One dose CRISPR therapy cuts cholesterol by up to 55%

The first-in-humans trial of a CRISPR-based cholesterol treatment has delivered promising results, with one participant in the small study experiencing a 55% reduction in their cholesterol levels. However, the company will need to show that the treatment is safe, after concerning safety data.The world’s top killer: Cholesterol is a waxy substance made by our livers and found in certain foods. It comes in two forms, HDL and LDL, and while having high levels of HDL cholesterol in your blood appears beneficial, high levels of LDL cholesterol will eventually block your arteries, leading to cardiovascular disease, heart attacks, and strokes.

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Alone Together: An Illustrated Celebration of the Art of Shared Solitude

“One can never be alone enough to write,” Susan Sontag lamented in her diary. “Oh comforting solitude, how favorable thou art to original thought!” the founding father of neuroscience e…

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The AI Hype Cycle Is Distracting Companies

Machine learning has an “AI” problem. With new breathtaking capabilities from generative AI released every several months — and AI hype escalating at an even higher rate — it’s high time we differentiate most of today’s practical ML projects from those research advances. This begins by correctly naming such projects: Call them “ML,” not “AI.” Including all ML initiatives under the “AI” umbrella oversells and misleads, contributing to a high failure rate for ML business deployments. For most ML projects, the term “AI” goes entirely too far — it alludes to human-level capabilities. In fact, when you unpack the meaning of “AI,” you discover just how overblown a buzzword it is: If it doesn’t mean artificial general intelligence, a grandiose goal for technology, then it just doesn’t mean anything at all.

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5 Ways to Future-Proof Your Career in the Age of AI

What can we do personally to stave off the displacement that may happen as a result of AI? In this article, the authors offer five strategies to future-proof your career in the age of intelligent machines: 1) Avoid predictability. It’s important to remember that AI isn’t generating new insights; it’s a prediction engine that merely guesses the most likely next word. 2) Hone the skills that machines strive to emulate. 3) Double down on “the real world.” 4) Develop your personal brand. 5) Develop recognized expertise in your field. Even if AI performs “first draft” functions, it still has to be double-checked by a trusted and reliable source. If that’s you, you’ll continue to be sought out because you have the authority to vet AI’s responses.

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4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address

In our technology-dependent society, the effectiveness of cyber risk governance of companies affects its stock prices, as well as short-term and long-term shareholder value. New SEC cybersecurity rules provide a solid basis for transparency. Unfortunately, monitoring the long-term effectiveness of a cyber risk management strategy is not easy to grasp. This article provides four critical areas investors should be informed about for evaluating its long-term effectiveness.

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The Rise of Connector Roles in Data Science

Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.Our special report on innovation systems will help leaders guide teams that rely on virtual collaboration, explores the potential of new developments, and provides insights on how to manage customer-led innovation.For all of the current focus on using data, analytics, and AI to improve organizational decisions and operations, too many data science projects fail. Even for those that succeed, progress is often slow and expensive. Why? Organizational gaps between teams are wreaking havoc with the ability to develop, apply, and scale data science projects. A new type of role is needed to bridge these gaps.

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The major factors driving up the prices of US wine

Around the world, wine prices have been rising. Imbibers in the US – the largest wine-consuming country in the world – are especially feeling the price squeeze on certain domestic bottles. "There's been kind of an unprecedented move upward in price recently," says Andrew Adams, editor of Wine Business Analytics.An inflation economy certainly plays a role; prices are, of course, rising across the board on all sorts of goods and services. But Adams and other wine-industry experts also point to other factors, including broader international economic concerns, restrictive pricing mechanisms in the US and extreme weather, all combining to drive up prices of wine and even leave many aspects of the industry's future uncertain.

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Uncover Copenhagen's best New Nordic restaurants (beyond Noma)

A visit to Copenhagen wouldn't be complete without getting a taste of its thriving food scene. Scandinavia's culinary capital is home to 14 Michelin-starred restaurants, among them gastronomic titans like world-famous Noma and theatrical wonder The Alchemist – and it's almost impossible to mention the local cuisine without uttering "New Nordic" in the same breath.This is all the more astonishing given that only two decades ago, Denmark was better known for pork meatballs and curried herring. That all changed when the New Nordic Kitchen Manifesto was drawn up in 2004, championing modern cooking that's rooted in local, seasonal and organic ingredients – an ethos that countless Scandinavian kitchens have embraced ever since.

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Doctor Who: The Star Beast spoiler-filled review - this 'epic, action-packed' episode finds the show on top form again

Yes it's a show about time travel. But viewers of the Doctor Who 60th anniversary special The Star Beast – the first of three extended episodes leading up to the debut of 15th Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, at Christmas – could be forgiven for feeling like they too have fallen through some portal leading back in time. It's not just that David Tennant, perhaps the most successful Doctor of the modern era and certainly its first rock-star, heartthrob leading man, is back as the wandering Time Lord, with Catherine Tate as his plain-speaking companion/foil Donna Noble. Nor that Russell T Davies, the showrunner who regenerated the dormant series with huge success back in 2005, has returned too. Both were surprise hires, especially the signing of Davies which some fans likened to Steve Jobs returning to restore order to a chaotic and failing Apple Computer in 1997. Never before has Doctor Who called in past favourites to restore the show during one of its periodic slumps.

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The professor, the general and the populist: meet the three candidates running for president in Indonesia

Peneliti di Laboratorium Psikologi Politik Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Indonesia In just over two months, Indonesia will hold one of the biggest one-day elections anywhere on Earth. More than 200 million eligible voters will take part across Indonesia’s 6,000 inhabited islands – along with 1.75 million people in the diaspora – to elect a new president, vice president and members of the People’s Consultative Assembly at both the national and regional levels.

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Government provides $255 million to boost resources to monitor released immigration detainees

The Albanese government, still struggling with the fallout from the High Court decision forcing the release of immigration detainees, is allocating $255 million to beef up resources to keep tabs on them. So far, 141 people have been released. The government has not said how many are wearing monitoring devices. It is not clear whether more people will be released and if so, how many. A total number of 340 has been referred to as being those potentially eligible for release.

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Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand all felt 'different' in the world - and changed the way we think

The “actual impulse of astonishment” that sparks all philosophising is “honest bafflement that other people live as they do,” writes Wolfram Eilenberger in his new book, The Visionaries.It’s a wild ride through ten of the worst years in the 20th century, spanning the period from 1933, the year Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, to 1943 and the thick of the second world war. It’s told through the occasionally intersecting lives of four brilliant young women philosophers: Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil (both French), Russian-American Ayn Rand, and German-Jewish Hannah Arendt, who spent time exiled in France and New York.

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Casual, distant, aesthetically limited: 5 ways smartphone photography is changing how we see the world

Smartphones are a staple of modern life and are changing how we see the world and show it to others. Almost 90% of Aussies own one, and we spend an average of 5.6 hours using them each day. Smartphones are also responsible for more than 90% of all the photographs made this year. Before the first smartphone camera was released in 2007, cameras were used more selectively and for a narrower range of purposes. You might only see them at events like weddings and graduations, or at tourist hotspots on holidays.

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A major new childcare report glosses over the issues educators face at work and why they leave

The Productivity Commission has just released a major report as part of its inquiry into early childhood education and care. The draft recommendation that all children under five should have access to three days a week of “high quality” early education is grabbing headlines.

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Green growth or degrowth: what is the right way to tackle climate change?

Nearly all the world’s governments and vast numbers of its people are convinced that addressing human-induced climate change is essential if healthy societies are to survive. The two solutions most often proposed go by various names but are widely known as “green growth” and “degrowth”. Can these ideas be reconciled? What do both have to say about the climate challenge?The crude version of green growth – the solution that dominates the discourse of developed countries – is essentially that technology will save us if we get the incentives right. We can stick with the idea that economic growth is the central determinant of human flourishing, we just need technological fixes for unsustainable industrial practices. These will emerge if we get prices pointing in a green direction, which is first and foremost about carbon taxes.

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Think potholes on our roads are getting worse? You're right - and here's why

If you’re a driver, particularly in the country, you could be forgiven for thinking potholes have become a design feature of Australia’s local roads.You would certainly know they are in a state of disrepair. And you have every reason to be fed up, because bad roads are dangerous, they increase your travel time, and they force you to spend more on fuel and on car maintenance.

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In Gaza, a photo of Israeli soldier raising a pride flag 'in the name of love' goes viral, 'pinkwashing' a war

Waging war in the name of love is as old as the myths from ancient Greece, considered to be the birthplace of western civilization. The legend is that their army sent a thousand ships to liberate Helen of Troy all “for love.” This month, an image of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier raising the rainbow flag, a global symbol of gay pride since the 1970s, went viral. The image was posted and shared by Israeli government social media accounts.

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Gender-based violence: Teaching about its root causes is necessary to address it

In 2022, 184 women and girls were killed by violence in Canada. This number has steadily increased in each of the past three years; 148 women and girls were killed in 2019, 172 in 2020 and 177 in 2021.There were 6,423 incidences of anti-2SLGBTQIA+ protests and online hate in Canada in the first three months of 2023 alone. Expressions of hate toward trans and non-binary people and 2SLGBTQIA+ people more broadly have been rising.

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Responsible ESG investing in the Global South requires overcoming the Global North's saviour complex

ESG standards (Environment, Social and Governance) are metrics designed to guide responsible investing. The “S” in ESG has evolved into the financial innovation of social impact investing (SII), which promotes social benefits such as environmental protection, gender equality and human development, and also generates profits for beneficiaries and investors.ESG was co-opted into the culture wars when conservative politicians became concerned that businesses had become too focused on progressive social issues.

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Here's why union support is so high right now

Over 65,000 teachers in Québec could remain on strike until Christmas if a deal isn’t reached, their union said on Sunday. The warning comes amid widespread labour unrest in the province, including nearly 570,000 workers on strike at the same time last week.These collective actions are on the heels of the recent “summer of strikes,” that saw a number of labour actions take place, including the Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes, the United Auto Workers’ strike and a number of Starbucks strikes. In Canada, port workers in British Columbia, workers from Ontario’s public broadcaster, and city workers in Saint John also held strikes.

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Labor loses four points in two Newspolls to slump to a 50--50 tie

Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A federal Newspoll, conducted November 20–24 from a sample of 1,216, had Labor and the Coalition tied at 50–50 after preferences, a two-point gain for the Coalition since the previous Newspoll three weeks ago. Primary votes were 38% Coalition (up one), 31% Labor (down four), 13% Greens (up one), 6% One Nation (steady) and 12% for all Others (up two).

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Mike Pezzullo sacked after scathing findings accusing him of misusing his position

The government has sacked the secretary of the Home Affairs department, Mike Pezzullo, after an inquiry found he had breached the Public Service Code of Conduct.The inquiry found he used his position for personal advantage, gossiped disrespectfully about ministers, broke confidentiality, failed to act apolitically, and didn’t disclose a conflict of interest.

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Why redefining the Treaty principles would undermine real political equality in NZ

All three parties in New Zealand’s new coalition government went into the election promising to diminish various Māori-based policies or programs. But it was the ACT Party that went furthest, calling for a referendum to redefine the “principles” of te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi.The referendum didn’t make it into the coalition agreement, but National and New Zealand First have agreed to a Treaty Principles Bill going to a select committee for further consideration.

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What is the 'sunk cost fallacy'? Is it ever a good thing?

Have you ever encountered a subpar hotel breakfast while on holiday? You don’t really like the food choices on offer, but since you already paid for the meal as part of your booking, you force yourself to eat something anyway rather than go down the road to a cafe.Economists and social scientists argue that such behaviour can happen due to the “sunk cost fallacy” – an inability to ignore costs that have already been spent and can’t be recovered. In the hotel breakfast example, the sunk cost is the price you paid for the hotel package: at the time of deciding where to eat breakfast, such costs are unrecoverable and should therefore be ignored.

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Trying to spend less on food? Following the dietary guidelines might save you $160 a fortnight

Poor diet is the most common preventable risk factor contributing to chronic disease in Australia. So improving your diet can also be an important way to reduce the chance of developing chronic disease. Read more: Yes, $5 for lettuce is too much. Government should act to stem the rising cost of healthy eating

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The government's Murray-Darling bill is a step forward, but still not enough

Michael Vanderzee is a Water Policy Analyst with the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. He is a former water policy adviser to the Victorian goverment with more than 12 years experience in national and Murray-Darling Basin water reform.This week, the Senate is debating changes to Australia’s most important water laws. These changes seek to rescue the ailing A$13 billion Murray-Darling Basin Plan to improve the health of our nation’s largest river system.

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How worried should we be about the pneumonia outbreak in China?

Ashley Quigley works as the Epidemiological Team Lead on EPIWATCH® at The Kirby Institute, UNSW.Reports of a surge in pneumonia-like illness primarily affecting children in northern China have captured our attention. The last time we heard about a mysterious respiratory outbreak leading to overcrowding in hospitals was the beginning of the COVID pandemic, so it’s not entirely surprising this has caused some alarm.

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Parliamentary inquiry recommends more senators for the ACT and Northern Territory

The government is considering whether voters in the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory should be given extra senators. The influential Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, in its final report tabled on Monday, has recommended the number of senators from each territory be doubled to four.

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Leasehold reform: why UK government's plans could make housing less affordable and less fair

The UK government is introducing plans to reform the system of leasehold property in England and Wales to parliament. The leasehold and freehold reform bill aims to empower leaseholders and achieve greater fairness in the housing market. The leasehold market comprises of about 4.7 million dwellings – 23% of the private housing stock in England. Most apartments (81%) are owned as leaseholds.

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Black Friday is an environmental nightmare - the Victorians had a much more sustainable approach to fashion

Around 46 million people across the UK are expected to have visited their local high street to go shopping over the last weekend in November, encouraged by so-called Black Friday sales. The projected spend in-store and online is forecast to reach close to £9 billion.How much of a saving there is to be made on Black Friday is debated. But even if they are a way to get a head start on your Christmas shopping – and important for retail businesses – by encouraging people to buy things they don’t necessarily need Black Friday sales can have a detrimental impact on the environment.

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ANU research suggests referendum confined to Indigenous recognition might have passed

An Australian National University survey has reinforced the view the October referendum might have passed if it had been confined to constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians. More than six in ten people (61.7%) said they would definitely or probably have voted for a referendum on recognition.

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Stones inside fish ears mark time like tree rings - and now they're helping us learn about climate change

As a marine biologist, I’ve always found it fascinating to learn about how animals adapt to their habitat. But climate change has made it more important than ever – wild animals’ futures may depend on how much we understand about them. There is still so much we don’t know about how animals respond when their habitat suddenly changes. Temperature is one of the most important puzzle pieces, as it affects the rates of the chemical reactions that define life.

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How to check your mouth for cancer - when getting to see a dentist is hard

Regular dental checkups and oral hygiene visits are important for identifying the early stage of mouth cancer. However, the shortage of dentists in the UK has led to a rise in mouth cancers that are spotted too late, according to the charity Oral Health Foundation. Ninety per cent of NHS dentists surveyed by the BBC last year were not accepting new adult patients for NHS treatment. Every year, about 9,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with mouth cancer and just over 3,000 lives are lost to the disease.

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Having a single parent doesn't determine your life chances - the data shows poverty is far more important

Understandably, you may find this worrying if you are a single parent – or if you’re thinking of embarking on parenthood alone. But it’s worth looking at the detail behind the stats. I reviewed the most up-to-date evidence for my book Why Single Parents Matter, and found that conclusions that suggest significant negative outcomes as a result of coming from a single-parent family are often not supported by strong data.Should I have children? The pieces in this series will help you answer this tough question – exploring fertility, climate change, the cost of living and social pressure.We’ll keep the discussion going at a live event in London on November 30. Click here for more information and tickets.

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Sheila Heti Reads "According to Alice"

Teju Cole reads his story "Incoming," which appears in the December 4, 2023, issue of the magazine. Cole, a winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, is a novelist, critic, curator, and essayist. His novel "Tremor" was published earlier this year and a new book, "Pharmakon," a collection of prose pieces and photographs, will be published in 2024.By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

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You Need to Watch the Wildest Demonic Thriller on Netflix ASAP

After delighting comic book fans with his beloved Spider-Man trilogy in the early 2000s, Sam Raimi revisited his horror roots with Drag Me To Hell, a deceptively simple morality tale with a gut punch of an ending. A particularly gnarly brand of supernatural horror is sprinkled throughout, crafted in a manner that feels intense and jarring despite the film’s PG-13 rating. Relying on well-timed atmospheric spooks and extreme body horror, Raimi spins a story so tense that the audience feels rooted in Christine Brown’s (Alison Lohman) experience as she battles shame, guilt, and nightmarish terrors right up till the fiery end.A vacant position in the company Christine works for as a loan officer is the catalyst for the ensuing chaos, as our protagonist is forced to wade through cutthroat office drama and thinly veiled sexism to prove her worth in the workplace. A sudden push from Christine’s boss (David Paymer), who asks her to be more assertive if she wants the new position, leads her to deny a mortgage extension to an old woman named Sylvia Ganush (Lorna Raver).

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This Indie RPG Is a Fresh Take on the Time Loop Story

Some of the best stories include time loops. There’s the likes of Majora’s Mask, Outer Wilds, and Deathloop that all earned a lot of praise for how they included a time loop mechanic. And let’s not forget the movie Groundhog Day, which came out three decades ago!It’s rare for a new game to come along that does something fresh with the formula. Enter In Stars and Time (a $19.99 indie RPG released on November 20 for Sony’s PlayStation, Nintendo’s Switch, and PC) adds new layers to the genre through its complex characters, puzzle-like world design, and simplified yet tight turn-based combat.

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20 Years Later, An Underrated Star Wars Story Could Save the Franchise

Creative projects fall through all the time, and the Star Wars franchise is no exception. Just look at the slate of upcoming movies and TV shows Lucasfilm announced at Investor Day in December 2020: Rogue Squadron, A Droid Story, and Rangers of the New Republic never saw the light of day. Lucasfilm’s non-Star-Wars projects suffered too, as Children of Blood and Bone was never released, and Willow was wiped from Disney+ after just six months. Video games aren’t immune to this. It’s looking like the remake of Knights of the Old Republic, the 2003 RPG that set a new bar for Star Wars storytelling, is in trouble. After being “indefinitely delayed” and moved to a different developer, industry insider Jeff Grubb now claims it’s “not being worked on in any way, at any studio.” But could the end of a prestige video game remake be an opportunity for a prestige TV adaptation?

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The iPad Needs More Apple Pencil and Less Laptop

The iPad will never be a laptop, so why not focus on making it the best tablet with a stylus?The Apple Pencil was introduced just over eight years ago in 2015 alongside the first iPad Pro.

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50 Cult-Favorite Products on Amazon That Make Your Home So Much Better

Ever feel like your home could use a little upgrade but don’t want to splurge on fancy, expensive stuff? I’ve scoured Amazon to find the best-rated and most popular products that reviewers can’t stop raving about, from bedding accessories to handy kitchen gadgets. Each product has its own way of helping your home become a better place to be, whether it’s making things cleaner, more comfortable, or just a little easier. Keep scrolling for the cult-favorite products.Instantly upgrade your bathroom with this affordable waterproof shower liner designed to protect your curtain from soap scum and mildew. Made from premium PEVA material, it’s durable and quick-drying, meaning it’s resistant to hard-to-clean buildup. Over 35,000 five-star reviewers agree it belongs in your house.

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65 Weird but Genius Gifts That Are Best-Sellers on Amazon

Giving gifts people will actually appreciate can be challenging. If you’re looking to avoid the uncertainty of finding that just-right present, look no further than these weird and genius gifts perfect for everyone on your shopping list. And you know they’re bound to be a smash, because they’re among some of Amazon’s best-sellers — with immaculate ratings and reviews to boot. They’re so good, in fact, you’ll want to snag some for yourself.Snag some of these LED light bulbs that are fully rechargeable and come with backup batteries, so that they operate even in the event of a power outage — perfect for anyone on your list who likes to live by the Boy Scout motto. Not only can you screw them into traditional lamps, but you can also use them as handheld flashlights. Each bulb can run for up to five hours.

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33 Years Later, 'Rick and Morty' Parodies One of the Best Sci-Fi Movies Ever Made

Quick! What’s the best science-fiction movie ever made? If the first title that came to your mind was The Matrix or Jurassic Park or 2001: A Space Odyssey or The Thing you’re definitely not wrong — this is a totally subjective question, after all — but there’s no denying that high up on the list of best sci-fi ever sits the 1990 pulp classic Total Recall.So it may come as a surprise that Rick and Morty, a show known for its sci-fi parodies, has never taken aim at the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic. Until now.

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The Best Sci-Fi Shows of the Season Reveal a New Golden Age For One Type of Fan

There’s not a lot about the state of Hollywood that’s worth celebrating right now. This year’s labor strikes have highlighted and revealed extremely troubling issues within the industry, and the strength of the theatrical market remains in constant flux. The streaming boom of the 2010s has essentially turned the entire business upside down, and it’ll likely be a few years before anyone really knows which corporations and artists have survived the sudden technological wave and which haven’t.All that said, not everything about our current, post-Netflix version of Hollywood needs or even demands to be viewed through a dystopian lens. On the contrary, one need only look at the animated libraries of streaming services like Netflix, Max, and Amazon Prime Video to realize how exciting the field of TV animation has become. Indeed, Hollywood’s streaming-mandated demand for new content has seemingly resulted in the greatest wave of noteworthy animated TV shows since the Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon-run era of the ‘90s.

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Rick and Morty Finally Admits to the Show's Biggest Weakness -- And Reveals the Solution

Some of the best and most refreshing Rick and Morty episodes shine the spotlight on Morty’s big sister Summer Smith. Whereas Morty often repeats his worst mistakes over and over leading to somewhat redundant plotlines, Summer is a more capable and grounded character whom Rick trusts to do things like steal Mr. Nimbus’ magic conch shell or “do a Díe Hard” to save the day. Far too often, Summer either gets sidelined or gets reduced to a smartphone-obsessed millennial, but Season 7 Episode 7 “Wet Kuat Amortican Summer” delivers one of her all-time best stories. In doing so, it also includes a bombshell revealed plucked from the darkest corners of Rick’s fractured psyche.“Wet Kuat Amortican Summer” opens on Summer doing Rick’s chores so she can earn a new gadget. After feeding some monsters in the basement below the garage, sorting through Rick’s amulets, and disposing of dead aliens, Summer demands an attribute slider cuff so she can wow her classmates at the “frolf mixer” teased in Episode 6’s post-credits scene. At first, it works great, giving Summer the strength she needs to show off and the charisma to hit on a handsome jock.

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The Biggest Sci-Fi Monster Movie of the Year Brings a Beloved Franchise Roaring Back to Life

Deep in the recesses of our subconscious is an encounter with something so hostile and unnatural it hard-wired us to feel fear and act in the interest of survival. When fear faces us, we might choose to flee or freeze. In Godzilla Minus One, we see people learning how to stand up and look fear in the eye.Seven years after Toho rebooted its prized Godzilla franchise with the politically minded Shin Godzilla, the historic Japanese studio has again reimagined the atomic lizard synonymous with the kaiju genre in director Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus One. Set during Japan’s postwar recovery in the late 1940s, the “Minus One” in the title refers to Japan starting from zero — only for Godzilla’s emergence to plunge the battered nation further into a deficit of despair.

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The implicit bias problem won't be solved by training alone | Aeon Essays

On a Thursday afternoon in April 2018 in a Starbucks in downtown Philadelphia, police handcuffed two African American entrepreneurs, Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson. A manager had reported them for waiting inside the coffeehouse while not having purchased anything. About a month later, on 29 May, Starbucks closed its 8,000 stores nationwide – at a cost of an estimated $16.7 million in sales – so that its 175,000 employees across the United States could participate in a four-hour ‘implicit bias’ training session that day.Implicit bias was once jargon that academic psychologists used to refer to people’s automatically activated thoughts and feelings toward certain groups rather than others. Now, it’s a buzzword that regularly appears in news articles and, occasionally, presidential debates. Implicit biases stand in contrast to explicit biases, people’s conscious or self-reported thoughts and feelings toward certain groups over others, such as when people overtly voice dislike toward Asian people. Implicit biases are more subtle. You can think of them as tiny stories that flicker in our minds when we see other people. A pharmacy employee might see a Black woman crouching on the floor and zipping up a bag, and immediately think she’s attempting to steal, as indeed happened in 2015 at a Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto (which was later fined $8,000 for the discrimination). Or a border patrol officer might enforce an identity check upon Black citizens, thinking they pose a threat, as happened in the Netherlands in 2018; the Dutch appeal court this year ruled that unlawful.

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Henri Bergson on why the existence of things precedes their possibility | Aeon Videos

In his essay ‘The Possible and the Real’ (1930), the French philosopher Henri Bergson argued that perhaps the most foundational question of metaphysics – ‘Why is there something instead of nothing?’ – is poorly conceived, reflecting a mistaken view that ‘there is less in the idea of void than in the idea of fullness’. Building from this starting point he suggests – to put it all a bit simply – a metaphysics sprung instead from the fullness of the evolving reality in which we ceaselessly find ourselves. This experimental video essay from Epoché Magazine pairs text excerpted from ‘The Possible and the Real’ with archival imagery and original music. Drawing out Bergson’s themes in unexpected ways, the short gives Bergson’s influential words a curious new life nearly a century after they were first published.

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4 Habits to Grow Your Mind and Improve Your Life in One Day

These habits can set you on a course toward success, inner peace, and lasting joy.

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With a Single Tweet, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Just Gave a Masterclass on How to Lead Through a Crisis

Strategy is never more important than people.

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3 Phrases Genuinely Happy People Use, According to Happiness Experts

Next time you say you can't do something, try adding '...yet' to the end of that sentence.

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Neuroscience Says 3 Simple Habits Separate Exceptionally Productive

Researchers in Japan studied the productivity of 12,526 corporate employees, and correlated the degree to which they practiced 11 common lifestyle habits.

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Build Team Trust With This Meeting Ritual

Healthy conflict is critical for a highly effective leadership team. Use this exercise at the start of your meeting to cut normalize conflict, build trust and work better together.

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Stop Calling Your Company a Family: How Netflix Offers a Masterclass in Building Organizational Culture

How Netflix's 'dream team' philosophy outshines the outdated 'family' model in corporate culture, and learn strategies for building high-performance, growth-oriented teams.

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How Southwest Airlines and Zappos Crafted a Legacy

Cultural elements shape not only external perceptions but also internal dynamics.

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How to Make Your Web Searches More Secure and Private

When it comes to looking something up on the web, most of us default to “googling” it—Google's search engine has become so dominant that it's now a verb, in the same way that Photoshop is. But using Google for your searches comes with a privacy trade-off.Google's business is, of course, based on advertising, and every search you make feeds into the profile of you that it uses to target the ads you see around the web. While Google isn't telling marketing firms what searches you're running, it is using those queries to build up a picture of you that ads can be sold against. As such, Google can be a real snoop about collecting all your data and using it to personalize your ads and the search results you get.

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The Best Black Friday Deals on Cameras, Lights, Mics, and Lenses

Black Friday is an excellent time to upgrade your photo and video toolkit or snag a great gift for that aspiring TikTok star in your life. Right now, you can score some serious bargains on cameras, as well as our favorite gear for creating your own home video studio or mobile recording rig. These are the best Black Friday camera deals we've found so far, but we'll be updating this post throughout the weekend. We updated it at Sunday, November 26, 2023.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.

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You Can Now Snag a Specialized Electric Bike for $2,000

I've tested a lot of electric bikes at a wide variety of price points, but I'm never more excited than when Specialized launches another new ride. We've tried everything from the company's first electric cargo bike (9/10, WIRED Recommends) to the electric mountain bike (8/10, WIRED Recommends) to a versatile gravel bike that can do it all (8/10, WIRED Recommends).On paper, Specialized's bikes might not look all that great. They don't have throttles, and several models, including the Turbo Tero, have relatively modest 250-W motors to uphold European safety standards. However, it's very obvious when you're riding a bike that was designed by a bike company instead of a startup. The geometry is more comfortable, the components are purpose-driven rather than to check items off a list of specs, and the computer and sensors are calibrated incredibly well. Specialized bikes just feel comfortable and natural to ride. Instead of pushing a button to gun your electric motorcycle, you just feel like you have much more powerful legs than you realized. The Tero even conditions you to up your cadence, like a real cyclist.

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81 Affordable Cyber Monday Deals Under $50

Relax. You can un-clench your wallet now. You've moseyed into a budget-friendly Cyber Monday post. Yes, there's such a thing. Even in this wallet-sucking, double sales week, there are plenty of Cyber Monday deals for 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.Published November 26, 2023: We've updated pricing and retailer availability for Cyber Monday and added many new deals, including Govee Glide Wall Lights, Petzl Tikka headlamp, and more.

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71 Best Cyber Monday Apple Deals on iPads, Macs, and More

Looking for a new Apple device? There's no time better than now. Whether you're on the hunt for a new iPad, MacBook, Apple Watch, or just a new iPhone case, there are more Apple products on sale for Cyber Monday than you'll typically find at any other time of year. Here are some of our favorites. For more gadgets on sale, be sure to check out our Best Cyber Monday Deals roundup.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discounts 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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Our Favorite Sleep and Mattress Deals for Cyber Monday

A Deals holiday like Cyber Monday is a good time to buy a mattress. Beds are discounted all year as a marketing tactic to get you to buy when you see it. We track those fake deals all year so we can highlight when something is actually worth it. Some of our favorite sheets and sleep tech are also discounted right now. The prices below are for queen sizes unless noted.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discounts 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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34 Cyber Monday Laptop Deals and Clickety-Clack Keyboards

Cyber Monday usually brings a ton of sales on every knick-knack and doodad you probably don't need, but a lot of people work on a laptop. Snagging one of your favorites for a song is one of the best parts of this shopping holiday. You'll rarely get a better chance to nab a new computer, so we've rounded up the best deals we've seen on the models our reviewers recommend.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discounts 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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32 Best Cyber Monday Kitchen Deals On Milk Makers and Pizza Ovens

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 Cyber Monday 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. We can't convince your kids to set the table or do the dishes, but we can help you save money on converting your battle station into a place of utmost efficiency. Whether it's a new multicooker, 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 Cyber Monday.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discounts 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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32 Best Coffee Deals for Cyber Monday--Makers, Grinders, Mugs

Cyber Monday 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. Don't worry about the absolute deluge of deals that you can find, we've sorted through them for you and picked the very best ones. Here we've curated exceptional sales on coffee and coffee gear the WIRED Gear team has tested, tasted, and put through the paces.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discounts 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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36 Best Home Depot Cyber Monday Deals on Chainsaws and Christmas Lights

“Cyber” is such a quaint word these days, a throwback to the ‘90s when we’d surf the world wide web and hang out in chat rooms trading X-Files theories. Don't let the phrasing throw you off. When we say there are some seriously good Home Depot Cyber Monday deals for the taking, we mean steal a few minutes from work right now to scoop these tools, garage furniture, and backyard grills before they're gone faster than last week's turkey leftovers.We test products year-round and handpicked these deals. The discounts 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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The French have lost their minds over bed bugs

In October, the French collectively freaked out over bed bugs. Social media erupted with supposed pictures of the parasites in cinemas, trains, and subways. Pest control agencies, exterminators, and owners of bed bug-sniffing dogs were inundated with panicked calls. Politicians breathlessly demanded rapid government action. Of Paris, uncritical media reports declared that the “entire city is infested with bed bugs.”The thing is, it doesn’t appear that the country’s bed bug “problem” warranted such a swift and sudden panic, which seemed to have started with a few social media posts that went viral. The insects’ population didn’t erupt overnight. Instead, the French were likely gripped by a social panic.

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World's oldest pyramid found not in Egypt or Americas, but in Indonesia

In the world of ancient pyramids, it seems like there’s always a race to the past. Are the oldest ones in Egypt? Peru? It’s been up for debate since about 2001. But now, there’s a new contender in the historic who’s-who of pyramids: Indonesia.A team of archaeologists, geologists, and geophysicists recently published a new paper in Archaeological Prospection in October 2023, suggesting that Gunung Padang in the Cianjur District of the West Java Province is not actually the naturally occurring hill that everyone thought it was. Instead, they say it’s actually an ancient man-made structure. Previously, Gunung Padang referred only to the megalithic stone complex that sat on top of the hill, which some archaeologists believe was used as a celestial calendar (though the actual use is still unknown). But the team’s research shows that the entire structure—complex and hill itself—was sculpted by humans beginning around 8,000 or even 25,000 years ago.

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Photos 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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The Tyranny of Stuff

The letters of Seamus Heaney reveal that he was bedeviled by the same problem that overwhelms all of us.What is the opposite of poetry? What slows the spark and puts sludge in the veins? What deadens the language? What rears up before you with livid and stupefying power—in the middle of the night, in the middle of the day—to make you feel like you’ll never write a good line again?

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Watching a Line Cook Flip Eggs for Six Hours

TikTok has become a home to people broadcasting themselves live at work. Viewers are captivated.Dylan Longton really knows how to flip an egg. A 33-year-old line cook at an unassuming diner just outside Albany, New York, Longton can make an omelet do a backflip and land it smoothly right back into its pan cradle. And people love him for it. Not just people in Albany, or people in New York. People all around the world, sometimes more than a thousand at once, tune in on TikTok to watch Longton flip eggs, and reheat bacon and homefries on the grill.

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This Is Your Pilot Speaking

In May 2022, an air-traffic controller in Florida received a frantic call. The pilot of a single-engine Cessna 208 had collapsed, leaving the sole passenger—with no experience at all flying a plane—to fend for himself in the cockpit. Remarkably, the controller was able to direct the passenger to take the controls, reach an airport, and safely land.The story went viral for several days, perhaps in part because we can all imagine ourselves in that nightmare come true. Could we figure out what to do? Would we live to tell the tale? In the past, I would have asked myself those same questions. But this time, I had answers, and knew I was up to the challenge of landing a plane. At age 52, I had just earned my pilot’s license.

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