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 S60Silicon Valley May Never Learn Its Lesson   Over and over during Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial, lawyers showed pictures of the FTX founder living his best life. There he was at the Super Bowl flanked by Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom. There he was on a private jet, sleeping with his hands folded. There he was onstage, in shorts and a T-shirt, with Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. The very traits that made him a cause célèbre in Silicon Valley—his intellect, his obsession with scale, his story—turned into liabilities. This evening, after deliberating for just a few hours, a jury found him guilty of all seven charges he faced, including counts of wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering and securities fraud.Bankman-Fried’s charges together carry a maximum sentence of 110 years. Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the trial, is set to determine his sentence in March. Outside of the courthouse this evening, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Damian Williams, told reporters that “this kind of corruption is as old as time.” Mark S. Cohen, Bankman-Fried’s lawyer, said in a statement, “We respect the jury’s decision. But we are very disappointed with the result. Mr. Bankman-Fried maintains his innocence and will continue to vigorously fight the charges against him.” He will likely appeal.
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S1Deepak Chopra: How to Live Longer and Lead Better  When we prioritize our health and wellness, we invest in our most valuable asset - ourselves. In this thought-provoking session at the 2023 Inc. 5000 Conference, alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra will discuss cutting-edge research on longevity--and the potential of psychedelics to promote healing and growth.
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S3S4S5S6S7S8S9S10S11Where Companies Want Employees to Work -- and Where People Actually Want to Work  Companies are trying various strategies to adjust to a “new normal” in work modalities, ranging from fully in-office to fully remote to a mix of both. A comprehensive study covering interviews and ethnographic research within three major organizations, each employing a distinct work strategy, has unearthed a fascinating discovery: the intersection of company strategies and individual work preferences culminate in nine distinct employee personas. From the Avatar in a remote-first setting to the Producer in an office-forward environment, these personas reflect how alignment or misalignment between organizational approach and personal preference impacts an employee’s outlook and behavior. With these insights, organizations are encouraged to recognize, understand, and strategically address these personas to foster a harmonious and productive workplace.
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S12Project Managers Should Think Like Startup Founders  Most project managers focus on planning and execution. But large projects rarely go in a straight line, and often that planning doesn’t take into account key assumptions, and the execution goes far in the wrong direction before the need for changes are recognized. Agile approaches don’t go far enough in solving this problem because they focus on pivoting quickly — being reactive — rather than avoiding the problems to begin with. The author, a strategic advisor to large firms, suggests that project leaders should think like startup founders instead, using the tools that have become common in that sector: a project canvas, customer development, and so forth. In doing so, project leaders can uncover and solve for some of the project’s biggest questions and risks first, before scaling to full execution.
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S13Narrow the Gap Between Company and Employee Purpose  Achieving “purpose congruence,” the alignment of corporate and individual employee purposes, is essential for organizational success. Rather than imposing a uniform corporate mission, businesses should foster environments where both personal and organizational purposes harmoniously coexist. To advance this congruence, organizations should: 1) Facilitate “purpose discovery” during recruitment and onboarding. 2) Promote “purpose sharing” to enhance collaboration and find mutual goals. 3) Encourage “purpose integration” by tailoring roles that align individual and company aims. 4) Implement “purpose reminders” in regular activities. By personalizing purpose, businesses can boost productivity and job satisfaction, benefiting both the company and its employees.
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S14How the Cloud Is Changing Data Science  Cloud tools and technologies are influencing the future of data science work in two key areas: scaling resources and improving workforce agility. If organizations want to make use of these capabilities, though, they also need to develop strong data security and privacy frameworks when operating in a cloud environment. The author shares some examples of how organizations are doing this work.
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S15It's Time for Boards to Take AI Seriously  The job of a board is to protect shareholders’ interests. But because AI is so fundamentally disruptive (strategically, operationally, and competitively), the board has an obligation to its shareholders to drive and oversee the change. To keep your company as relevant tomorrow as it is today, the time is now for your entire board to become AI-conversant.
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S16Taupo: 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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S17Message 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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S18Did 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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S19Psilocybin and LSD: What I learnt after experiencing 'psychedelic flashbacks'  I looked down at the driveway and noticed the paving stones were still moving. I'd taken the drug just the night before and hadn't slept, so I wasn't too surprised to start with.This was eight years ago, and it was my fourth trip on 1-P LSD, an analogue of LSD that was purchasable online in the UK prior to a legal crackdown in 2016. I decided that this trip might be my last. Psychedelic space was "just a bit much", I concluded – and things thankfully seemed to settle to a delicate peace over the succeeding few days. That is, until I noticed some very strange events in my vision.
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S20The chilling power of Gaza's internet blackout  On Friday night, after weeks of bombardment, Gaza disappeared from the internet. Cellular towers, landlines, and internet connections all dropped at once, making it all but impossible to get digital information in or out of the territory. The cut coincided with a ground assault by the Israeli military, commencing what Prime Minister Netanyahu called “the second phase of the war.”It was the culmination of weeks of mounting dread. Hamas is still holding 229 Israeli civilians hostage somewhere in Gaza — prisoners from a series of bloody attacks on October 7. The Israeli Defense Forces’ response has been all-out war. More than 7,000 people have been killed, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, including more than 3,000 children. Entire blocks have been reduced to rubble. Hamas is the dominant political power in Gaza, which makes it difficult to distinguish between a war against a belligerent military force and the violent displacement of 2 million unarmed civilians. Worse, Netanyahu seems untroubled by the difference.
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S21S22S23The powerful possibilities of recycling the world's batteries  The world has plenty of clean energy. The problem is storing that energy and getting it where we need it, when we need it, says battery recycling pioneer Emma Nehrenheim. While batteries are fundamental to powering a sustainable future, their production is surprisingly harsh on the environment. She lays out the science behind a breakthrough in recycling a battery's core elements, offering a manufacturing solution that could vastly reduce the industry's environmental impact and demand for new materials from mining.
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S24The Best Portable Storage Drives  If you're running out of storage space on your laptop, or if you need to back up your data and store that backlog of videos you're going to edit one day (I am, I swear), an external hard drive can solve your problem. The trouble is, there are hundreds of drive options ranging from dirt cheap to crazy expensive—which one is right for your needs? I've tested dozens with different use cases in mind to find the best portable storage drives for your workflow.Be sure to check out our other guides, including How to Back Up and Move Your Photos Between Services, How to Back Up Your Digital Life, and How to Back Up Your iPhone.
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S25Microsoft Does Damage Control With Its New 'Secure Future Initiative'  Today, in a blog post and email to employees, Microsoft is announcing a broad vision for tackling the cybersecurity challenges that have increasingly plagued the company and its customers in recent years. Known as the Secure Future Initiative, the plan leans heavily on artificial intelligence tools as a “game changer” and also includes a call for international cyberspace norms, an expansion of the company's 2017 Digital Geneva Convention.The most tangible and immediately applicable component of the strategy, though, relates to improvements in Microsoft's software development and engineering approach. In Thursday's email, executive vice president for Microsoft security Charlie Bell and colleagues Scott Guthrie and Rajesh Jha lay out a plan to further safeguard identity management systems in Microsoft products, improve security software development, and shorten response and patch release times for addressing vulnerabilities, specifically those in the cloud.
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S26World Powers Say They Want to Contain AI. They're Also Racing to Advance It  Yesterday, 28 countries including the US, members of the EU, and China signed a declaration warning that artificial intelligence is advancing with such speed and uncertainty that it could cause "serious, even catastrophic, harm."The declaration, announced at the AI Safety Summit organized by the British government and held at the historic World War II code-breaking site, Bletchley Park, also calls for international collaboration to define and explore the risks from the development of more powerful AI models, including large language models such as those powering chatbots like ChatGPT.
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S27Swedish Ports Threaten to Block Teslas From Entering the Country  Dock workers in Sweden are threatening to block deliveries of new Teslas entering the country, in the most serious labor dispute the company has faced in Europe to date.Teslas arrive into Sweden via four ports, Malmö, Gothenburg, Trelleborg, and Södertälje, according to the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union, which represents 57,000 workers in the transport industry and has threatened the blockade. It’s planned to start on November 7, and if it goes ahead, “no Teslas will be able to enter Sweden,” says union chairman Tommy Wreeth.
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S28The 23 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now  Max (previously HBO Max) might be one of the greatest things to come out of the streaming revolution. No, this is not a paid promotion; it’s just simple logic, given that so much of television’s most compelling content of the past 25 years—from The Sopranos and The Wire to Game of Thrones and The Leftovers—originated on the “it’s not TV” network. So having one hub to find them all (including the aforementioned titles) makes good sense for both the network and binge-watchers looking to maximize their investment.But HBO’s streaming arm has gotten into the original content game too, with highly acclaimed series like Hacks, Station Eleven, and The Staircase (the owl did it!). When you’re done rewatching some of the classics, here are our favorite shows streaming on HBO Max right now.
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S29The Best Early Black Friday Deals  You might be thinking, “How can there already be Black Friday deals?! November just started!" Well, dear reader, capitalism can't be slowed by mere dates on the calendar. Plus, if you can get ahead of the Black Friday madness and make a dent in your holiday shopping, why not? I'm certainly doing my best to get my Christmas shopping over as soon as possible, whether it's Cyber Monday or not. To help you do the same, we've tracked down great sales on our favorite products right now, from iPads and earbuds to stand mixers and bed sheets. Let the season of shopping gifting commence.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide through November.
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S30Sam Bankman-Fried Has Been Found Guilty of Fraud  Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty of fraud and conspiracy by a jury in a court in New York. The founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX was convicted on all of the seven counts on which he was tried. He awaits sentencing.A sprawling and complex case was ultimately decided in a matter of hours, with the jury confirming it was ready to deliver its verdict at 7:33 pm ET.
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S31Where is the true center of the Universe?  No matter which direction we look in, or how far away our telescopes and instruments are capable of seeing, the Universe appears pretty much the same on large cosmic scales. The number of galaxies, the types of galaxies that are present, the populations of stars that exist within them, the densities of normal matter and dark matter, and even the temperature of the radiation that we see are all uniform: independent of the direction we look in. On the grandest cosmic scales of all, on scales of several billions of cubic light-years, the average difference between any two regions is merely 0.003%: about 1-part-in-30,000.The biggest differences that we see, in fact, aren’t a function of which direction we look in, but rather how far away we’re looking. The farther away we look, the farther back in time we’re viewing the Universe, and the greater the amount the light from those distant objects is shifted toward longer wavelengths. A lot of people, upon hearing this, get a particular picture in their heads: the greater the amount the light is shifted, the faster these objects are moving away from us. Therefore, if you look in all directions and reconstruct, “At what point, in space, would we see all directions receding equally?” you could locate the center of the Universe.
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S32Master the Greek concepts of "kairos" and "chronos" to improve business timing  Most days run themselves. There’s a clockwork monotony to how they operate — the same things, in the same sequence, to the same endpoint. Life potters along. Very occasionally, though, there will come a moment. It might be an invitation, an opportunity, or a gift. Or it might be a rejection, a setback, or an accident. These moments are what wrench life from the single-track chug toward some new direction. They punctuate and explode. Life is what happens between these poles — a pendulum swinging between monotony and adventure.As is so often the case, the Greeks wrote about this long before anyone else. They had two words to describe each: chronos and kairos. Chronos is the ticking of the clock; it’s the forward, zombie steps of just getting on with life. Kairos, though, is a sudden, opportune moment that comes barging into your life and demands attention. It’s the time for something.
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S33Memory champion explains how she memorizes 1,080 numbers in 30 minutes  What image does the number 693 produce in your mind? For Katie Kermode, who holds four world records in memory championships, the answer is a theatrical showman. She has a mental image handy for all numbers between 1 and 999. The number 522, for instance, makes her visualize red lentils “spilling everywhere.” And 711 conjures a cat. These images aren’t arbitrarily selected. If you’ve ever wondered how it’s humanly possible for someone to recite 70,030 digits of pi from memory, as Suresh Kumar Sharma did in 2015, the answer is that they’re almost certainly using a mnemonic technique — a strategy that helps you remember and retrieve long lists of information by simplifying it into more relatable or easily visualized concepts.
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S34Is spermidine a legitimate anti-aging supplement?  Spermidine is having a moment. The compound, which sounds like a portmanteau of “sperm” and “grenadine,” has exploded in popularity over the past few years, as indicated by Google search volume. Supplement sellers market it as an anti-aging molecule and peddle it in powder and pill form. As you might have surmised, spermidine is definitely not a mixture of male reproductive cells and a sugary red cocktail ingredient (though it was originally isolated from semen). Rather, it is a polyamine compound found mostly in protein-making ribosomes inside cells. In the body, it controls various metabolic processes necessary for proper cell function.
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S35You can respond to verbal instructions in your sleep  It is generally assumed that sleep is a state of unconsciousness, during which we disconnect from, and become completely unresponsive to, our surroundings. Recent research shows, however, that we can process information while we sleep, and that this sleep-learning can exert implicit influences on our behavior when we are awake.Most of this research demonstrates that the processing of sensory information during sleep occurs automatically and unconsciously. Several years ago, however, Başak Türker of the Paris Brain Institute and her colleagues showed that they could initiate two-way communication with lucid dreamers. Their findings, published in 2021, showed that lucid dreamers were able to answer yes-or-no questions, discriminate between sights, sounds and textures, and perform mathematical calculations during the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep.
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S36Bathrooms didn't exist until the 19th century  “Going to the bathroom” is a ubiquitous euphemism for using the toilet. But, as historian Alison K. Hoagland explains, the current norm of having the bathtub, toilet, and sink all in one room is a relatively new thing. Drawing on her own visits to old houses in the copper mining towns of northern Michigan, she tells the story of how working-class American homes gradually acquired bathrooms.For the upper classes, Hoagland writes, plumbed-in amenities arrived piecemeal in the nineteenth century. Sinks were installed first in bedrooms, as a replacement for the pitchers of water and basins that had previously been ferried in and out by servants. Bathtubs and toilets each got their own rooms—with toilets placed farther away from living spaces due to the smell.
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S37S38S39Firefox lost users during "failed" Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO  This week, Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker rose as a key figure in Google's defense against the Justice Department's monopoly claims. Providing a video deposition for the landmark trial, Baker testified that Mozilla's popular browser Firefox tried to switch from using Google as a default search engine but reverted back after a "failed" bet on Yahoo made it clear that Google was Firefox users' preferred search engine.
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S40S41S42S43S44S45S46Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe  This October, boys at Westfield High School in New Jersey started acting "weird," the Wall Street Journal reported. It took four days before the school found out that the boys had been using AI image generators to create and share fake nude photos of female classmates. Now, police are investigating the incident, but they're apparently working in the dark, because they currently have no access to the images to help them trace the source.
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S47A Billion-Dollar Bet on Local News  In 2012, I began as the new head of a school in Massachusetts. For many people from outside the region, the town and the school, both named Andover, are synonymous. Although the town had many other important institutions, the school was among its biggest employers and landowners, and has been central to its layout, history, and economy.When I arrived, the town’s weekly newspaper, The Andover Townsman, was produced in a bustling downtown newsroom. I read every article, got to know a few of the journeyman reporters, and occasionally heard from the editor, who would walk up the hill to sit in my office and chat about what was going on. The paper covered local politics, the school board, and the vibrant Little League program in town with energy. It wasn’t perfect, but it was important.
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S48New York Is Too Expensive to Even Visit  The city has cracked down on hotel construction and short-term rentals, with predictable results.Tourists are like bees: I don’t want a bunch of them circling around me, but I also don’t want them to disappear. It’s a delicate balance. Tourists stick out and may not observe local norms, which can inspire petty grumblings and genuine anger from locals. But they’re a sign that the city is doing something right. Show me a city without tourists, and I’ll show you a city in decline.
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S49Three Paths Toward the Meaning of Life  “Who in the world am I?” asks Alice in Wonderland. It turns out that business school has a useful theory to help you answer that.Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out.
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S50The Pandas at the National Zoo Became Part of My Family  In the summer of 2014, I was sitting at my desk when I received an email from my mom. “She was being so naughty today,” Mom wrote. “She was jumping off a platform onto Mommy’s head.” The “she” in this message, I knew, was referring to the giant panda Bao Bao, who had been born at the National Zoo the summer before and who had been the subject of our emails, text messages, and adoration for nearly a year.At the time, I was 28 years old, building a career in Washington, D.C. My mom was 58 and nearing the end of a second career in labor advocacy in Oklahoma. Her first had been to raise me and my brother. But an abnormal chest X-ray was a harbinger of tragedy for our family. Three years later, she would undergo a lung transplant. She died from complications just two years after that.
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S51The New Meaning of Tattoos  Like a lot of Millennials, Sarah Curley has some tattoos. The public-health educator, who lives in Madison, Wisconsin, has a bouquet of wildflowers and the Greek word sophrosyne (meaning “temperance”) on her right wrist; some song lyrics on her ribs; and the phases of the moon on her inner left forearm.Then, there is the 3 on the back of her neck, which represents her and her two sisters. In college, she went into a tattoo shop in Eau Claire, wanting a simply crafted number. “The artist—his style was very vivid, very detailed, and kind of on the macabre side,” she told me. Still, he was the guy available that day and she was impatient. “He did a good job—I mean, it was beautifully done,” she told me. But the tattoo ended up “thicker and more ornate than I would have designed for myself.”
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S52What the 2024 Election Is Really About for Trump Supporters  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.Twenty‐five years before my first book about Donald Trump was published, I wrote a paperback titled The Right to Bear Arms: The Rise of America’s New Militias. It was written after Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, and tracks the emerging anti-government movement that inspired McVeigh to make war on the federal law-enforcement agencies that he, and many other far‐right activists, believed posed a threat both to America and to themselves.
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S53Can the UAW Unionize Tesla?  For President Joe Biden, this week’s settlement of the United Auto Workers strike against the Big Three domestic automakers was a proof of concept for his contention that American workers can thrive in the transition to a clean-energy economy. But the most important test of that proposition is still ahead.The UAW’s tentative agreements with General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis (which sells cars under the Jeep, Chrysler, and Dodge brands) represent one of the biggest victories in decades for organized labor. After years of stagnating or declining wages for autoworkers, the contracts provide union members with a pay increase that could reach 30 percent by early 2028. This will provide Biden—who supported the strike almost unreservedly—a powerful example to rebut the frequent accusation from Donald Trump and other Republicans that the administration’s push for a rapid transition to electric vehicles will destroy the domestic auto industry and erase union jobs.
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S54How Much Can the Seasons Bend Before They Break?  In a strip of soil outside my house, between the sidewalk and the curb, there’s a living symbol of the seasons. In winter, it is a sleeping skeleton, branches bare except for the occasional mantle of ice or snow. In early spring, tufts of pale leaves burst from gray bark. By summer, its overlapping foliage is a vivid green, fluttering in the slightest breeze. Around this time every year, it gradually catches fire, tinges of red spreading through the cells of each leaf until they all glow. As the maple tree finishes reabsorbing its stores of chlorophyll and sealing itself against the coming chill, it allows its leaves to fall to the ground—and the cycle continues.The seasons have shaped humanity for millions of years. When our ancestors migrated across continents, dramatic fluctuations in the weather determined what was available to hunt and gather; demanded innovation in clothing, shelter, and transportation; and dictated agricultural practices. Perhaps the long, hard winters of glacial periods encouraged early humans to linger in caves, which became incubators of art and language. Since at least the time of ancient Greece, the four seasons have been a mainstay of Western art and culture. We still organize major holidays around the seasons and celebrate their ephemera, decorating our homes with daffodils, gourds, and simulated snow. And we keep drawing analogies between the progression of the seasons and the life spans of both individuals and empires. In short, we still depend on one of the oldest and most fundamental concepts in the history of human thought: that our environment changes in an orderly way, year after year.
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S55A Winter of Low COVID Vaccination Will Probably Seem Fine  Relatively speaking, 2023 has been the least dramatic year of COVID living to date. It kicked off with the mildest pandemic winter on record, followed by more than seven months of quietude. Before hospitalizations started to climb toward their September mini-spike, the country was in “the longest period we’ve had without a peak during the entire pandemic,” Shaun Truelove, an infectious-disease modeler at Johns Hopkins University, told me. So maybe it’s no surprise that, after a year of feeling normalish, most American adults simply aren’t that worried about getting seriously sick this coming winter.They also are not particularly eager to get this year’s COVID shot. According to a recent CDC survey, just 7 percent of adults and 2 percent of kids have received the fall’s updated shot, as of October 14; at least another 25 percent intends to nab a shot for themselves or their children but haven’t yet. And even those lackluster stats could be an overestimate, because they’re drawn from the National Immunization Surveys, which is done by phone and so reflects the answers of people willing to take federal surveyors’ calls. Separate data collected by the CDC, current as of October 24, suggest that only 12 million Americans—less than 4 percent of the population—have gotten the new vaccine, according to Dave Daigle, the associate director for communications at the CDC’s Center for Global Health.
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S56I Didn't Know I Could Feel So Tired  My daughter’s rare condition means she almost never sleeps through the night. But for years, I blamed my parenting.I can count on two hands the number of times my daughter has slept through the night since she was born nearly nine years ago. The day I brought her home from the hospital, I laid her down for a nap, tightly swaddled the way I’d been taught. She dozed off quickly, but a few minutes later, she began to cry. I checked her diaper, offered milk, and rocked her, but nothing worked. She cried harder, arching her back and wagging the fragile egg of her head to and fro. This went on for an agonizing 20 minutes, until abruptly her eyes fluttered open and the crying stopped. She yawned, stretched, and then drifted back into a peaceful rest.
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S57Winners of the 2023 Nature Conservancy Photo Contest  The winning and honored images in this year’s Nature Conservancy photography competition were just announced. Entries from more than 80,000 individual photographers in 191 different countries and territories were judged across 12 different categories. Contest organizers were once again kind enough to share some of their top images with us. The captions were written by the photographers and lightly edited for style. Wolf Trinity. First Place, Mammals. Here you can see three Indian wolves leaping through the air, showcasing their enthusiasm and companionship. Photographed in Bhigwan, Maharashtra, India. #
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S58The Man Working to Keep the Water On in Gaza  How one engineer in Gaza is trying to protect his family and his community at a time when water is running outNumbers are one way to make the destruction of war legible: number of hostages, number of children killed, number of buildings destroyed, number of aid trucks that made it across the Egyptian border. For Marwan Bardawil, who lives in Gaza, the unit of peril he tracks is cubic meters per hour. Bardawil is a water engineer with the Palestinian Water Authority overseeing Gaza. And these days he is measuring, in cubic meters per hour, the quantity of water flowing through the pipes that, in prewar time, carried 10 percent of Gazans’ drinking water—pipes that are controlled by Israel. Right now, with other water sources dwindling, those pipes are Gaza’s lifeline. “The people are really in need of each drop of water,” he told me.
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S59WeWork's Perfect Storm  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.WeWork, once the most valuable start-up in the country, is crumbling. Maybe it shouldn’t have gotten so big to begin with.
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S61Jungkook of BTS Is Chasing His Pop-Star Dream  When my video call with Jungkook begins, he has the look of someone roused too early from a good sleep. On camera, the youngest member of the South Korean pop group BTS is wearing a black zip-up, hood pulled over his head in a way that suggests he’d enjoy a nap—a little surprising, given his reputation among fans as an indefatigable “energizer bunny.” We’re less than two weeks away from the release of his first solo album, Golden, and his days are packed with dance practices, rehearsals, video shoots, interviews with overseas press. The exhausting demands of promotion aren’t new to him—he’s been with BTS for more than a decade, racking up best-selling albums, Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s, sold-out stadium concerts, and world records. But this is Jungkook’s first time releasing a full record on his own, and it happens to all be in English.At first, Jungkook felt conflicted about this. “I was thinking, Is it okay for a Korean to not release Korean songs at all?” the 26-year-old singer told me through an interpreter, from his entertainment company’s office in Seoul. BTS achieved global popularity while making music almost entirely in their native language, with the exception of a few English-language hits such as “Dynamite” and “Butter.” At the same time, the whole point of his solo effort was to challenge himself—and exclusively singing in English seemed like one good way to do that. Yet he hopes to connect with people on a level deeper than language. “When you think about pop stars, they’re these really cool singers that you’d look up to since your childhood,” he said. “Of course, things have been changing a lot. But I still have that pop-star image stuck in my head since my childhood. And I want to be a cool guy that gives off that amazing vibe.”
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S62Photos of the Week:  A Halloween parade in New York City, All Saints’ Day observations in Lithuania, fall colors in Germany, continued destruction in Gaza, a foggy sunrise over the Great Wall of China, a bodybuilding championship in Kyrgyzstan, scenes from the 2023 Pan Am Games in Chile, and much more A woman walks the grounds in costume as revelers celebrate Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California, on October 28, 2023. #
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S63Why spoken word poetry is so much more than a poetry reading | Psyche Ideas  is a Technē-funded doctoral researcher at Loughborough University London. Her research explores spoken word poetry, the communities that are created around the art form and the social value it brings to participants.Imagine finding yourself in the audience of a spoken word open-mic event. You’re captivated by the performer on stage as they lay bare their deepest thoughts to the room, exposing their vulnerability:
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S64Did Michelangelo Sketch These Drawings in a Secret Room Below a Florence Chapel? /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/77/16/7716b7ed-ab77-4cc2-968f-22ccc10f3136/gettyimages-1766929468.jpg) For the first time, visitors will get to see the intricate sketches that some scholars attribute to the artistIn 1975, Paolo Dal Poggetto, director of Florence’s Medici Chapels Museum, was hoping to create a new exit for visitors to the site when he happened upon a trapdoor. Hidden under a wardrobe, it led down into a forgotten room once used to store coal until it was sealed in 1955.
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S65S66Millions of Sterile Fruit Flies Will Soon Be Dropped on Los Angeles /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/86/5a/865a9204-643d-4a2d-9d0c-3325319262e0/1317084-ppt.jpg) The influx of insects is meant to combat the invasive medfly, after officials identified two of the produce-destroying creatures in the areaIn October, agricultural officials in California discovered two fruit flies in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, prompting a 69-square-mile quarantine. Now, officials plan to release more than two million sterile male fruit flies into the city in an attempt to eradicate the insects.
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S67These Large, Flesh-Eating Lampreys Lived 160 Million Years Ago /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/4d/bc/4dbcf28c-1a83-4a52-9974-af75be680f0d/2.jpeg) Paleontologists in China recently unearthed the fossilized remains of two new species of lamprey, a group of jawless fish that dates back 360 million yearsPaleontologists in China have unearthed the 160-million-year-old fossilized remains of two new lamprey species. Their discovery—published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications—helps fill a gap in the fossil record and offers insights into how these eerie, predatory creatures evolved.
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S68S69S704 Phrases That Build a Culture of Curiosity  Curiosity is a powerful practice to infuse into a company’s culture. But managers often limit their definition of curiosity to simply a way to get information. Curiosity, though, can be a more expansive practice — it is a force for connection. We need to move away from “shallow curiosity” and embrace “deep curiosity,” where you unearth stories, values, experiences, and feelings. When conversations go beneath the surface in this way, it can strengthen work relationships, foster a better understanding of yourself as a leader, and help you to navigate conflict or anxiety in the office.
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