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 S62These Mining Companies Are Ready to Raid the Seabed   The robot about to be let loose on the Norwegian seabed looks like a giant tripod, kicking up sand as it drills to collect samples from one of the last untouched places on Earth.This eerie contraption belongs to Loke Marine Minerals, expected to be among the first companies to embark on an exploration process that lays the groundwork for deep-sea mining in the Arctic. In a world-first, Norway’s parliament voted on Tuesday to allow a new generation of mining companies to search a large area of Norwegian waters—the size of Italy—for the minerals needed to build electric cars, mobile phones, and solar panels.
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S41The US is bringing back nature's best firefighters: beavers  Jay Wilde stared at the dry creek on the ranch his family had owned for decades for the umpteenth time that week. He was trying to remember what had changed on the land – when he was a child, Birch Creek would run year-round. Now he was lucky if they got six months' worth of water. Wilde had been away from his southern Idaho ranch for 30 years, returning to run cattle in 1995. And the cows needed water."Without water, it was becoming really hard for me to manage the ranch," Wilde explains. "I eventually put in a water system for the cows to drink from, but it seemed wrong to me that the stream should be drying up. There's a lot of life that depends on that water."
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S56Could AI give you X-ray vision?  What if a robot could find and deliver your lost phone? AI researcher Tara Boroushaki presents how she's using wireless signals and sensors to create AI-powered goggles with "X-ray vision," creating a dynamic new tool with applications from improving efficiency in commercial warehouses to aiding emergency rescues.
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S19Why No One Gets Away with Trash Talk Anymore  This summer, a milestone crept up on me—I realized it’s been twenty-five years since I began my career as a professor. So naturally, I’ve spent some time reflecting on how my choice of profession has worked out. I spend most of my classroom time with executives who are there because they are unhappy with where they are – or they at least understand they won’t be satisfied for long. Their hope is that whatever we do together in class will help them find something they’ll find more fulfilling. How thankful I am that I’ve never had to wrestle with that.
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S40Did Australia's boomerangs pave the way for flight?  The aircraft is one of the most significant developments of modern society, enabling people, goods and ideas to fly around the world far more efficiently than ever before. The first successful piloted flight took off in 1903 in North Carolina, but a 10,000-year-old hunting tool likely developed by Aboriginal Australians may have held the key to its lift-off. As early aviators discovered, the secret to flight is balancing the flow of air. Therefore, an aircraft's wings, tail or propeller blades are often shaped in a specially designed, curved manner called an aerofoil that lifts the plane up and allows it to drag or turn to the side as it moves through the air.
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S55What's Your Company's AI Readiness Quotient?  Is your organization ready for AI implementation? Use this diagnostic tool by Wharton’s Scott Snyder to assess how you can stay ahead.The following article was written by Scott A. Snyder, a senior fellow at Wharton, adjunct professor at Penn Engineering, and chief digital officer at EVERSANA.
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S42Cosmic megastructures: The largest objects in the Universe  In 2021, British PhD student Alexia Lopez was analysing the light coming from distant quasars when she made a startling discovery.She detected a giant, almost symmetrical arc of galaxies 9.3 billion light years away in the constellation of Boötes the Herdsman. Spanning a massive 3.3 billion light years across, the structure is a whopping 1/15th the radius of the observable Universe. If we could see it from Earth, it would be the size of 35 full moons displayed across the sky.
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S38Taupo: The super volcano under New Zealand's largest lake  Located in the centre of New Zealand's North Island, the town of Taupo sits sublimely in the shadow of the snow-capped peaks of Tongariro National Park. Fittingly, this 40,000-person lakeside town has recently become one of New Zealand's most popular tourist destinations, as hikers, trout fishers, water sports enthusiasts and adrenaline junkies have started descending upon it.The namesake of this tidy town is the Singapore-sized lake that kisses its western border. Stretching 623sq km wide and 160m deep with several magma chambers submerged at its base, Lake Taupo isn't only New Zealand's largest lake; it's also an incredibly active geothermal hotspot. Every summer, tourists flock to bathe in its bubbling hot springs and sail through its emerald-green waters. Yet, the lake is the crater of a giant super volcano, and within its depths lies the unsettling history of this picturesque marvel.
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S60CES 2024 in Photos: The Year AI Ate Vegas  The frenzied and intoxicating showcase for consumer technology known as CES took place this week in Las Vegas. Every January, the industry's big shindig descends on this city in the Nevada desert, drawing tech manufacturers, retailers, distributors, members of the press, gadget fans, and regular old lookie-loos into the fray. The Las Vegas Convention Center, hotel expo halls, nightclubs, restaurants, and event centers are stuffed with talking screens, self-driving cars, flying cars, self-adjusting audio speakers, and ChatGPT-enabled appliances for the smart home. Indeed, this is the year that AI ate everything in sight; old products were freshened up by an injection of machine intelligence, and new products were launched to help people interface with these new generative tools. Our photographer Alex Welsh captured some of this consumer tech revolution in full swing as he roamed the halls of CES 2024.© 2024 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. WIRED may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Ad Choices
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S58'Bodies' Is a Fun Time Travel Mystery  Visit WIRED Photo for our unfiltered take on photography, photographers, and photographic journalism wrd.cm/1IEnjUHSlide: 1 / of 1.Caption: Caption: Emily Barber as Kathleen and Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Det. Charlie Whiteman in Bodies.Matt Towers/Netflix
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S51How Does the World's Largest Seabird Know Where to Fly?  Joseph Polidoro: Imagine for a moment that you’re a very hungry bird soaring over 30-foot ocean swells in high winds, with no land for thousands of miles.According to a new finding in October’s Proceedings of the National Association of Sciences USA, this seabird navigates using sounds below our thresholds for hearing.
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S45AI-Optimized Catheter Design Could Prevent Urinary Tract Infections without Drugs  A 3-D-printed tube stymies microbes with a tiny obstacle course to combat rampant infections in hospitalsMore than 100 million people worldwide require a urinary catheter every year. The devices can be lifesaving, especially after surgery. But many of those who used them—about one quarter in developing countries and about an eighth in the U.S.—may develop a catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), commonly caused by bacteria building up inside the tube.
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S29S53Motivation Up, Attrition Down: Employee Engagement  Wharton's Matthew Bidwell shares tips on how to elevate employee engagement and maximize the talent of your workforce.Nano Tools for Leaders® — a collaboration between Wharton Executive Education and Wharton’s Center for Leadership and Change Management — are fast, effective tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes, with the potential to significantly impact your success and the engagement and productivity of the people you lead.
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S34S37The Best Leaders Can't Be Replaced by AI  There are some areas where AI is surpassing human capabilities — but there are several it can’t replace. Based on their research into employees’ comfort with AI in management, as well as their decades of research on the qualities of effective leadership, the authors identify the promise (and perils) of AI-enabled management, as well as the three uniquely human capabilities leaders need to focus on honing, especially as AI begins to figure more in management: 1) awareness, 2) compassion, and 3) wisdom.
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S30S20Stop Procrastinating...Now  It seems that no one is immune to the tendency to procrastinate. When someone asked Ernest Hemingway how to write a novel, his response was “First you defrost the refrigerator.” But putting off tasks takes a big hit on our productivity, and psyche. Procrastination is not inevitable. Figuring out why you postpone work and then taking concrete steps to prevent it will help you get more done and feel good about yourself.
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S61The Boeing 737 Max Crisis Reignites Arguments Over Infant Safety on Planes  As Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 neared 16,000 feet, a boom thundered through the plane as a chunk of the plane’s bodywork was ripped away. The rush of air as the cabin depressurized pulled mobile phones out of hands—an iPhone was found intact on the ground below—and a teenager sitting close to the door was left shirtless. “His shirt got sucked off of his body when the panel blew out because of the pressure, and it was his seatbelt that kept him in his seat and saved his life,” one passenger told the Associated Press.The consequences of being unbelted at such a moment are unthinkable, but there is one group of passengers who are not required to wear a seatbelt during takeoff in the US: babies under the age of two.
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S52What's Behind the 'Arctic Blast' Plunging into the U.S.?  This week’s cold snap across the U.S. will be one of “the most impressive Arctic outbreaks of this century,” one climate scientist saysAfter months of record-breaking warm temperatures, much of the U.S. is facing a harsh, fast-approaching blast of frigid air from the Arctic that could plunge wind chill factors below zero degrees Fahrenheit (–18 degrees Celsius)—all close on the heels of a serious winter storm dumping snow over the Midwest and Great Lakes this weekend.
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S44Earth's Wobble Wreaks Havoc on Astronomers--And Astrologers, Too  Our planet’s precession is scarcely noticeable during anyone’s lifetime, but across history, it has had enormous effectsA view of Polaris (center), the North Star. Although Polaris is now closely aligned with Earth’s North Pole, our planet’s precession ensures that this arrangement is temporary. In the distant future, other stars will take Polaris’s present place as our North Star.
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S63The Surprising Things That Helped Make 2023 the Hottest Year Ever .jpg) Following a summer and autumn of planetary extremes—the hottest September by a wide margin, supercharged hurricanes, self-perpetuating heat domes—scientists have now declared 2023 the warmest year on record.Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its 2023 report, finding that last year was 1.35 degrees Celsius above the preindustrial average. Berkeley Earth, a nonprofit climate research group, released its own 2023 report showing that global average temperatures last year were 1.54 degrees C above preindustrial levels. That smashes the previous record year of 2016, which was 1.37 degrees warmer. Earlier this week the European Union’s Copernicus program pegged it at 1.48 degrees C.
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S49Biden Pours $623 Million into Electric Vehicle Charging Void  The Biden administration is doling out more money for charging infrastructure because range anxiety is considered a major challenge to Americans’ widespread adoption of electric carsCLIMATEWIRE | America’s ability to charge future electric vehicles got a jolt Thursday as the Biden administration announced recipients of $623 million in infrastructure funds, with a focus on disadvantaged communities and freight trucks.
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S502023 Was the Hottest Year on Record by a Long Shot  The year 2023 is officially the hottest on record, edging close to the mark of 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. But that doesn’t mean that the goals of the Paris climate accord are out of reachA farmer walks by dry cracked earth on his farm where he usually grows crawfish on October 10, 2023 in Kaplan, Louisiana.
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S31S27S33S47S21A Warning Sign from Global Companies  Multinational companies have long been vital to the U.S. economy, accounting for a large share of GDP, R&D spending, exports, and capital investment—not to mention labor-productivity growth and good-paying jobs. But in the past decade, a worrisome trend developed: As MNCs pursued faster growth abroad, their role in the U.S. economy declined on many measures.
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S39Message sticks: Australia's ancient unwritten language  The continent of Australia is home to more than 250 spoken Indigenous languages and 800 dialects. Yet, one of its linguistic cornerstones wasn't spoken, but carved.Known as message sticks, these flat, rounded and oblong pieces of wood were etched with ornate images on both sides that conveyed important messages and held the stories of the continent's Aboriginal people – considered the world's oldest continuous living culture. Message sticks are believed to be thousands of years old and were typically carried by messengers over long distances to reinforce oral histories or deliver news between Aboriginal nations or language groups.
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S32S69S46Information Theory Can Help Us Search for Life on Alien Worlds  Information theory can help us decode signs of biological activity hiding in the atmospheres of distant exoplanetsFew questions are more intriguing than the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. But since aliens are not visiting our planet, and we are not going to their faraway homes any time soon, indirect evidence for the existence of biology on distant worlds is our best bet for answers.
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S24How to Determine Your Work Style as a New Manager  Self-awareness in the workplace is always a superpower, but when you’re new to management, it’s even more important. You need to understand and communicate how you do your best work. Here are two exercises first-time managers can use to develop self-awareness: First, identify your work style: Are you more introverted or extroverted? Are you more task-oriented or people-oriented? Ask yourself: Do I do my best work in collaboration with others or by myself? Do I tend to place more value on doing things quickly and efficiently or on bringing people along in the process and generating consensus for the path forward? Where you fall will determine which of four work styles you fall into: the analyzer, the director, the collaborator, or the promoter. Then, articulate your values. Imagine yourself late in life, reflecting on your career. In the end, what was most important to you? Write down 10 values that represent your ideal of that fulfilled life. Narrow the list down to five values, then three. Then, write down activities that embody each value. If your value is excellence, for example, an activity might be that you never deliver a project unless it’s nearly perfect. As a last step, be open with colleagues and direct reports about your work style and key values so they can understand what motivates you and how best to work with you — and provide feedback on the unconscious biases your values will inevitably create. You can even create a “Working with Me” document that clearly outlines how you like to work, your management style, your communication preferences, and more.
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S43How Covid-19's symptoms have changed with each new variant  "For almost four years, I've managed to dodge Covid-19," TV broadcaster Mehdi Hasan tweeted a fortnight ago. "But it finally got me. At the end of 2023."Hasan added that his symptoms were thankfully mild, but he is just one of many people reporting their first ever positive test for the virus responsible for the pandemic, Sars-CoV-2, four years on from when it first began spreading around the world.
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S64How "intersectional leadership skills" harness trust as the currency of collaboration  Leadership is a process of applying social influence to maximize the efforts of others for achieving a common goal. Intersectionality is often used to describe the relationships between individuals and social categories (such as generation, occupation, nationality), and concepts that fall into more than one category. In the “Venture Meets Mission” ecosystem, leadership skills emerge from experience in operating at the interface of public and private, first, through developing a working knowledge of how to operate and succeed in both environments, and second, through understanding the differences in motivating and influencing in very different contexts. To thrive in a mission ecosystem, we need to develop a new set of intersectional leadership skills. In the summer of 1998, following his junior year at Dartmouth University, Nate Fick attended the United States Marine Corps Officer Candidates School and was commissioned as second lieutenant upon graduating. The Baltimore native then became an officer in the Amphibious Ready Group of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, training with the Australian Army for humanitarian operations deployment to East Timor. However, following the September 11 attacks in 2001, Nate led his platoon into Afghanistan for Operation Enduring Freedom and eventually, in 2003, into Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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S59How to Stop Your X Account From Getting Hacked Like the SEC's  This week, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suffered an embarrassing—and market-moving—breach in which a hacker gained access to its X social media account and published fake information about a highly anticipated SEC announcement related to bitcoin. The agency regained control of its account and deleted the post in under an hour, but the situation is troubling, especially given that the prominent and well-respected security firm Mandiant, which is owned by Google, had its X account compromised in a similar incident last week.Details are still emerging about exactly what happened in each case, but there are common threads that made the account takeovers possible—and there are ways to protect yourself.
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S35How to Intervene When You Witness Workplace Aggression  Given the many impacts of workplace aggression, organizations are exploring a number of prevention initiatives. One increasingly popular initiative, bystander intervention, involves training people who witness acts of aggression to intervene. Although bystanders can play a pivotal role in determining outcomes of workplace aggression, many individuals who speak out against perpetrators of aggression experience backlash. This is because when a bystander steps in, it challenges the perpetrator’s perception of themselves as a good person and colleague, triggering a defensive response. Therefore, the way that bystanders intervene matters. It’s not enough to just tell people to intervene; we need to tell them how to do so in a way that minimizes unintended backlash effects.
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S26S67Use the "minimal self" theory to flip workplace stress on its head  Robert Burton’s 1621 work, The Anatomy of Melancholy, is a vast, 900-page exploration of depression. It dances around and calls upon all the sciences of his day — psychology, physiology, astronomy, meteorology, theology, astrology, and demonology — to forensically unpack what depression is and what remedies might exist. After five editions and around 350,000 words, Burton concludes with one summary piece of advice for any depressive: “Be not solitary, be not idle.”What Burton knew in the 17th Century, and what psychologists have proven over and over since, is that when things get hard, people often withdraw into themselves. When someone experiences stress or trauma, they will tend to isolate themselves from the world. The problem, as Burton’s advice reveals, is that the solitude of social withdrawal becomes a vicious circle. Depressive isolation is a black dog that swells to such a monstrous size as to consume the entire room. When you’re alone, problems often magnify and engorge. They are harder to deal with. And so you withdraw more.
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