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S110 Common Job Interview Questions and How to Answer Them   Interviews can be high stress, anxiety-driving situations, especially if it’s your first interview. A little practice and preparation always pays off. While we can’t know exactly what an employer will ask, here are 10 common interview questions along with advice on how to answer them. The questions include:
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S3S4S5S6S7S8S9S10S11S125 Pillars for Democratizing Data at Your Organization  Many companies have made becoming data-driven a goal, and yet many traditional organizations are still struggling to democratize data beyond the data experts. The authors state that companies must adopt a new management paradigm to truly democratize data, and offer 5 pillars to create a “data democracy”: 1) Broaden data access by rolling-out data catalogs and marketplaces, 2) stimulate the generation of data-driven insights through self-service, 3) level up data literacy with specific curricula for personas or role families, 4) advance data practices by creating communities, and 5) promote data through various corporate communication channels.
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S13Can GenAI Do Strategy?  This article presents a classroom experiment that compared a strategy developed by a team of MBA students in the traditional way with one developed using a virtual AI assistant, which was an interactive tool that linked a tried-and-tested strategy toolkit as a plug-in to the generative AI underlying Chat GPT. The results of the two independent processes were largely similar, with the AI-assisted strategy being, if anything, more original. The difference? The students took a week and the AI just 60 minutes.
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S14Taupo: 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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S15Message 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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S16Did 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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S17Fearless wild turkeys are roaming US cities -  A few years ago, I lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where large wild birds roamed the streets. Around the same height as my daughter, they feared no man, nonchalantly wandering through heavy traffic, into people's gardens, and across the campus of Harvard University.It's the same story elsewhere. A friend of mine – the journalist Bethany Brookshire – lives in Washington DC, and wrote last year about how the birds had been terrorising citizens there: some people had even been hospitalised. Another friend, who lives in Des Moines, told me the creatures had blocked traffic in front of a local school recently.
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S18Tyrian purple: The lost ancient pigment that was more valuable than gold  At first, they just looked like stains. It was 2002 at the site of Qatna – a ruined palace at the edge of the Syrian desert, on the shores of a long-vanished lake. Over three millennia after it was abandoned, a team of archaeologists had been granted permission to investigate – and they were on the hunt for the royal tomb.After navigating through large hallways and narrow corridors, down crumbling steps, they came across a deep shaft. On one side were two identical statues guarding a sealed door: they had found it. Inside was a hoard of ancient wonders – 2,000 objects, including jewellery and a large golden hand. But there were also some intriguing dark patches on the ground. They sent a sample for testing – eventually separating out a vivid purple layer from the dust and muck.
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S19How to Buy Your First Telescope  This beginner’s guide to telescope basics will help make holiday shopping a little more heavenlyToday is Black Friday, a modern event that evolved from the furious rush to buy holiday gifts for loved ones on the day after Thanksgiving. Stores have sales, people get up early to avoid the rush (and ironically create one) and, most sadly of all, people who are unprepared to buy astronomical equipment purchase something that usually winds up unused and collecting dust. To avoid that situation, let’s talk astronomical equipment.
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S20S21Air-Conditioning Discovery Eliminates Harmful Gases  Heat pumps are ubiquitous in the form of air conditioners. Scientists just invented one that avoids harmful refrigerant gasesAir conditioners around the world compress and vaporize environmentally damaging gases to cool and heat air. But a new heat pump technology could change all that.
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S22Machine Learning Creates a Massive Map of Smelly Molecules  To a human nose, hydrogen sulfide smells like rotten eggs, geranyl acetate like roses. But the problem of guessing how a new chemical will smell without having someone sniff it has long stumped food scientists, perfumers and neuroscientists alike.Now, in a study published in Science, researchers describe a machine-learning model that does this job. The model, called the Principal Odor Map, predicted smells for 500,000 molecules that have never been synthesized—a task that would take a human 70 years. “Our bandwidth for profiling molecules is orders of magnitude faster,” says Michigan State University food scientist Emily Mayhew, who co-led the study.
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S23Newfound Hybrid Brain Cells Send Signals like Neurons Do  Some astrocytes, thought to play only a supportive role in the brain, can communicate with neuronsOur thoughts and feelings arise from networks of neurons, brain cells that send signals using chemicals called neurotransmitters. But neurons aren't alone. They're supported by other cells called glia (Greek for “glue”), which were once thought to hold nerve tissue together. Today glia are known to help regulate metabolism, protect neurons and clean up cellular waste—critical but unglamorous roles.
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S24We're live blogging the best Black Friday Deals  WIRED editors spend all year testing gear and logging prices so we can bring you the very best Black Friday deals.Thank you all for a Great Black Friday! New deals are coming slowly now so we're going to pause the liveblog for the rest of the day and come back for Cyber Monday.
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S25The Best Black Friday Deals Under $50  Every single year I tell myself that I'm not going to go overboard for the holidays. Then I start shopping for 20 people. If you're in the same boat, you'll be happy to know we've tracked down the Black Friday deals under $50 on reviewer-approved gadgets. No random third-party sellers or too-good-to-be-true gear—just the stuff we actually like that's actually affordable.WIRED tests products year-round and handpicked these deals based on the actual discounts. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide through Black Friday. Updated November 24.
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S26The 65 Best Black Friday Deals on Outdoor Gear  Black Friday is traditionally the season when you shop for televisions or Christmas presents, and not so much for outdoor gear. But that has changed in the past few years with REI's Get Up Get Out Sale and other retailers trying their hand at Black Friday outdoor deals. Now is a great time to score a deal on tents, backpacks, sleeping pads, and Garmin devices. REI's sale is over (it will be back for Cyber Monday), but aside from REI brand items, we've found the same deals elsewhere.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discount amounts we show are based on actual street prices at retailers in the past few months. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide periodically.
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S27The Best Apple Black Friday Deals  It's the best time of year to buy Apple hardware, whether that's a new iPad, MacBook, Apple Watch, or even a MagSafe iPhone case—we've found plenty of Apple Black Friday deals right now. For more gadgets on sale, be sure to check out our Best Black Friday Deals roundup.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discount amounts we show are based on actual street prices at retailers in the past few months. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide periodically.
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S2829 Best Black Friday Mattress Deals  If you've ever researched mattresses, you may have noticed they tend to be permanently on sale. Don't be fooled, this is a marketing tactic—and Black Friday mattress deals are no exception. Prices are usually marked up exorbitantly, then dropped down to a “sale” price. You see the huge discount and think it's a good time to buy. Sometimes, though, prices do drop lower than that faux deal, and right now 13 of our favorite mattresses and a bunch of sheets and other sleep accessories are truly discounted. The prices below are for queen sizes unless noted.We track prices throughout the year so we know how good the sale prices are, but we've added a few new mattresses that we haven't been able to track as closely yet. Some of those prices may be reduced even more, and more of our favorites will likely also have good discounts closer to Black Friday. Be sure to read our buying guides for the Best Mattresses You Can Buy Online, Best Organic Mattresses, and Best Mattresses for Side Sleepers. And check out the rest of our favorite Black Friday Deals.
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S29The Best Black Friday Sex Toy Deals  Black Friday and Cyber Monday season might bring to mind discounts on kitchen gadgets, clothes, big-screen TVs, and microwaves, but it's also a surprisingly good time to snag deals on sex tech. It's not exactly a category you'll see splashed across the pages of a big box store's print advertisements, but if you know where to look, you can find some great sex toy deals. Here's what we found so far—these are gadgets the WIRED Gear Team has personally tested and vetted.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discount amounts we show are based on actual street prices at retailers in the past few months. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide periodically.
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S30The Best Black Friday Kitchen Deals  The season of holiday cookies and family recipes you either dearly love or deeply despise is around the corner. We've scoured the internet for Black Friday kitchen deals that may be of interest if you're looking for gifts—or feeling woefully unprepared with the tools you have in your kitchen. Whether it's a new countertop appliance, the KitchenAid of your dreams, or a better coffee machine to survive your in-laws being in town, these are the best kitchen sales for you to shop this Black Friday.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discount amounts we show are based on actual street prices at retailers in the past few months. Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. We'll update this guide periodically.
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S31What was it like when protons and neutrons formed?  The story of our cosmic history is one of an expanding and cooling Universe. As we progressed from a hot, dense, uniform state to a cold, sparse, clumpy one, a number of momentous events happened throughout our cosmic history. At the moment of the hot Big Bang, the Universe was filled with all sorts of ultra-high energy particles, antiparticles, and quanta of radiation, moving at or close to the speed of light.On the other hand, today, we have a Universe filled with stars, galaxies, gas, dust, and many other phenomena that are too low in energy to have existed in the early Universe. Once things cooled enough so that the Higgs gave mass to the Universe, you might think that protons and neutrons would have immediately formed thereafter.
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S32Do wolves harbor the secret to curing dogs' bowel problems?  One of humans’ key characteristics, and a major reason we’ve been so successful, is that we can adapt to a huge range of environments and lifestyles. For instance, while modern changes in our diet may have caused an increase in certain inflammatory bowel conditions, we can now consume a wide range of calorie-dense, complex foods previously unimaginable to our hunter-gatherer forebears.Humans have not evolved alone. In our settled agricultural wake, we brought along a whole host of animals. We domesticated the wild. We tamed the beast. One of the first examples of this is the dog. While it might be hard to imagine in some cases, modern dogs do share a common ancestry with the wild gray wolf.
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S33Top vets urge dog lovers to stop buying pugs and bulldogs  So what’s their cutest feature? Is it their squashy little faces? Their grunting pants? Their double-curled tails?That coiled tail is possibly less endearing when you know it’s a purpose-bred genetic defect, which in its most serious forms leads to paralysis. And their squished noses? That’s been selectively bred to become ever shorter and smaller, making it difficult for the dogs to breathe and eat, causing trickle down effects like cardiovascular stress, eye prolapses, overheating (dogs don’t sweat, so they need to pant to expel heat through evaporation), weight gain because of that sedentary overheated lifestyle, dental crowding, soft palate collapse, and skinfold dermatitis. More of an “anatomical disaster” than the patron saint of cuteness.
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S34Porsche's third-gen Panamera plug-in hybrid pairs V8 with a big battery  LEIPZIG, Germany—Although it feels like we recently tested the facelifted Porsche Panamera plug-in hybrid, it turns out that was more than three years ago. This means there's a new model due in 2024, and Porsche has given Ars a sneak peek at its next sedan as well as the factory that builds them, plus a little time behind the wheel. There's quite a lot to look forward to about the new Panamera, including a more powerful plug-in powertrain and much sharper handling.
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S35The Ars guide to time travel in the movies  Since antiquity, humans have envisioned various means of time travel into the future or the past. The concept has since become a staple of modern science fiction. In particular, the number of films that make use of time travel has increased significantly over the decades, while the real-world science has evolved right alongside them, moving from simple Newtonian mechanics and general relativity to quantum mechanics and the notion of a multiverse or more exotic alternatives like string theory.
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S36What Andr  In 2017, I spoke with a music historian to understand the trend of flute rap: a boom in rappers rhyming about codeine, cars, and trauma over the soft sound of breath moving through a tube. Ardal Powell, the author of The Flute, told me that nothing surprised him when it came to this instrument. It is possibly the oldest musical device in the world. Neanderthals and 15th-century Swiss mercenaries and 1970s heavy-metal bands found use for it. Why not rappers?The “key thing in the history of the flute, going back thousands of years,” Powell said, is that “it’s the closest instrument to the human voice.” No reed or mouthpiece separates the player’s breath from the sound it makes. This observation suggested that the flute, all along, was a bit hip-hop. And at its best, rap can seem like an act of inner channeling, of making the body and mind one. The flute is difficult to master but, fundamentally, intuitive to operate—intuitive like tapping out a rhythm, or like speaking.
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S37Photos of the Week:  A presidential election in Argentina, a Thanksgiving banquet in Denver, Formula One racing in Las Vegas, a cease-fire protest in France, flooding in Somalia, a Christmas market in Germany, a human tower in Mexico City, and much more The national Thanksgiving turkey Liberty waits to be pardoned by President Joe Biden during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on November 20, 2023, in Washington, D.C. #
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S38I Still Get Called Daddy-Mommy  When I first became a stay-at-home dad, 15 years ago, people didn’t know how to categorize me: I was called a babysitter, “that guy at story time,” and even a woman a couple of times by shirttail relatives and friends. Their words were patronizing and unnecessarily feminizing, but they didn’t diminish my love of being a father. Over time, I raised three kids while my wife advanced in the advertising world. She negotiated contracts; I negotiated naptime. She worked hard to bring in new clients; I worked hard to raise our children. The division of labor has benefited our individual strengths: We both agree that I’m more patient while she is more business-savvy.Yet, after all this time, many people still can’t compute that I’m my kids’ primary caregiver. Several years ago, as I was fetching my youngest child from preschool, a kid asked the teacher why my son was always picked up by his father; the teacher explained that I was a “daddy-mommy.” As I wrote this article, I learned that I’d missed the sign-up for the same child’s parent-teacher conference because I never got the email. My wife did, even though she barely interacts with the school.
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S39How Biden Might Recover  A press release that President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign issued last week offered a revealing window into his advisers’ thinking about how he might overcome widespread discontent with his performance to win a second term next year.While the release focused mostly on portraying former President Donald Trump as a threat to legal abortion, the most telling passage came when the Biden campaign urged the political press corps “to meet the moment and responsibly inform the electorate of what their lives might look like if the leading GOP candidate for president is allowed back in the White House.”
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S40AI's Spicy-Mayo Problem  A chatbot that can’t say anything controversial isn’t worth much. Bring on the uncensored models.One day in July, a developer who goes by the handle Teknium asked an AI chatbot how to make mayonnaise. Not just any mayo—he wanted a “dangerously spicy” recipe. The chatbot, however, politely declined. “As a helpful and honest assistant, I cannot fulfill your request for ‘dangerously spicy mayo’ as it is not appropriate to provide recipes or instructions that may cause harm to individuals,” it replied. “Spicy foods can be delicious, but they can also be dangerous if not prepared or consumed properly.”
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S41How I Lost the Russia That Never Was  I sometimes felt that we told the truth only at the funerals of our assassinated friends. Was this what Russia had been all along?The lack of respect for the dead surprised even a soldier with the Wagner Group, Russia’s mercenary legion of former convicts that fought some of the bloodiest battles in the invasion of Ukraine. He looked at an ugly heap of wooden crosses and flower wreaths that had been pushed aside and cursed the authorities.
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S42Seven Great Reads From Our Editors  This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Today, we’ll introduce you to The Atlantic’s time machine. Plus, our editors selected seven great reads for you to dive into this weekend.
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S43An island off an island | Psyche Films  Electricity is limited, entertainments like film screenings and restaurant meals are scarce, and all your neighbours are people you know and rely on – the prospect of living like this might be idyllic or distressing, depending on your disposition. But, for partners John Bullock and Jenene Oates, it’s simply home. This short documentary from the filmmaker Guido Pezz takes viewers into the couple’s life on Bruny Island, Australia, population 750, itself located just off the coast of Tasmania. Featuring lush shots of the landscape, and the couple engaged in unplugged activities of self-sufficiency like gardening, baking and pottery, the brief trip likely makes for a relaxing and worthwhile experience, even if their off-grid life isn’t quite for you.Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts.
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S44Why Egyptomania Is Taking Over Australia /https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/b1/18/b1186676-aaa2-40f6-8c0e-725c6260594e/ramses__the_gold_of_the_pharaohs_exhibition_awidth-16005d66ab1.jpg) A series of exhibitions in the country spotlight the enduring appeal of ancient Egypt for modern audiencesA rare slice of ancient Egypt arrived at Sydney’s Australian Museum this month, with the blockbuster “Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs” exhibition making the fourth stop on its international tour. The immersive show, which premiered in Houston in 2021, offers an expansive look into the reign of Ramses II, one of Egypt’s most powerful pharaohs.
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S45S46Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century  Back in the 1990s, computer engineer and Wall Street “quant” were the hot occupations in business. Today data scientists are the hires firms are competing to make. As companies wrestle with unprecedented volumes and types of information, demand for these experts has raced well ahead of supply. Indeed, Greylock Partners, the VC firm that backed Facebook and LinkedIn, is so worried about the shortage of data scientists that it has a recruiting team dedicated to channeling them to the businesses in its portfolio.
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S47What It Takes to Give a Great Presentation  Never underestimate the power of great communication. It can help you land the job of your dreams, attract investors to back your idea, or elevate your stature within your organization. But while there are plenty of good speakers in the world, you can set yourself apart out by being the person who can deliver something great over and over. Here are a few tips for business professionals who want to move from being good speakers to great ones: be concise (the fewer words, the better); never use bullet points (photos and images paired together are more memorable); don’t underestimate the power of your voice (raise and lower it for emphasis); give your audience something extra (unexpected moments will grab their attention); rehearse (the best speakers are the best because they practice — a lot).
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S48Jimmy Red corn grits with egg yolks  At Audrey, chef Sean Brock's Appalachia-inspired restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee, diners enjoy Jimmy Red grits, a porridge made from dried, stone-ground corn, topped with a sorghum-cured egg yolk and bay laurel (also known as sweet bay). This is a dish that would have been impossible to make 15 years ago.That's because Jimmy Red, the coveted heirloom corn variety from which the grits are made, was in danger of going the way of the woolly mammoth until Brock stepped in to help save it. The deep red "dent" corn, named for the dent on each corn kernel, likely made its way from the Appalachian Mountains to South Carolina's James Island around 1900, where it was prized by bootleggers who distilled it into moonshine (illegal whiskey). In the early 2000s, the sole remaining bootlegger growing the corn died, and the corn almost died, too.
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S49Doctor Who: Who is the greatest Doctor of all?  Today, Doctor Who celebrates its 60th birthday – a truly astonishing achievement for a TV series. And in that time, no less than 13 actors have played the time-travelling Doctor, with Ncuti Gatwa set to become the 14th when he takes over at Christmas (although he will officially be known as the Fifteenth Doctor, as one actor, David Tennant, has now played two separate incarnations of the Doctor).In honour of this great day, we decided to ask a selection of Doctor Who experts a very tricky question: who is the greatest Doctor of them all? Here were their answers, which make for perfect fuel for continuing the debate in your own home.
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S50Napoleon and Josephine: Was their great love affair a myth?  The relationship between Napoleon and the woman he called "Josephine" is central to the plot of Ridley Scott's new film about the French Emperor, which is released this week. It portrays Napoleon as someone who, according to Scott: "conquered the world to try to win her [Josephine's] love, and when he couldn't, conquered it to destroy her, and destroyed himself in the process".More like this:- Napoleon review: 'An awe-inspiring achievement' - Was Napoleon really a monster? - Was Kubrick's Napoleon the greatest film never made?
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S51Brandalism: the environmental activists using spoof adverts to critique rampant consumerism - podcast  Amid the flurry of billboards promoting cut price deals in the run up to Black Friday, some activists have slipped in the odd spoof advert. By subverting public advertising space, they’re risking legal action to try and make serious points about the excesses of consumer culture and the perilous state of the environment. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we find out about the subvertising movement and its links to a wider conversation about mass consumerism and the environment.
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S52Booker prize 2023: why these shortlisted novels represent a 'golden age' of Irish writing  PhD Candidate, Contemporary English Literature and Critical Theory, Trinity College Dublin This year’s Booker prize shortlist is an exciting line up, melding established, prize-winning authors and debut writers. The 2023 shortlist contains two Irish authors – Paul Murray and Paul Lynch – and on the long list of 13 novels, Elaine Feeney’s How to Build a Boat and Sebastian Barry’s Old God’s Time also made the cut.
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S53S54Ukraine war: it may be stalemate on land, but Kyiv's Black Sea success could bring wider benefits this winter  As the attention of the world centres on the war in Gaza, many commentators believe that the war in Ukraine is becoming a stalemate. To date, Ukraine’s highly anticipated summer counteroffensive has not resulted in any substantial territorial gain, and Russia has not made any progress either.In military terms, a stalemate is not necessarily negative, depending on your perspective. It’s a chance to replenish ammunition stocks (for instance, Russia’s limited supply of missiles) or procure new key weapons systems for the next phase of the war (Ukraine’s acquisition of F-16 fighter jets.
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S55Size of brain area linked with cognitive decline - even in people with no other warning signs of Alzheimer's disease  A small, seahorse-sized area of the brain is responsible for most of our learning and memory. Called the hippocampus, this area is key to many important brain functions, including turning short-term memories into long-term ones, regulating our emotions and making spatial navigation possible – essentially, our ability to plan where to go and how to get there.As we get older, it’s normal for the hippocampus to shrink somewhat. But with certain health conditions, this volume loss is more rapid. Unsurprisingly, Alzheimer’s disease is one of these conditions.
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S56Kherson one year on: a city bereft of its younger residents and still bombarded by Russian forces across the river  It is a year now since Ukrainian forces liberated Kherson. I knew it before the war as a polyglot and bustling port city (if still determinedly Soviet in feel) sitting largely on the western (right) bank of the mighty Dnipro River. In the first few days of the war, in February 2022, Kherson was seized by Russian forces. It was the largest and strategically most important Ukrainian city to come under Russian occupation. While a major administrative centre itself, Kherson also represented an important gateway for Russian forces in terms of their hoped-for later push towards the vital port city of Odesa, some 150km further to the west.
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S57S58Ethiopia's education system is in crisis - now's the time to fix it  In October 2023, Ethiopia’s minister of education, Berhanu Nega, disclosed several shocking figures on the outcomes of the 12th-grade national examination. Of the 3,106 schools that administered the 12th grade (secondary school leaving) examination for the 2022/23 academic year, 43% reported that none of their students had passed. And, for the second consecutive year, more than 96% of students who participated in the national school leaving examination scored less than the mark (an average of 50%) required to pass. This means that hundreds of thousands of students could not qualify for university education.
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S59S60S61What the autumn statement means for women - three economists explain  This year’s autumn statement was announced by the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, on Equal Pay Day – the day that UK women stop being paid when compared with men’s wages, due to the gender pay gap. It’s fitting then that the statement included some measures that could help working women – but in other areas, the government still isn’t going far enough.Traditional models of the economy were developed before mass female engagement in the labour market. Newer, more inclusive models better represent women’s experiences in the economy. It’s essential that women’s experiences are considered when setting economic policy to ensure it is fit for purpose.
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S62What the UK government's back to work plan covers - and why it is unlikely to boost people's job prospects  Ahead of the UK government’s latest economic statement, the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, and the secretary of state for work and pensions, Mel Stride, unveiled a new employment support package dubbed the back to work plan. The government’s aim is to support more than 1 million people who are either long-term unemployed or have long-term health conditions to (re)enter the workforce or remain in employment. The measures include providing additional individual support, particularly for those with health conditions, as well as revised benefit conditions and sanctions.
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S63The potential of psychedelics to heal our racial traumas  Clinical psychologist and professor Monnica Williams is on a mission to bring psychedelics to therapists’ offices to help people heal from their racial traumas. To do this, she’s jumping over some big hurdles.Judging from the colourful signs advertising mushrooms that we are seeing on our streets and the presence of psychedelics in pop culture, we are in the middle of a psychedelic renaissance. For example, in the TV program Transplant, a Syrian Canadian doctor experiencing trauma is treated by his psychiatrist with psilocybin therapy.
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S64Why the man-hating feminist is a myth -  As part of the “Women Against Feminism” campaign that launched in 2014, social media posts have featured young women holding placards with the message “I don’t need feminism because…” listing various reasons ranging from “I respect men” to “I am not a MAN-HATER”. This perception of misandry – a hatred of men - is perhaps the most prevalent and enduring stereotype about feminism. By this account, feminism is not really a movement to end sexism and bring about gender equality, but rather it is wholly concerned with dislike of men.
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S65S67Financial crises damage people's mental health - our global review shows who is worst affected  Financial crises are periods characterised for some by devastating losses of income, work, a certain future, and a stable family life. The effect on mental health can be catastrophic. But what does the evidence tell us about who is most at risk, and in what ways?But not everyone is affected equally. Your gender, age, job and whether you have a family are all key factors in determining how vulnerable you are to the stress and poor mental health associated with financial loss and insecurity.
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S68Autumn statement: what national insurance cuts and other changes mean for young people  At first glance, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement appears to reduce the tax burden, increase pay and make our lives a bit easier. But given the cost of living and other pressures, the big picture is not as pretty. If you’re a young professional, here’s what the changes could mean for you.Let’s start with your salary. The national living wage will increase from £10.42 to £11.44 per hour from April 2024 and be extended to all workers aged 21 and above. That’s an inflation beating rise of 12.4% if you’re between 21-23, and 9.8% if you’re older than 23. For those between 18-20, the hourly rate increases by a whopping 14% or £1.11, to £8.60 per hour.
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S69WeWork approached physical space as if it were virtual, which led to the company's downfall  On Nov. 6, the co-working firm WeWork filed for bankruptcy. WeWork, founded by Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey in 2010, had a simple business model: it signed long-term leases on urban buildings, fitting them out with modern work facilities. Then, it rented out desks, offices and meeting rooms to companies and freelancers seeking an easy-come, easy-go workplace.Yet Neumann promoted the firm as if it were a tech company, peppering his presentations with the buzzy language of Silicon Valley. He promised clients his offices would boost workers’ social interaction, leading to untold innovations. The company even developed an online social network, WeWork Commons.
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S70Gaza: what aid agencies can hope to achieve under the strict limits of the four-day humanitarian pause  The four-day humanitarian pause in Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip will be vital to allow humanitarian agencies into the stricken Palestinian enclave with much-needed supplies of food, water, fuel and medicine. But four days is a very short window to meet the vast humanitarian needs, given the damage wrought by more than a month of bombardment by the Israeli Defense Forces.For the first two weeks of Israel’s assault on Gaza, the strip was placed into a state of siege by Israel and access completely blocked. Since October 21, after calls from around the world for humanitarian pauses or a ceasefire, some aid has been allowed into the strip. But the 1,479 aid trucks that have been allowed in during this period represent only 14% of the monthly volume of commercial goods and humanitarian aid that was being delivered to Gaza prior to the conflict.
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