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 S26 Causes of Burnout, and How to Avoid Them - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)   There are six key areas where you could experience imbalances that lead to burnout. First, your workload. Do you feel chronically feel overloaded, and do you have opportunities to rest and recover? Second, a perceived lack of control. Do you lack autonomy, access to resources, and a say in decisions? Third rewards. Do the extrinsic and intrinsic rewards for your job match the amount of effort and time you put in to them? Fourth, community. How supportive and trusting are the relationships around you? Fifth, fairness. Do you believe that you receive fair and equitable treatment? Finally, values. Do your values match those of your leaders and the company?A fog of burnout surrounds you: You’re perpetually exhausted, annoyed, and feeling unaccomplished and unappreciated. Everything in you wants to quit your job. But is that the best choice? Ultimately only you can know what is right in your situation. But there is research that can help you determine whether you can salvage your current job or whether the mismatch between you and your current position is so great that you need to look for a new one.
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S4A Chinese dumpling with an unexpected twist  Adding spicy chorizo to Chinese dumplings might be unconventional, but according to Boston Magazine, the savoury delight from Mei Mei Dumplings "might just be the best two-bite morsel in town".People just love dumplings," said Chef Irene Li, who co-founded Mei Mei as a food truck in 2012 with older siblings Andrew and Margaret. Mei Mei, which translates to "little sister" in Mandarin, is a nod to one of the siblings' favourite foods growing up.
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S6'Dune 2' Theory Could Alter the Whole Franchise Timeline  All hardcore Dune fans know that the child conceived by Lady Margot Fenring and Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen never appeared in any of Frank Herbert’s six original Dune novels. But, one theory about Dune: Part Two, could change all of that. By breaking new ground with one specific scene, it seems possible that a new version of the Dune canon could emerge either in a future film or a hypothetical TV series.Here’s why one very obscure Dune character, previously only relegated to non-canon books, could suddenly get her due, and maybe rewrite the Dune saga in the process.
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S7This Common Household Cleaner Puts Puppies at Risk, Veterinary Toxicologist Says  Many cleaning products contain chemicals that, in large enough amounts, can be toxic to animals. Cleaning products are crucial to keeping our homes clean and fresh. But are they safe for the furry creatures that live with us? Pets like cats and dogs stick their noses in so many things, not all of which are good for them. With that in mind, here’s how to ensure your cleaning routine is safe for your non-human best friend.
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S102024's Brawniest Remake Embodies Hollywood's Worst Trend  Doug Liman’s remake of the 1989 classic falls victim to a ruthless studio system that squeezes art for cash.It’s uncertain whether or not a remake of Road House was necessary, but Doug Liman’s retelling of the 1989 Patrick Swayze cult classic is surprisingly instructive. It captures, for better and worse, everything about the current era of Hollywood filmmaking, resulting in a movie that’s often riotously funny, but ends up lacking in every way that the original succeeded — including being a completed production ready for release.
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S12The Secret to Cleaning Out Your Ears Is Even Simpler Than You Might Think  Dry scalp? Blocked ears? Crusted eyes? Our bodies produce many different unusual, sometimes repellent secretions, and their function doesn’t always seem entirely clear. But each has its own important role, which often goes unappreciated.Flaky or dry scalp is an extremely common condition, but in severe cases, it certainly doesn’t feel trivial. Put aside notions that it’s a factor of poor hygiene — the underlying cause is not completely clear, but it may be exacerbated by hair care regimes that dry or irritate the scalp. What is known is that flakes of dandruff are comprised of cell complexes arising from sloughed-off skin.
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S20The Sexiest Crime Thriller of 2024 Has an Ending You Need to See to Believe  The end of Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding is slightly difficult to pin down. The film mixes elements of neo-noir with the world of competitive bodybuilding, straddling a family drama with western-tinged crime and a heady sapphic romance. All those themes are present before any inklings of surrealism begin to creep into the world — but they inform each sexy, grotesque, and darkly funny development throughout.If you take away the drug-fueled dream sequences and bloody murders, you’re left with a love story. Lou (Kristen Stewart) and Jackie (Katy O’Brian) are just two crazy kids trying to make it in a big bad world. Their volatile romance is full of twists, turns, and frequent detours into the surreal, though, so some disorientation is warranted. Fortunately, Glass sat down with Inverse to walk through the film’s heightened ending and unpack the fallout of its final moments.
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S24Nigeria's ancient Ilorin city - archaeologist uncovers over 1,000 years of history  Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State, is a Nigerian city with a long and rich history. However, much of its distant past is not well known. Archaeology is now uncovering more of this history and the relationships of Ilorin to other ancient parts of the Yoruba world.Situated in north-central Nigeria and predominantly Yoruba-speaking, Ilorin gained prominence in the late 1700s. It was a significant northern province of the Oyo empire, which was active between the 1500s and early 1800s.
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S32S33Become a Paid Speaker to Promote Your Business  On my podcast, I spoke with Lois Creamer, professional speaker coach and author of the book Book More Business: Make Money Speaking. During the hour-long interview, we covered a number of topics related to becoming a paid speaker. Here are three tips stemming from our conversation.During our interview, Lois and I talked about the positioning statement, a clear and concise sentence of what you do and who you work with. With Lois' help, I developed my positioning statement years ago. My positioning statement is "I work with technical professionals so they can present more effectively, especially in front of non-technical audiences." If people ask what you do, with a positioning statement, you haven't taken a lot of time to say what you do, and people don't have to sit through a long spiel if they're not interested in what you do. If you use the positioning statement when speaking with decision-makers, you'd be surprised how often it leads to a conversation about how you can work with their organizations. My positioning statement is everywhere: my LinkedIn profile, my website, and my email signature. Everywhere!
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S35Emotionally Intelligent People Know That Willpower is a Big Fat Lie. They Do This Instead  For decades, the concept of willpower has reigned supreme in the realms of self-improvement and psychology. It's been revered as the iron-willed disciplinarian that can whip anyone into shape, capable of overcoming any temptation or challenge through sheer determination.But a closer examination of the psychological literature reveals a more nuanced reality, challenging the traditional notion of willpower as a standalone virtue. Emotionally intelligent individuals understand this complexity and leverage alternative regulatory strategies for achieving personal and professional success. Among these, temptation avoidance emerges as a pivotal technique, revealing that true self-control is more about strategic avoidance than brute force endurance.
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S36There's a New Policy at  In short, United used to give its flight attendants two badges: wings, and a nameplate. But last year, United started issuing a new type of wings that included the nameplate in the same piece of hardware (including both the flight attendant's first name and (if desired) his or her pronouns).Why would they care? Because having two separate badges -- wings plus a separate nameplate -- meant that when flight attendants were off-duty but wearing their uniforms (say, while waiting in an airport, or while traveling "non-revenue" on airplanes to travel to or from whatever city their jobs required) they could take off the nameplates, but not the wings.
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S37Taylor Swift Just Made a Very Smart Announcement, and Taught a Masterclass in Emotional Intelligence  Instead, it's about the deep emotional connection she's forged with her fans. It's about her music, of course, but to paraphrase the poet Maya Angelou, it's even more about the way she makes them feel.And when people are able to forge that kind of emotional connection intentionally we have a name for the skill: emotional intelligence. It's especially impressive in business, when a person or an entity can inspire emotional reactions in thousands or even millions of people.
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S39Effective Strategies for Building a High-Performing Team  In today's fast-paced business landscape, building a high-performing team is essential for achieving organizational success. A high-performing team is characterized by its ability to consistently exceed goals, innovate, and adapt to changing circumstances. Whether you're a team leader or a business owner, cultivating such a team can be a game-changer. In this article, we'll explore effective strategies for building and nurturing a high-performing team.High-performing teams are the driving force behind many successful businesses and projects. They exhibit characteristics such as strong collaboration, excellent communication, adaptability, and a shared commitment to achieving objectives. A well-structured high-performing team can elevate an organization's performance and foster a culture of excellence.
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S40AI Is Affecting Small Business Marketing. How Can You Use It Right Now?  It was late Autumn 2022, and I was happily writing away in my home office. At the time, I was 18 years into my "self-employed marketing copywriter" life and loving every second of it. Being on the other side of 55, I felt like I could do this forever, and work as long as I wanted to. Retirement in a few years? Pfft... not for me!It changed for me, and it changed for businesses everywhere. And it's still evolving. We don't know where we're going with AI or how deep the real impact of AI will be, but it's becoming clear that it will be substantial. Personally, for a minute there, I felt like a horse and buggy driver looking at the first automobile coming down the road (fun fact: my last name - Furman - derives from a carriage driver!)
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S43S44S45Stop Misunderstanding the Gender Health Gap ![]() In many areas of health, women receive worse care, and suffer worse outcomes, than men. Women experience higher rates of adverse drug reactions. Across hundreds of diseases, they are diagnosed later than men. Women are more likely to suffer from common mental health conditions. In moments of acute pain, women are less likely to be given painkillers.One small positive is that this gender health gap is finally getting the attention it deserves. "We're much more aware of these issues now than we were previously," says Angela Saini, a journalist and the author of Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong. "It's become a huge topic right across academia, medical research, health institutions, everywhere. Even everyday people see it in the press all the time."
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S46Welcome to the Valley of the Creepy AI Dolls ![]() Mobile World Congress always has more than its fair share of weird. Last week at MWC, the winner's prize for bonkers went to a Korean company called Hyodol, which proudly showed off a disturbing-looking ChatGPT-enabled companion doll aimed at older adults. Now, this $1,800 AI-enabled doll may well look like something you'd find in a haunted attic, but it's actually meant to act as an interactive digital pal for people experiencing loneliness or in long term care facilities.Thanks to the large language model stuffed inside the doll, the Hyodol can supposedly hold conversations with its owners, as well as provide health reminders such as when to take medication or eat a meal. It's every bit as connected as you can imagine, with a companion app and web monitoring platform that lets caretakers monitor the device and its user from afar.
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S47Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supply ![]() This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.There is a solar-powered revolution going on in the fields of India. By 2026, more than 3 million farmers will be raising irrigation water from beneath their fields using solar-powered pumps. With effectively free water available in almost unlimited quantities to grow their crops, their lives could be transformed. Until the water runs out.
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S3The Dandelion and the Meaning of Life: G.K. Chesterton on How to Dig for the "Submerged Sunrise of Wonder"  There is a myth we live with, the myth of finding the meaning of life — as if meaning were an undiscovered law of physics. But unlike the laws of physics — which predate us and will postdate us and made us — meaning only exists in this brief interlude of consciousness between chaos and chaos, the interlude we call life. When you die — when these organized atoms that shimmer with fascination and feeling — disband into disorder to become unfeeling stardust once more, everything that filled your particular mind and its rosary of days with meaning will be gone too. From its particular vantage point, there will be no more meaning, for the point itself will have dissolved — there will only be other humans left, making meaning of their own lives, including any meaning they might make of the residue of yours.These are the thoughts coursing through this temporary constellation of consciousness as I pause at the lush mid-June dandelion at the foot of the hill on my morning run — the dandelion, now a fiesta of green where a season ago the small sun of its bloom had been, then the ethereal orb of its seeds, now long dispersed; the dandelion, existing for no better reason than do I, than do you — and no worse — by the same laws of physics beyond meaning: these clauses of exquisite precision punctuated by chance.
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S5Biryani: The one-pot dish that reigns supreme for Ramadan in India  Ramadan (or Ramzan), the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, is a month of piety. Beginning and ending with the appearance of the crescent moon, it's a period of reflection and introspection, communal prayer, self-analysis and self-restraint. Sawm (to refrain), one of the five basic tenets of Islam, means refraining from food, drink, sexual activity, unkind thoughts and immoral behaviour.The fasting, which begins at sunrise each day, is broken after sunset prayers with iftar, a meal shared with friends and family, in homes and mosques. Chefs and homemakers prepare a variety of dishes during Ramadan, but one dish reigns supreme across the Indian sub-continent: biryani.
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S8Not All Bees Have a Queen. Two Bug Experts Explain Why.  Since lots of bees successfully live without a queen, what is it that queens provide for the bee species that do have them?When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony.
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S9S1155 Crazy Things on Amazon That Are Shockingly Clever  You may not have known that you need a plush tablet stand or stainless steel chilling stone with a built-in suction cup, but after checking out this list, you’ll realize that there’s actually a lot of life-improving, clever stuff that you’re missing out on. These crazy things will make everyday life easier from your car to the kitchen and office (and everywhere in between).This neoprene LED drink wrap wraps around your can like a slap bracelet from the 90s and it lights up to help you keep track of your beverage when it’s dark out. The fabric has a nonslip backing to keep it in place and is insulated so that your drink stays cold for longer. Choose from a few colors in the listing.
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S13S14'Dune 2' Writer Reveals The Crucial Reason Paul's Visions Are So Mysterious  In Dune: Part Two, Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) is frequently plagued by visions of intergalactic devastation brought on by his holy war. “All my visions lead to horror,” he solemnly tells Gurney Halleck (Josh Brolin). It’s the reason that he is reluctant to embrace the prophecy that he is the Fremen’s promised messiah, the Lisan al Gaib: If his visions come to pass, then his army of zealots could destroy the universe. But Paul’s visions have never been all that clear-cut. Since Dune: Part One, his visions — brought on by exposure to the spice — are more impressionistic than prophetic. He had visions of a friendship between him and Jamis (Babs Olusanmokun), a Fremen whom he ended up killing in a duel at the end of Part One. He had visions of Chani (Zendaya) in a white robe, leading him into the desert. But in Part Two, his visions of Jamis continue — with Jamis giving him advice that his real-life counterpart never would’ve. And his visions of a woman leading him into the desert morphs into his mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson), leading him through a battlefield littered with dying and dead bodies.
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S15'The Distaff Gospels:' This Forgotten Text Reveals A Society of Women Practicing Medicine In Secret  It was created during secretive meetings of French women who had gathered with their drop spindles and distaffs to spin flax.In the medieval period, medical science was still dominated by the ancient writings of Hippocrates from the fifth century and Galen of Pergamon from the second century. Research has shown that women were increasingly being taken seriously as healers and as bearers of wisdom about women’s bodies and health. But despite this, men were preferred while women faced restrictions.
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S1645 Years Ago, the First Star Wars Ripoff was Stupid, Cheap, and Absurdly Fun  It’s the late 1970s, and just hitting the big screen is a space opera in which a lightsaber-wielding smuggler embarks on a royal rescue mission, a talking droid sidekick provides comic relief, and a classically trained British thespian slums it as a wisened old man. We are, of course, talking about Starcrash, the first and most enjoyably ridiculous Star Wars knockoff.Released just a year after George Lucas changed Hollywood forever, Starcrash was the brainchild of Luigi Cozzi, a director whose resume included the ribald comedy La portiera nuda and the Lou Ferrigno starring Hercules. There are certainly traces of the former in Starcrash, as poor heroine Stella Star (former Bond girl Caroline Munro) is forced to spend most of the film in little more than a leather bikini, even when exploring an Arctic planet. But the only horrors here are of the unintentional kind.
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S17PlayStation Plus Just Quietly Released the Toughest Martial Arts Game of the Decade  Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. These immortal words from legendary boxer “Iron” Mike Tyson get repurposed to apply to all sorts of things. It’s great generic advice, as you can only plan so much. It’s even better advice about getting punched in the face, though, and gets at the heart of combat. It’s all about reaction. Improvisation. Perseverance. Things every good fighter needs whether in real life or a complex tale of revenge, martial arts, and organized crime.Sifu from French indie studio Sloclap, originally launched in 2020 to rave reviews on Metacritic and landed PlayStation Plus as part of the March 2024 lineup. It may look like your average beat ‘em up at first glance, but the moment you dive in and play, you learn the hard way that Sifu is in a class of its own. Centered around your quest for vengeance in the wake of your family’s murder, Sifu quite literally pulls no punches. Button mashers don’t last long, but if you stick around after its proverbial punch in the face, you’ll find a combat grind worth polishing to near perfection.
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S18S1930 Years Later, Star Wars Canon Can Finally Explain the Biggest Sith Mystery  The ancient origin of the Jedi has long been shrouded in mystery, but Star Wars is starting to fill in the blanks. Most notably, James Mangold’s upcoming movie, Dawn of the Jedi, will show the beginnings of the Jedi Order, and establish how the religion that brought us this entire sci-fi saga came to be. But while the Jedi get an entire movie, there’s almost nothing in Star Wars canon that tells us about the history of the Sith. An upcoming Disney+ show has the perfect opportunity to fix this problem, and simultaneously bring one of the most intriguing elements of the Sith into modern canon. All it would take is one flashback.
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S21S22S23Happy smiling African children: why school tourism in Zimbabwe shouldn't be encouraged  A large, air-conditioned bus draws up outside a school. Tourists, most from Europe and the US, disembark, cameras at the ready. Some have brought gifts: packages of pens and pencils. They distribute these to the children, who spontaneously begin singing and dancing. This scene and others like it play out in schools around the world. It’s called school tourism. It’s similar to orphanage tourism and so-called “slum” tourism, in which tourists visit orphanages or “slums” in poor countries to witness poverty and suffering. These sorts of tourism come with several ethical problems: photography of unconsenting children and adults, intrusions on people’s private lives, daily interruptions to children’s routines and issues of child protection.
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S25S26The world is not moving fast enough on climate change -- social sciences can help explain why  Associate professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, and Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia In late 2023 the United States government released its Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA). The NCA is a semi-regular summation of the impacts of climate change upon the U.S. and the fifth assessment was notable for being the first to include a chapter on social systems and justice.
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S27S28How lessons from the First World War could help Ukraine in the war  As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its third year, the war’s tactics increasingly seem to match scenes from the First World War: soldiers huddle in trenches along stagnant front lines and navigate intense barrages. Beyond trench warfare, however, the Ukraine conflict resembles the strategic, operational and tactical situation faced by Allied commanders immediately prior to the 100 Days Offensive, and its lessons remain applicable to contemporary wartime political and military leaders.
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S29Canada is falling behind other countries in meeting the needs of former youth in care  Young adults across Canada continue to struggle with the high cost of living. Statistics Canada highlights a 20-year trend of Canadians aged 20-34 remaining in their familial home with at least one parent. In contrast, young adults aging out of government care (those with lived experience in child welfare systems) are expected to rapidly transition to adulthood much earlier, many without the support of their families.
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