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S2Native American 'slump': puffy dumplings in simmered fruit   Chef Sherry Pocknett, the first Indigenous woman to win a James Beard Foundation Award (she took home the 2023 title for Best Chef: Northeast), doesn't celebrate just one "Thanksgiving." Instead, she celebrates every harvest as a moment to pause, reflect and give thanks. During autumn, Pocknett said, "We're giving thanks to cranberries because cranberries are back." In the summer, Pocknett gives thanks to things like blueberries and strawberries. "Thanksgiving for me is giving thanks to a harvest… all these different things that come back yearly and they're still coming."Pocknett is a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, which has had roots in modern-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island for more than 12,000 years. She owns the restaurant Sly Fox Den Too in Charlestown, Rhode Island. There, she serves food that highlights the indigenous cuisine of the Northeast – dishes like nausamp, a porridge-like dish made of dried corn; Indian pudding, a dessert made of molasses and cornmeal blended together; and blueberry slump, Pocknett's personal favourite.
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S3Kanuchi: A nut-based soup to celebrate autumn  Loretta Barrett Oden is 81 years old and just came out with her first cookbook, Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine, this past October. In the book, Oden shares stories and recipes that are intended to educate and enlighten the home cook with a celebration of indigenous foods. "I should have written this book many, many years ago," she said, "but I've just stayed so busy with one project after another, one restaurant after another, that I just now found the time to sit down and write." After years of telling the stories of other chefs and cultures, it was finally time to share her own.Oden was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, a small town 40 minutes by car east of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her paternal grandmother was a descendent of the Mayflower, a card-carrying member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her mother was from a large family of Potawatomi origins, now known as Citizen Potawatomi Nation. The nine different tribes of Potawatomi peoples are mostly from the Great Lakes region of the US and Canada. Oden refers to her tribe as Anishinaabe, a larger group of Indigenous peoples that encompasses Citizen Potawotomi Nation as well the Ojibwe, among others.
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S4Three Native American dishes to celebrate autumn  Across cultures, fall is a time for celebrating the bounty of hearty food, gathering with family and feasting together. While November is often tied to Thanksgiving in the larger US culture, the fraught narrative that has long fuelled the holiday is a reminder to look deeper. For many of the Indigenous peoples who have generations of roots on this land, Thanksgiving represents something much different than a table full of turkey and pie.Take chef Loretta Barrett Oden, who recently published her first cookbook, Corn Dance: Inspired First American Cuisine. Oden, whose lineage is with the Citizen Potawatomi Nation in Oklahoma, grew up celebrating Thanksgiving and still feasts with family on that day. But when she owned a restaurant in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she highlighted indigenous ingredients by putting turkey and stuffing on the menu, thereby treating every day like it was Thanksgiving. Here, Oden shares her recipe for kanuchi, a rich, creamy soup made of ground nuts and maple syrup.
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S6With Annastacia Palaszczuk gone, can Labor achieve the unachievable in Queensland?  But, north of the Tweed River, Queensland politics is very much about stability, and only a little about change. Where, for example, New South Wales has seen nine premiers over the past 20 years, Queensland has seen just four.Yet a changing of the guard is now occurring after Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk – the daughter of a Labor cabinet minister and the last of the “COVID-19 era” premiers – tearfully announced her resignation as the state’s 39th (and second woman) premier. With the coming of the “silly season”, this is the perfect time for leadership transition: Labor can begin 2024 with a clean page.
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S7From trash to power: how to harness energy from Africa's garbage dumps - and save billions in future damage  About 70% of municipal solid waste ends up in landfills or unregulated dumpsites. In sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, 24% of waste is disposed of in landfills, while the rest is left on open dumps, streets, rivers, and other unsuitable locations. We live in a society where waste is often disposed of without considering the cost to either the consumer or the producer. Waste decomposing in landfills releases greenhouse gases. The release of carbon dioxide, nitrates and hydrogen sulfides can harm people’s health, either by polluting the air we breathe or contaminating nearby water sources.
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S8Uganda will soon be exporting oil: an energy economist outlines 3 keys to success  Uganda entered into agreements in 2012 with two foreign oil entities to exploit its oil resources. Total Energies holds 56.67% of the joint venture partnership and China National Oil Offshore Company (CNOOC) has 28.33%. Through Uganda National Oil Company, the government owns the remaining 15%.Production is due to start in 2025. As part of the production sharing agreement, the production licences are valid for 25 years upon extracting the first oil.
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S9In the Shadow of the Holocaust  Berlin never stops reminding you of what happened there. Several museums examine totalitarianism and the Holocaust; the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe takes up an entire city block. In a sense, though, these larger structures are the least of it. The memorials that sneak up on you—the monument to burned books, which is literally underground, and the thousands of Stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones,” built into sidewalks to commemorate individual Jews, Sinti, Roma, homosexuals, mentally ill people, and others murdered by the Nazis—reveal the pervasiveness of the evils once committed in this place. In early November, when I was walking to a friend’s house in the city, I happened upon the information stand that marks the site of Hitler’s bunker. I had done so many times before. It looks like a neighborhood bulletin board, but it tells the story of the Führer’s final days.In the late nineteen-nineties and early two-thousands, when many of these memorials were conceived and installed, I visited Berlin often. It was exhilarating to watch memory culture take shape. Here was a country, or at least a city, that was doing what most cultures cannot: looking at its own crimes, its own worst self. But, at some point, the effort began to feel static, glassed in, as though it were an effort not only to remember history but also to insure that only this particular history is remembered—and only in this way. This is true in the physical, visual sense. Many of the memorials use glass: the Reichstag, a building nearly destroyed during the Nazi era and rebuilt half a century later, is now topped by a glass dome; the burned-books memorial lives under glass; glass partitions and glass panes put order to the stunning, once haphazard collection called “Topography of Terror.” As Candice Breitz, a South African Jewish artist who lives in Berlin, told me, “The good intentions that came into play in the nineteen-eighties have, too often, solidified into dogma.”
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S10Looking for a Greener Way to Fly  Sometime in the next few weeks, the Department of the Treasury is expected to decide who—or, really, what—will qualify for a new set of tax credits. The credits were created under the Inflation Reduction Act, which many argue was misnamed, and they involve “sustainable aviation fuel,” which some argue is an oxymoron. For months, a debate has been raging over how the credits should be allocated, and though the arguments can get pretty deep into the weeds—some of them literally involve weeds—they’re worth attending to because of the stakes. The fight could determine whether key provisions of the I.R.A. help to address climate change or end up making things worse. As a briefing paper from the Environmental Defense Fund (E.D.F.) put it, there is a risk of substituting “one environmental threat for another.”Key to the debate are two unfortunate facts, the first of which is that aviation emissions are a big problem. Planes account for roughly two per cent of the world’s CO2 emissions, meaning that, if all the world’s aircraft got together to form a country, they’d emit more than the vast majority of actual nations, including Germany, Brazil, and Indonesia. And this still underestimates their impact. Owing to a variety of complex processes, airplane emissions have an oversized impact on the atmosphere; it’s been estimated that, historically, aviation may be responsible for two to four times more warming than the CO2 numbers alone suggest. Meanwhile, in a highly inequitable world, flying is particularly unequal: a study published in 2020 found that just one per cent of the global population is likely responsible for more than fifty per cent of passenger-plane emissions. (Although aviation emissions fell during the COVID lockdowns, they are once again rising fast; according to a recent report, in 2023, they are expected to increase by twenty-eight per cent over 2022.)
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S11The Best TV Shows of 2023  Hollywood came to a standstill for much of 2023, when its writers and actors hit the picket line simultaneously for the first time in more than sixty years. Arriving in the wake of the pandemic—which made television more central to daily life even as it impeded its production—the strikes had an instantaneous and sustained impact. Late-night shows went dark, the broadcast networks’ fall season fell through, and the Peak TV era came to an unceremonious end. Both unions have convincingly declared victory, but, after years of reliance on boom-time profligacy, the industry is bracing for a downturn in the quantity—and perhaps the quality—of its output.The cloud of that uncertainty hangs over the end of this year in television. Certain factions have already adopted a doomer mind-set; in the past few weeks, multiple people have asked me whether the business will revert to risk aversion. (I hope not!) But before we look ahead to TV’s next chapter, it’s worth celebrating the highlights of the previous twelve months. Given the studio stoppages, there were fewer contenders than usual. But 2023’s best offerings are strong enough that the following Top Ten list, arranged in alphabetical order, could rival any other year’s.
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S1240 Years Ago, An Iconic Director Tackled One of Stephen King's Weirdest Stories -- And Succeeded  In one of those bizarre twists of Hollywood synchronicity, 1983 gave us two Stephen King adaptations about typically innocuous possessions developing murderous tendencies. While Cujo transformed a cuddly St. Bernard into a rabid homicidal maniac, Christine turned a 1958 Plymouth Fury into a lean, mean killing machine. In another coincidence, both raked in $21 million at the domestic box office. But thanks to its impressive pedigree, and we’re not talking the canine kind, the latter has better stood the test of time.Christine was the first (and still the only) time King’s words were transferred to the big screen by another horror titan: John Carpenter. The filmmaker had previously been lined up to direct the 1980 novel Firestarter, but following the disappointing response to his now-cult classic The Thing, he was ruthlessly replaced.
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S13Xbox Game Pass Just Quietly Released the Most Deranged Action Game of the Decade  Comedy works best in threes, which is probably why so many comedy sequels suck. The list is long: Caddyshack 2, Clerks II, Airplane 2: The Sequel, and many more. A joke is rarely as funny the second time around. Maybe this is why Coffee Stain Studios, the creators behind the 2014 smash-hit game Goat Simulator decided to lean into the rule of threes and skip right ahead to Goat Simulator 3 as the title for their second game in the franchise. It’s a fitting joke for a game that’s all about subverting expectations. But is it enough to break the comedy sequel curse?Goat Simulator 3, which dropped on Game Pass on Dec. 7, gives a huge new audience access to one of the funniest games of this generation, or any generation. The original game’s premise, a ragdolling goat with a sticky tongue runs amok in a physics-driven sandbox, is intact. This time, the world is bigger, the objectives zanier, and you can even bring a friend along for the ride.
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S14Netflix's Best Sci-Fi Show of 2023 Was 20 Years in the Making  One of the best sci-fi shows of 2023 has been 20 years in the making. So why does it resonate so powerfully today?My favorite show of 2023 was one I’d been waiting on for years. Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki’s 2003-2009 manga Pluto, a mature re-envisioning of “The Greatest Robot on Earth” arc from Osamu Tezuka’s classic Astro Boy, has long been a favorite of mine. Studio M2’s anime adaptation has been in the works since at least 2017 (before that, it was almost a movie from Minions studio Illumination — bullet dodged). After six years of waiting, it finally arrived on Netflix in October. The anime adapts its source material extremely faithfully, so it may come as a surprise that the original manga’s of-the-moment political commentary from 20 years ago is still startlingly relevant.
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S15'Stranger Things' Star Gaten Matarazzo Is Obsessed With 'Zelda' Timelines  “They have those awesome videos trying to break down exactly where the timelines line up.”Gaten Matarazzo has had a busy life. The child actor debuted on Broadway when he was just 9 years old and then blew up on Netflix’s Stranger Things series, playing a nerdy middle schooler obsessed with Dungeons and Dragons. Matarazzo has recently returned to Broadway with Sweeney Todd before he did Dear Evan Hansen, led a rom-com in Honor Society, and embodied a lovable dragon in My Father’s Dragon.
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S16The Longest Living Dogs May Hold Unknown Secrets About Aging  If you have ever cared for a pet dog, it is a sad truth that you are likely to outlive them.If you have ever cared for a pet dog, it is a sad truth that you are likely to outlive them. So it’s no wonder that people may be asking how to increase their pet’s longevity following the news that a dog in Portugal lived longer than 30 years.
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S17'Poor Things' Overlooked This One Fundamental Part of Developmental Psychology  If you were hoping for a deep dive into the real-life science behind transplanting prenatal brains into dead bodies and reanimating the corpse, I have some disappointing news for you.Poor Things — the latest bizarre yet somehow heartwarming film by Yorgos Lanthimos — is, at its core, a fresh take on Frankenstein tale, taking the basic premise from Mary Shelley’s story of reanimating the dead. Bella Baxter, the story’s headstrong, insatiable heroine portrayed by Emma Stone, demonstrates that psychology is the real science worth examining.
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S1850 Weird Things for Your Home That Are Clever as Hell on Amazon  Could your kitchen use a couple of updates? Is your closet bursting at the seams? Or are you tired of bathroom cleaners that don’t get the job done? Lucky for you, this list of clever things from Amazon has solutions for these problems and more. I’m talking weird things you never knew you needed, but now won’t be able to live without — such as a set of genius straps that keep a fitted sheet in place no matter how much you toss and turn. You’re welcome.Trade a perpetually damp hand towel for this fuzzy ball towel that’s highly absorbent and dries hands almost instantly. The round design makes it easy to use, and the neutral color options are versatile enough to work in any space. The towels have a built-in hook for easy hanging and besides being practical, they’re also a unique and stylish addition to your bathroom or powder room.
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S1960 Years Later, Sci-Fi's Longest Running Show Just Reaffirmed Its Most Paradoxical Idea  With “The Giggle” finally hitting Disney+, the three David Tennant-centric Doctor Who specials have come to a close, with surprising and spoilerific results. We’ve known for ages that Neil Patrick Harris was playing a new incarnation of a 1966 1st Doctor villain, The Celestial Toymaker, but until now, nobody knew how that was going to play out. And of course, there’s the whole question of the 14th Doctor’s surprising regeneration. With deep dives into recent lore, the return of Mel (Bonnie Langford) from the 6th and 7th Doctor eras, “The Giggle” will give fans plenty to talk about for a very long time to come.But, squeezed into all of this was one very telling line from the 14th Doctor, a kind of revelation we’ve heard before, but that truly helps to contextualize the more contemporary Doctors as being very different from the 1st Doctor, William Hartnell, for one crucial reason. Just because the 1st Doctor appears to be a literal grandfather, that version of our eponymous Time Lord is among the youngest, and least-wise of all our Doctor Who incarnations.
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S20What is Bi-generation? 'Doctor Who' Just Changed Its Oldest Canon Rule Forever  The greatest innovation of Doctor Who has always been the concept of regeneration. When the 1st Doctor, William Hartnell, became too ill to keep playing the role, producers devised the idea of regeneration, which allowed the Doctor to renew his face and his body whenever he was killed. This rendered the Doctor — and the show itself — essentially immortal. The Doctor could continually regenerate, and the show could continually recast its lead actor and reset itself every few years. It became the key to the show’s longevity and an essential part of the show’s creative DNA. And, 60 years later, Doctor Who just changed the rules of regeneration again.
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S2125 Years Ago, an Outdated Sci-Fi Classic Got a Brilliant Update  Twelve years after Lily Tomlin fronted a gender-reversed remake of The Incredible Shrinking Man, another 1950s B-movie about an abnormally sized human got the modern feminist treatment. Although it didn’t need to change the sex of its leading character, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman is unarguably the more radical reinterpretation.Adapted from the 1958 film, the HBO TV movie sees Daryl Hannah take over from silver screen star Allison Hayes as Nancy Archer, a wealthy yet troubled heiress. Not only did her mother take her own life after being committed to a sanitarium, she has a manipulative, scheming father determined to get his grubby hands on her money and, perhaps most tragically of all, she’s married to one of the lesser Baldwin brothers.
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S228 Questions About Using AI Responsibly, Answered  Generative AI tools are poised to change the way every business operates. As your own organization begins strategizing which to use, and how, operational and ethical considerations are inevitable. This article delves into eight of them, including how your organization should prepare to introduce AI responsibly, how you can prevent harmful bias from proliferating in your systems, and how to avoid key privacy risks.
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S23AI Should Augment Human Intelligence, Not Replace It  Will smart machines really replace human workers? Probably not. People and AI both bring different abilities and strengths to the table. The real question is: how can human intelligence work with artificial intelligence to produce augmented intelligence. Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov offers some unique insight here. After losing to IBM’s Deep Blue, he began to experiment how a computer helper changed players’ competitive advantage in high-level chess games. What he discovered was that having the best players and the best program was less a predictor of success than having a really good process. Put simply, “Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a strong computer alone and, more remarkably, superior to a strong human + machine + inferior process.” As leaders look at how to incorporate AI into their organizations, they’ll have to manage expectations as AI is introduced, invest in bringing teams together and perfecting processes, and refine their own leadership abilities.
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