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 S69 How to Start Smart With a Talent Marketplace   Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.Many leaders can now make a strong case for establishing an internal talent marketplace, but getting one off the ground remains difficult. At Booz Allen, we experienced that truth during the first year after launching our pilot project. Here, we’ll examine some of the challenges we faced, how we overcame them, and what we learned about change management and talent marketplaces.
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S67Could Wooden Satellites Reduce Space Junk? The First Is Set to Launch Next Year /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/6a/53/6a53ca5e-436e-4aae-91fc-2ffdb3bd420d/img_interview_murata_03_1.jpg) NASA and Japan plan to test a biodegradable satellite made of wood, which burns up more easily than metal on reentryAmerican and Japanese scientists are preparing to launch the world’s first wooden artificial satellite next summer as an environmentally friendly alternative to the aluminum ones currently circling the Earth. With the number of satellites expected to increase dramatically in the coming years—and more than 100 trillion untracked pieces of old satellites already in orbit—researchers are worried that such debris will soon cause problems for our planet and human-made structures in space.
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S70Why you see Black Friday sales in July  Black Friday once had a simple definition: a one-day shopping blowout, when major retailers such as Macy's and Target promised rock-bottom deals the day after US Thanksgiving. Today, however, it isn't unusual to find stores advertising Black Friday sales well before the holiday shopping season unofficially kicks off; Walmart is already running its Black Friday adverts in the US, for instance. Some businesses kick off their deals months earlier, or stretch them after Black Friday itself, like Cyber Monday, a digital afterparty focused on ecommerce discounts.
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S68Researchers Refute a Widespread Belief About Online Algorithms | Quanta Magazine  In life, we sometimes have to make decisions without all the information we want; that's true in computer science, too. This is the realm of online algorithms â which, despite their name, don't necessarily involve the internet. Instead, these are problem-solving strategies that respond to data as it arrives, without any knowledge of what might come next. That ability to cope with uncertainty makes these algorithms useful for real-world conundrums, like managing memory on a laptop or choosing which ads to display to people who browse the web.Researchers study generalized versions of these problems to investigate new methods for tackling them. Among the most famous is the "k-server problem," which describes the thorny task of dispatching a fleet of agents to fulfill requests coming in one by one. They could be repair technicians or firefighters or even roving ice cream salespeople.
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S3S4S5S6S7S8S9S10S11How to Prepare for the Deluge of Year-End Requests  The end of the year can be stressful enough without the extra pressure of last-minute requests due before New Year’s Eve. The author offers five strategies to help you mitigate the crunch: 1) Anticipate and ask if you suspect a recurrent request is heading your way; 2) Commit to your PTO; 3) Clarify what you’re being asked to do; 4) Reprioritize your commitments; and 5) Look for ways to prevent next year’s scramble.
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S12The Value of Corporate Purpose  Competing in today’s global digital economy requires increasingly complex contributions: Employees need to be motivated to go above and beyond; customers need to be inspired, and their feedback needs to be incorporated; and the demands, opinions, and goals of civil society and government are also critical. The value of organizational purpose is to help coordinate activity among stakeholders in this complex system. The author’s research suggests that when a company and its management make it clear that their purpose is harmony in their stakeholder system — i.e., an intent to grow the pie for everyone — stakeholders make larger contributions and engage in less conflict. Firms are better able to weather crises, and total value created and distributed is enhanced — including to shareholders.
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S13Navigating the New Risks and Regulatory Challenges of GenAI  The rapid rise of generative AI, including large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT/GPT-4, is creating new risks and regulatory challenges for business. Although it is still early days, companies cannot afford to delay developing policies and practices regarding the use of these technologies.
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S14How to Self-Promote -- Without Sounding Self-Centered  Promoting your own accomplishments can feel uncomfortable, and poses a dilemma: It can make you appear more confident and capable, but can also make you seem less warm, less friendly, and more selfish. On the other hand, self-deprecation or deflecting credit, may make you seem approachable but it diminishes your competency. New research, based on a series of 11 studies, suggests that dual promotion — in which you compliment a colleague or peer while talking about your own accomplishments — can both boost perceptions of warmth without harming perceptions of competence. Audiences both learn about your abilities and see you demonstrate concern for others. By talking positively about other people, you signal that you aren’t self-centered — you’re a well-intentioned, warm colleague.
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S15Taupo: 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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S16Message 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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S17Did 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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S18Why you age slower on a plane (and other incredibly strange effects of relativity)  One of my favourite scientific experiments involved flying four clocks twice around the world. In 1971, physicists Joseph Hafele and Richard Keating took atomic clocks – capable of losing no more than one second every 30 million years – on a commercial jet, flying first west and then east around the globe before returning to their laboratory in Washington DC. There, they compared the time on their well-travelled timepieces to a set of clocks that had remained static. Remarkably, the clocks disagreed: the act of travel had seemingly altered the passage of time.The experiment was a test of a core principle of Einstein's theory of relativity, which is that time is not universal. The faster you travel, the slower time will pass for you. The effect is small – take a transatlantic flight from London to New York and your watch will be a ten-millionth of a second behind one left on the ground – but nonetheless you'll have aged a fraction more slowly than if you'd stayed at home. And Hafele and Keating's clocks could measure it.
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S19Uber slashes fees in Bangladesh as drivers keep taking rides offline  Jitu Jisan is a Pathao bike-taxi driver in Dhaka. But, he said, taking bookings through the ride-hailing app is always the last resort for him. Typically, he uses the Pathao app only to find a customer, and once he meets them, he turns off the app, strikes a direct deal, and goes khep.Khep is a popular colloquial term used for gig drivers bypassing platforms like Pathao and Uber in Bangladesh. In Bangla, khep translates to “side hustle.” “We’d rather khep than work on the apps. All the effort is from [the drivers’] end anyway,” Jisan told Rest of World. “The motorcycles are ours, the bills for petrol are ours, it’s our hard work. Platforms only help by getting us on the apps, and even for that, they’re charging a commission.”
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S20New Map Reveals Secrets of Io, the Solar System's Most Volcanic Moon  The best-yet map of active volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io hints at a hidden magma ocean—and moreA mosaic image of Jupiter’s moon Io, based on data from a 1997 flyby by NASA’s Galileo orbiter; the plume from a volcanic eruption is visible on Io’s bright edge. With hundreds of ongoing eruptions, Io is by far the most volcanically active body in the solar system.
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S21Cranberries Are a Scientific Delicacy  From self-pollination to bogs, cranberries are a Thanksgiving classic with many fascinating botanical and genetic featuresThe following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.
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S22Meeting the 1.5  People already suffering from climate change are beseeching world leaders to hold global temperature rise to 1.5°C, even if we surpass that threshold temporarilyImagine you started a fire in your neighborhood, down the street from your house. You didn't mean to—you’re no arsonist—but there it is, blazing before your eyes. Your neighbor’s house is about to go up in flames. What do you do?
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S23If You Had a Nuclear Weapon in Your Neighborhood, Would You Want to Know  The Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota has had nuclear missile silos on its land for decades. Now the U.S. government wants to take the old weapons out and replace them with new ones, and it’s unclear how many living there know about that.This podcast is Part 3 of a five-part series. Listen to Part 1 here and Part 2 here. The podcast series is a part of “The New Nuclear Age,” a special report on a $1.5-trillion effort to remake the American nuclear arsenal.
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S24Do Squirrels Remember Where They Buried Their Nuts?  Squirrels spread their fall bounty across several locations. But do they have a key to this treasure map?As winter approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, people retreat indoors, and the pace of life seems to slow—but not for squirrels. Across forests, parks and your backyard, these animals go into overdrive, scurrying ceaselessly through the undergrowth and stuffing nuts and seeds into the soil.
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S25Too Many Schools Are Misdiagnosing Dyslexia  It pains Tim Odegard that four decades after a misguided approach to diagnosing dyslexia kept him from getting help in school, thousands of children across the U.S. are needlessly suffering for the same reason.During the initial weeks of first grade Odegard's struggles with reading went undetected as he memorized words that classmates read aloud before him. The strategy worked so well that his teacher moved him to the position of “first reader.” It then became apparent that the six-year-old not only wasn't the strongest reader in the class—he couldn't read at all. The teacher dispatched him to a low-skill group. “It just kind of went downhill from there,” Odegard, now 47, recalls.
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S26A Black Physician Takes on Racism in Medicine  Physician Uché Blackstock talks about her experience of the huge health disparities faced by Black Americans in her new book LegacyGrowing up, Uché Blackstock and her twin sister, Oni, watched their mother lead an organization of Black female physicians. Inspired by their mother’s example, the sisters pursued careers in medicine and made history as the first Black daughters of a woman who graduated from Harvard Medical School to earn a degree at that institution. When their mother died of leukemia at the age of 47, they were determined to carry on her legacy.
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S27Moral Righteousness Can Worsen Conflict  I have spent my career studying moral decision-making. Through my own research and that of my colleagues, I have become acutely aware of how moral motivations and justifications warp our thinking in dangerous ways. Morality can sustain misunderstandings and inflame brutality, particularly when people hold discordant values.A tricky term, morality can’t be neatly defined. This is partially because morality is broad; our moral values often extend beyond compassion and fairness and include group-focused concerns of loyalty and obedience. Defining morality is also hard because people are “moral acrobats” who can easily convince themselves of the righteousness of their actions. Most people genuinely believe that they are morally above average; this includes people we would normally find less moral, such as prisoners and perpetrators of genocide. In lieu of a clear definition, I use the word “moral” to mean the mental processes that are engaged when people think about the world in terms of good and evil.
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S28SpaceX Starship's Second Flight Was an Explosive Milestone  SpaceX’s Starship—the most powerful rocket ever built—experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” in its otherwise successful second full-scale launch, triggering a federal investigation into what went wrongSpaceX's Starship rocket launches from Starbase during its second test flight in Boca Chica, Texas, on November 18, 2023.
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S29The State of the Planet in 10 Numbers  Here is a snapshot of the warming world, from sea-level rise to fossil fuel subsidies to renewable energy growthA woman looks at wildfires tearing through a forest in the region of Chefchaouen in northern Morocco on August 15, 2021.
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S30The Power of Intentional Networking  Are you making the most of your network? In this Nano Tool for Leaders, Wharton's Marissa King gives tips on how to leverage your contacts.Nano Tools for Leaders® — a collaboration between Wharton Executive Education and Wharton’s Center for Leadership and Change Management — are fast, effective tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes, with the potential to significantly impact your success and the engagement and productivity of the people you lead.
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S31Meet methane, the invisible climate villain  A landfill on fire doesn't only emit a horrid stench — it has devastating consequences for the environment, too. The culprit is methane, an often underestimated greenhouse gas produced in large part by food systems, organic waste and yes, cow burps. Biochemical engineer Marcelo Mena explains the source of this sneaky pollutant, why its emissions need to be cut in half by 2050 — and what you can do to help.
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S32Which Philips Hue Smart Lights Should You Buy?  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 WIREDPerhaps the brightest name in smart lighting, and certainly one of the longest serving, Philips Hue offers a wide range of gadgetry to illuminate your home and bring some color to your life. You can get all manner of bulbs, light strips, lamps, fixtures, switches, and more as a part of the Hue ecosystem, and its products have wide compatibility with smart home platforms.
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S33The Best Deals at Best Buy's Black Friday Sale  Black Friday is supposed to start later this week, but Best Buy’s Black Friday deals are already here. While there will continue to be plenty of early Black Friday deals going live, Best Buy has a price match guarantee—if you purchase a qualified item at the retailer and the price drops lower later on in the holiday season, you can request a price match.If you have a paid My Best Buy Membership, you can access some exclusive deals, but they're not worth the yearly fee if you haven't already joined. We've rounded up more discounts in our Best Early Black Friday Deals roundup, and check our Black Friday shopping tips for more advice. We've highlighted our favorite deals below, but you can browse the full sale here.
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S34OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns  OpenAI was in open revolt on Monday with more than 730 employees signing an open letter threatening to leave unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam Altman as CEO, along with cofounder and former president Greg Brockman. Altman was controversially fired by the board on Friday.“The process through which you terminated Sam Altman and removed Greg Brockman from the board has jeopardized all of this work and undermined our mission and company,” the letter reads. “Your conduct has made it clear you did not have the competence to oversee OpenAI.”
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S35Meet Emmett Shear, OpenAI's 'Highly Intelligent, Socially Awkward' Interim CEO  After a weekend of chaos at OpenAI, the company's board of directors appointed former Twitch boss Emmett Shear interim CEO late Sunday. It was just the latest in a string of tumultuous changes at the AI company following Friday's ouster of CEO Sam Altman, and it left many wondering what kind of CEO Shear would be, why the board had chosen him, and how much he would differ from Altman.Shear was one of four cofounders of Justin.tv, launched in 2006. In June 2011, the site moved its gaming content to its new Twitch platform, which soon became the go-to place for video game streaming, with millions of monthly streamers. Amazon bought the company for $1 billion in 2014.
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S36Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records  A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter WIRED obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality.According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans’ calls, analyzing the phone records of countless people who are not suspected of any crime, including victims. Using a technique known as chain analysis, the program targets not only those in direct phone contact with a criminal suspect but anyone with whom those individuals have been in contact as well.
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