novel neither in concept (it sold hotels as places to rest) nor in practice (the promised slumber inducements included plush bedding, meditation aids, and pillow sprays). Its innovation, instead, was in messaging. To sell products that amounted, essentially, to fancy rooms misted with high-end Febreze, the hotels were bringing a new twist to the old idea that health is a luxury good.
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S23People Who Speak Backward Reveal the Brain's Endless Ability to Play with Language  Argentine researchers studied a regional slang that reverses the order of word syllables or letters. Their findings give insight into our natural ability to engage in wordplayIn 2020 Adolfo García, a neurolinguist at Argentina’s University of San Andrés, had a chance encounter with a photographer who amused his models by chattering to them backward—the Spanish word casa (house) became “asac,” for instance. Upon learning that the photographer had been fluent in “backward speech” since childhood and was capable of holding a conversation entirely in reverse, García set out to study the phenomenon.
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S39SBF's Magic Hair and Other Big Moments From the FTX Trial  Last year, as cryptocurrency company FTX and sister trading firm Alameda Research were melting down, Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison held an all-hands meeting and told staff that Alameda had taken customer deposits from FTX and could not pay them back. When asked in the meeting by an employee whose idea it had been to use customer funds, "Sam, I guess" was Ellison's answer.Today, at the end of Ellison's testimony during the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF for short, prosecutor Danielle Sassoon asked why she had qualified her answer. The "I guess," explained Ellison, was just a vocal tic. It wasn't a question. It had been Bankman-Fried's idea the entire time, she alleged.
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S53Apple AirTags stalking led to ruin and murders, lawsuit says  This month, more than three dozen victims allegedly terrorized by stalkers using Apple AirTags have joined a class-action lawsuit filed in a California court last December against Apple. They alleged in an amended complaint that, partly due to Apple's negligence, AirTags have become "one of the most dangerous and frightening technologies employed by stalkers" because they can be easily, cheaply, and covertly used to determine "real-time location information to track victims."
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S6S29Glenn Shimkus, Founder of Prisidio  Wharton’s Dr. Americus Reed speaks with Glenn Shimkus, founder of Prisidio, an innovative, mobile-first, digital vault set to revolutionize life preparation.©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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S59This War Shows Just How Broken Social Media Has Become  Social media has, once again, become the window through which the world is witnessing unspeakable violence and cruelty in an active war zone. Thousands of people, including children and the elderly, have been killed or injured in Israel and the Gaza Strip since Hamas launched its surprise attack on Saturday—you have probably seen the carnage yourself on X, TikTok, or Instagram.These scenes are no less appalling for their familiarity. But they are familiar. As my colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany wrote last year, the history of war is a history of media. The Gulf War demonstrated the power of CNN and the 24/7 cable-news format, foreshadowing the way infotainment would permeate politics and culture for the next 20 years. A series of contentious election cycles from 2008 to 2020, as well as the Arab Spring, the Syrian civil war, and the rise of the Islamic State, showed how social-media platforms democratized punditry and journalism, for better and worse. Commentators were quick to dub Russia’s invasion of Ukraine the “first TikTok war,” as the internet filled with videos from Ukrainians documenting the horrors of war in profoundly personal, often surreal ways.
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S66Steve Scalise Bows Out  The unresolved speaker fight could determine whether the government stays open—and the future of U.S. support for Israel and Ukraine.When Representative Steve Scalise emerged yesterday from the private party meeting where House Republicans narrowly nominated him to serve as the next speaker, he sounded anxious to get started. “We need to send a message to people throughout the world that the House is open and doing the people’s business,” Scalise told reporters.
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S13S19Message sticks: Australia's ancient unwritten language  The continent of Australia is home to more than 250 spoken Indigenous languages and 800 dialects. Yet, one of its linguistic cornerstones wasn't spoken, but carved.Known as message sticks, these flat, rounded and oblong pieces of wood were etched with ornate images on both sides that conveyed important messages and held the stories of the continent's Aboriginal people – considered the world's oldest continuous living culture. Message sticks are believed to be thousands of years old and were typically carried by messengers over long distances to reinforce oral histories or deliver news between Aboriginal nations or language groups.
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S48S69See 12 Winning Images From the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/da/84/da84e002-d044-460d-b3bd-a5dd610bb668/amit_eshel_wildlife_photographer_of_the_year.jpg) The stunning entries showcase the behaviors of ancient and elusive species, from horseshoe crabs to tapirs and orcasâas well as the threats they faceFeaturing an ancient horseshoe crab, fighting ibex and a forest lit by fireflies' glow, the winners of the 59th annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest reveal breathtaking scenes of animals and their fascinating behaviors.
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S20Did Australia's boomerangs pave the way for flight?  The aircraft is one of the most significant developments of modern society, enabling people, goods and ideas to fly around the world far more efficiently than ever before. The first successful piloted flight took off in 1903 in North Carolina, but a 10,000-year-old hunting tool likely developed by Aboriginal Australians may have held the key to its lift-off. As early aviators discovered, the secret to flight is balancing the flow of air. Therefore, an aircraft's wings, tail or propeller blades are often shaped in a specially designed, curved manner called an aerofoil that lifts the plane up and allows it to drag or turn to the side as it moves through the air.
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S37A Groundbreaking Human Brain Cell Atlas Just Dropped  Today, an international team of researchers shared an extraordinarily detailed atlas of human brain cells, mapping its staggering diversity of neurons. The atlas was published as part of a massive package of 21 papers in the journal Science, each taking complementary approaches to the same overarching questions: What cell types exist in the brain? And what makes human brains different from those of other animals?With hundreds of billions of cells tangled together, mapping the whole brain is like trying to plot every star in the Milky Way. (The inner workings of each cell are mini worlds of their own.) But just as better telescopes make the universe clearer to astronomers, the analytical tools presented here give neuroscientists “unprecedented resolution looking at brain cells, which will open up new windows for understanding brain function,” says Andrea Beckel-Mitchener, deputy director of the US National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Initiative, which funded the cell atlas projects.
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S35The 17 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now  When it comes to originals, Netflix and Amazon have the deepest libraries of prestige movies. But ever since CODA won the Best Picture Oscar, it’s become clear that some of the best movies are on Apple TV+. As with any streaming service, not every film on the roster is a winner, but from Billie Eilish documentaries to Sundance darlings, Apple’s streaming service is building up a strong catalog to run alongside its growing slate of beloved TV shows.
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S3How Gen Z Women Can Negotiate Their First Job Offer  A recent survey by Handshake found that 65% Gen Z women vs. 57% of Gen Z men fear losing a job offer if they negotiate. But declining to push for higher pay can cost you around $1 million over a lifetime. If you’re a woman entering the workforce, here’s what you can do to help prepare yourself for these tough conversations.
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S4S34Artificial Intelligence Is Seeping Into All of Your Gadgets  Artificial intelligence abounds, and it’s only making its way deeper and deeper into every scrap of technology we use. Generative AI in particular is an invention that seems destined to follow us far into the future, so it’s best to try to make sense of where it’s headed.This week on Gadget Lab, we're sharing an episode of Wondery's Business Wars podcast, where we talk about the rise of AI over the past few years, where the future of artificial intelligence is going, and whether the many movies about AI actually predicted what’s to come.
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S28Jenna Lebel, Chief Marketing Officer at Liberty Mutual Wharton’s Dr. Americus Reed speaks with Jenna Lebel, CMO of Liberty Mutual, about the company, her career journey, and the landscape of marketing in the insurance sector.©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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S26This Code Breaking Quaker Poet Hunted Nazis  How Elizebeth Smith Friedman went from scouring Shakespeare for secret codes to taking down a Nazi spy ringKnown as “America’s first female cryptanalyst,” Elizebeth Smith Friedman was a master code breaker who played a pivotal role in both World Wars. For many years, no one knew what she had done, not even her own family. Code breaking wasn’t Smith Friedman’s plan to begin with.
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S65FTX's Organizational Chaos  A witness testimony this week portrayed a workplace filled with fraught power dynamics, disorganization, and hubris.In federal court this week, Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, testified against her former boss and boyfriend, Sam Bankman-Fried. His two fallen crypto enterprises offer an object lesson in how not to run a start-up.
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S67Recognise free will is an illusion and reap the emotional benefits | Psyche Ideas  is a clinical psychologist, director of the Paris Psychology Centre, and guest lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Sydney. His primary interest is in how philosophical positions might contribute to mental flourishing. He also lectures and podcasts about classical music for various orchestras.At your next dinner party, if you have a sudden whim to inspire existential horror in your guests, you could do worse than invoke the concept of determinism. This is the proposal that all events, including our actions, are determined by pre-existing causes. Accordingly, determinists have argued that the standard conception of free will is nothing more than an illusion, as the workings of our mind are simply the product of a causal sequence that kicked off with the Big Bang.
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S17Businesses Need to Bring Younger Employees into Their Leadership Ranks  Businesses play a crucial role in tackling the challenges of our times, such as climate change. To enhance their effectiveness in this arena, they must become more curious to develop the innovations we require, as well as more eager to adapt their behaviors accordingly. Today’s aging leadership structures can hinder this. Striving towards intergenerational leadership is key to overcoming these issues and unlocking competitive advantage by enhancing businesses’ capacity for renewal.
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S145 Types of Manipulators at Work  Lots of variables influence our day-to-day decision making — though perhaps none more potently than the attitudes and preferences of other people. The human instinct to seek belonging with others helps us collaborate and build systems and societies. But it also gives ill-intentioned people an opening to mislead, lull, and even coerce us into serving their interests instead of our own. What the author calls “peer pressure manipulation” directly targets our communal instinct. Five manipulation tactics in particular lead decision makers into missteps like choosing dubious partners or investments, hiring unqualified agencies, greenlighting ill-conceived internal campaigns, and backing generally bad ideas. Once you can identify the five common manipulation tactics, you’ll be able to run through a protective mental exercise anytime a pitch for a product, idea, investment, or a course of action feels potentially inauthentic.
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S30We actually have a shot at stopping the climate crisis  How is the US going to reach net zero by 2050? That's the question Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, director of the Office of Science for the US Department of Energy, is urgently trying to answer. She shares the thinking behind what her team is calling "Energy Earthshots" — projects designed to accelerate innovation in the fight against climate change, from nature-based solutions in the soil to the creation of brand-new technologies — and calls for innovative, equitable policies backed by science.
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S33Infinite Machine's P1 Electric Scooter Looks Like Judge Dredd's Lawmaster  For about 10 minutes last week, I felt like I was Judge Dredd, riding the burly Lawmaster motorcycle from the 1995 film. People on the cobbled streets of Red Hook, Brooklyn, stared at me as I rode by on a futuristic-looking vehicle, and I fought the urge to yell, “I am the law!”I was riding Infinite Machine’s P1, an electric Vespa-like scooter from a brand-new company started up by two brothers in Brooklyn, Eddie and Joseph Cohen. Eddie studied product design and did a stint in marketing at Apple. He founded a company called Walden, which designs products for meditation. Joseph Cohen is the founder and CEO of Universe, an app that lets anyone design a website.
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S40How the surprising muon revolutionized particle physics  Back in the early 1930s, there were only a few known fundamental particles that made up the Universe. If you divided up the matter and radiation we observed and interacted with into the smallest possible components we could break them up into at the time, there were only the positively charged atomic nuclei (including the proton), the electrons that orbited them, and the photon. This accounted for the known elements, but there were a few anomalies that didn’t quite line up.Heavier elements also had more charge, but argon and potassium were an exception: argon only had a charge of +18 units, but a mass of ~40 atomic mass units, while potassium had a charge of +19 units, but a mass of ~39 units. The 1932 discovery of the neutron took care of that one, teaching us that the periodic table should be sorted by the number of protons in the atomic nucleus. Certain types of radioactive decay — beta decays — appeared to not conserve energy and momentum, leading to Pauli’s 1930 hypothesizing of the neutrino, which wouldn’t be discovered for another 26 years. And the Dirac equation predicted negative energy states, which corresponded to antimatter counterparts for particles like the electron: the positron.
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S24Quantum Physics Isn't as Weird as You Think. It's Weirder  Quantum physics’ oddities seem less surprising if you stop thinking of atoms as tennis balls, and instead more like waves pushing through waterDown at the level of atoms and electrons, quantum physics describes the behavior of the very smallest objects. Solar panels, LED lights, your mobile phone and MRI scanners in hospitals: all of these rely on quantum behavior. It is one of the best-tested theories of physics, and we use it all the time.
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S55Against Barbarism  There is a place for geopolitical and strategic analysis of Israel’s war with Hamas and its allies and associates—how it affects politics in the Gulf, whether it will reduce American aid to Ukraine, how Russia may exploit the situation, and so forth. But such discussion will miss an essential element of this war, a conflict that is not solely, or even primarily, about politics or desperately conceived purpose. It is about barbarism.Americans have fought barbarians in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Ukrainians have been fighting them for years, and particularly since February 24, 2022. Sometimes, as in Rwanda, we merely note them with embarrassment and eyes averted. Other times, as during the massacre at Srebrenica committed by Serbian forces, we flinch, and act belatedly and inadequately. We express pity for the dead, but often fail to fight for the living.
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S54Ubuntu 23.10 is a Minotaur that moves faster and takes up less space  Ubuntu 23.10, codenamed Mantic Minotaur, is the 39th Ubuntu release, and it's one of the three smaller interim releases Canonical puts out between long-term support (LTS) versions. This last interim before the next LTS doesn't stand out with bold features you can identify at a glance. But it does set up some useful options and upgrades that should persist in Ubuntu for some time.
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S38A New Tool Helps Artists Thwart AI--With a Middle Finger  When artificial intelligence image generators first rolled out, they seemed like magic. Churning out detailed imagery in minutes was, from one angle, a technical marvel. From another angle, though, it looked like mere mimicry.The models were trained on billions of images without anyone asking the humans behind them for permission. "They have sucked the creative juices of millions of artists," says Eva Toorenent, an illustrator who serves as the Netherlands adviser for the European Guild for Artificial Intelligence Regulation. "It is absolutely horrifying."
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