At HOTA, sneakers find their well-deserved place in art galleries at last

Sneakers were once traditionally associated with what fashion academic Naomi Braithwaite describes as “athleticism”: they were only considered in their relationship to sports. But things have changed in one of the most significant yet overlooked style revolutions of our times. In the late 20th century, sneakers became the footwear of choice for youth and subcultures. In the 21st century, they are the defining footwear of our era.

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The Night, the Light, and the Soul: Albert Pinkham Ryder's Enchanting Moonscapes

“That best fact, the Moon,” Margaret Fuller called it. “No one ever gets tired of the moon,” Walt Whitman wrote down the Atlantic coast from her, exulting: Goddess that she …

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How to Navigate Feelings of Confidence and Self-Doubt After a Promotion

Successfully transitioning to a higher-level leadership role requires self-confidence, but many leaders display too much or too little early on. In this article, the author outlines strategies to help you find the optimal level of confidence. If there is one thing that defines effective leadership as you move from a manager to executive to CEO, it’s that your results become increasingly less about you and more about the attention you place on others so you can deliver through them.

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Three Differences Between Managers and Leaders

Stop thinking about your tasks and start talking about your vision.

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Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail

In the past decade, the author has watched more than 100 companies try to remake themselves into better competitors. Their efforts have gone under many banners: total quality management, reengineering, right sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds. In almost every case, the goal has been the same: to cope with a new, more challenging market by changing how business is conducted.

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How to Negotiate with Powerful Suppliers

In many industries the balance of power has shifted from buyers to suppliers. Companies that have gotten into a weak position need to tackle the problem strategically, the authors argue. They should consider the following actions and implement the least-risky one that is feasible for their organization.

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Digital Twins and Simulations for Safety: Chevron's Ellen Nielsen

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.Ellen Nielsen, Chevron's first chief data officer, sees data as the common thread throughout a career that has spanned systems, digital data, procurement, and supply chain. In her current role, she applies what she's learned to Chevron's wide-ranging AI and machine learning initiatives, including the use of robots and computer vision to inspect tanks, digital twins to simulate operations, and sensors to monitor equipment in refineries.

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Tea House Hike: A tiny, tasty secret deep in the Canadian Rockies

It was the middle of August 2023 when Laura Karan, a 20-something civil servant from London, first headed out into the mountains alone. She was walking on a winding, tree-lined trail, moving beneath the corridor of fir, larch and spruce, every so often getting a glimpse of the dazzling emerald-blue waters of Lake Louise an ever-increasing number of metres below. As an outdoors newbie hiking alone on the trail, rather than enjoying the scenery she was instead trying hard not to think about the 65 grizzly bears that call Banff National Park home."I was scared," Karan confessed when I met her six weeks later at Lake Agnes Teahouse, 2,135m above sea level in the Canadian Rockies. "I'd heard a lot of stories about bear encounters and was convinced I'd see one."

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Dorothea Lange: 10 of the most iconic portraits from a lost US

Over the course of her 50-year career, Dorothea Lange created some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th Century. From White Angel, Breadline to her poignant works on Japanese Americans denied their rights during World War Two, Lange embodied the humanity of the people caught up in events beyond their control.More like this:- Photos that ask what it means to be American- Eight photos of the US's iconic wilderness- Eight photos showing a US in crisis

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Wonka film review: 'Relentlessly wacky and over the top'

Not many of us have ever wondered about the backstory of Willy Wonka, the wizard-like confectioner from Roald Dahl's classic 1964 children's novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. But, the film industry being what it is, a big-screen prequel was as inevitable as Violet Beauregarde's decision to try the forbidden chewing gum. And so, just in time for Christmas, we have Wonka: an unfortunate title, but what else were they going to call it?More like this:- Julia Roberts stars in a 'timely' and 'chilling' thriller- Napoleon is 'an awe-inspiring achievement'- Dream Scenario review: 'Nicolas Cage is on peak form'

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Tackling climate change can improve public health in Africa - new report highlights how

African countries can simultaneously address climate change and improve public health by reducing air pollution. In many cases these actions also have other societal, economic, environment or health benefits. Addressing these together is challenging because they are often the responsibility of different government departments. International climate change, health and development processes are often also separate discussions. However, for the first time, this year at COP28, a whole day will be devoted to discussing the linkages between climate change and health.

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Why OpenAI developing an artificial intelligence that's good at maths is such a big deal

With the recent sacking and swift rehiring of Sam Altman by OpenAI, debates around the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) are once again in the spotlight. What’s more unusual is that a prominent theme in media reporting has been the ability of AI systems to do maths.Apparently, some of the drama at OpenAI was related to the company’s development of a new AI algorithm called Q*. The system has been talked about as a significant advance and one of its salient features was a capability to reason mathematically.

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How A.S. Byatt's northern identity and anger over climate change informed her fiction

A.S. Byatt’s highbrow fiction has a vast, international appeal. The writer, who died in November, was known for her voracious appetite for knowledge and her insatiable curiosity. Inspiration for her work draws from as diverse sources as Elizabeth I, Norse mythology, Amazonian butterflies and Matisse’s paintings. And she turned her hand to many different styles, from Victorian poetry to fairy tales.

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The OpenAI saga demonstrates how big corporations dominate the shaping of our technological future

The dramatic firing and reinstatement of Sam Altman as boss of OpenAI was more than a power shuffle. It was a glimpse at the overwhelming influence that big corporations – and a few individuals – possess when it comes to shaping the direction of artificial intelligence. And it highlights the need to reassess the development of technology which has the potential to massively alter society, but where the emphasis is not always on the public good.

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Why isn't there any sound in space? An astronomer explains why in space no one can hear you scream

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected] far can sound travel through space, since it’s so empty? Is there an echo in space? – Jasmine, age 14, Everson, Washington

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Online 'likes' for toxic social media posts prompt more - and more hateful - messages

The rampant increase of hate messages on social media is a scourge in today’s technology-infused society. Racism, homophobia, xenophobia and even personal attacks on people who have the audacity to disagree with someone else’s political opinion – these and other forms of online hate present an ugly side of humanity.The derision on social media appears in vile and profane terms for all to see. Obviously, the sole purpose of posting online hate is to harass and harm one’s victims, right?

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With the end of the Hollywood writers and actors strikes, the creator economy is the next frontier for organized labor

Hollywood writers and actors recently proved that they could go toe-to-toe with powerful media conglomerates. After going on strike in the summer of 2023, they secured better pay, more transparency from streaming services and safeguards from having their work exploited or replaced by artificial intelligence.But the future of entertainment extends well beyond Hollywood. Social media creators – otherwise known as influencers, YouTubers, TikTokers, vloggers and live streamers – entertain and inform a vast portion of the planet.

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Here's what happened when I taught a fly-fishing course in the waterways of New Orleans

Director of Public Scholarship, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

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Philadelphia reduces school-based arrests by 91% since 2013 - researchers explain the effects of keeping kids out of the legal system

Across the United States, arrest rates for young people under age 18 have been declining for decades. However, the proportion of youth arrests associated with school incidents has increased.According to the U.S. Department of Education, K-12 schools referred nearly 230,000 students to law enforcement during the school year that began in 2017. These referrals and the 54,321 reported school-based arrests that same year were mostly for minor misbehavior like marijuana possession, as opposed to more serious offenses like bringing a gun to school.

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Texas is suing Planned Parenthood for $1.8B over $10M in allegedly fraudulent services it rendered - a health care economist explains what's going on

Planned Parenthood no longer provides abortions in Texas, Louisiana and the other 10 states that have essentially banned abortion since the Supreme Court handed down its Dobbs v. Jackson decision in June 2022.But the nonprofit is still providing other services for patients in those places, including cancer screening, contraception and the treatment of HIV and sexually transmitted infections. And Texas hasn’t given up on its long-running quest to force the group, which provides reproductive health care in its nearly 600 U.S. clinics, to stop operating within its borders.

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New England stone walls lie at the intersection of history, archaeology, ecology and geoscience, and deserve a science of their own

Robert M. Thorson created and coordinates the Stone Wall Initiative, an online resource on the historic stone walls of New England. He is an advocate for their conservation and management, and a frequent public speaker on this topic for land trusts, historical societies, environmental non-profits, public libraries, and “friends of…” organizations. The abandoned fieldstone walls of New England are every bit as iconic to the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and fall foliage. They seem to be everywhere – a latticework of dry, lichen-crusted stone ridges separating a patchwork of otherwise moist soils.

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Certain states, including Arizona, have begun scrapping court costs and fees for people unable to pay - two experts on legal punishments explain why

In today’s American criminal legal system, courts impose fines and fees as a means to punish people and hold them accountable for legal violations. At times, people are sentenced to pay without incarceration, but frequently people across the U.S. are sentenced to both jail time and fiscal penalties. Those costs are assessed by individual courts and include processing and filing charges, jury fees and fiscal penalties such as interest charges and late penalty fees. The collected money is then used to pay for costs such as the administration of court-appointed attorneys, probation, detention and diversion programs.

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COP28 president is wrong - science clearly shows fossil fuels must go (and fast)

According to the president of COP28, the latest round of UN climate negotiations in the United Arab Emirates, there is “no science” indicating that phasing out fossil fuels is necessary to restrict global heating to 1.5°C.President Sultan Al Jaber is wrong. There is a wealth of scientific evidence demonstrating that a fossil fuel phase-out will be essential for reining in the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change. I know because I have published some of it.

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Getting climate funds to conflict zones - a case for working with armed groups and local communities

Civilians and armed groups alike are increasingly concerned about climate change. The international community, however, is doing little to address its impact in these vulnerable areas. The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative has identified 25 countries as most vulnerable to climate change and least prepared to adapt to its impact. Of these, 15 have been hit hard by conflict. This list includes Somalia, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo and Afghanistan.

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