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 S2S22Did 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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S17How Corporate Purpose Leads to Innovation  Too often, companies’ innovation efforts overfocus on one or two stakeholder groups and ignore the others. The result is failure. The best innovations create mutual value for all key constituents: the customers, employees, suppliers, communities, and investors that together have a material “stake” in the innovation’s outcome. This article provides four tips for harnessing your corporate purpose to improve your innovation success rate.
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S34Amazon & NFL Data Analytics  In this episode, Wharton experts speak with Sam Schwartzstein, Amazon Prime Video's Thursday Night Football analytics expert.Wharton’s Cade Massey, Eric Bradlow, Adi Wyner, and Shane Jensen speak with Sam Schwartzstein, Amazon Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football analytics expert, about how Amazon Prime Video is using analytics to enhance the NFL viewing experience.
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S21Message 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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S18The "Piggyback" Approach to Innovation  In business and in life, we tend to address problems in the manner we’ve been taught, failing to see adjacent opportunities and unconventional pairings. Consider how we have “the way” we do things: the way we make pasta, the way we use a hammer, the way we deal with our day-to-day problems. On the one hand, this keeps us focused — it gives us a mental script to follow. On the other hand, it limits our ability to see beyond the default. Piggybacks — tactics that capitalize on pre-existing but seemingly unrelated systems and networks — can help organizations create entirely new businesses, diversify sources of revenue, improve products’ appeal, and increase exposure. The author offers examples of how organizations, ranging from small nonprofits to big corporations, are employing this tactic.
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S31S23How forest schools boost children's immune systems  "Mornings are now easy. When I say 'it's time to leave the house', he picks up his bag and says 'OK, let's go'." says Juho Pietarila, whose four-year-old son Kauko recently started attending the forest group in Hopealaakso nursery in the Finnish capital Helsinki.Kauko is now in the nursery's Samoojat group. 'Samoojat' is an old-fashioned Finnish word for people who forage in the forest.
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S33What Peace Speech - The Benign Twin of Hate Speech - Says about a Country  A machine-learning model helps identify and measure the prevailing buzz about peace in the news cycleHate speech is one of the most reliable predictors of violence in any community. Researchers have worked for years to develop methods to track its prevalence in conflict-prone areas. It can act as an early-warning system to predict impending incidents of brutality. Now scientists are trying to see if they can do something similar for hate speech’s opposite—they want to measure what they call “peace speech” as well.
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S4S16S25When Nigeria banned X, Koo had a golden opportunity, and squandered it  When the Nigerian government temporarily banned X (formerly known as Twitter) in June 2021, a young Indian startup swooped in to make the most of the opportunity. Less than a week after the ban was announced, then-President Muhammadu Buhari opened an account on Koo, and the microblogging app gained almost overnight popularity in the country. The company started investing in the region — posting job ads on LinkedIn seeking local language speakers and teasing new functionalities to support the new market. Following Buhari, several other government-affiliated profiles actively posted on Koo, which seemed to be quickly becoming an official communication channel alongside Facebook and Instagram.Two years on, however, Nigerians have abandoned the Indian microblogging platform. Former president Buhari’s verified account still states he is Nigeria’s president, even though he left the job in May 2023. His last post on Koo was in November 2021.
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S13S26Extreme Temperatures Can Threaten Heart Health  Cardiologists forecast greater heart attack risks as winter and summer temperatures become more extremeHave you ever heard that shoveling snow can cause a heart attack? There’s actually some truth to that. The physical exertion of shoveling is certainly a factor, but even people who are used to yard work can be vulnerable: when temperatures hit exceptionally frigid lows, the heart can overwork itself by trying to prevent the body from freezing to death—especially if a preexisting condition is already making the organ pump hard.
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S20Taupo: The super volcano under New Zealand's largest lake  Located in the centre of New Zealand's North Island, the town of Taupo sits sublimely in the shadow of the snow-capped peaks of Tongariro National Park. Fittingly, this 40,000-person lakeside town has recently become one of New Zealand's most popular tourist destinations, as hikers, trout fishers, water sports enthusiasts and adrenaline junkies have started descending upon it.The namesake of this tidy town is the Singapore-sized lake that kisses its western border. Stretching 623sq km wide and 160m deep with several magma chambers submerged at its base, Lake Taupo isn't only New Zealand's largest lake; it's also an incredibly active geothermal hotspot. Every summer, tourists flock to bathe in its bubbling hot springs and sail through its emerald-green waters. Yet, the lake is the crater of a giant super volcano, and within its depths lies the unsettling history of this picturesque marvel.
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S32Dangerous 'Fill and Build' Floodplain Policy Should Be Scrapped, Experts Say  A FEMA advisory council says a program that allows developers to elevate homes on fill dirt is environmentally harmful and can increase flood risks for nearby homesCLIMATEWIRE | Federal rules allowing developers to use fill dirt to elevate new houses in high-risk flood areas should be changed because the practice can exacerbate damage to nearby homes, according to an advisory board to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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S12S19The Radical Reshaping of Global Trade  The world is shifting from a global trade order to a devolved one in which bilateral agreements, multiple spheres of influence, and self-interested government policies are likely to loom large. Companies should prepare now for a new, fragmented, non-system that will operate in a “permissionless” manner, where organizations will leverage technology to provide coordination amongst stakeholders. The view of globalization as an arm-in-arm march forward has officially been shattered. As companies navigate the reality of new spheres of influence, and bilateral, rules-based trading agreements, those who can build organizations that are resilient and permissionless will benefit the most.
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S35How to keep AI under control  The current explosion of exciting commercial and open-source AI is likely to be followed, within a few years, by creepily superintelligent AI – which top researchers and experts fear could disempower or wipe out humanity. Scientist Max Tegmark describes an optimistic vision for how we can keep AI under control and ensure it's working for us, not the other way around.
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S11S14Project Managers, Focus on Outcomes -- Not Deliverables  If you’ve ever developed a product, you’ve almost certainly been derailed by scope creep. Features multiply, priorities blur, and schedules and budgets suffer. As a leader, how can you recognize scope creep and realign your team? Shift the focus from “what” you’re building (the deliverables) to “why” you’re building it (the outcomes). In this article, I’ll explain how you can keep your team’s efforts aligned with the genuine needs of your audience.
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S9S10S38Sam Bankman-Fried Sealed His Fate Long Before the FTX Trial  The simplest legal advice is to say nothing at all. Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of crypto exchange FTX, who recently took to the stand at his own fraud trial, isn’t very good at that. But, most likely, it won’t be his testimony that seals his fate. It will be the monthlong media tour he embarked on late last year, after FTX fell.Bankman-Fried is standing trial on seven counts of fraud in connection with the collapse of FTX. The exchange fell into bankruptcy after users found they could no longer withdraw their funds, worth billions of dollars in aggregate. The money was missing, the US government claims, because Bankman-Fried had funneled it into a sibling company, Alameda Research, and used it for risky trades, debt repayments, personal loans, political donations, venture bets, and various other purposes.
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S36The power of unconventional thinking  From World War II to the 2008 economic collapse and beyond, history shows that economists don't always see the future as clearly as they think they do, says David McWilliams. Using the words of W.B. Yeats, McWilliams makes the case for embracing unconventional thinkers – poets, artists and musicians – and offers a creative path towards a world filled with less confirmation bias and more understanding.
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S29How a Weight-Loss Trend on TikTok Might Encourage Eating Disorders  Laxative misuse is cropping up in wellness and weight-loss social media communities—and some experts are concerned about its close ties to eating disordersSocial media is full of gut health hacks. Shots of olive oil, prebiotics, probiotics and green powders are touted as remedies for digestive malaise. Now TikTok’s gut health evangelists are praising substances that have been dangerous mainstays of the weight-loss world: laxatives.
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S61S7S27NASA's Lucy Asteroid Mission Zips Past a 'Dinky' Space Rock  On November 1 a NASA spacecraft called Lucy will introduce humans to a world called Dinkinesh—nicknamed Dinky—the smallest main-belt asteroid we’ve ever seen up close.Lucy launched in 2021 to explore a mysterious group of asteroids called Jupiter’s Trojans. These space rocks orbit the sun at the same distance as Jupiter in two clusters: one cluster races ahead of the gas giant while the other trails behind the planet. All told, scientists know of more than 12,000 of these objects in Jupiter’s orbit, and they think this eclectic group of primitive space rocks could help decode the solar system’s early history. Hence Lucy will zip past six of Jupiter’s Trojans beginning in 2027.
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S50Does secularization cause population decline? It did in France  There is a standard model for population growth and decline. For most of human history, life has been hard. It has meant starvation, plague, and high child mortality. And so, human societies had lots of children. If many people died, a population needed to have many more children to compensate. Eventually, living standards increase (through education and development), and overall mortality drops. There’s a century or so lag in cultural norms in which people still have lots of children, but they’re not dying as much. A population explosion ensues. But eventually, things normalize. The population stagnates and then declines, as the smaller population enjoys greater prosperity. Most countries, and most of history, is governed by this model.But not France. In the history of demography, France stands out as an awkward aberration. Around the 18th century — during a time when the country was still very poor with high mortality — France experienced a population decline. In the 1700s, the French stopped having enough children to compensate for the vast number of people dying. Historians have long speculated about what caused this anomaly. According to a new paper from the University of Manchester, we now have an answer: secularization.
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S67A Movie About the Singular Intensity of Endurance Athletes  Annette Bening’s portrayal of a legendary swimmer in Nyad ultimately succumbs to narrative cliché.For years, the filmmaking team of Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi has specialized in making documentaries about athletes and adventurers who push the very limits of human survival. The directors’ critical peak came with the 2018 documentary Free Solo, but in works such as Meru and The Rescue they painted portraits of mountaineers and cave divers who exist to perform nigh-impossible feats of endurance. So it’s no surprise that their first foray into making a narrative feature closely resembles that kind of documentary: Nyad, a biopic about the distance swimmer Diana Nyad, whose athletic goals were challenging to the point of being absurd.
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S5S3S57Amid price hikes, ads, & crackdowns, Netflix finally cuts subscribers a break  Streaming service subscribers haven't heard much good news lately. Save for content being shared across streaming services more freely, it seems any time Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, et cetera announce a change for subscribers, it's something negative. Lately streaming service news has been all about price hikes, the introduction of ads, getting tougher on password sharing, and even unreliable performance.
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S37How to Put Your Driver's License on Your Phone  How nice would it be to never again realize that you forgot your driver's license in your other pants? Well, if you have a smartphoneâand if you live in one of the US states that supports itâyou can start carrying a digital version of your ID with you everywhere.A recent Android update expands Google's digital ID program that lets users store their personal IDs in digital form within Google Wallet. This includes driver's licenses and other official state IDs. Apple launched a similar feature in Apple Wallet in 2021. Digital identification cards (for both platforms) are available in just a handful of US states right now: Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, and Maryland. Both Apple and Google say residents of more states will be able to load their driver's licenses onto their phones eventually, but that depends on local governments making the necessary policy and digital infrastructure changes.
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S65Donald Trump Deserves a Fair Trial  Donald Trump has always played to courts of public opinion. But now he faces judgment in courts of law, under very different rules. His critics and opponents celebrate this moment and the prosecutors responsible for it, believing that the criminal-justice system’s standards and procedures will emphatically limit Trump’s ability to lie, to demagogue, and, above all, to escape responsibility. Trump, it’s often said, enjoys no greater or lesser latitude than any other criminal defendant. One wonders if Trump himself truly understands what that entails.The criminal-justice system is built from the ground up to protect defendants’ rights, even while seeking to punish them. The canonical account of our criminal-justice system, after all, is Blackstone’s: “For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.” “The reason is,” John Adams added in 1770, “because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.”
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S49Bad trips: Study examines the long-term adverse effects of psychedelic drugs  In the mid-20th century, scientific research suggested that psychedelic drugs could be beneficial in the treatment of alcoholism and psychiatric disorders. Soon enough, however, LSD was outlawed in a knee-jerk response to the hippie counterculture, and studies of the therapeutic potential of psychedelics were abandoned.Psychedelic research resumed about 30 years ago and has blossomed ever since. There are dozens of labs in leading academic institutions investigating the potential benefits of these substances, and a search for the term “psychedelic” on ClinicalTrials.gov, the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s registry of human clinical trials, produces more than 500 results.
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S52Cute, fun to ride, but does it have a future? The Honda Motocompacto  The transition to electrified transportation can come across as boring, which, arguably, isn't all that untrue. Shouty, gas-powered sports cars have been replaced on roads by beige-colored electric crossovers. Electric scooters are ubiquitous now, cavalierly and awkwardly piled up on street corners of any global metropolitan center, serving as last-mile solutions for those unwilling to wait in traffic in the backseat of a rideshare car. It's hard to remember that electric vehicles can be fun, exciting, interesting, and maybe most importantly—cute. The Honda Motocompacto might just be the cutest little last-mile solution and maybe the most exciting electric vehicle on the market, even if Honda itself isn't quite sure what to do with it.
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