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S3Should you be concerned about bird flu in your milk? - National Geographic Premium (No paywall) Though the H5N1 virus, commonly known as avian influenza or bird flu, was discovered in waterfowl in Southern China in 1996, it's raising concerns again because it's recently jumped from poultry to cattle, leading many to worry about potentially contaminated food supplies throughout the United States.
"It's a virus that's been around for a long time, but it's been someone else's problem if you've lived in the United States," says Richard Webby, an influenza virologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals. "Now that it's in America," he says, "it's found a lot of new hosts—in the form of cattle—and is wreaking havoc."
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S5S6Advice for the Unmotivated - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) Employee disengagement is rampant in the workplace. We’ve all experienced it as customers encountering unhelpful retail clerks and as colleagues dealing with apathetic teammates. But what happens when you yourself feel dead at work? This article describes what you as an individual can do to sustain your motivation or recover it, even in the most stultifying of jobs. After synthesizing research on this challenge and experimenting with various strategies, the authors have developed a process for recharging yourself called DEAR. The first step is to detach and objectively analyze your situation so that you can make wise choices about it, instead of reacting in a fight-or-flight way. At day’s end, review what went well at your job and then mentally disconnect from it to give yourself a break. Meditation and exercise can help you do that and will improve your mood and cognitive function. Next, show empathy. Practice self-care, make friends, recognize the accomplishments of others, seek their views, and help them. Research shows that this combats burnout. Third, take action: achieve small wins, invest in rewarding outside activities, redefine your responsibilities, and turn uninteresting tasks into games. Ask yourself how someone you admire would behave in your situation, and dress in a way that projects confidence. Last, reframe your thinking: Focus on the informal roles you enjoy at work, your job’s higher-order purpose, and how others benefit from your work. All these techniques will improve your mental health and increase the energy you bring to your job—even if it is not what you’d like it to be.
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S17S18S19Don't Let Perfection Be the Enemy of Productivity - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) Perfectionism is often driven by striving for excellence, but it can be self-sabotaging. There are three big mistakes that tend to kill perfectionists’ productivity. First, they are often unable to designate any decision as unimportant which prevents them from quick action or delegation. Second, they feel morally obligated to overdeliver. Third, they rigidly cling to habits that might no longer be serving them. Awareness is the first step in overcoming these problems. Perfectionists can also develop heuristics, such as “if I have thought about this choice three times, I will make a call and get on with it,” picking areas in which to overdeliver and areas in which meeting expectations is okay, and reviewing commitments to make sure they are still of use.
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| S20How turning off one gene causes mice to grow 6 legs In an attempt to study the spine, scientists in Portugal accidentally created a mouse embryo with an extra pair of hind legs, where its genitals should be — and the strange turn of events could improve our understanding of human embryo development, metastatic cancer, and more.
What’s new? There’s a lot we still don’t understand about what goes on in the womb — how a single cell becomes an entirely new organism.
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| S21When did dogs become our best friends? The river known today as the Adige, the second-longest in Italy, flows south and then east from the Alps to the Adriatic. As it travels around hills and through flatlands, the river meanders widely, sometimes nearly looping back on itself. The city of Verona took root and grew around one of these meanders more than 2,000 years ago and, around that time, not far from the banks, an infant was laid to rest in a humble grave. She did not go into the afterlife completely alone, however. Alongside her fragile little bones, its paws tucked as if napping, is the complete skeleton of a dog.
Archaeologists found the shared grave during excavations ahead of renovations at the Seminario Vescoville. In a recent paper in PLOS One, the infant’s grave is dubbed B19, one of a handful of “human-animal co-burials” in the Iron Age necropolis unearthed on seminary grounds. While the researchers caution that there are more questions than answers about the grave, they acknowledge that it may be the latest evidence of the unique and deeply ancient role of dogs as human companions.
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| S22No matter how you interpret the data, dark energy remains When it comes to the Universe, it’s easy to make the incorrect assumption that what we see is an accurate reflection of all that’s out there. Certainly, what we observe to be out there really is present, but there’s always the possibility that there’s far more out there that’s unobservable. That extends to radiation outside of the visible light spectrum, matter that neither emits nor absorbs light, black holes, neutrinos, and even more exotic forms of energy. If something truly exists in this Universe and carries energy, it will have non-negligible effects on quantities that we can actually observe, and from those observations, we can go back and infer what’s truly there. But there’s a danger: perhaps our inferences are incorrect because we’re fooling ourselves somehow. Could that be a legitimate worry for dark energy? That’s what this week’s question-asker, Bud Christenson, wants to know:
“As one who has studied physics, I have been able to wrap my brain around some ideas that at one time were considered crazy… But dark energy is the most whacked idea I’ve heard. I know I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and not getting any smarter as I age. But if so many of you are convinced that this intuitively impossible idea is valid, maybe I need to investigate instead of rejecting it out of hand.”
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| S23S24S25S26The Best 'Shark Tank' Deal that Never Happened: Behind the Brand With Plunge When the world hit the pause button in 2020, Mike Garrett found an unexpected opportunity in the stillness. The pandemic had closed the doors of his float spa business but also opened the doors to another adventure.
The cold plunge experience is much better today than just a few years ago thanks to the work of scientists, researchers, and practitioners like Wim Hof, Dr. Rhonda Patrick, and Peter Attia, who have brought the science of cold exposure to the mainstream.Â
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| S27With 1 Sentence, Google CEO Sundar Pichai Revealed a Crucial Lesson About Leadership On Thursday, Google's parent company, Alphabet, announced its quarterly earnings. Not only did the company beat expectations, but it also promised to hand out its first ever dividend, something that made investors very happy. As a result, its stock was up 14 percent, making it the fourth tech company with a market value over $2 trillion.
Obviously, investors like it when companies say they made a lot of money. What they really like, however, is when companies talk about how much money they're going to make in the future. Or, more specifically, when they talk about what the business will do in the future. Right now, that's why every tech company is talking about how they are sprinkling artificial intelligence (AI) into everything they're doing.
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| S28With 1 Touching Memory, Kansas City Chiefs Tight End and Taylor Swift Boyfriend Travis Kelce Taught a Huge Lesson About Gratitude Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has had a lot of great moments in his life. There were the three times his team won the Super Bowl. There was singing onstage with some of his favorite musical artists, hosting Saturday Night Live, and of course, falling in love with Taylor Swift. But the moment he described as "the absolute best" was taking his father to a World Series game. It's a lesson for every leader, but also for every son and daughter about the power of gratitude and what matters most.
In this week's episode of New Heights, the podcast Kelce co-hosts with his brother, former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, the brothers chatted with comedian Andrew Santino, star of I'm Dying Up Here. Santino, who hails from Chicago, told the Kelces about rushing home from shooting the series because he had tickets to take his father to the World Series at Wrigley Field. Santino's flight was delayed and he feared he would miss the game. He called his Dad in tears and told him to take someone else, but his father refused to go without him. Thanks in part to a shoulder-driving cabbie, Santino made it to the stadium just as "The Star Spangled Banner" was being sung.
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| S29S308 Keys to Maintaining Passion and Energy for Your Business Business owners routinely jump into a new venture with a full charge of passion and energy but often find themselves drained of both after a few months by the workload and challenges. As a result, burnout and loss of passion are consistently listed among the top causes of venture failure, according to many experts. The challenge is to find ways to continually recharge along the way.
Of course, this same challenge extends well beyond new businesses, into all walks of life and work. I found some great insights in the classic book Are You Fully Charged? by human relations expert and bestselling author Tom Rath, which explains the three keys to energizing all your life pursuits. These keys are meaning, interactions, and energy.
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| S31What These Upcoming Changes to the Census Mean for Your Brand Today The U.S. Office of Management & Budget recently announced changes to the 2030 Census and how the government will collect and classify data moving forward. There are two notable edits that will have an impact on businesses.
The first change is that the two questions about respondents' race and ethnicity will now be collapsed into one. So previously, there was one question that asked about your ethnicity and the options were "Hispanic-Latino" or "Non-Hispanic-Latino."Â
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| S32How Reframing Your Approach Can Help You Be More Productive In my role as a productivity consultant and time management coach, I regularly help people work on their mindset. Surprisingly, this often means letting go of what they've been previously taught or told about the most effective ways to get things done.Â
You can learn all the productivity tips, tools, tricks, and techniques in the world, but if you abhor planning with color-coded stickers and bristle at the thought of task batching, you won't get very far in your work. Â Â
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| S33S34The Mysterious 'Dark' Energy That Permeates the Universe Is Slowly Eroding Physicists have deduced subtle hints that the mysterious âÂÂdarkâ energy that drives the universe to expand faster and faster may be slightly weakening with time. ItâÂÂs a finding that has the potential to shake the foundations of physics.
âÂÂIf true, it would be the first real clue we have gotten about the nature of dark energy in 25 years,â said Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University who won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering dark energy in 1998.
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| S35I Tried These AI-Based Productivity Tools. Here's What Happened I eagerly refreshed the website, awaiting my brand-new headshots. When they finally appeared, I squinted, bewildered. I laughed out loud alone in my office, then sent a very confused email to customer support.
Every writer I know is talking about AI tools and whether theyâÂÂre ethical to use. But whatâÂÂs just as interesting to me is why weâÂÂre so enamored with them even if they produce outrageous or below-average results. Why do we chase the shiny new thing even if itâÂÂs not better, faster, or cheaper?
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| S36How to Get Free Kindle Books With Your Library Card (2024) You've always wanted to read Infinite Jest, and now you finally have enough time on your hands to get through all 1,079 pages. Sure, you could grab it from a local bookseller, or order it on Amazon. But you might be able to read a digital copy for free by borrowing it from your local library. With a library card, an internet connection, and an ebook reader, you can start reading the novel right away without ever leaving your house.
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| S37Motorola Moto G Power 5G 2024 Review: Fantastic Value If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED
For years, Motorola has dominated the budget smartphone market in the US with its Moto G lineup, but these Android phones have never felt particularly exciting. Handsets like the Google Pixel 3A or even the new Nothing Phone (2a) have almost always offered more features, better performance, cooler designs, and nicer cameras for just a few more bucks.
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| S389 Best Password Managers (2024): Features, Pricing, and Tips Password managers are the vegetables of the internet. We know they're good for us, but most of us are happier snacking on the password equivalent of junk food. For nearly a decade, that's been "123456" and "password"âthe two most commonly used passwords on the web. The problem is, most of us don't know what makes a good password and aren't able to remember hundreds of them anyway.
The safest (if craziest) way to store your passwords is to memorize them all. (Make sure they are long, strong, and secure!) Just kidding. That might work for Memory Grand Master Ed Cooke, but most of us are not capable of such fantastic feats. We need to offload that work to password managers, which offer secure vaults that can stand in for our memory.
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| S3911 Best Smart Notebooks and Smart Pens (2024): Tablets, Digital Pens, and Reusable Books If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED
Do you take a lot of notes? Whether you're in school or working in a job that requires lots of jotting down ideas, you may opt for typing notes on a laptop, but physically writing something down helps you remember and learn more. Putting real pen to paper also just feels good. However, having a digital backup is convenient for on-the-go organization and studying.
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| S4011 Best Sleeping Bags (2024): Ultralight, for Car Campers, Warm Weather, for Kids John Muir famously set off for the mountains with "some bread and tea in a pair of blankets with some sugar and a tin cup." I admire his ultralight spirit and disdain for comfort on the trail, but I'd be willing to bet that if Muir were around today, he'd bring a good down sleeping bag with him, if for no other reason than they're lighter than old blankets. The tea is essential though, I can't argue with that.
Whether you're following Muir into the backcountry, are planning the perfect family camping trip, or are trekking the Camino de Santiago, there's a sleeping bag for that. No matter how you travel, where you're headed, or how much comfort you seek, after years of testing, we've found the best sleeping bags for everyone.
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