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 S65300,000 Tanzanians were killed by Germany during the Maji-Maji uprising - it was genocide and should be called that   Political actors in Tanzania have in recent years demanded compensation from Germany for colonial atrocities committed in the early 20th century. In early 2017, the National Assembly of Tanzania stopped short of putting the label of genocide on the atrocities committed by German troops during the Maji-Maji uprising (1905–1907).During a visit to Tanzania recently, the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, asked for “forgiveness” and expressed “shame” for the colonial atrocities committed in what was then German East Africa. This was in reference to the killing of up to 300,000 people during the Maji-Maji uprising.
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S25 Ways to Develop Talent for an Unpredictable Future  We may not know what tomorrow’s jobs will look like, but we can safely assume that when people are more curious, emotionally intelligent, resilient, driven, and intelligent, they will generally be better equipped to learn what is needed to perform those jobs, and provide whatever human value technology cannot replace. Rather than betting on specialists or forcing people into specific niches, organizations need to focus on expanding people’s talents. What we need is not just re-skilling or up-skilling, but pre-skilling: that is, being able to future-proof talent and reinvent peoples’ careers before we even know what tomorrow’s jobs and in-demand skills will be. This article makes five broad recommendations for preparing your workforce for an uncertain future.
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S3Donkkaseu: An old-school Korean pork chop  Su Scott, author of the recently published cookbook, Rice Table: Korean Recipes and Stories to Feed the Soul, fondly remembers her first taste of donkkaseu, a thin slice of lean pork, typically cut from the loin, breaded and plunged into seething hot oil until golden and crunchy, then drizzled with a brown sauce similar to thick gravy.Donkkaseu is often compared to Japanese tonkatsu, a panko-coated pork cutlet that's served sliced, though the Korean version is served whole. Scott remembers her first donkkaseu being blanketed under "thick, rich brown sauce" which, she writes is "loosely based on demi-glace”, a reduction of beef or veal stock used as the base of countless French sauces, with a perfect touch of acidity. The fried pork shared the plate with cold macaroni salad and shredded cabbage swirled with vinegary ketchup and mayonnaise.
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S4Plants are likely to absorb more CO? in a changing climate than we thought - here's why  The world’s vegetation has a remarkable ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the air and store it as biomass. In doing so, plants slow down climate change since the CO₂ they take up does not contribute to global warming. But what will happen under more advanced climate change? How will vegetation respond to projected changes in atmospheric CO₂, temperatures and rainfall? Our study, published today in Science Advances, shows plants might take up more CO₂ than previously thought.
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S6Kenya's stock market has suffered steepest losses in the world: an expert view on why and how to reverse it  University of the Witwatersrand provides support as a hosting partner of The Conversation AFRICA.Kenya’s stock market recently suffered steep losses, making it the worst performing globally. The weak performance has persisted: the Nairobi Securities Exchange 20-share index stood at about 1420 on 10 November 2023, having fallen from 1509 on 29 September 2023, a drop of 6% over the six-week period. In better days, the index has risen above the psychological 5000 mark: for example, it was 5491 on 23 February 2015.
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S7After Forty Years of Democracy, Argentina Faces a Defining Presidential Runoff  Argentina is just a day away from a Presidential runoff election that may bring to power the most bizarre candidate whom the nation has produced since democracy was restored there, exactly forty years ago. Javier Milei came in second in the first round of voting, on October 22nd, but several polls place him as the favorite for Sunday. Even if he doesn’t win, his political rise is a troubling comment on the state of the country, bringing it into the front ranks of the battle between democracy and autocracy that is currently sweeping much of the world.Milei is a fifty-three-year-old economist who was practically unknown to the Argentinean public before 2015, when his appearance as a panelist on a popular late-night TV show immediately doubled its ratings and he became a regular guest. A self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist and libertarian, he called for shrinking the government, eliminating or cutting many taxes, and shuttering the Central Bank. On the show, he was often irate, berating his fellow-panelists and cursing. In the years since, Milei has disparaged women’s rights (“I will not apologize for having a penis,” he said, and promised to shutter the Ministry of Women, Genders, and Diversity) at the time of Ni Una Menos (Not One Less), the most powerful feminist movement in the country’s history, and has supported a total ban on abortion after it finally became legal, in 2021. He has also been a climate-change denier during a catastrophic drought in an agricultural economy; a sympathizer of the military dictatorship in the country of Nunca Más, the slogan that represents the commitment to never again return to an authoritarian regime; and a detractor of the first, and very popular, Argentinean Pope, in a majority-Catholic country. Wearing his hair styled like Wolverine’s, he looked and sounded unlike anyone Argentines had seen on TV. He provided a good spectacle.
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S8Rejected Bachelorette-Party Themes  Totally psyched to celebrate Rach and her wedding. Rach is really special to me (as I’m sure she is to all of you!) so I wanted to do something super unique for her bachelorette weekend. I loved everyone’s theme ideas (“Dazed and Engaged” is freakin’ funny, Em!) but I wanted to try to come up with a theme that isn’t plastered all over Pinterest for our Rach. So no more suggesting “Last Rodeo” or “Last Bash in Nash” or “Vegas before Vows,” and, Mel, absolutely no “Same Penis Forever”—what is this, 2010? KK, love y’all! Let me know what you think of these themes.Derek and I are absolutely obsessed with the show “Alone” on the History Channel, and I know Rach and her boo love it, too. I was thinking we could all fly to Vancouver, do a fun night of drinks in the city, and then the next day we could each get individually choppered out to our drop site in northern Vancouver Island. Then we’ll see how long we can last in the wilderness! Hunting (like single Rach did for a good man), building shelter (the way Rach and her guy will build a life together), and just surviving (all my married beyotches know what’s up). The thing I love about this option is that you won’t come out of it bloated from drinking all weekend. In fact, we’ll all probably drop a lot of weight—perfect for fitting into those bridesmaid dresses! If we decide to go this route, please let me know ASAP what supplies you’ll be bringing along. Everyone gets only ten items from the list I’m attaching to this e-mail. I won’t tell you what to pick, but if you don’t bring a flint, you’re an idiot.
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S940 Years Ago, a Cult Classic Thriller Delivered a Shocking Twist That's Still Debated Today  For every iconic slasher classic of the ’80s, there were a dozen hokey cash-ins easily identified by ridiculous titles like The Slumber Party Massacre and Chopping Mall. And then, unique among all this forgettable crud, there was Sleepaway Camp.On its surface, the 1983 movie looks very much like your typical D-list slasher. But it stood apart from the decade’s other cornball horror flicks, garnering sequels and a cult following thanks to its unique tone and surprising, controversial, and heavily analyzed ending.
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S1015 Years Ago, One Horror Game Changed Multiplayer Forever  Amid an onslaught of zombie pop culture, only a few titles managed to turn the trend into something truly revolutionary for gaming. And Left 4 Dead stands at the top of that list. The game redefined multiplayer as we know it and remains a Valve masterpiece. The setup for Left 4 Dead is simple, deceptively so. Four players make their way through a map while fending off seemingly endless hordes of zombies. There’s just one goal: survive.
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S11The Biggest Dystopian Thriller of the Year Makes One Rare Mistake  Eight years after its fourth installment hit theaters, the Hunger Games franchise has returned. Rather than continuing the story of Katniss Everdeen, though, the series’ latest installment, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, is a prequel set 60 years before the events of its first four films. It’s based on author Suzanne Collins’ 2020 novel of the same name, and both the new film and its source material attempt to offer a closer look at the threat of authoritarianism than even the original Hunger Games movies and books.It does so by telling the quasi-origin story of the series’ primary villain, Coriolanus Snow, who isn’t a ruthless dictator when The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes begins, but an ambitious 18-year-old boy desperate to prove himself. The film, like the book that came before it, offers a compelling new perspective on many of the Hunger Games franchise’s long-running themes of freedom and oppression.
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S12Elon Musk's Starship Megarocket Reaches Space But Explodes In Second Test Flight  SpaceX attempted a second launch of its Starship rocket on Saturday morning. The rocket reached space for the first time today, but its Super Heavy booster, which propelled it to space, exploded shortly after separation from the rocket. The Starship rocket itself lost contact and is presumed to have exploded as well. The rocket is currently the world’s most powerful one ever built, and the company hopes it could carry astronauts back to the Moon and eventually to Mars.In the uncrewed test, which was the system’s second trial, the Starship rocket peaked at about 90 miles above Earth before it lost contact. SpaceX engineers say they think an “automated detonation occurred.” The Super Heavy booster also blew up shortly after it separated from the Starship rocket in what’s called a “rapid unscheduled disassembly.” In other words: Both the booster and the rocket blew up.
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S13Should I Leave the Lights on For My Pet? A Veterinarian Reveals the Unwanted Answer  There’s just something about leaving your beloved animals in a dark, empty house that feels wrong. Growing up, I watched my mom always leave the lights on for our cat and dog whenever we left them home alone. She insisted she did this for their comfort, but my dad always said it was really for hers. There’s just something about leaving your beloved animals in a dark, empty house that feels wrong, but how do they actually fare?
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S14How To Use The Powerful New Tactical Stance In 'Modern Warfare 3'  Everyone likes to stand out. Part of the joy of the modern gaming era is the explosion of customization options at our fingertips. It’s increasingly easy to express yourself exactly how you want no matter what you’re playing. And if you’re playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 that expression is going to come across in your preferred choice of weapon and, more importantly, that weapon’s style. Standing in the way of unlocking the cool skins you desire are lots and lots of challenges, some more vexing than others. Challenges tied to the use of MW3’s new tactical stance can be particularly confusing, especially given the total lack of tutorials or any explanation from the game. Fortunately, we’re here to help you bridge the gap. Here’s everything you need to know about the tactical stance in Modern Warfare 3.
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S15When Will Fusion Power Our World? Physicists Might Finally Have An Answer  Scientists have been chasing the dream of harnessing the reactions that power the Sun since the dawn of the atomic era. For the better part of a century now, astronomers and physicists have known that a process called thermonuclear fusion has kept the Sun and the stars shining for millions or even billions of years. And ever since that discovery, they’ve dreamed of bringing that energy source down to Earth and using it to power the modern world.
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S16The 50 Cheapest, Easiest Home Upgrades That'll Save You So Much Money  Don’t run away when you see the word “upgrade” because this list is completely free of expensive home decor pieces or overpriced flooring. Instead, these easy-to-use pieces prove that you can add a few budget-friendly upgrades around your home, and they’ll actually save you a ton of money. Because sometimes, not having to buy a new sofa or spend too much on your power bill feels like the best home upgrade ever — especially when they’re so easy to install or work into your routine.You’ll never lose an entire pack of batteries in a drawer or your closet with this clear-top battery organizer. It gives you tidy little spots for every single pack of batteries — even the huge ones that are usually a pain to store. You can also pull out the battery tester to check them every time you grab a battery. It’s a simple solution to an annoying problem, which is why this organizer has a 4.6-star rating on Amazon.
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S1750 Genius, Cheap Things on Amazon That Are Blowing Peoples' Minds  You can find cheap products just about anywhere, but it’s hard to find budget-friendly products that actually work. From genius cleaning tools to useful workout accessories and clever home products, you’ll find everything you’ve ever wanted and things you didn’t even know you needed with low price points and high ratings — prepare to have your mind blown.Use this reusable baguette bag to lock in the fresh-from-the-bakery texture. You’ll reduce waste in your home and end up saving cash by not having to constantly buy more bread. And to make it even better, the bag is made completely out of recycled bottles. It’s also freezer- and washing machine-safe.
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S18Rick and Morty Are About to Face Their Greatest Challenge Yet  After an epic confrontation against his white whale nemesis Rick Prime in “Unmortricken,” Rick and Morty’s protagonist Rick Sanchez finds himself at a crossroads in Season 7 Episode 6. What does life look like now that he’s lost the purpose that’s driven him for years? He got revenge against his wife’s murderer so now all he has left is his big brain and a motley assortment of Smith family members — mostly from different dimensions.Here’s everything you need to know about Rick and Morty Season 7 Episode 6, including the release date and time, episode title, teaser trailer, and more.
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S19Netflix Just Quietly Released the Best TV Episode of the Year  Netflix releases so many new TV shows and movies on a weekly basis that it’s easy for certain titles, no matter how worth your time they may be, to get lost in the shuffle. As a result, while some of Netflix’s legitimately great originals have been saved from the all-consuming nature of its production mill by online word-of-mouth and positive buzz, there are just as many films and series that have remained underseen and underappreciated. Fortunately, it doesn’t seem like that fate is destined to befall the streaming service’s latest adult animated TV series.The show in question, Blue Eye Samurai, ranks firmly as Netflix’s best animated TV effort since 2021’s Arcane. Like that latter series, Blue Eye Samurai is a bold and ambitious TV show. It’s immensely cinematic in a way that very few animated TV series ever manage to be, and it’s so consistently thrilling and visually stunning that it’ll inevitably bring to mind action movie classics like Kill Bill Vol. 1, Lady Snowblood, and Yojimbo.
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S20Our Brains Completely Distort How Time Actually Happens --  People often only appreciate time when they have an experience that makes them realize how limited it is.Time is one of those things that most of us take for granted. We spend our lives portioning it into work time, family time, and me time. Rarely do we sit and think about how and why we choreograph our lives through this strange medium. A lot of people only appreciate a time when they have an experience that makes them realize how limited it is.
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S21How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting  To prevent holding a meeting in which participants are unprepared, veer off track, or waste the team’s time, you should create an effective meeting agenda that sets clear expectations for what needs to occur before and during the meeting. Seek input from your team members to ensure the agenda reflects their needs and keeps them engaged. If your entire team is meeting, then the issues discussed should affect everyone present and require the whole team’s effort to solve. Addressing topics that don’t impact everyone at the meeting wastes individuals’ valuable time. Another tactic for creating a better meeting agenda is listing topics as questions to be answered. Instead of writing “office space reallocation,” try “Under what conditions should we reallocate office space?” Let your team know if the purpose of the discussion is to share information, seek input on a decision, or make a decision. And indicate on the agenda who is leading each discussion so that they can prepare. These tips, and five others, will help your team stay focused in meetings.
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S22S23S24S25S26S27S28S29A love letter to timekeeping: How clocks have shaped our world  It goes without saying that a watchmaker would be fascinated by watches. I started my training in the art of traditional artisanal watchmaking 20 years ago – using centuries-old techniques to create little machines that can tell us the time of day. Horology – the art and science of timekeeping – is a world of extremes. There is a radical contrast between the microscopic components on my work bench and their connection to the vastness of the Universe around us.To mark the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who, we're exploring the big questions about time, including the science of time travel, how clocks have shaped humanity, and even the mind-bending temporal consequences of flying into a black hole. Read and watch more from Time: The Ultimate Guide.
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S30Short Naps Have Major Benefits for Your Mind  I have a confession: I nap. Most days, after lunch, you will find me snoozing. I used to keep quiet about it. Other countries have strong napping traditions, but here in the U.S. it is often equated with laziness. In 2019 a U.S. federal agency even announced a ban on sleeping in government buildings.I'm going public about my nap habit now because, despite what bureaucrats may think, sleep scientists are increasingly clear about the power of the nap. That shift is part of the relatively recent recognition that the quality and duration of sleep are public health issues, says physiologist Marta Garaulet of the University of Murcia in Spain.
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S31Poem: 'In Conversation with Elizabeth Fulhame'  She has a map spread at her feet, a lit carpet of gold citiesand silver rivers, each tributary wire-drawn with the tipof a squirrel's tail. Everything is very damp.It seems like a dream, even in the dream. Saucers of silkline the sills like a grand banquet for clothes moths.The round table (pocked with scorch marks) throngs
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S32New Models Could Predict Climate Change Effects with Unprecedented Detail  Scientists have proposed a network of supercomputing centers that would focus on local climate impactsScientists have used computer models to predict global warming's implications for more than five decades. As climate change intensifies, these increasingly precise models require more and more computing power. For a decade the best simulations have been able to predict climate change effects down to a 25-square-kilometer area. Now a new modeling project could tighten the resolution to one kilometer, helping policymakers and city planners spot the neighborhoods—or even individual buildings—most vulnerable to extreme weather events.
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S33The real gold of our economy is in our hands  The vast majority of our time at work is spent trudging through redundant and outdated workflows, says operations visionary Salvatore Cali. Laying out the most common time-wasting pitfalls, he urges policy leaders and businesses to reevaluate what they ask of both employees and consumers. "By rethinking the true purpose of each task, you will discover what is waste and what is the real gold of your company: the creation of value," says Cali.
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S34The Legion Go Could Have Been a Great Handheld. Windows Wrecked It  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 WIREDSince the Nintendo Switch dropped in 2017, the gaming industry has chased the dream of bringing as many games as possible into a handheld form factor. The Steam Deck (and its recent iterative upgrade) have come the closest, but most other attempts have been plagued with massive problems. In the chaotic battle for third place, Lenovo’s Legion Go makes a compelling case.
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S35SpaceX's Starship Lost Shortly After Launch of Second Test Flight  SpaceX's Starship failed its test flight this morning when the automated flight termination system triggered, and engineers lost contact with the craft about 10 minutes into its journey. This marks the company's second attempt at sending a Starship on a near-orbital trip, a 90-minute voyage that would have gone almost around the world. An initial test flight also failed in April, exploding four minutes after liftoff and flinging debris throughout the surrounding area.As before, today's launch took place at SpaceX's Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas. But this time, all of the 33 Raptor engines appeared to ignite properly, and the Starship's stage separation from the Super Heavy booster worked more or less as planned. The vehicle survived max q, or the point in its ascent when it's under the most pressure from the atmosphere and its own velocity. About three minutes after launch, the Starship successfully separated from the Super Heavy booster, after which the booster exploded, something SpaceX officials typically refer to with the euphemism "rapid unscheduled disassembly," or RUD.
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S36The Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry  If you work at a spy agency tasked with surveilling the communications of more than 160 million people, it’s probably a good idea to make sure all the data in your possession stays off the open internet. Just ask Bangladesh’s National Telecommunication Monitoring Center, which security researchers found connected to a leaky database that exposed everything from names and email addresses to cell phone numbers and bank account details. The data was likely just used for testing purposes, but WIRED confirmed at least some of the data is linked to real people.A fight is brewing in the United States Congress over the future of a powerful surveillance program. Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire at the end of the year. With the December 31 deadline quickly approaching, members of Congress and civil liberties groups are criticizing Section 702 for enabling the “incidental” surveillance of Americans’ communications and “abuses” by the FBI. While a privacy-preserving update to the program has been introduced in Congress, some 702 critics remain concerned that lawmakers will push through reauthorization using other, “must-pass” legislation.
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S37Sam Altman's Sudden Exit Sends Shockwaves Through OpenAI and Beyond  More details of Sam Altman's sudden ousting as CEO of OpenAI have emerged, with several senior researchers quitting the company, and executives and investors from across the industry expressing shock and confusion at what is increasingly being perceived as a board coup.Hours after Sam Altman was booted from the company by its board, Greg Brockman, another OpenAI cofounder and the company's chairman, quit in protest. Brockman later posted details of Altman's removal suggesting that the company's chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, had orchestrated the effort to remove the CEO.
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S38What Sam Altman's Firing Means for the Future of OpenAI  Sam Altman always insisted that he wasn’t the most important person at OpenAI despite being its CEO. As he traveled the world this year meeting world leaders—the world’s unofficial ambassador of AI—Altman would soft-pedal his role, even as he stole glances at his phone to keep up with what was happening in OpenAI’s luxe San Francisco offices.“We have an incredibly great team here that can do a lot of things, so mostly, I defer to them,” he told me in May when I asked him how the company ran in his absence. “But some things only a CEO can do—some HR thing of the moment, or you have to kill some project, or something with a major partner.” Those items would accumulate on his phone and at the end of the day he’d bat out responses. Then he would go back to speechifying, meeting developers, and taking tea with prime ministers.
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S39Ancient Buddhist painting can help you understand the art of Zen  For months, conservators at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco were hard at work fashioning a display case for Six Persimmons, the 13th-century ink painting at the center of their upcoming exhibit, “The Heart of Zen.” Its owner, the Kyoto National Museum in Japan, had provided the conservators with an extensive list of requirements concerning not just the material and measurements of the case itself, but the quality of the air inside it.Even to seasoned museum workers, the demands of the Kyoto team appear extreme, bordering on unreasonable. That is, until you consider the history of the art involved. Painted on a scroll by the famed Chinese monk Muqi, Six Persimmons is as fragile as it is coveted. For centuries, this minimalist still life of autumn fruit was owned by a wealthy Japanese family that only displayed it during their exclusive tea ceremonies. After ending up in the hands of Daitoku-ji, a Buddhist temple in Kyoto, it was moved to the National Museum — not to be displayed, but stored. “Heart of Zen” not only marks the first time Muqi’s masterpiece will be shown to the public since 2019, when it was exhibited at the Miho Museum, but also the first time it will be shown outside Japan.
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S40"Iron Man" material made from DNA and glass is 4x stronger than steel  One of the cool things about science fiction is that it can inspire real science and innovation. Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea emboldened underwater exploration. William Gibson’s Neuromancer influenced the development of the internet, while Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash popularized the concept of the metaverse. Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy introduced the idea of e-books — in addition to giving us the answer to life, the universe, and everything.Who knows what other real advances science fiction will successfully inspire? Flying cars? Space cities? Iron Man suits?
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S41How an entire continent went missing  A continent the width of the U.S. has been missing for 155 million years. Scientists have long puzzled whether this chunk of northwest Australia has been either floating somewhere unseen, resting on the ocean floor, or slowly fusing to the underbelly of a larger landmass. Modern mapping largely ruled out the first two theories, but let’s say a 3,000-mile slab of terra firma did get lodged beneath another continent. Experts believe they would have at least been able to find some trace of it. Really, how could something so large just completely vanish?Furthermore, if we can just lose a massive piece of land like that, that could mean scientists have been completely wrong about Pangea and our understanding of the Earth’s geological history in general.
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S42S43Lotus Eletre R is a 900-horsepower SUV that weirdly slays the competition  The Lotus Eletre R is an electric SUV with 900 hp (671 kW), a curb weight of approximately 5,820 lbs (2,640 kg), and a six-figure sticker price. If you’re a longstanding fan of the British brand—look around, is there a small model of a race car within sight or Colin Chapman biography on your bookshelf?—that opening sentence likely causes some distress. If you are like most Americans, however, a mention of "Lotus" is just as likely to conjure up thoughts of gardening as grands prix.
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S44S45S46Globalism vs. the scientific revolution  How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin within a few centuries of European history in which the features of modern science—experiments, models and laws, peer review—were gradually aggregated into a formal process of organized discovery.
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S47Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI  On Friday, OpenAI fired CEO Sam Altman in a surprise move that led to the resignation of President Greg Brockman and three senior scientists. The move also blindsided key investor and minority owner Microsoft, reportedly making CEO Satya Nadella furious. As Friday night wore on, reports emerged that the ousting was likely orchestrated by Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever over concerns about the safety and speed of OpenAI's tech deployment.
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S48The FCC says new rules will curb SIM swapping. I'm pessimistic  After years of inaction, the FCC this week said that it's finally going to protect consumers against a scam that takes control of their cell phone numbers by deceiving employees who work for mobile carriers. While commissioners congratulated themselves for the move, there’s little reason yet to believe it will stop a practice that has been all too common over the past decade.
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S49S50OpenAI board attempts to hit "Ctrl-Z" in talks with Altman to return as CEO  Just over a day since the surprise firing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that sent shock waves through the tech industry, the OpenAI board is reportedly engaging in discussions with Altman to potentially return as chief executive of the company, according to The Verge, citing people familiar with the matter. The outlet says that Altman is "ambivalent" about returning and would want significant changes to how the company is run.
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S51The Women Who Saw 9/11 Coming  Many of the CIA analysts who spotted the earliest signs of al-Qaeda’s rise were female. They had trouble getting their warnings heard.One day toward the end of the 20th century, John Rizzo, a career lawyer at the Central Intelligence Agency, found himself chatting with Jack Downing—a former Marine and stalwart Cold Warrior who had been brought out of retirement to oversee the clandestine service.
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S52It's Not That Hard to Stop Birds From Crashing Into Windows  This article originally appeared in longer form in bioGraphic. Every spring, as the daylight lengthens and the weather warms, rivers of birds flow north across the Midwest. They fly high and at night, navigating via the stars and their own internal compasses: kinglets and creepers, woodpeckers and warblers, sparrows and shrikes.They come from as far as Central America, bound for Minnesotan wetlands, Canadian boreal forests, and Arctic tundra. They migrate over towns and prairies and cornfields; they soar over the black tongue of Lake Michigan in such dense aggregations that they register on radar. Upon crossing the water, many encounter Chicago, where they alight in whatever greenery they can find—office parks and rooftop shrubs and scraggly street trees and the sparse landscaping outside apartment-complex lobbies.
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S53What Humans and Nature Get From Each Other  It’s not a coincidence that America is getting both lonelier and more indoorsy, an Atlantic writer argues.This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.
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S54Another 'Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly' for Elon Musk  The second liftoff of Starship, SpaceX’s giant new rocket-and-spaceship system, went beautifully this morning, the fire of the engines matching the orange glow of the sunrise in South Texas. The spaceship soared over the Gulf Coast, with all 33 engines in the rocket booster pulsing. High in the sky, the vehicles separated seamlessly—through a technique that SpaceX debuted during this flight—and employees let out wild cheers. The booster soon exploded, but the flight could survive that. What mattered was that Starship was still flying. It could still coast along the edge of space, and then plunge back to Earth, crashing into the Pacific Ocean off of the coast of Hawaii, as SpaceX planned.But then, as SpaceX mission control waited to hear a signal from Starship, there was only silence. Something had gone wrong after the ship shut off its engines in preparation to coast. The self-destruct system kicked in, and Starship blew itself up, according to SpaceX’s commentators, who were narrating the livestream. A “rapid unscheduled disassembly,” as SpaceXers call it.
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S55Trump's Apocalyptic Rhetoric  Former President Donald Trump has never been moderate in rhetoric and action. But there’s a real sense out there that, as he comes under further legal pressure, he’s become more apocalyptic: During a Veterans Day speech, echoing the language of authoritarian dictators, he described his political foes as “vermin.”Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, a rash of angry altercations erupted this week. Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from California, allegedly elbowed fellow GOP Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee in the kidneys, and Senator Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, challenged a hearing witness to a fight.
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S56S57AI Can Help You Ask Better Questions -- and Solve Bigger Problems  Most companies still view AI rather narrowly, as a tool that alleviates the costs and inefficiencies of repetitive human labor and increasing organizations’ capacity to produce, process, and analyze piles and piles of data. But when paired with “soft” inquiry-related skills it can help people ask better questions and be more innovative.
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S58How to Make Great Decisions, Quickly  As a new leader, learning to make good decisions without hesitation and procrastination is a capability that can set you apart from your peers. While others vacillate on tricky choices, your team could be hitting deadlines and producing the type of results that deliver true value. That’s something that will get you — and them — noticed. Here are a few of a great decision:
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S59How billion-dollar store makeovers are taking on the 'retail apocalypse'  At JCPenney stores across the US, shoppers may notice a fresh paint smell, better lighting and shiny new signage – with even more improvements planned for the coming months. Centralised checkout counters are replacing registers once spread across multiple departments, and posters promise a "new and improved shopping experience" once the remodels are complete. Change is afoot at the retailer, and not just in the form of upgraded carpet (though that, too, is on the list).The updates are part of a $1bn (£808m) investment the company announced in late August – a pricey effort to reinvigorate the brand following a high profile 2020 bankruptcy and subsequent restructuring. The funds will be partly dedicated to slicker technology and improved e-commerce features, but much of the focus remains on JCPenney's more than 650 physical stores.
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S60After WeWork's bankruptcy, what is the future of coworking?  WeWork as we know it is gone. Once valued at $47bn (£38bn), on 6 Nov, the global coworking company filed for Chapter 11 in New Jersey, US. With the news, its share price quickly tumbled, leaving the business valued at less than $50m (£41m). Although some locations will remain open, WeWork has begun closing offices around the world.The company's collapse has been spectacular, in part due to the riveting story of its rise and fall, documented on screen in a 2022 miniseries with Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto. Its name looms large in the public imagination, where "WeWork" has become practically synonymous with "coworking", like "Kleenex" to "tissue" or "Google" to "search".
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S61Why your balsamic vinegar is likely fake  From an accompaniment to French fries at the local burger joint to hint of acid added to Michelin-starred dishes, balsamic vinegar is one of the most recognisable condiments on the global table. And yet, many have never tasted the real "black gold" of Modena, Italy. It takes 12 years to make the best, aceto balsamico tradizionale (traditional balsamic vinegar), and at least 25 to make the finest, extra Vecchio.Because of traditional balsamic vinegar's painstaking artisanal production process, supplies are limited, and it tends to be rather pricey. And so, as the global demand for it has risen since the early 1980s, a market for imitation balsamic vinegar and cheaper products has exploded. In one instance in March 2019, a dramatic Interpol operation in northern Italy seized 9,000 tonnes of crushed grapes intended to be made into fake balsamic vinegar.
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S62Alien chic to clown shoes: 10 of the most absurd style trends of 2023  Last year, an abundance of attention-grabbing sartorial trends, spanning Barbiecore through to big suits, proved that, after two years spent largely indoors in loungewear, we were ready to embrace more eccentric means of expressing ourselves sartorially.And this year, it seems, we've only gathered steam, gravitating towards the absurd, the alien, the attention-grabbing and the flesh-flashing. Here, as 2023 draws to a close, we reflect back on some of its most extreme trends, both on and off the runway, from the playful and provocative to the clownish and controversial.
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S63Why Doctor Who is the ultimate British show  Sixty years old this year, Doctor Who is perceived around the globe as one of the greatest British TV shows ever made. But what's really at the heart of Doctor Who that makes it quite so quintessentially British?Journalist, and self-confessed Whovian, Dan John delves into the stories, the costumes, the characters and the origins of Doctor Who to unravel the very British DNA of the world's longest running science-fiction TV show. Interviews with Alexandra Benedict, a writer of official Doctor Who audio dramas, and Chris Oates, a political analyst and writer of the essay Doctor Who and the New British Empire, reveal how the show has become deeply ingrained in the language of British cultural identity itself.
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S64Black November: remembering Uganda's massacre of the opposition three years on  November marks a sombre anniversary in Uganda’s recent political history. In 2020, the east African country’s leading opposition politician, Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, was arrested. He was on the campaign trail ahead of the 2021 presidential elections. Mass demonstrations demanding the release of the popular musician-turned-presidential-candidate broke out in and around the capital, Kampala. Over two days, security agents of the regime of Yoweri Museveni – in power since 1986 – cracked down on the protests.
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S66S67Unthanksgiving Day: A celebration of Indigenous resistance to colonialism, held yearly at Alcatraz  Each year on the fourth Thursday of November, when many people start to take stock of the marathon day of cooking ahead, Indigenous people from diverse tribes and nations gather at sunrise in San Francisco Bay. Their gathering is meant to mark a different occasion – the Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Sunrise Ceremony, an annual celebration that spotlights 500 years of Native resistance to colonialism in what was dubbed the “New World.” Held on the traditional lands of the Ohlone people, the gathering is a call for remembrance and for future action for Indigenous people and their allies.
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S68Gettysburg tells the story of more than a battle - the military park shows what national 'reconciliation' looked like for decades after the Civil War  On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to dedicate a cemetery at the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Four months before, about 50,000 soldiers had been killed, wounded or captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, later seen as a turning point in the war.In his now-famous address, Lincoln described the site as “a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that (their) nation might live,” and called on “us the living” to finish their work. In the 160 years since, 1,328 monuments and memorials have been erected at Gettysburg National Military Park – including one for each of the 11 Confederate states.
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S695 marketing lessons from the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce romance  What happens when you unite the biggest pop star in the world and a two-time Super Bowl champion? A whole lot of excitement, as the romance of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce has shown. But amid all the cheering, canoodling and Instagram flirting, the situation lends some useful insights into marketing – and as an expert in sports marketing, I know that this is a topic worth focusing on. Here are five lessons the NFL and other experiential marketers can consider to enhance their brands and reputation.Great entertainment marketers know how to fill a blank space. And Swift has given the NFL a unique opportunity to expand its appeal to a demographic – young women – that may not have been interested in football before. Swifties, as Swift’s fans are known, are eager to see the pop icon embrace being in love. So whenever she visits a stadium to cheer on her new lover, Kansas City Chiefs star tight end Kelce – which she has done four times in the past two months and may well do again soon – a media frenzy follows.
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S70Thanksgiving sides are delicious and can be nutritious - here's the biochemistry of how to maximize the benefits  While people usually think first about the turkey or the ham during holiday meals, the sides are what help balance your plate. Colorful vegetables like green beans, collard greens, roasted carrots and mashed sweet potatoes are loaded with important micronutrients. But how you prepare them will help determine whether you get the most nutritional value out of each bite this holiday season.As a biochemist, I know that food is made up of many chemical substances that are crucial for human growth and function. These chemical substances are called nutrients and can be divided into macronutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats and proteins, and micronutrients, such as vitamins and minerals.
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