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CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!  S30Message 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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S1Case Study: Where to Launch in Africa  Benard Kenani spotted his uncle as soon as he walked into the hotel lobby. Uncle Michael was sitting at a corner table with two other men, also in suits, both of whom were laughing at one of his jokes. That was typical of Michael, a successful executive in Nigeria, whose affable disposition was widely admired. He quickly stood up when he saw his nephew.
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S2Cobra's Chairman on Turning an Indian Beer into a Global Brand  When he was a law student at Cambridge University, the author sat in a classic British pub one evening wondering whether to have a too-fizzy lager or a too-heavy ale. He longed to create a more balanced beer that would pair well with food, especially the spicy curries from his native India. Something cold and refreshing but also smooth. He started experimenting, mixing brews that were then on the market to find the right blend.
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S3Act Like an Entrepreneur Inside Your Organization  Charlie Kiefer is founder of Innovation Associates whose programs and services in insight, entrepreneurial thinking and learning-based change permanently improve a large organization’s ability to innovate. He teaches Corporate Entrepreneurship at the Sloan School of Management, MIT, and has co-authored a number of books and articles on entrepreneurship and insight including Just Start (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012).
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S4How U.S. Law Needs to Change to Support the Self-Employed and Gig Economy  As the Gig Economy grows ever larger, U.S. policymakers need to rethink how freelance and part-time workers are supported. In this piece, the author offers three ways to meaningfully improve labor and tax policies to make the system work better for everyone: First, she suggests the elimination of the self-employment tax. Next, she argues that health insurance tax breaks should be extended to all workers — not just those with full-time benefits. Finally, she describes several labor protections that should be extended to gig workers, including income and discrimination protection. The U.S. has a long history of supporting entrepreneurship and independent workers, at least in theory. With these new policies, it would get one step closer to actually granting those workers the same benefits given to full-time employees.
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S5How Company Founders Become Tyrants  Silicon Valley venture capitalists used to routinely oust start-up founders—who were viewed as green and unskilled—as part of the process leading to an IPO. The author, an adjunct professor at Stanford and a well-known entrepreneurship thinker, describes how VCs gradually came to see founders not as a problem that needed to be solved but as a valuable asset that needed to be retained. In July 2009, when Mark Andreessen cofounded the VC firm Andreessen Horowitz with Ben Horowitz, it was with a key philosophical difference from rival firms: a “founder friendly” focus. Blank argues that this trend has gone too far, and the situation at Uber is just the most obvious example of that. He offers prescriptions for how to begin correcting this power imbalance.
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S6S7High-Tech Ways to Keep Cupboards Full  What good is keeping your brand stocked on retailers’ shelves if the shelves that really count—the ones in customers’ refrigerators, pantries, and medicine cabinets—are bare? The supply chain only ends at the retailer if your product is consumed at the point where it is purchased. Once most products leave the store, though, they enter a disjointed supply chain, managed (or, far more often, mismanaged) by the consumer, whose out-of-stock levels at home are frighteningly high.
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S8Why Uber Needs Clearer Pricing  The way a company sets price is an integral component of its brand. Think about your favorite merchants – what associations of price do you have? Do you think of them as premium, middle-of-the-road, or a value player? Just as prices drive brand perceptions, pricing surprises can damage a company’s brand. Remember the uproar when Apple discounted its iPhone from $599 to $399 just 68 days after introduction?
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S9The Best Digital Companies Are Set Up to Never Stop Innovating  Companies born before the internet took hold have an enormous challenge: improving their online products and services at the warp speed of their online competitors. The ability to make thousands of changes a day to its online retail service has been a key reason Amazon is expanding its online lead over Walmart and other historically “bricks and mortar” retailers. Amazon e-commerce revenue growth was 10 times Walmart’s last year in dollar terms, and 1.5 times faster in percentage terms.
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S10S11How I Navigated My First Pregnancy as a Rising Leader  Pregnant women are often denied promotions, and seen as liabilities or burdens, based on their decision to have a baby. All this, despite the fact that women make up 50% of the workforce, and up to 85% will become mothers during their careers. If you’re a rising leader in your organization who is also expecting, how can you navigate your career while taking care of yourself and your soon-to-be-born baby?
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S12Switching Jobs? Here's How to Make Sure You Won't Regret It.  No one wants to feel regret after taking a new job. And yet, it’s something that happens often. In this piece, the author outlines steps you can take to avoid a painful career misstep: 1) Before you begin to think through your decision, outline your career goals and criteria for acceptance, laying out a roadmap for how you will evaluate each element. 2) During your interview, ask exploratory questions about employee engagement, growth potential, expectations, metrics, challenges faced, and how long people historically stay in their roles. 3) Beware of your cognitive biases as you try to make a decision. 4) And finally, before accepting an offer, make it a priority to network with employees who work for the company you’re interested in joining, and get their view of what it’s really like on the inside.
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S13Are You Too Afraid to Succeed? Tim had been on the fast track. An Ivy League graduate, he had joined one of the premier consulting firms as an associate. He went on to take an MBA at INSEAD, graduating at the top of his class. Recruited by a pharmaceutical firm he rose quickly through the ranks, joining the executive team in record time. Within just eight years after joining the company he was appointed its CEO.
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S14Our Favorite Advice on Work, Change, and Life  There are times in our lives when our identities as workers collide with who we are as people. That brings up big questions about our purpose, values, and decisions that cut to the core of who we want to be in this world. To help guide you in some of these questions about work, life, and change, we asked HBR contributors and editors to recommend articles and podcast episodes from our archive that they’ve found meaningful.
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S155 Barriers to Career Change -- and How to Overcome Them  If you’ve been thinking of making a career change, you are not alone. Consider the state of the current employment landscape: Mass layoffs are rampant. Venture capital deals are on hold. For managers, burnout is on the rise globally. McKinsey predicts that advances in generative AI may lead to 12 million occupational transitions by 2030. The pandemic and subsequent economic and political volatility led many of us to reflect on our choices and catalyzed our desire for change.
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S16Is Your Team Understimulated? Try a Different Kind of Job Crafting.  If your team is feeling understimulated or like they’re not learning or developing any new professional skills, what can you do as a manager? Task trading is a type of job crafting that enables people to learn new skills by swapping some small activities with their teammates. It involves shifting your focus from the work of each individual team member to the work of the team as a whole.
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S17S18S19S20S21S22S23S24S25S26S276 Ways AI Could Disrupt Your Business  How can boards better understand the potential impacts of AI? The authors suggest six scenarios that all boards must consider — and then act upon — ranging from predicting extreme operational changes, to anticipating new strategic ways to compete, to foreseeing existential threats that could obviate one’s business.
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S28A secret site for the Knights Templar?  In a hole in the ground beneath the Hertfordshire market town of Royston, dimly illuminated by flickering light, I was looking at a gallery of crudely carved figures, blank-faced and bearing instruments of torture. Cave manager Nicky Paton pointed them out to me one by one. "There's Saint Catherine, with her breaking wheel. She was only 18 when she was martyred," Paton said, cheerfully. "And there's Saint Lawrence. He was burnt to death on a griddle."Amid the grisly Christian scenes were Pagan images: a large carving of a horse, and a fertility symbol known as a sheela na gig, depicting a woman with exaggerated sexual organs. Another portrayed a person holding a skull in their right hand and a candle in their left, theorised to represent an initiation ceremony – a tantalising clue as to the cave's possible purpose. Adding to the carvings' creepiness was their rudimentary, almost childlike, execution.
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S29Taupo: 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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S31Did 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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S32Is Santa Claus buried in Ireland?  In celebration of the Christmas holiday, we’re republishing one of our favourite BBC Travel stories, which details a little-known legend about St Nick, the inspiration behind Santa Claus.Amid green hilly pastures dotted with grazing sheep and a cemetery with graves dating back to the 13th Century, the ruins of St Nicholas Church tower over the family home of Maeve and Joe O'Connell. Among those resting eternally here are early inhabitants of the estate, parishioners of the church and – according to local legend – St Nicholas of Myra.
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S33What to expect from this year's rare double brood of cicadas  The last time an event like this happened, Thomas Jefferson was President of the United States – and it's going to be deafening.Trillions of periodical cicadas are due to make an appearance across the Midwest and Southeast of America this spring, after spending more than a decade burrowed underground. This year, two broods of flying cicadas will emerge at the same time, and it will be the first time they have emerged simultaneously since 1803.
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S34Cleaning Water Naturally the Ancient Maya Way  The ancestral Maya lived in better harmony with the environment and kept water clean naturally. We can learn from themWater is life. That’s why we need to take care of it. Even plentiful water supplies are moot if they are undrinkable. Climate change, pollution and growing populations only add to the urgency of maintaining adequate water supplies and water quality for humanity.
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S35AI Survey Exaggerates Apocalyptic Risks  A speculative survey about AI’s future may have been biased toward an alarmist perspectiveThe headlines in early January didn’t mince words, and all were variations on one theme: researchers think there’s a 5 percent chance artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity.
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S36Consciousness Is a Continuum, and Scientists Are Starting to Measure It  What does it mean to be conscious? People have been thinking and writing about this question for millennia. Yet many things about the conscious mind remain a mystery, including how to measure and assess it. What is a unit of consciousness? Are there different levels of consciousness? What happens to consciousness during sleep, coma and general anesthesia?As anesthesiologists, we think about these questions often. We make a promise to patients every day that they will be disconnected from the outside world and their inner thoughts during surgery, retain no memories of the experience and feel no pain. In this way, general anesthesia has enabled tremendous medical advances, from microscopic vascular repairs to solid organ transplants.
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S37Hospice Providers Must Be Better Regulated  Too many hospice providers in the U.S. are run by private equity and for-profit corporations. A lack of regulation allows them to provide abysmal end-of-life careEveryone deserves a good death—a choice about how they spend their final days, a peaceful, pain-free exit. That is the mission of hospice care. But as corporate profiteers take over end-of-life care in the U.S., the system is failing many people in their moment of greatest need. Policymakers must better regulate this vital service.
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S38Tiny Fossils Reveal Dinosaurs' Lost Worlds  Enter the fossil gallery of a natural history museum, and you're likely to encounter spectacular skeletons of some of the most manifestly awesome creatures ever to have walked our planet: dinosaurs. From towering sauropods and fearsome tyrannosaurs to tanklike ankylosaurs and horned ceratopsians, dinosaurs dominate our conceptions of the past. But to understand these animals and their world, scientists must look beyond the dazzling remains of Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and other icons to tiny fossils that appear, at first glance, distinctly unimpressive. You won't see these humble microfossils on public display, but they provide some of the best clues we have into the lives and times of our favorite prehistoric beasts.For the past three decades we have been conducting expeditions to recover such fossils in the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, a 149-mile expanse of astoundingly beautiful badlands in central Montana. Here in the very place where scientists got their first look at North America's dinosaurs starting in the 1800s, our team has discovered a wealth of fossils from an extraordinary array of previously unknown organisms that lived alongside those better-known dinosaurs. These fossils are a record of an ecosystem that flourished 10 million years before a killer asteroid slammed into Earth.
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S39New 'Chicken from Hell' Discovered  A newly identified “chicken from hell” species suggests dinosaurs weren’t sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hitIllustration by Zubin Erik Dutta ; “A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the end-Maastrichtian Hell Creek Formation of North America” by Kyle L. Atkins-Weltman et al., in PLOS, Vol.19, No. 1. Published online January 24, 2024 (CC BY 4.0)
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S40Syphilislike Diseases Have Plagued Humans for 14,000 Years  Ancient DNA recovered from Brazilian remains shows that syphilis and other treponemal diseases originated some 10,000 years earlier than previously thoughtThe spiral-shaped bacterium Treponema pallidum (artificially coloured) causes not only venereal syphilis but also the infectious diseases yaws and bejel.
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S41S42S43How to Save Indigenous Languages  From Papua New Guinea to the Andaman Islands, Indigenous languages are under threat. An Indian linguist helped preserve one language family.Tulika Bose: You’re listening to a celebration in the Levenofi village in the remote highlands of the island nation of Papua New Guinea. I was here with our Scientific American video crew last year to make a documentary.
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S44Dave Reibstein, Wharton Marketing Professor  In this episode, Wharton experts speak with marketing professor Dave Reibstein about Jason Kelce and Tiger Woods.Wharton’s Barbara Kahn and Dr. Americus Reed speak with Dave Reibstein, Wharton marketing professor, about Jason Kelce’s personal brand and Nike’s breakup with Tiger Woods.
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S45Can a simple brick be the next great battery?  The world relies on manufacturing, and manufacturing relies on heat — a massive contributor to global carbon emissions, responsible for a quarter of the world's fossil fuel use. Energy entrepreneur John O'Donnell has figured out a better, cleaner way to generate the heat we need to make the stuff we want. Learn how his team turned simple bricks and iron wire into a powerful, unconventional "heat battery" that could deliver industrial heat at scale without the emissions — and why he thinks electrified industrial heat is the next trillion-dollar industry.
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S46Far-Right Extremists Are Organizing an Armed Convoy to the Texas Border .jpg) A retired US Army lieutenant colonel is organizing an armed convoy next week to the Texas border to, he says, hunt down migrants crossing into the US from Mexico. Hundreds of people already say they are coordinating travel plans for the convoy on Telegram as tensions continue to rise between the state and federal government over immigration.Pete Chambers, the lieutenant colonel who says he was a Green Beret, appeared on far-right school-shooting conspiracist Alex Jones’ InfoWars show on Thursday to outline plans for the Take Back Our Border convoy, which has been primarily organized on Telegram.
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S47How Beloved Indie Blog 'The Hairpin' Turned Into an AI Clickbait Farm  What a heinous month for the media. Almost every day, a publication announces layoffs or shuts down. Sports Illustrated just let go almost all of its staff after weathering an embarrassing scandal about AI-generated articles. It's unclear what the desiccated magazine’s future holds, but the sad fate of another formerly great outlet offers a preview of what may await fallen media properties.In 2018, the indie women’s website The Hairpin stopped publishing, along with its sister site The Awl. This year, The Hairpin has been Frankensteined back into existence and stuffed with slapdash AI-generated articles designed to attract search engine traffic. (Sample headlines: “What Does It Mean When You Remember Your Dreams?” and “White Town’s ‘Your Woman’ Explained.”) Some original articles remain but have been reformatted in a strange way, and the authors’ bylines have been replaced by generic male names of people who do not appear to exist. One piece by writer Kelly Conaboy about celebrity teeth now appears under the name “James Nolen,” of whom I can’t find a single trace online.
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S48S49A Snoopy MoonSwatch Is Inbound--but Needs to Avoid One Critical Mistake  Considering the long-established connection between Snoopy and Omega, after the original MoonSwatch caused pandemonium around the globe in 2022 and reinvigorated Swatch's previously flagging fortunes, it's hardly surprising that the brand should mine this rich Schulz seam to tease a coming Snoopy MoonSwatch.There's only one thing that could stop this cartoon-collaboration MoonSwatch from being the most popular version of the series since the Omega X Swatch's frenzied launch: if it's as unimaginative and understated as the Moonshine Gold editions that followed the bright and bold original MoonSwatches.
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S50Apple Isn't Ready to Release Its Grip on the App Store  Politicians in Brussels have for years debated how best to loosen Big Tech companies' grip over their closely guarded marketplaces. But it was only this week that Apple announced sweeping and drastic changes for its European users. For the first time, new EU rules have forced the company to entertain the idea that you can shop for apps outside of Apple's own App Store, as well as allow browsers other than Apple's own Safari to run on iOS with their full suite of features.Yet critics say those changes, although drastic, do not go far enough to comply with new EU rules, and a new fee system for developers reveals how Apple is not yet ready to release its grip on the App Store.
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S51The Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans' Data Without a Warrant  United States officials fought to conceal details of arrangements between US spy agencies and private companies tracking the whereabouts of Americans via their cell phones. Obtaining location data from US phones normally requires a warrant, but police and intelligence agencies routinely pay companies instead for the data, effectively circumventing the courts.Ron Wyden, the US senator from Oregon, informed the nation's intelligence chief, Avril Haines, on Thursday that the Pentagon only agreed to release details about the data purchases, which had always been unclassified, after Wyden hindered the Senate's efforts to appoint a new director of the National Security Agency. "The secrecy around data purchases was amplified," Wyden wrote, "because intelligence agencies have sought to keep the American people in the dark."
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S52The 15 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now  Over the past year or so, Netflix and Apple TV+ have been duking it out to have the most prestigious film offerings (congrats, CODA!), but some of the best movies are on Amazon Prime Video. The streamer was one of the first to go around picking up film festival darlings and other lovable favorites, and they’re all still there in the library, so if they flew under your radar the first time, now is the perfect time to catch up.Our picks for the 10 best films on Amazon Prime are below. All the films in our guide are included in your Prime subscription—no renting here. Once you’ve watched your fill, check out our lists for the best shows on Netflix and best movies on Disney+ if you’re looking for something else to watch. We also have a guide to the best shows on Amazon if that's what you're in the mood for.
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S53Police Arrest Teen Said to Be Linked to Hundreds of Swatting Attacks  For more than a year, the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has been hunting the person whom experts say is one of the most prolific swatters in American history. Law enforcement now believes they have finally arrested the person responsible.A 17-year-old from California is allegedly the swatter known as Torswats, according to sources familiar with the investigation. The teenager is currently in custody and awaiting extradition from California to Seminole County, Florida. The Florida State Attorney’s Office tells WIRED that he faces four felony counts.
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S54OpenAI and Other Tech Giants Will Have to Warn the US Government When They Start New AI Projects  When OpenAI’s ChatGPT took the world by storm last year, it caught many power brokers in both Silicon Valley and Washington, DC, by surprise. The US government should now get advance warning of future AI breakthroughs involving large language models, the technology behind ChatGPT.The Biden administration is preparing to use the Defense Production Act to compel tech companies to inform the government when they train an AI model using a significant amount of computing power. The rule could take effect as soon as next week.
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S55Ask Ethan: Why is there a grand canyon on Mars?  Here on Earth, one of the greatest geological wonders of all is the Grand Canyon. Carved by the Colorado River over millions of years, which connected multiple older segments of the canyon together, the full extent of this giant, steep-sided valley is now remarkable and impressive. Spanning 446 kilometers (277 miles) in length, the canyon is up to 29 kilometers (18 miles) wide and up to 1.857 kilometers (1.153 miles) deep. The advance, retreat, and melting of glaciers, combined with the release of enormous amounts of water, have exposed a wide variety of rocks formed throughout Earth’s geological history, including formations as many as 2 billion years old.And yet, the full extent of Earth’s Grand Canyon pales in comparison to the grandest canyon in all the Solar System: Valles Marineris on Mars. Mars, a much smaller planet than Earth with a very different geological past, might not seem like the ideal candidate for such a gigantic feature, and yet not only is it present, it was likely created in a very different fashion than the Grand Canyon was on Earth. But how, precisely, did it form? That’s what Rosa Been wants to know, asking:
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S56Workplace "aporia": How to handle unresolvable arguments  It’s late in the night, and Mollie and Seb have been having the same argument for an hour now. Everyone else has gone quiet. They occasionally throw in a line or two, but they mostly just want to go to bed. The argument has long since gone around in circles. It’s going nowhere. It’s not a shouting match by any means. Mollie and Seb are both reasonable, respectful, and calm. It’s just that they’ve reached “That Point.” That Point is the part of a debate where rational argument can go no further. They’ve each unpacked one another’s premises and called out non-sequiturs, ad hominem arguments, and false dichotomies aplenty. But That Point cannot be crossed. It’s a locked door and an unbudgeable rock. That Point is the moment you say, “Well, that’s just what I believe.”
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S57How did we end up here? Anthropologist explains how work has shaped society  Humans used to hunt and gather. Now, we have 9-to-5 jobs. Anthropologist James Suzman joins us to talk about the historical roots of our desk jobs and how they all connect back to the agricultural revolution. The definition of work is ever-evolving, with each new era posing unique challenges. In this interview, Suzman explains how each era has actively contributed to humanity and how we can use this knowledge to help us prepare for (and even reconsider) our future.
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S58In case you missed it: America just effectively got much bigger  Did you get a little bit bigger over the holiday season? Well, so did America. You may not have noticed in the pre-Christmas rush, but on December 19, 2023, the U.S. added an area of about 1 million km2 (roughly 386,000 square miles). That’s about the size of one Egypt or slightly more than two Californias.How did you not notice? Well, perhaps because no shots were fired, no flags were raised, and no actual land was gained. The newest bits of America are all maritime, way out on the high seas. (The more appropriate unit of measurement should therefore be 292,000 square nautical miles.)
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S59OpenAI updates ChatGPT-4 model with potential fix for AI "laziness" problem  On Thursday, OpenAI announced updates to the AI models that power its ChatGPT assistant. Amid less noteworthy updates, OpenAI tucked in a mention of a potential fix to a widely reported "laziness" problem seen in GPT-4 Turbo since its release in November. The company also announced a new GPT-3.5 Turbo model (with lower pricing), a new embedding model, an updated moderation model, and a new way to manage API usage.
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S60S61Analyst: Switch 2 will have a massive 8-inch LCD screen  An 8-inch screen (measured diagonally) would put the Switch 2 near the extreme upper end of portable gaming screens historically. Among mass-market devices, only the recently launched PlayStation Portal (8-inch screen) and Lenovo Legion Go (8.8-inch screen) have broken past the 7-inch barrier for dedicated gaming handhelds.
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S62What would the late heavy bombardment have done to the Earth's surface?  When it comes to space rocks slamming into Earth, two stand out. There’s the one that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago (goodbye T-rex, hello mammals!) and the one that formed Earth’s Moon. The asteroid that hurtled into the Yucatan peninsula and decimated the dinosaurs was a mere 10 kilometers in diameter. The impactor that formed the Moon, on the other hand, may have been about the size of Mars. But between the gigantic lunar-forming impact and the comparatively diminutive harbinger of dinosaurian death, Earth was certainly battered by other bodies.
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S63Tens of thousands of pregnancies from rape occurring in abortion-ban states  Fourteen states have banned abortions at any gestational age since the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in 2022. Since the enactment of those abortion bans, an estimated 64,565 people became pregnant as a result of rape in those states. But, while five of the 14 states have exceptions for rape, all of the states logged only 10 or fewer legal abortions per month since their respective bans were enacted.
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S64S65S66S67S68Photos of the Week:  Sled-dog training in Scotland, a famous rat hole in Chicago, scenes from the 2024 Winter Youth Olympic Games in South Korea, Roman ruins in a field in Serbia, a new photothermal-power plant in China, forest fires in Colombia, a World Snow Day celebration in Egypt, and much more A helicopter from the armed forces loads water to fight forest fires in Bogota, Colombia, on January 23, 2024. At least four active forest fires hit several regions of Colombia and the capital, Bogota, on Tuesday, amid a wave of conflagrations due to recent high temperatures. #
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S69Caffeine's Dirty Little Secret  On Tuesday, curiosity finally got the best of me. How potent could Panera’s Charged Lemonades really be? Within minutes of my first sip of the hyper-caffeinated drink in its strawberry-lemon-mint flavor, I understood why memes have likened it to an illicit drug. My vision sharpened; sweat slicked my palms.Laced with more caffeine than a typical energy drink, Panera’s Charged Lemonade has been implicated in two wrongful-death lawsuits since it was introduced in 2022. Though both customers who died had health issues that made them sensitive to caffeine, a third lawsuit this month alleges that the lemonade gave an otherwise healthy 27-year-old lasting heart problems. Following the second death, Panera denied that the drink was the cause, but in light of the lawsuits it has added warnings about the drink, reduced its caffeine content, and removed the option for customers to serve themselves.
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S70The U.S. Should Apologize to Gay People  For decades, the government led a campaign to erase them from public life. A reckoning is long past due.In the summer of 1984, after he finished his first U.S. Foreign Service assignment, in Yugoslavia, Jan Krc flew to Washington, D.C., for what he thought would be a couple of weeks’ training en route to his next post, in South Africa. He thought nothing of it when he was called in for a security debriefing early one morning at the U.S. Information Agency headquarters. There, in a nondescript conference room, he was met by two middle-aged men in suits. The session began with half an hour of preliminaries, but then swerved sharply.
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