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S1To Improve Your Work Performance, Get Some Exercise   Although the benefits of physical activity on general well-being are widely acknowledged, there has been a lack of research on how it impacts outcomes at work, including job performance and health. Approximately 200 employees from the UK and China participated in a 10-day study in which the authors captured self-reported and objective physical activity data (via a wearable smart band device), as well as self- and supervisor-reported work outcomes. They uncovered some noteworthy findings about daily physical activity that impact employees and organizations, as well as a few research-backed ways to reap the many benefits of increasing your physical activity.
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S2How to Keep Up Team Morale When Someone Quits  Losing team members is disruptive. It requires you to reallocate their responsibilities, reestablish a workflow among your remaining team, and re-boost the morale you’ve worked hard to build so that other team members don’t follow suit. As a people leader, it’s your responsibility to model for your team that it’s possible to experience difficult things and still move forward — together.
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S3What to Do When You're Passed Over for an Internal Position  Job rejection is always difficult. But things get even more complicated when it’s an internal role. Unless you decide to leave — which takes some time — you have to figure out how to work within the same organization, and maybe even with the same people that rejected you. Here’s how to move on and carry yourself with strength.
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S46 Ways to Move from Allyship to Activism  An ally is a person who supports diversity and wants to learn about communities outside of their own. In theory, a great ally asks insightful questions and finds ways support their underrecognized colleagues. The problem is that “support” is a vague term. While many people consider themselves allies, only a few actually takes action. Activists, on the other hand, are people who (by definition) engage in the causes they support. We need both types of people to create an equitable workforce. The next generation of workers have an opportunity to step up into activist roles and drive the changes that they want to see. Here’s how:
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S5How to Develop a 5-Year Career Plan  Having a long-term plan for your career can help you reduce career-related stress, increase your perceived employability, and allow you to connect more deeply with your purpose. But how do you move beyond yearly career goals and create a five-year plan? Brainstorm. Start by thinking about how you want your career to develop and what you need to do to get there. This requires self-reflection. You’ll need to identify your primary goal, your passions, how your existing skills contribute to both those things, and your areas for improvement. Gather feedback. We’re not aways the best judges of our own capabilities and strengths. That’s why it can be important early in your planning process to gather feedback from your superiors, mentors, and peers. They may help you discover career opportunities you never considered for yourself, clue you into strengths you may be overlooking, and share insights regarding your areas for growth and development. Map it out. After doing some self-reflection and gathering feedback, it’s time to organize the information you’ve collected. Consider keeping track of your plan in PowerPoint. For example, slide 1 should outline the career goals you identified in your self-reflection. Slide 2 should list out the skills you already have and the ones you would need to achieve your ultimate career goals. Slide 3 should highlight the development activities you plan to pursue over the next five years to help you achieve your goals. And slide 4 should present all of the possible obstacles that might prevent you from achieving your goal and how to address those challenges. Iterate. Unlike year-long goal setting, the process of creating a five-year plan is never complete. One way to ensure you’re keeping your plan updated is to set a quarterly calendar reminder. This will help you address any new developments in your life or career and make changes where necessary.
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S6S7S8S9S10S11S12S13S14S15S16A New Generation of Robots Can Help Small Manufacturers  Automation technology is creating incredible opportunities for SMEs. Smaller, flexible, collaborative robots (cobots) can be used across a wide range of applications from machine tending and welding to packaging, palletizing, and screw-driving. State-of-the-art software even allows swift reconfiguration of parts, finally making automation attractive to high-mix, low-volume manufacturers. This technology development could not have come at a better time for the industry. Take the talent crunch. Manufacturing especially is having huge problems recruiting and retaining employees. More than 2 million manufacturing jobs will sit unfilled across the United States by the end of this decade and three quarters of European companies already have difficulty recruiting suitable workers – workplaces are crying out for talent and face decreased productivity and unsustainable staff turnover.
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S17Why Private Equity Needs to Invest More in Talent Development  Traditionally, private equity companies have created value at the companies they own by taking on debt, restructuring, and exploiting underserved opportunities. But surging interest rates and increased competition have made it much harder to deliver strong returns. Ted Bililies, a partner and managing director of AlixPartners, says private equity leaders can no longer count on financial engineering to drive performance. Instead, they need to invest in the human capital at their portfolio companies. Bililies wrote the HBR article “Private Equity Needs a New Talent Strategy.”
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S18To Solve Big Problems, Make Everyone Feel Included in Your Mission  It’s human nature to want to spend our days working on something more than a paycheck, and the best leaders find ways to connect their teammates’ work to something bigger. That starts by making everyone feel included in the mission. If your team feels connected to the mission, then making big bets and solving big problems will always be within your reach. In this article, the author discusses how several prominent leaders instilled their teams with a sense of the organization’s larger purpose, and how you can do the same.
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S19Building a More Equitable Culture at Delta Air Lines  In December 2020, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian and his leadership team were reviewing the decision to join the OneTen coalition, where he and 36 other CEOs committed to recruiting, hiring, training, and advancing one million Black Americans over the next ten years into family-sustaining jobs. But, how do you ensure everyone has equal access to opportunity within an organization?
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S20How Global Companies Use AI to Prevent Supply Chain Disruptions  As they strive to make their supply chains more resilient, global companies are grappling with two challenges: the difficulty in discerning potential sources and the extended time required to find, vet, and onboard new suppliers. Companies such as Walmart, Tyson Foods, Koch Industries, Maersk, Siemens, and Unilever are using AI tools to swiftly find and engage with alternative suppliers during unexpected disruptions. They are also employing AI tools to pre-qualify suppliers ahead of time. These AI tools provide buyers with enhanced information that allows them to beat their competitors in securing alternate sources of supplies.
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S215 Tips for Buying Holiday Gifts for Clients  Strategic and thoughtful gift-giving can help ensure your clients feel seen and appreciated. In this article, the authors outline five tips to consider when choosing what to buy this holiday season: 1) Don’t assume expensive gifts are the best. 2) Individualize when possible. 3) Focus on the practical and useful. 4) Make sure it’s a gift, not advertising. 5) Don’t “compete” around the end of the year.
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S22Taupo: 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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S23Message 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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S24Did 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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S25Wildebeest and wolves: The secret weapons against climate change  More than a million wildebeest roam across East Africa's vast Serengeti grassland. Their annual migration is one of the largest movements of animals on the planet. Their hooves churn up the dirt and hungry mouths devour huge quantities of plant life as they travel.There weren't always this many though. And the story of this large antelope reveals the impact wildlife can have on the amount of carbon present in our planet's atmosphere. While it is tempting to look to technical solutions such as renewable energy as the solution to climate change, we may have other allies in the natural world too. Increasing populations of animals such as wildebeest is a largely overlooked, but valuable way of tackling climate change, according to scientists.
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S26The end of anonymity on Chinese social media  On October 23, popular book blogger and writer Tu Pao Ding announced she was leaving Weibo, China’s largest microblogging platform. She’d read rumors online that Weibo planned to introduce a new rule requiring “Big Vs” (verified influencers with large followings) to display their legal name on their public profiles. Using a pseudonym, Tu Pao Ding (which translates to “rabbit butcher”) had shared book reviews and commentary on current affairs with her 2 million Weibo followers for over two decades. “With real-name rules looming, I plan to abandon this platform,” she wrote in a post. Eight days later, Tu Pao Ding’s fears were confirmed. On October 31, Weibo, as well as several other major Chinese social media platforms including WeChat, Douyin, Zhihu, Xiaohongshu, and Kuaishou, announced that they now required popular users’ legal names to be made visible to the public. Weibo stated in a public post that the new rule would first apply to all users with over 1 million followers, then to those with over 500,000.
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S27S28The Brain Isn't as Adaptable as Some Neuroscientists Claim  The idea of treating neurological disorders by marshaling vast unused neural reserves is more wishful thinking than realityThe human brain’s ability to adapt and change, known as neuroplasticity, has long captivated both the scientific community and the public imagination. It’s a concept that brings hope and fascination, especially when we hear extraordinary stories of, for example, blind individuals developing heightened senses that enable them to navigate through a cluttered room purely based on echolocation or stroke survivors miraculously regaining motor abilities once thought lost.
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S29NASA May Pay $1 Billion to Destroy the International Space Station. Here's Why  The International Space Station—larger than a football field and weighing almost 450 tons—must eventually fall to Earth. It’s a delicate, dangerous processThe International Space Station seen from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft during a fly-around of the orbiting lab after undocking from the Harmony module space-facing port on November 8, 2021, in Earth orbit.
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S30Why COVID Vaccines for Young Children Have Been Hard to Get  Access to pediatric COVID vaccines has been hampered by a shortage of doses, higher costs to providers and parental skepticismThe number of people hospitalized with COVID is much lower than it was at the beginning of the year, but the disease remains a significant health threat. In September the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that everyone aged six months or older get one of the newly updated COVID vaccines, which protect against currently circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. But getting these shots into the arms of children has proved difficult.
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S31The Most Shocking Discovery in Astrophysics Is 25 Years Old  A quarter of a century after detecting dark energy, scientists are still trying to figure out what it isThe Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) will spend five years creating a 3-D map of the universe that will help reveal the nature of the dark energy driving cosmic expansion. The project's first six months of data show slivers of the universe that represent just 1 percent of the survey's ultimate volume of space. The colors represent different types of galaxies, including nearby bright galaxies in yellow, luminous red galaxies in magenta and galaxies with supermassive black holes in turquoise.
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S32When It Comes to AI Models, Bigger Isn't Always Better  Artificial intelligence models are getting bigger, along with the data sets used to train them. But scaling down could solve some big AI problemsArtificial intelligence has been growing in size. The large language models (LLMs) that power prominent chatbots, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, are composed of well more than 100 billion parameters—the weights and variables that determine how an AI responds to an input. That’s orders of magnitude more information and code than was common among the most advanced AI models just a few years ago.
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S33China Delays Launch of Its Xuntian Space Telescope  The Xuntian Space Telescope is China’s entry in a global race to unlock the secrets of dark energy, and it will now lift off no earlier than mid-2025China has postponed the launch of its Xuntian Space Telescope amid an international race to chart the frontiers of modern cosmology.
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S34S35S36This Bat Uses Its Oversized Penis as an 'Arm' during Sex  Dozens of mating bats caught on video at a Dutch church reveal an unusual use for their "huge" penisesMost mammals mate with penetrative sex, but one peculiar bat species with an oversize, bulbous penis seems to sweep that assumption aside. New video evidence suggests that during copulation, the male serotine bat—Eptesicus serotinus—instead uses its penis like an arm to push away the female’s tail membrane and presses the tip against the vulva, according to research published in Current Biology.
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S37How Consumer Behavior Trends Determine Online Retail Success | Santiago Gallino  Wharton’s Santiago Gallino talks about consumer behavior trends and what it takes for retailers to stand out in an increasingly competitive, omnichannel marketplace. This episode is part of a series on “Holiday Retail.”Dan Loney: With all the new technology, it feels like we’re in a process right now where retail has really changed a lot, for the betterment of the public, I think.
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S38The Downside of Psychological Safety in the Workplace  Too much psychological safety at work can jeopardize performance in typical jobs, according to new research co-authored by Wharton’s Peter Cappelli.Innovation is often associated with a relaxed office culture where employees feel safe to try new things and take risks, but new research from Wharton finds comfort is counterproductive in more typical situations.
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S39The exciting, perilous journey toward AGI  Just weeks before the management shakeup at OpenAI rocked Silicon Valley and made international news, the company's cofounder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever explored the transformative potential of artificial general intelligence (AGI), highlighting how it could surpass human intelligence and profoundly transform every aspect of life. Hear his take on the promises and perils of AGI — and his optimistic case for how unprecedented collaboration will ensure its safe and beneficial development.
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S40A crash course in making political change  You don't need political power to make real change, says activist Katie Fahey. She tells the story of how she led a successful movement in Michigan to end gerrymandering — the practice of drawing district lines to favor one political party — and how it all started with a simple social media post.
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S41When Biden met Xi (and what's going on with the US and China)  US President Joe Biden and President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping recently met in San Francisco. It was the first time Xi had visited the US in six years — and the first time the two leaders had met in person in a year. Geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer explains the implications of the meeting, sharing context and insight on areas where the pair agree -- and flagging key areas where tensions might yet arise. (This conversation with TED's Helen Walters was recorded on November 20, 2023.)
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S42Elon Musk's Media Matters Lawsuit Will Have a 'Chilling Effect'  On Monday, X filed a lawsuit against Media Matters for America (MMFA), a nonprofit, alleging that a recent report showing big name advertisers appearing next to antisemitic content on X was an attempt to "destroy" the company by encouraging advertisers to pull their money.Shortly after, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office announced that it would be investigating MMFA for "potential fraudulent activity."
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S43The 30 Best Movies on Hulu This Week  In 2017, Hulu made television history by becoming the first streaming network to win the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy, thanks to the phenomenon that is The Handmaid’s Tale. While that painfully prescient adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel remains one of the best TV shows to watch on Hulu, it also set a bar for quality entertainment that the network has continued to match—and sometimes exceed—with original series like The Bear, The Great, and Only Murders in the Building.While Netflix has largely cornered the streaming market on original movies, and even managed to convince A-listers like Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Martin Scorsese to come aboard, Hulu is starting to find its footing in features too. Below are some of our top picks for the best movies (original and otherwise) streaming on Hulu right now.
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S44The Best Black Friday Coffee Deals  There's nothing quite like walking around in crisp autumn weather with a hot coffee in your hands—unless it's a coffee you brewed yourself, at home, with shiny new coffee gear. Black Friday coffee deals are here, and it's a great time to score savings on the tools you need to upgrade your rig, whether that's an espresso machine or a French press. If you're overwhelmed by the glut of deals on coffee gear out there, you're in the right place. Here we've curated exceptional sales on coffee gear the WIRED Gear team has tested, vetted, and put through the paces.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 post throughout the week and be live with updates on Black Friday.
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S45DOJ Charges Binance With Vast Money-Laundering Scheme and Sanctions Violations  For years, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has been dogged by rumors of malfeasance and federal investigations. Today, in a set of accusations that will rock the already tumultuous world of crypto, the US Department of Justice revealed criminal charges against the company and its chief executive, Changpeng Zhao, claiming they enabled the laundering of vast flows of dirty money across the globe, from Cuba to Iran to Russia.The indictment against Binance, unsealed ahead of a press conference by US attorney general Merrick Garland, accuses the company of billions of dollars of transactions that violated US anti-money-laundering laws, including well over a billion dollars of actual criminal transactions and sanctions evasions. Separate indictments specifically charge Zhao and former chief compliance officer Samuel Lim with allowing those illicit transactions to take place.
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S46Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Quits, Pleads Guilty, and Must Pay $200 Million in Fines  Binance and its chief executive, Changpeng Zhao, pleaded guilty to criminal charges for anti-money laundering and violations of US sanctions under a sweeping deal with the US Department of Justice. The deal, which will allow the company to continue to operate, will also see Zhao step down as CEO. Binance will pay a $4.3 billion fine.As well as leaving his role as CEO, Zhao will pay $200 million in fines as part of the settlement. He appeared earlier today in court in Seattle to plead guilty and faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
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S47The Best Black Friday Soundbar Deals  One of the best additions you can make to your home entertainment system, besides the TV itself, is a dedicated soundbar. Some come with satellite speakers for surround sound, others project room-filling audio with just a single bar. Whatever kind of sound system you need for your home, we've rounded up the best deals.Before you buy, be sure to check out our guides to the Best TVs, Best Soundbars, and Best Streaming Devices, as well as our guide for How To Buy A Soundbar.
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S48Elon Musk Trolls His Way Into the OpenAI Drama  Elon Musk needed fewer than 100 characters to add new chaos to the ongoing crisis swirling around OpenAI after the shock firing of CEO Sam Altman last week.In a post on X on Tuesday, Musk drew attention to an anonymous letter accusing Altman of various examples of underhanded behavior as CEO of OpenAI.
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S49OpenAI's Boardroom Drama Could Mess Up Your Future  In June I had a conversation with chief scientist Ilya Sutskever at OpenAI's headquarters, as I reported out WIRED's October cover story. Among the topics we discussed was the unusual structure of the company.OpenAI began as a nonprofit research lab whose mission was to develop artificial intelligence on par or beyond human levelâtermed artificial general intelligence or AGIâin a safe way. The company discovered a promising path in large language models that generate strikingly fluid text, but developing and implementing those models required huge amounts of computing infrastructure and mountains of cash. This led OpenAI to create a commercial entity to draw outside investors, and it netted a major partner: Microsoft. Virtually everyone in the company worked for this new for-profit arm. But limits were placed on the company's commercial life. The profit delivered to investors was to be cappedâfor the first backers at 100 times what they put inâafter which OpenAI would revert to a pure nonprofit. The whole shebang was governed by the original nonprofit's board, which answered only to the goals of the original mission and maybe God.Sutskever did not appreciate it when I joked that the bizarre org chart that mapped out this relationship looked like something a future GPT might come up with when prompted to design a tax dodge. "We are the only company in the world which has a capped profit structure," he admonished me. "Here is the reason it makes sense: If you believe, like we do, that if we succeed really well, then these GPUs are going to take my job and your job and everyone's jobs, it seems nice if that company would not make truly unlimited amounts of returns." In the meantime, to make sure that the profit-seeking part of the company doesn't shirk its commitment to making sure that the AI doesn't get out of control, there's that board, keeping an eye on things.
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S50What was it like when the Universe was at its hottest?  When we look out at the Universe today, we see that it’s full of stars and galaxies, in all directions and at all locations in space. The Universe isn’t static, though; the distant galaxies are bound together in groups and clusters, with those groups and clusters speeding away from one another as part of the expanding Universe. As the Universe expands, it gets not only sparser, but cooler, as the individual photons shift to redder wavelengths as they travel through space.But this means if we look back in time, the Universe was not only denser, but also hotter. If we go all the way back to the earliest moments where this description applies, to the first moments of the Big Bang, we come to the Universe as it was at its absolute hottest. Here’s what it was like to live back then.
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S51How productive arguments can bring us closer together  In this compilation video, our biggest thinkers share their insights on debating, including how to get your points across effectively, hold your own in an argument, and disagree better. BO SEO: One of the reasons why our arguments are so divisive, and painful at present is that we've allowed the skills of disagreeing well to atrophy. We no longer view argument as a skill, and as something to be worked at. Rather, we see it as something we jump into, out of instinct or defensiveness.
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S52Stories: How humanity makes its meaning  In the fourth episode of Dispatches from The Well, our host Kmele Foster unravels the significance of storytelling in the human experience. From the profound words of psychologist Dan McAdams to the life stories shared by renowned conservationist Jane Goodall and actor Terry Crews, we delve deep into the art of narrative creation. We set out to explore how we craft narratives to make sense of our past, present, and future, forging our identities and purpose along the way. Join us as we contemplate the timeless question: Are we the stories we tell?
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S53We may finally know what causes red wine headaches  Reddit’s popular wine community is full of stories about the dreaded “red wine headache.”“I love red wine and I don’t want to have to give it up forever, but after a few glasses, the next day I can barely function as I have a pounding headache that doesn’t go away!” one member lamented.
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S54A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic dispels common myths about Dutch Golden Age art  In 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam launched the biggest exhibit in its 200-year history. Simply titled “Vermeer,” it brought together 28 of the 37 known works by the renowned 17th-century artist Johannes Vermeer, known for iconic paintings like The Milkmaid and Girl With the Pearl Earring, both of which were included.The exhibit, which drew in a record-breaking 650,000 visitors during the first month alone, was guaranteed to become a financial success. Vermeer is one of the most famous painters of all time, a status resting not just on his style — serene depictions of Dutch Golden Age citizens inside their spacious, richly decorated households — but also his tragic backstory. His short life confined to the six or so street corners that made up the humble town of Delft, Vermeer died broke and forgotten. Sidelined by contemporary but arguably inferior artists, many of his paintings — he is thought to have made at least 60 — were lost to time, with the remaining 37 ending up in different museums in different countries, where they remained until their 2023 reunion.
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S55Darwin's "abominable mystery"  After investigating the origin of the species, Charles Darwin lunged into an exploration of something that seemed, by comparison, terribly minute: orchids. By 1862, he’d traveled the world wide and far, encountering incredible organisms like giant tortoises, seafaring iguanas, and fossils of giant ground sloths. But he couldn’t stop thinking about a delicate, white star-shaped flower he’d been sent as a gift by his acquaintance James Bateman, an English horticulturalist with a penchant for rare flora from Madagascar. The flower’s odd shape—with an extremely long nectar pouch hanging under its crown—stirred in him a deep, almost inexplicable fascination.“Orchids have interested me as much as almost anything in my life,” Darwin wrote. In their forms, he saw a vast landscape of the forces of selective evolution, a dance they played with their environment and their pollinators. “My little darlings,” as he sometimes referred to orchids, became his model for further exploring the forces he so broadly described in The Origin of Species. Just three years after the publication of that shattering work, he had produced his tome puzzling over the multitudinous, striking habits of orchids: On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects, and On the Good Effects of Intercrossing.
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S56S57S58S59Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024  Chrome's new adblock-limiting extension plan is still on. The company paused the rollout of the new "Manifest V3" extension format a year ago after an outcry over how much it would damage some of Chrome's most popular extensions. A year later, Google is restarting the phase-out schedule, and while it has changed some things, Chrome will eventually be home to inferior filtering extensions.
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S60S61S62After driving the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, I finally get EV "engine" sounds  SEOUL, South Korea—EV drivers either seem to love or hate the fake powertrain sounds that accompany their cars. Some fully embrace the spaceship or video-game-like noises, while others can't turn them off fast enough. I'm firmly in the latter group, long believing that the best thing about an EV is its dead-silent operation. Or, at least, I was until I drove the new Hyundai Ioniq 5 N earlier this month.
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S63S64S66The Problem With Turkey Trots  The races fit the American tendency to pit excess against repentance—especially when it comes to food.Every Thanksgiving, while many people are preparing stuffing or frantically Googling how long turkeys take to defrost, others rise early, don commemorative T-shirts (and maybe turkey-shaped hats), and gather for a chilly morning run.
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S67Harvard Has a Brand Problem. Here's How to Fix It.  Ethically and academically, 2023 has been a bad year for America’s most richly endowed university. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Harvard discriminated against Asian applicants. Major donors have mutinied after anti-Semitic incidents on campus. Can Harvard be saved? Here, I imagine some guidance from the university’s investment advisers. Harvard has been described as a hedge fund with a university attached. This is the literal truth.
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S68There Is No Good Way to Travel Anywhere in America  For Thanksgiving, I will be traveling home to western New York on Amtrak. I don’t think anything will go disastrously awry, though I don’t know. In 2019, during a snowstorm, an Amtrak train was stuck for some 36 hours in the mountains of Oregon because of a fallen tree. Earlier this year, on an Amtrak train from Northern Virginia to Sanford, Florida, passengers repeatedly called the police during the train’s 20-hour delay. “For those of you that are calling the police,” the conductor had to announce, “we are not holding you hostage.”That debacle was caused by a freight train ahead of them, which had crashed into an empty car parked on the tracks in rural South Carolina. Nothing you can do about that. A train just has to wait until whatever’s in front of it is gone. Or it has to plow through it: Just last week, a train on its way through Michigan inadvertently smashed into an unoccupied parked car and then derailed. “If you can imagine it on Amtrak, it will probably happen,” Richard White, a historian at Stanford and the author of Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, told me. He cited another incident from last week, in which certain trains out of New York City were suspended for days because a privately owned parking garage above the tracks had literal holes in it.
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S69How Mike Birbiglia Got Sneaky-Famous  Early next year, on January 24, the comedian Mike Birbiglia will perform in Walla Walla, Washington, for the first time since the night in 2005 when he nearly died after sleepwalking—sleep-running—through the second-story window of his hotel room at a La Quinta Inn. He’d been having issues with sleepwalking for years, and on this night, he was dreaming that a missile had been fired on his infantry platoon, so he took drastic evasive measures. He crash-landed on the grass and started running, until he realized he was awake, and in his underwear, and covered in blood and shards of glass, one of which was embedded in his thigh, a centimeter from his femoral artery.“I know,” he says whenever he recounts this moment onstage, responding to the gasps from the audience. “I’m in the future too.”
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S70It's Too Easy to Buy Stuff You Don't Want  I’ve made many impulse purchases in my life, but the first one that I found genuinely unsettling was a pair of Nike VaporMax sneakers. It was July 2018, and I was mindlessly tapping through Instagram updates while waiting to meet friends for lunch. That’s where I saw the sneakers, tucked between photos of last night’s outfits and this morning’s bagels: futuristic, baby pink, and a new arrival, according to the ad. This was the heyday of artificial sneaker scarcity, when every design worth a damn sold out before you even had a chance to decide if you liked it. I pounced.The order took maybe 15 seconds. I selected my size and put the shoes in my cart, and my phone automatically filled in my login credentials and added my new credit-card number. You can always return them, I thought to myself as I tapped the “Buy” button. Almost as soon as I’d paid, I snapped out of the mania that had briefly overtaken me, $190 (Jesus Christ) poorer but with one pair of Jetsons-looking shoes on their way to my apartment. It’s always a little horrifying to realize that advertising has worked on you, but this felt more like I had just watched the velociraptor in Jurassic Park learn to use the doorknob. I had completed some version of the online checkout process a million times before, but never could I remember it being quite so spontaneous and thoughtless. If it’s going to be that easy all the time, I thought to myself, I’m cooked.
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