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 S2How to stay in shape in your 30s, 40s, and 50s - Fortune Well (No paywall)   Still, experts typically agree that the concept boils down to maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly, and receiving adequate nutrition through a balanced diet. “To me, being in shape means a person has the physical strength and flexibility to accomplish daily tasks and enjoys a fulfilling life,” adds Siddiqi.The American College of Sports and Medicine guidelines recommend adults get 150 minutes of moderate-intensity weekly activity. Moving your body is vital to staying in shape, but most adults fall short. According to an older study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 28% of Americans are physically active, and that activity level steadily declines with age. Siddiqi says it’s never too late to start moving and that doing anything is better than nothing. “Think about exercise as an investment,” says Siddiqi, “not just for our health today, but for the rest of our life.”
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S1I Hope You All Feel Terrible Now - The Atlantic (No paywall)  For many years, the most-complained-about cover of the British satirical magazine Private Eye was the one it published in the week after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997. At the time, many people in Britain were loudly revolted by the tabloid newspapers that had hounded Diana after her divorce from Charles, and by the paparazzi whose quest for profitable pictures of the princess ended in an underpass in Paris.Under the headline “Media to Blame,” the Eye cover carried a photograph of a crowd outside Buckingham Palace, with three speech bubbles. The first was: “The papers are a disgrace.” The next two said: “Yeah, I couldn’t get one anywhere” and “Borrow mine, it’s got a picture of the car.” People were furious. Sacks of angry, defensive mail arrived for days afterward, and several outlets withdrew the magazine from sale. (I am an Eye contributor, and these events have passed into office legend.) But with the benefit of hindsight, the implication was accurate: Intruding on the private lives of the royals is close to a British tradition. We Britons might have the occasional fit of remorse, but that doesn’t stop us. And now, because of the internet, everyone else can join in too.
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S3How to Have a Healthier Relationship With Your Phone  If you want to peacefully coexist with technology, you need to get a handle on those impulses. Start by noticing when you have an urge to lift your phone or open social media on your browser window, said Richard J. Davidson, the founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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S4Shakira's Family Came Apart. Then Her Music Soared.  For Shakira, 2022 was a year of heartbreak. Decades of hit singles and groundbreaking Latin-pop crossovers couldn’t insulate the Colombian pop star from personal upheavals. In the glare of celebrity coupledom, she broke up with the soccer player Gerard Piqué, her partner for 11 years and the father of her two sons, Milan and Sasha. Her father was hospitalized twice for a fall that caused head trauma; he went on to require further brain surgery in 2023.Shakira was also facing charges of tax evasion in a long-running case disputing whether she had lived primarily in Spain from 2012 to 2014; she declared residency there in 2015. Last November, she settled for a fine of 7.5 million euros (about $8.2 million), citing “the best interest of my kids.” Just days earlier, Shakira had collected the Latin Grammy for song of the year for “Shakira: Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53,” a collaboration with the Argentine producer Bizarrap with wordplay clearly aimed at Piqué and his girlfriend.
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S5A Map of Global Happiness By Country in 2024  Methodology: A nationally representative group of approximately 1,000 people is asked a series of questions relating to their life satisfaction, as well as positive and negative emotions they are experiencing. The life evaluation question is based on the Cantril ladder, wherein the top of the ladder represents the best possible life for a person (a score of 10/10) and on the flipside, the worst possible life (scored as 0/10). The main takeaway is that the scores result from self-reported answers by citizens of each of these countries. The results received a confidence interval of 95%, meaning that there is a 95% chance that the answers and population surveyed represent the average. As well, scores are averaged over the past three years in order to increase the sample size of respondents in each country.Criticisms: Critics of the World Happiness Report point out that survey questions measure satisfaction with socioeconomic conditions as opposed to individual emotional happiness. As well, there are myriad cultural differences around the world that influence how people think about happiness and life satisfaction. Finally, there can be big differences in life satisfaction between groups within a country, which are averaged out even in a nationally representative group. The report does acknowledge inequality as a factor by measuring the “gap” between the most and least happy halves of each country.
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S6The most dangerous job on Earth? Inside the world of underwater welders - Environment (No paywall)  Imagine underwater diving and you might picture tropical paradises and idyllic encounters with wild, vibrant marine life. But hidden hundreds of feet deep beneath the shimmering surface lies another realm of the diver—one far removed from serene swims along sun-kissed reefs—the gritty world of the underwater welder.While the dangers of underwater welding have captured the eyes of the media for years, a recent an online trend has emerged, where kids prank their loved ones by pretending to have accepted a job as an underwater welder—with the potential of working in such a high-risk and specialized field adding a humorous element of surprise and disbelief.
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S7How Europe's Solar Industry Can Be Saved - Foreign Policy (No paywall)  On Feb. 6, the European Council and European Parliament made a significant agreement in the fight against climate change. The Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) establishes a benchmark for the European Union to manufacture 40 percent of expected demand in clean technologies by 2030. As well as onshore and offshore wind, hydro, and geothermal, this figure would include solar. In parallel, the EU’s Solar Energy Strategy aims to scale up generating capacity in solar from 263 gigawatts (GW) today to almost 600 GW by 2030—an increase of more than 140 percent that will make solar the largest source of electricity production in the EU.On Feb. 6, the European Council and European Parliament made a significant agreement in the fight against climate change. The Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) establishes a benchmark for the European Union to manufacture 40 percent of expected demand in clean technologies by 2030. As well as onshore and offshore wind, hydro, and geothermal, this figure would include solar. In parallel, the EU’s Solar Energy Strategy aims to scale up generating capacity in solar from 263 gigawatts (GW) today to almost 600 GW by 2030—an increase of more than 140 percent that will make solar the largest source of electricity production in the EU.
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S8Pregnancy increases biological age -- but recovery and breastfeeding can undo the damage, study finds  Previous research, including a 2023 study also published in Cell Metabolism, has also found that being pregnant — much like Covid-19 or other infections and stressors — is associated with faster molecular aging in mice and humans, and these effects can be reversed to a degree. But the recent findings push those insights further by showing that the aging reversal was strongest in people who breastfed or had a lower body mass index.But the accelerated aging didn’t continue after delivery. “What was very surprising to us was the pronounced reversal of biological age at three months postpartum,” said O’Donnell. Biological age decreased after participants gave birth, “such that individuals at three months postpartum were looking biologically younger than at late pregnancy,” he said.
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S9When Did Everyone Get So 'Dysregulated'? - The Cut (No paywall)  For better or for worse, a buffet of terminology has emerged that might help explain your terminal unease. Maybe you are struggling with boundaries or your social circle is overrun with toxic people. Maybe your mother or roommate or ex-boyfriend is a narcissist. Maybe you are traumatized, which is perhaps one reason you are also anxiously attached. The problem with these words, of course, is that their impact fades with use, leaving us to hunt for new language that can justify our suffering. By early 2024, we seem to have landed on our latest favorite diagnosis: Have you considered the possibility that you might be dysregulated?Often, the term appeared attached to formal diagnoses, as a symptom of ADHD or BPD or PTSD or ASD or generalized anxiety, but just as frequently it floated freely, explaining why you were yelling at your husband because — by way of hypothetical example — you couldn’t find the garlic powder and also your computer wasn’t working. Sometimes, people seemed to refer to a process taking place within the nervous system. (“Being sleep deprived can really dysregulate our control over the autonomic system,” offered the neuroguru Andrew Huberman.) Other times, the thing being dysregulated was one’s behavior or emotions. You were experiencing an outsized reaction to something that didn’t seem to warrant it; your behavior did not match the situation; your emotions were too big and intense and long-lasting, which was making it difficult to function. It could explain why you were breaking out or eating too much or not eating at all, why you’re thrill-seeking or sleeping poorly or exhausted; or why you’re depressed or experiencing gastrointestinal distress. On one health podcast from January, a clinician-slash-trainer suggested dysregulation might be why, despite consistent exercise, she had, for years, struggled to gain muscle in her legs. It was a constant threat. “You can’t trust someone who purposely wants to dysregulate you,” advised a TikTok video, which has been viewed more than 100,000 times.
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S10A Harvard dishonesty researcher was accused of fraud. Her defense is troubling.  I’ve written about how her lawsuit will have negative consequences for the scientific community, stifling critics and making it even less likely that research fraud, when it happens, will come to light. But there’s one respect in which the lawsuit has been enormously valuable for casting light on the allegations against Gino.Harvard’s lengthy internal investigation of the allegations was not originally released to the public. Last week, a Massachusetts judge ordered it unsealed, granting the world a look at Harvard’s process as they investigated the possibility that one of their star researchers had fabricated her data — and a look at Gino’s defense.
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S11How Much Energy Would It Take to Blow the Earth to Smithereens? - Scientific American (No paywall)  If you want to destroy Earth, you have many options—at least when it comes to the extinction of humanity. Nuclear war, climate crisis or species extinction: over the course of human history, we have unfortunately found plenty of ways to destroy ourselves. But the planet doesn’t really care.To actually destroy the planet, you would have to work a little harder. A collision with a large asteroid, for example, could make it uninhabitable and melt Earth’s crust, but even that wouldn’t destroy the Earth. If you wanted to pulverize it completely so that nothing remained, you would have to use the following formula:
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S12Building Intelligent Machines Helps Us Learn How Our Brain Works - Scientific American (No paywall)  The dream of artificial intelligence has never been just to make a grandmaster-beating chess engine or a chatbot that tries to break up a marriage. It has been to hold a mirror to our own intelligence, that we might understand ourselves better. Researchers seek not simply artificial intelligence but artificial general intelligence, or AGI—a system with humanlike adaptability and creativity.Large language models have acquired more problem-solving ability than most researchers expected they ever would. But they still make silly mistakes and lack the capacity for open-ended learning: once they are trained on books, blogs, and other material, their store of knowledge is frozen. They fail what Ben Goertzel of the AI company SingularityNET calls the “robot college student test”: you can’t put them through college (or indeed even nursery school).
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S13Research: When Overconfidence Is an Asset, and When It's a Liability - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)  What happens to people who are overconfident? Are they generally rewarded, promoted, and respected? Or do we distrust them and avoid collaborating with them? Our research suggests it may depend on how they express confidence. One way people express confidence is verbally — with specific expressions of confidence in their judgments. Another way is nonverbally, as body language and tone of voice can make one appear confident. In a series of studies, researchers found that overconfidence hurt one’s reputation — but only if the person expressed confidence verbally. Those who expressed confidence nonverbally weren’t penalized.
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S14S15Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds - WIRED (No paywall)  When thousands of security researchers descend on Las Vegas every August for what's come to be known as “hacker summer camp,” the back-to-back Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences, it's a given that some of them will experiment with hacking the infrastructure of Vegas itself, the city's elaborate array of casino and hospitality technology. But at one private event in 2022, a select group of researchers were actually invited to hack a Vegas hotel room, competing in a suite crowded with their laptops and cans of Red Bull to find digital vulnerabilities in every one of the room's gadgets, from its TV to its bedside VoIP phone.One team of hackers spent those days focused on the lock on the room's door, perhaps its most sensitive piece of technology of all. Now, more than a year and a half later, they're finally bringing to light the results of that work: a technique they discovered that would allow an intruder to open any of millions of hotel rooms worldwide in seconds, with just two taps.
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S16S17S18S19S20"Let's Smash That Baby." How Sydney Sweeney Fixed the Ending of Her New Thriller  When first reactions for Immaculate came out of South by Southwest, the standout elements were clear: the shocking ending critics called “ballsy,” and Sydney Sweeney’s no-holds-barred performance, which took a mild-mannered nun from Michigan and slowly morphed her into a blood-soaked scream queen fighting to save her life — and end another. Immaculate is the product of Sweeney — hot off the heels of co-producing Anyone But You — looking to do a horror movie. She had always wondered what happened to a script she auditioned for a decade ago that never panned out.
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S21'Beetlejuice 2' Trailer Puts a Twist on Hollywood's Most Annoying Trend  Legacyquels to ‘80s movies are all the rage lately. Despite decades passing since they first hit theaters, franchises like Top Gun and Ghostbusters are getting a new lease on life thanks to large-scale blockbusters that continue the story and capitalize on the nostalgia for their first installments. While this formula usually works for action-packed, crowd-pleasing adventures, 2024’s Beetlejuice sequel, aptly titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, is more of a gamble.Ahead of its September 5th release, we now have our first look at Tim Burton’s take on the afterlife, and it proves the original movie’s self-aware tone hasn’t gone anywhere. Check out the full teaser below.
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S222024's Smartest Time-Travel Movie Marks the Arrival of Sci-Fi's Most Exciting New Voice  A DIY science fiction oddity, Michael Felker’s Things Will Be Different is an uneasy handshake between metaphor and mechanics. It recalls the lo-fi genre stylings of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (the directors of Something In the Dirt, who also executive produced this film), but in his feature debut, Felker makes the movie his own — synthesizing highly specific influences while filtering them down to their fundamentals. It’s a time travel movie of sorts, but it’s more about a pair of estranged siblings on the run, hunkering down and waiting things out, as their regrets begin to fester.When Joseph (Adam David Thompson) and Sidney (Riley Dandy) reconvene at a diner off the beaten path, they’re smack-dab in the middle of both a family reunion and a getaway from the law. They have rifles, bags full of supplies, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen cash, but they also have a plan, involving a humdrum farmhouse in the middle of a field. Using instructions scribbled in a notebook, and seemingly mundane analog objects that can be turned and twisted — clock faces, rotary telephones, even a doorknob — they end up in a version of this rural home isolated from the rest of the world.
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S23'The Penguin' Trailer Borrows a Trick From HBO's Best Crime Thriller  The Batman was always the moody, emo brother of the modern DC Universe, and that’s not limited to Robert Pattinson’s eyeliner-and-Nirvana portrayal of the caped crusader. Upcoming spinoff series The Penguin does the same with Oswald Cobblepot, following Colin Farrell’s version of the character, who’s a lot more Goodfellas than Batman Returns. In the series’ newest teaser trailer, its influences are on full display. The show will borrow heavily from HBO’s best crime thriller series, a choice as obvious as it is ingenious. Check out the full teaser below.
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S24The First Full Moon of Spring Will Appear this Weekend With A Hidden Surprise  The first full Moon of spring will rise on March 24, and it will come with a partial lunar eclipse. Here's how to enjoy this month's full Moon — and why it's called the Worm Moon (sorry; it’s not a Dune reference).Viewers across most of the Americas should be able to see the full Moon briefly darkened by Earth’s shadow in the late-night hours of March 24. The Moon’s path around Earth will put our home planet at just slightly between the Moon and the Sun, so the very edge of Earth’s shadow falls across the Moon’s rocky surface. Because it’s just the very edge of Earth’s shadow falling on the Moon, the partial lunar eclipse will be a very slight dimming — nothing like the much more dramatic darkening of the whole Sun on April 8.
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