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S5S7S8S9S10How to Become an Agile Learner   Learning agility — the skill of learning from experiences so you can succeed in new situations — is a much sought-after skill to create a flexible, mobile, and resilient workforce. For example, a leader with learning agility can successfully transfer their talents across different parts of an organization. And individuals with high learning agility become the trusted “go-to” for high-profile projects and high-impact positions. In this article, the authors explore what it means to be an agile learner and outline several strategies for increasing your learning agility.
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S11Taupo: 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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S12Message 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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S13Did 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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S14The historic volcanic eruptions encoded in art  The ability to capture ethereal light, wild weather and romantically hazy landscapes using atmospheric washes of translucent paint made British artist JMW Turner famous.But when Turner turned his brush to the dreamlike beauty of a sunset, he was inadvertently recording a lot more than the drama of a passing moment. The streaks of scarlet and glowing oranges on his canvases have become a record of volcanic eruptions that created unusually fiery displays at sundown.
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S15S16Southern Hemisphere Braces for Record-Breaking Heat  Like the Northern Hemisphere before it, the Southern Hemisphere is set to be enveloped by sweltering heat during its upcoming summerAerial view of the city of Santiago showing the smog caused by high temperatures, taken on August 2, 2023. South American countries, such as Chile and Argentina, set heat records in the middle of the southern winter due to a combination of the El Niño phenomenon and climate change, which also impacts the northern hemisphere with record high temperatures, but in the summer.
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S17Astronomy Is Facing an End Of The Era of Monster Telescopes  Money, engineering, and sheer geometry may mark an end of the line for building ever larger astronomical telescopesThis artist’s rendering shows the Extremely Large Telescope in operation on Cerro Armazones in northern Chile. The telescope is shown using lasers to create artificial stars high in the atmosphere.
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S18Air Pollution Is Really Dangerous, Even More New Evidence Shows  Dirty air has been linked to poor health outcomes, ranging from suicidality to low birth weightAir pollution is one of the world's greatest public health threats, reducing global life expectancy more than smoking, alcohol or childhood malnutrition. Recent studies estimate that fine particulate matter called PM2.5—pumped out by cars, factories, woodstoves and wildfires—causes nearly nine million premature deaths annually, with South Asia bearing the highest tolls.
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S19Earth's Earliest Rocks Forged by Colliding Tectonic Plates  Our planet’s crust has been shifting and sliding for four billion years, a new study suggestsAs giant slabs of Earth's crust collide in ultraslow motion, they create mountains, trigger earthquakes and forge new rocks. No one knows how or when this fundamental process, called plate tectonics, began. But an experimental study published in Nature Geoscience suggests early plate tectonics created the oldest rocks on Earth, which are about four billion years old—just short of the planet's age of 4.5 billion years.
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S20YouTube and Reels Could Decide India's Elections  Sharvan Patel's Instagram account is a window into daily life in the vast deserts of western India: children fighting calves for camel milk, a grandmother drying pickles on top of a mud house, or a farmer eating under the only tree in a barren land. Patel's passion for wildlife conservation has attracted more than 318,000 followers to his account, where he tells the story of the intricate binding of the Indigenous cultures with the ecosystem in the Thar desert. Sometimes, he also tells people who to vote for in upcoming elections.In one of Patel's posts from August, which has been played over 4.7 million times, dozens of women, from young to old, line up to get a smartphone under a government scheme. "Today, this mother has gotten a smartphone," a woman says, pointing toward a frail woman. "She had never thought that Ashok Gehlot would give her the smartphone that her son could never get her."
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S21It's Time to Log Off  Scrolling through social media can feel like a nightmare these days. You’re reading about the horrors of the Israel-Hamas war, and then you’re reading about the horrors of the war between Ukraine and Russia. You’re learning about the latest devastating climate news. Democracy is under threat in America. It can feel like everything is falling apart.This, of course, can have a significant effect on your mental health. You start to feel overwhelmed. Not only are you dealing with the regular stresses of daily life—your job, your finances, your personal relationships—but now you’re thinking about the most serious problems the world is facing. Social media algorithms tend to elevate the most contentious content, so these feeds are showing you things that will elicit a visceral response—they’re putting the doom in doomscrolling.
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S22The JBL Authentics 200 Is a Real Sonos Alternative  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 WIREDJBL has unveiled an all-new series of smart speakers, which means yet another option to investigate in the overgrown smart speaker marketplace. Except there is something different about JBL’s stylish Authentics line.
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