   
CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!
 S46Disinformation is part and parcel of social media's business model, new research shows   This is not an accident – social media platforms know they profit from the spread of disinformation, while advertisers turn a blind eye.Disinformation aims to confuse, paralyse and polarise society at large for political, military, or commercial purposes through orchestrated campaigns to strategically spread deceptive or manipulative media content. On social media, disinformation tools include bots, deep fakes, fake news and conspiracy theories.
Continued here
|
S1
S2Businesses Need to Bring Younger Employees into Their Leadership Ranks  Businesses play a crucial role in tackling the challenges of our times, such as climate change. To enhance their effectiveness in this arena, they must become more curious to develop the innovations we require, as well as more eager to adapt their behaviors accordingly. Today’s aging leadership structures can hinder this. Striving towards intergenerational leadership is key to overcoming these issues and unlocking competitive advantage by enhancing businesses’ capacity for renewal.
Continued here
|
S3'Red Cup Rebellion': The worker strike on Starbucks's most iconic day  Starbucks's "Red Cup Day" is one of the biggest revenue-and-PR days for the global coffee retailer. Each year, its iconic white cups get their festive makeover, and Starbucks offers customers a free, reusable red cup with certain purchases of holiday drinks. Coffee lovers – especially fans of flavours such as gingerbread, pumpkin spice and apple crisp – turn up in droves, often posting their beverages on social media.But this year, on 16 Nov, thousands of unionised workers participated in a multi-state strike across about 150 locations, timed to coincide with Starbucks' biggest promotional event of the year. The Starbucks Workers United Union (SBWU) dubbed it the "Red Cup Rebellion", to fight for better workplace conditions regarding staffing, scheduling and contract negotiations.
Continued here
|
S4Ina Garten on her internet appeal: 'Young people don't have mom in the kitchen'  Professionally known as the Barefoot Contessa – and affectionately known as the woman who makes Cosmopolitans the size of her head – Ina Garten is both a titan of the food world and an icon of internet culture. Garten brings the joy of cooking to generations through her television show and 13 published cookbooks, which have sold more than 14 million copies combined.For the second episode of her unscripted interview programme, Influential, author and BBC special correspondent Katty Kay sat with Garten in her bespoke barn test kitchen at her home in East Hampton, New York. The two discussed Garten's forthcoming memoir and the winding path that brought her to her home in the kitchen.
Continued here
|
S5
S6Leave the World Behind review: Julia Roberts stars in a 'timely' and 'chilling' thriller  How will the world end? Back in 1920 the poet Robert Frost suggested fire or ice. How quaint. The possibilities hovering over Sam Esmail's suspenseful, apocalyptic Leave the World Behind are cyberattacks, rogue AI, nuclear annihilation and climate change, but also plain old-fashioned human evil. The options sound grim, yet this suspenseful drama makes them entertaining. Esmail's adaptation of Rumaan Alam's 2020 novel adds a playful Hitchcockian spin and the starry cast of Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke and Mahershala Ali to create a psychological thriller about family, technology and life in the 21st Century.Roberts and Hawke are Amanda and Clay Sandford, a middle-class couple living in a Brooklyn apartment with their 16-year-old son, 13-year-old daughter, and a big crack on their bedroom wall. In Roberts's wry delivery, Amanda announces that she hates people in general, and that she has rented a luxurious house surrounded by woods on Long Island for a weekend family escape. The trees there are such bright green that the film has a slightly hyperreal aura from the start.
Continued here
|
S7In the face of death, destruction and displacement, beauty plays a vital role in Gaza  Visiting Scholar of International Development, Community and Environment, Clark University A small group of children in Gaza sit on a lavender and white blanket around a small tray of beverages, singing “Happy Birthday” to a young girl. Like kids her age around the world, she wears a sweatshirt with prints of Elsa and Anna, characters from “Frozen”; unlike most kids, she’s celebrating against a backdrop of a war that, according to United Nations estimates as of Nov. 10, 2023, has already killed more than 4,500 Palestinian children.
Continued here
|
S8Digitized records from wildlife centers show the most common ways that humans harm wild animals  At hundreds of wildlife rehabilitation centers across the U.S., people can learn about wild animals and birds at close range. These sites, which may be run by nonprofits or universities, often feature engaging exhibits, including “ambassador” animals that can’t be released – an owl with a damaged wing, for example, or a fox that was found as a kit and became accustomed to being fed by humans. What’s less visible are the patients – sick and injured wild animals that have been admitted for treatment.
Continued here
|
S9
S10
S11Gaza war: how representative is Hamas of ordinary Palestinians?  After more than a month during which Israel has relentlessly bombarded then invaded Gaza with the stated aim of destroying Hamas, Gaza’s health authorities have estimated that more than 13,000 people – mainly civilians and a distressingly high proportion of those children – have been killed. Yet it should be remembered that it was the initial attack on Israel by Hamas fighters on October 7, killing 1,200 people – again, mainly civilians, many in the most brutal manner – that led to Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
Continued here
|
S12Why a doctor's empathy is important for keeping patients safe  Avoiding fatal patient safety failures requires “a more empathetic and collaborative approach from doctors”, the UK’s parliamentary and health service ombudsman, Rob Behrens, recently argued in The Times.The same is true for maternity care. The 2013 Francis report into the maternity services at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust states that inaction in the face of death rates that were out of the ordinary probably wouldn’t have occurred if “empathy for the predicament of patients” had constantly been at the forefront of healthcare professionals’ minds.
Continued here
|
S13DIY faecal transplants? Don't try this at home  Saffron Cassidy suffered from ulcerative colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease, for 15 years before she allegedly cured it using her partner’s poop. “It’s been about three and a half years of having no symptoms whatsoever,” she told Yahoo Life. “And my colonoscopies show complete histologic remission.”Now Cassidy has become an evangelist for the procedure known as faecal microbiota transplants (FMT). She has even made a documentary, Designer Shit: A Microbiome Love Story.
Continued here
|
S14Americans are tiptoeing out of economic turmoil this holiday shopping season  As marketing professors, we know that consumer spending drives the U.S. economy. So for the second year in a row, we surveyed more than 500 Americans about their holiday shopping plans. We found that consumers are conflicted: They’re excited for deals and looking forward to treating themselves, but they’re feeling squeezed by high prices.Shoppers also plan to splurge a little on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The share who plan to prioritize shopping for necessities fell slightly from 2022, while those who plan to buy luxury items rose modestly. Meanwhile, plans to spend on big-ticket items stayed stable at 15%.
Continued here
|
S15S16S17S186 ways children's rights can help create a cleaner, healthier planet for all  A concentration of greenhouse gases, rising sea levels, and warming, acidifying oceans – these represent a clear threat to children’s health, and even their right to life. The UN World Meteorological Organisation warned recently of alarming, continuing trends in these four key indicators of climate change, which will severely impact children in decades to come.The Committee on the Rights of the Child is composed of 18 experts, it monitors compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child in each of the 196 states that signed it. It does this by collecting reports from UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Fund), governments, and nonprofit organisations, which it then uses to make recommendations for improvement.
Continued here
|
S19Earth in the Anthropocene: how did we get here? Can we limit the damage?  Économiste, chercheur associé au Laboratoire interdisciplinaire des énergies de demain, Université Paris Cité In 2000, Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul J. Crutzen proposed that the epoch known as the Holocene, which started some 11,700 years ago, had reached its end. To describe our current era, he employed the term anthropocene, originated earlier by ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer. Together the two scientists asserted that humans’ collective influence on the Earth system was so profound that it was altering the planet’s geological and ecological trajectory. According to them, humanity had entered a new geologic era.
Continued here
|
S20The vast majority of us have no idea what the padlock icon on our internet browser is - and it's putting us at risk  The padlock symbol on a web browser simply means that the data being sent between the web server and the user’s computer is encrypted and cannot be read by others. But when we asked people what they thought it meant, we received an array of incorrect answers.In our study, we asked a cross section of 528 web users, aged between 18 and 86 years of age, a number of questions about the internet. Some 53% of them held a bachelor’s degree or above and 22% had a college certificate, while the remainder had no further education.
Continued here
|
S21When to give your child their first mobile phone - and how to keep them safe  I often get questions from parents about their children’s internet use. One of the most common is when to get their child a mobile phone, as well as how to keep them safe when they have one. Here are my answers to some key questions. I’m afraid I often disappoint parents in my answer to this question by not giving them a definite number. But the key here is what your child is going to use the phone for – and when might be suitable for that individual child.
Continued here
|
S22Why NHS England is struggling - despite more staff and money  Overall public satisfaction with the NHS in England is currently at a 40-year low of 29%, a recent survey by the King’s Fund thinktank has found. People are not happy with waiting times for GP and hospital appointments. Over half of those surveyed think the service is beset by staff shortages. A similar percentage think the government does not spend enough money on the NHS. This is despite the fact that in 2022-2023 the NHS received £152.6 billion in total budget – an increase (at 2022-2023 prices) of £28.4 billion compared to 2016-2017. The service has 32.4% more full-time staff too. Its workforce hit an all-time high of 1.275 million employees in February 2023 (up from from 963,000 in June 2013).
Continued here
|
S23The most vulnerable shoulder rising energy costs because their homes aren't efficient enough -  In September 2023, the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, announced that landlords will no longer be required to improve the energy efficiency of their rental properties. The announcement marked a departure from decades of commitment to the government’s sustainability objectives, including efforts to reduce the UK’s dependence on imported energy. This dependence remains a threat both to the UK’s energy security and to addressing the growing number of people that are trapped in fuel poverty throughout the country.
Continued here
|
 |
TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 10,00,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise Privacy Policy Unsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
Our mailing address is GF 25/39, West Patel Nagar, New Delhi 110008, India |
