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S1Not an extrovert or introvert? There's a word for that. - National Geographic Premium (No paywall)   Over the years, when people have asked if I’m an introvert or an extrovert, I haven’t known what to say because I don’t identify fully with either personality type. It turns out I’m hardly alone. It’s true, I’m often reflective and introspective, that I prefer to hang out with people one-on-one or in small groups, and that I often crave time alone to recharge—all of which are characteristics of introverts. But I can also be outgoing and chatty at parties, as well as assertive and action-oriented in my professional life, qualities that are associated with extraversion.
Over the years, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) has become a popular personality test throughout the world and it’s widely used in the workplace and educational settings. It classifies people into various types based on their scores on trait dimensions including extraversion vs. introversion, feeling vs. thinking, sensing vs. intuiting, and perceiving vs. judging. Since it was first published in 1975, the MBTI has popularized the concept of “personality types,” though Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung was the one who introduced the terms extraversion and introversion into psychology in the early 1900s.
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S3The Merger Self, the Seeker Self, and the Lifelong Challenge of Balancing Intimacy and Independence  Each time I see a sparrow inside an airport, I am seized with tenderness for the bird, for living so acutely and concretely a paradox that haunts our human lives in myriad guises — the difficulty of discerning comfort from entrapment, freedom from peril. It is a paradox rooted in the early development of the psyche and most poignantly manifested in our intimate relationships as we confront over and over the boundary between where we end and the other begins, the challenge of balancing intimacy and independence.
Pulsating beneath the paradox are two opposing forces — one tugging us toward the comfort of the known, the safety of the terminal, the other beckoning us to fly into the open sky of the unknown, with all its sunlit freedoms and its storming dangers. In her 1976 book Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life (public library), Gail Sheehy (November 27, 1936–August 24, 2020) explores these “two sets of forces always at loggerheads inside us over the questions of how far and how fast we shall grow,” terming them the Merger Self and the Seeker Self.
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S4How To Spot Bad Science  Unless you’ve studied it, most of us are never taught how to evaluate science or how to parse the good from the bad. Yet it is something that dictates every area of our lives. It is vital for helping us understand how the world works. It might be too much effort and time to appraise research for yourself, however. Often, it can be enough to consult an expert or read a trustworthy source.
But some decisions require us to understand the underlying science. There is no way around it. Many of us hear about scientific developments from news articles and blog posts. Some sources put the work into presenting useful information. Others manipulate or misinterpret results to get more clicks. So we need the thinking tools necessary to know what to listen to and what to ignore. When it comes to important decisions, like knowing what individual action to take to minimize your contribution to climate change or whether to believe the friend who cautions against vaccinating your kids, being able to assess the evidence is vital.
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S5Massive amounts of H5N1 vaccine would be needed if there's a bird flu pandemic. Can we make enough?  The unsettling reality of H5N1 bird flu circulating in dairy cow herds in multiple parts of the United States is raising anxiety levels about whether this dangerous virus, which has haunted the sleep of people who worry about influenza pandemics for more than 20 years, could be on a path to acquiring the ability to easily infect people.
To be clear, there is no evidence that this is currently the case — the sole confirmed human case reported in Texas three weeks ago was in a farm worker who had contact with cattle. There is no way to predict if the virus will acquire the capacity to spread between people, or when and under what conditions it would make that fateful leap if it does.
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S6Can aspirin help protect against colorectal cancers? - National Geographic Premium (No paywall)  Colorectal cancer, a cancer of either the large intestine or rectum, is the third most common type of cancer, and the second most common cause of death from cancer, worldwide. There were 1.9 million new cases diagnosed across the globe in 2020, according to the World Health Organization, and these numbers are expected to grow. In the United States, the rates of colorectal cancers have been rising in people younger than age 50 since the 1990s, which includes more young people dying from the disease, according to the National Cancer Institute.
Now a new study published in the journal Cancer shows that colorectal cancer patients who took a daily dose of aspirin had a lower rate of metastasis to the lymph nodes and stronger immune response to their tumors. The research suggests that aspirin may be boosting the ability of the immune system to hunt for cancer cells.
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S11How People Are Really Using GenAI - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)  There are many use cases for generative AI, spanning a vast number of areas of domestic and work life. Looking through thousands of comments on sites such as Reddit and Quora, the author’s team found that the use of this technology is as wide-ranging as the problems we encounter in our lives. The 100 categories they identified can be divided into six top-level themes, which give an immediate sense of what generative AI is being used for: Technical Assistance & Troubleshooting (23%), Content Creation & Editing (22%), Personal & Professional Support (17%), Learning & Education (15%), Creativity & Recreation (13%), Research, Analysis & Decision Making (10%).
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S12 Why You Should Let Your Favorite Employee Move to Another Team  The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.
The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.
The authors analyzed 96,712 internal applications submitted to 9,896 open jobs posted by 3,431 hiring managers in the U.S. operations of a Fortune 50 company over a four-year period. This data allowed them to calculate the rate at which a manager’s subordinates were promoted, which in turn enabled them to examine whether managers whose subordinates frequently moved to higher-level jobs elsewhere in the organization were seen as more attractive to work for than managers whose subordinates rarely advanced.
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S13The Right Amount of Sleep Could Help Prevent This Extremely Common Disease  Not getting enough sleep is a common affliction in the modern age. If you don’t always get as many hours of shut-eye as you’d like, perhaps you were concerned by news of a recent study that found people who sleep less than six hours a night are at higher risk of type 2 diabetes.
So what can we make of these findings? It turns out the relationship between sleep and diabetes is complex.
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S14A Nasa rover has reached a promising place to search for fossilised life on Mars  While we go about our daily lives on Earth, a nuclear-powered robot the size of a small car is trundling around Mars looking for fossils. Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, Nasa’s Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to “search for potential evidence of past life”, according to the official mission objectives.
Jezero Crater was chosen as the landing site largely because it contains the remnants of ancient muds and other sediments deposited where a river discharged into a lake more than 3 billion years ago. We don’t know if there was life in that lake, but if there was, Perseverance might find evidence of it.
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S15Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal - and why it won't go back  One year ago, Germany took its last three nuclear power stations offline. When it comes to energy, few events have baffled outsiders more.
In the face of climate change, calls to expedite the transition away from fossil fuels, and an energy crisis precipitated by Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Berlin’s move to quit nuclear before carbon-intensive energy sources like coal has attracted significant criticism. (Greta Thunberg prominently labelled it “a mistake”.)
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S16S17Can a drug like Ozempic help treat addictions to alcohol, opioids or other substances?  Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are taking drugs like Ozempic to lose weight. But what do we actually know about them? This month, The Conversation’s experts explore their rise, impact and potential consequences.
Semaglutide (sold as Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus) was initially developed to treat diabetes. It works by stimulating the production of insulin to keep blood sugar levels in check.
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S18S19What's the difference between ADD and ADHD?  Around one in 20 people has attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It’s one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood and often continues into adulthood.
ADHD is diagnosed when people experience problems with inattention and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity that negatively impacts them at school or work, in social settings and at home.
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S20S21The Unexpected Upsides of Letting Employees Define Their Jobs | Benjamin Laker and Stefania Mariano  The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.
The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.
In today’s corporate landscape, the pursuit of heightened employee engagement and job satisfaction is imperative. Traditional job structures, often rigid and narrowly scoped, can lead to diminished motivation, lower productivity, and elevated turnover rates. The key challenge for contemporary organizations is to rekindle passion and creativity within their workforces. This has led to the emergence of innovative approaches aimed at transforming workplaces into environments that are dynamic, rewarding, and adaptable. These strategies are centered around empowering employees by allowing them to leverage their unique abilities and interests. This empowerment nurtures a sense of ownership and enthusiasm in their roles.
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S22'Spider-Man 4' Will Be a Major First for Tom Holland  For a while, Spider-Man: No Way Home seemed to be the end for the eponymous hero, at least in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. Though the 2021 film was a high point for the franchise and character that brought him back to basics in the most literal sense, star Tom Holland has been vocal regarding his reservations about a fourth Spidey film.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Holland confessed to feeling “a little apprehensive” about continuing Spider-Man’s story. “There’s a bit of a stigma about the fourth one in all franchises,” he said. “I feel like we hit a home run with our first franchise and there’s a part of me that wants to walk away with my head held high and pass the baton to the next lucky kid that gets to bring this character to life.”
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S23The Most Frenzied Sci-Fi Show of the Year Expands on an Iconic Franchise  The spirit of the ’90s is alive and well in Knuckles. Although the Sonic the Hedgehog TV spinoff is set in a contemporary time period, millennials will find many a hallmark from their own childhoods, from CD mixtapes to hulking wall-sized entertainment centers. Fittingly, the show’s vibe is a throwback to comedies from that era as well, for better or for worse.
Over the course of its six episodes, the miniseries continues the silly, goofy fun fans have come to expect from the Sonic franchise — and us old-timers will recall from the action-comedies of yore. There’s a comforting familiarity to the family-friendly clowning, pratfalls, and visual gags, but that nostalgic comfort comes at the cost of establishing its own clear identity: Knuckles is, at times, derivative.
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S24'Fortnite' Won't Be Getting 'Metroid' Skins Thanks to One Nintendo Demand  Given how much of pop culture Fortnite has absorbed into its rainbow-colored battle royale over the past few years, it may seem odd that none of Nintendo’s iconic characters have appeared to do battle with the likes of Goku and Ariana Grande. As court documents from Epic Games’ lawsuit with Apple revealed, Epic Games did have plans to bring Metroid heroine Samus Aran to the game, and now we know why that collaboration never happened.
Nintendo would have agreed to have Metroid in Fortnite, but only if the bounty hunter was made exclusive to the Nintendo Switch version of the game, Donald Mustard, former Epic CCO, told Game File in April.
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S25'X-Men '97' Is Setting the Stage for the Biggest Event in MCU TV History  X-Men ’97 has been offering fans nostalgic twists and thrills for more than a month now, and in the wake of the Genosha massacre, the stakes are higher than ever. Now, Storm has her powers back, Charles Xavier has returned, and time is quickly running out for the season.
That’s the perfect recipe for a great one-off episode, and hopefully, that’s what we’re about to get. Here’s everything you need to know about X-Men ’97 Episode 7, including when you can tune in, what’s left for Season 1, and whether you can expect a second season.
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S26This Game Boy Micro-Like Handheld Can Play GBA, N64, and PS1 Games  The often-forgotten Game Boy Micro has a spiritual successor, and it’s not from Nintendo or Anbernic, makers of the popular RG35XX retro handhelds.
Miyoo, famous for its Mini Plus handheld (an RG35XX lookalike), is working on its latest handheld called the A30. It’s meant to compete against Anbernic’s recently released RG28XX and even sports similar dimensions.
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S2716 Years Later, the Most Misunderstood Sci-Fi Show Can Finally Fix Its Two Biggest Mistakes  Here’s why the impending Heroes comeback could finally address some frustrating plot holes.
Although it’s been almost 10 years since Heroes: Reborn tried to revive the ambitious TV superhero series, it looks like the basic concept of this beloved (and controversial) series is getting a second life. As revealed by Deadline, the creator of Heroes, Tim Kring, is pitching a new series, that would follow a different group of evolved humans (evos), and would be “set years after the events of the original series.”
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S28'Deadpool 3' Theory Reveals a Wild 'Avengers: Endgame' Retcon  The Deadpool and Wolverine trailer crammed in more references than an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and it looks like the full movie will take the joking around even further. Between Deadpool’s classic fourth-wall breaks and the MCU’s endless multiverse saga, there’s plenty for our heroes to discuss, mock, and otherwise mess around with.
In particular, one key trailer shot may have revealed a big cameo, if not something even more exciting. It will take a lot of hijinks and a little magic, but Deadpool may be able to firmly plant himself in the MCU by proving he’s secretly been there the whole time.
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S29'Metaphor: ReFantazio' Is Already Breaking the Biggest RPG Trope  Atlus has redefined RPGs more than once, between the Shin Megami Tensei franchise and again with its offshoot Persona. The studio is finally bringing its expertise to high fantasy with Metaphor: ReFantazio, a brand-new game that fuses the social elements of Persona with a fantastical race inhabited by eight different races. Atlus’ latest showcase on Metaphor shows an ambitious new direction for the studio that’s already brimming with style and personality, but hilariously also introduces a story reason for one of the biggest tropes of fantasy RPGs: being a nice guy who can fix any problem.
If you think of the big fantasy RPGs out there (Skyrim, The Witcher, Baldur’s Gate) they all have one thing in common — they’re filled with dozens upon dozens of quests where you help anyone and everyone. The old grandmother that lost her chickens, you can help her. Of course, you have the solution to the bumbling knight’s problem, and you’re the person for whatever job the town mayor needs done.
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S30New iPads Are Coming on May 7. Here's What You Need to Know.  Stop! Do not buy an iPad in the next two weeks! Apple just announced a May 7 event, where it is widely expected to unveil new iPads and maybe even the rumored third-generation Apple Pencil.
The tagline is “let loose” and there’s clearly an Apple Pencil visible. The colors that form the Apple logo could hint at new colors for the iPad Air, the only current iPad series that is available in colors other than silver and space gray.
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