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 S33Controversial claims about extinct humans are stirring up evolution research. Here's how the mess could have been avoided   If true, this would be an astonishing new entry in the annals of human evolution. But many scientists – including ourselves (the authors of this article, along with Ian Moffat at Flinders University in Australia, Andrea Zerboni at the University of Milan in Italy, and Kira Westaway at Macquarie University in Australia) – are not convinced by the evidence in the three online articles.The peer reviewers of these articles and the journal editor found that the evidence was “inadequate” and suggested a comprehensive list of changes that would be needed to make the articles’ argument convincing. More recently, a strongly worded, peer-reviewed critique by one of us (Herries) concluded there was not enough evidence to support the hypothesis that H. naledi carried out intentional burials.
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S1What to Do If You Feel Like You've Lost Your Intuition  It can be disconcerting to feel that your intuition isn’t working the way it should. What happens when, as a leader, you feel your intuition is suddenly failing you? In this article, the authors outline five strategies to help you get back in touch with your gut instinct: 1) Lean on your team. 2) Create space in your day to be quiet and reflect. 3) Stop multitasking. 4) Practice small decisions. 5) Don’t worry about perfection.
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S2How Dr Anthony Fauci delivers 'inconvenient truths' to world leaders  Anthony Fauci made his mark in medicine for nearly four decades at the US' National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), but rocketed onto the world stage – and became an accidental celebrity – when he joined the White House Coronavirus Task Force in January 2020.His high-profile tenure, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, was polarising; appearing as the face and voice to the American public, Fauci received both praise and critical backlash from political factions across the country. Yet Fauci is more than just a figurehead of political divide.
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S3AI-powered digital colleagues are here. Some 'safe' jobs could be vulnerable.  In early 2023, OpenAI's ChatGPT ushered in a new era – one in which artificial intelligence went from a pipe dream to a very real, contentious issue for workers. The stakes are high: an April report from Goldman Sachs estimates ChatGPT, and other similar generative AI tools, could increase global GDP by as much as 7%, while replacing 300 million full time workers.Many workers may have believed that burger-flipping robots in fast food restaurants, or advanced fabrication machines in factories, would represent the first wave of AI-related job losses. Yet the light-speed adoption and evolution of generative AI tools may now mean knowledge-work jobs that were long considered "safe" could be threatened even faster than workers anticipated. That includes creative positions that many presumed would be hard to automate, in fields like marketing, music production and graphic design.
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S4Massimo Bottura's mission to end food waste for good  It was just after 17:00 on a mid-September evening at the historical Emanuel AME Church in Harlem, New York City. But instead of parishioners seated in pews waiting for a sermon, members of the surrounding, mostly low-income Black neighbourhood were sat at dining tables on chairs upholstered in blue and red patterned Gucci fabric while artworks like Carlo Benvenuto's pane metafisico (metaphysical bread) adorned the walls. In front of them was a menu listing three courses: caramelised onion and Pecorino tart; roasted chicken with Brussel sprouts and butternut squash puree; and vegan chocolate cake.Each dish was prepared with "leftover" ingredients, offered free of charge and placed alongside a coordinating blue cloth napkin with a tag that read, "you are loved" in hand-written script.
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S5How a 1574 portrait was made 'Insta-fabulous'  Something is happening to our faces. They're disappearing. In an instant, AI beauty filters on our smartphone cameras, on Instagram and TikTok, allow us to smooth out every irregularity and asymmetry that defines and distinguishes us – the idiosyncratic nitty-gritties that make you you. We're rubbing ourselves out.More like this:- The painting that challenged sexual norms - The masterpiece that became a meme - The tragedy of art's greatest supermodel
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S6Wonka to Aquaman: 10 of the best films to watch in December  A family is having a quiet holiday in a rented house when some uninvited visitors announce that the world is coming to an end. That was the high-concept of M Night Shyalaman's Knock at the Cabin, which came out in February, and it's also the premise of Leave the World Behind, another apocalyptic thriller adapted from a novel. Coming from Barack and Michelle Obama's media company, Higher Ground Productions, it features Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke as the holidaying couple, and Mahershala Ali as the mystery man who turns up with his daughter, Myha'la Herrold. Can either family trust the other one? The film is "one of the year's best and no doubt will spark massive amounts of conversation", says Kristen Lopez in The Wrap. "A two-hour descent into chaos that is compelling and utterly terrifying... Just don't expect to sleep easy after seeing it." A decade ago, Zack Snyder pitched a concept for a Star Wars film. The director of 300 and Watchmen wanted to make a Seven Samurai-style epic that would be set in the Star Wars universe, but which wouldn't feature any of the familiar characters. Lucasfilm turned him down, and Snyder went on to make Justice League and Army of the Dead instead. But now at last he has developed that pitch into his own swashbuckling space opera starring Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou and Charlie Hunnam. Rebel Moon still looks a lot like Star Wars, but it has its own separate fictional universe that will be revealed in several films. And not just films. "We're doing a narrative podcast, and an animated comic book, and an animated series," Snyder said in Total Film. "They all take place before the events of the movie. So you can start to understand the vastness of the mythology that we've been working on."
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S7Ghana's shea industry is not taking care of the women behind its growth  Abiba Yayah was previously funded by the Trans-disciplinary Training for Resource Efficiency and Climate Change Adaptation in Africa II INTRA-ACP (TRECCAFRICA II). She is currently being funded for a Postdoctoral Fellowship by The Mark Grosjean Post-doctoral Fellow in Political Science at the University of Calgary.Ghana’s shea industry has a rich history. Shea – nkuto, karite, galam in some west African languages – is deeply embedded in the culture and tradition of the country’s northern regions. It is often considered a woman’s crop – women pick the fruit and extract its “butter” – and has acquired the name “woman’s gold” because rural women earn income from its sale.
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S8Israel-Gaza: what the term genocide means under international law - podcast  In the weeks since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the Israeli bombardment and ground assault on Gaza, both sides have traded accusations of genocide. Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis and took more than 200 hostage, while Israel’s subsequent aerial and ground attacks on Gaza have killed more than 15,000 Palestinians and displaced millions. In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to an expert on genocide about the history of the term and what’s needed to prove it under today’s international legal definition.
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S9COP28 begins: 4 issues that will determine if the UN climate summit is a success, from methane to money  Rachel Kyte serves on the steering committee of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative. She is a member of an advisory group to the U.N. on reporting and accountability for Net Zero and is a U.N. High Level Champion on Short Lived Climate Pollutants.The United Nations climate conference is underway in Dubai, and representatives from around the world will be confronting an extraordinary array of challenges over its two weeks. They carry with them some long-held – and new – grievances, and strong expectations.
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S10Building African cities that cope with climate shocks - experts outline what it will take  Director: Climate Change, Energy & Resilience, ICLEI Africa, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability Meggan Spires is ICLEI Africa's Director for Climate Change, Energy and Resilience. The time Meggan utilised to write this article was co-funded by ICLEI Africa and the Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa initiative (which is co-funded by the European Union and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and co-implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, an agency working on behalf of the German government).
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S11S12S13S14As plastic production grows, treaty negotiations to reduce plastic waste are stuck in low gear  Plastic pollution has spread to Earth’s farthest reaches, with widespread effects on wildlife, the environment and human health. To curb this problem, U.N. member countries are negotiating a global treaty to reduce plastic pollution, which they aim to complete by the end of 2024. That effort is well underway. In September 2023, the U.N. Environment Programme released the so-called zero draft – a first iteration of ideas and goals that emerged from the first two rounds of negotiations. And in November 2023, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution met in Nairobi, Kenya, for the third negotiating round of a planned five sessions.
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S15Israel's mosaic of Jewish ethnic groups is key to understanding the country  Some 16 million people worldwide identify as Jewish – and more than 7 million of them live in Israel.The country is home to more than 2 million people who are not Jewish, as well – primarily Arab Israelis, who make up 20% to 25% of the population, and more than 100,000 foreign workers. Most Arab Israeli citizens are Muslim, but small minorities adhere to various Christian denominations, as well as the Druze religion.
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S16S17Gaza war: Hamas's web of allies in the October 7 attacks makes ending the conflict much harder for Israel  There have been reports that Hamas cooperated with a number of other armed groups to stage the October 7 attacks. If correct, this indicates substantial challenges for Israel – especially when it comes to ending the current conflict. The BBC detailed how five armed groups joined with Hamas for the attacks which resulted in the deaths of 1,200 people and the kidnapping of a further 240. These were the Ali Abu Mustafa brigades, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs brigades, the Omar al-Qasim forces, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Mujahideen brigades. The report said these groups had trained together for an attack like this since at least 2020 – which helps explain why the assault was so lethal.
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S18Doctor Who: what the show gets wrong about climate change and energy justice - new research  Fans across the globe have been celebrating 60 years of Doctor Who – the world’s longest-running science fiction series. It may at times seem silly and childish, but people’s ideas of how the world works, could work and should work are informed and shaped by popular culture – and Doctor Who still influences this.The time lord has waged his (and for a few years her) fight for justice from the moment of the Big Bang that created the universe to the heat death that ended it.
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S19S20Does having children make you happier? Here's what the research suggests  The prevailing belief in many parts of the world is that having children is key to happiness – and that people who don’t have children are unfulfilled in their lives.But is this really the case? The answer to this question is both simple and complex – and the fulfilment you feel in your life, whether you decide to have kids or not, depends on many complex factors.
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S21Raising a child to 18 in the UK costs more than  Before having our first baby last year, we wondered whether we had the money, time and necessary skills to raise a child. Perhaps you find yourself contemplating the same? Many people certainly have, as birth rates have been declining across the world for the past 200 years.Research attributes this trend to the escalating demand for these three resources. Since the 1970s, economists have argued that the increasing need for money, time and skills is rooted in the belief that all three resources are crucial investments in a child’s education, or “human capital”, preparing them for a successful and self-determined life.
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S22How Frozen became the catalyst for Disney's shift from male-centric tales  The landscape of animated musical films has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years. Male storylines, once the hallmark of the genre, have taken a back seat, thanks to the revolutionary success of a film that centres around the relationship between two sisters: Disney’s Frozen. Released in 2013, it marks an important turning point in the history of animated musicals. Frozen not only provided a song every five-year-old can sing, it was also the catalyst for the shift away from Disney tales that centred around the experience of a young male protagonist.
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S23Henry Kissinger was a global - and deeply flawed - foreign policy heavyweight  Declarations of the end of an era are made only in exceptional circumstances. Henry Kissinger’s death is one of them. Kissinger was born into a Jewish family in Germany, and fled to the US in 1938 after the Nazis seized power. He rose to one of the highest offices in the US government, and became the first person to serve as both secretary of state and national security adviser.
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