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CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!

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I tested all available versions of ChatGPT to see which model writes
the best work emails - Business Insider (No paywall)
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OpenAI has unveiled GPT-4o, its newest and most advanced AI model.
Business Insider tested it out to see how it compares to GPT-3.5 and
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Rich Chinese millennials are creating new status symbols. Here are 11
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Solo travel, pre-loved luxury fashion, and fine dining are all gaining
popularity with this affluent group.

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I'm nearing 65 and am better than ever at my job. With more boomers
opting not to retire, I'm not alone - Fortune (No paywall)
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Older Americans will account for 57% of the country’s labor-force
growth in the coming decade.

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Inside A Baby Berkshire Hathaway - Forbes (No paywall)
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Thomas Gayner parlayed a stockbroker career into the top job at
Virginia’s $16 billion Markel Group, a specialty insurer with a
penchant for investing in stocks and privately owned businesses. Meet
Richmond’s answer to the Oracle of Omaha.

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S5

An identity thief stole $5,000 from me. I spent two years tracking
down how.
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When a stranger got $5,000 of my money from a bank teller, it sent me
on a two-year odyssey to figure out who was impersonating me and how.

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Your Team Members Aren't Participating in Meetings. Here's What to Do.
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Traditional advice for leaders who want to increase meeting
participation call for clarifying expectations, setting clear agendas,
and asking open-ended questions. While these strategies have their
merits, they might not always work because they’re usually based on
the leader’s assumptions about what the team needs, rather than
facts about what they actually need. Managers who want their teams to
be more engaged in meetings need to foster a safe, inclusive team
culture, which requires a deep understanding of their team’s unique
dynamics. The author presents several strategies for encouraging
employees to engage during meetings.

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What is fate? And how can it both limit and liberate us?
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The concept of fate, or the idea of fatefulness, seems to crop up
everywhere we look in one form or another. Fate is a key belief
enduring across cultures and generations.

What is fate? Generally speaking, fate is thought of as a power or
agency determining events and destinies, acting beyond our control.

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Synced brains: why being constantly tuned in to your child's every
need isn't always ideal
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Humans connect with each other by synchronising in many ways. Called
bio-behavioural synchrony, this involves imitation of gestures and the
alignment of heartbeats and hormone secretion (like cortisol and
oxytocin). Even brains can synchronise – with brain activity
decreasing and increasing in the same areas at roughly the same time
when we spend time with others.

A lot of current parenting advice recommends parents to be constantly
“in sync” with their kids. It tells parents to be physically close
and attuned to their children and to anticipate and immediately
respond to their every need.

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Nightmares could be an early warning sign of an autoimmune disease
flare-up - new study
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Nightmares are unpleasant, but perfectly normal – for most. However,
my colleagues and I have recently discovered that they can also
presage autoimmune diseases, such as lupus.

Our study, published in The Lancet’s eClinicalMedicine journal,
explored possible early warning signs of autoimmune disease flare-ups.
We surveyed 676 patients with lupus and 400 doctors and carried out
over 100 in-depth interviews.

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Electric cars: swappable batteries could be the way to revive flagging
sales
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The rate of adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in western countries
continues to wane. In the UK, EVs’ market share of all new cars for
2024 will barely hit 20%, somewhat below the government goal of 22%.
New car registrations of hybrid cars have grown at almost double the
rate of battery EVs in the first four months of the year.

In a far cry from a year or two ago, the same has been happening in
other countries. Hybrid market share across Europe has risen from
about 25% to 30% in the past year, while battery EVs are down from
about 18% to 13%. This has encouraged automakers like Ford to switch
from prioritising battery EVs to hybrids.

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How to Come Back Stronger From Organizational Trauma
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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.

It is a sobering reality of life today that many organizations across
sectors and industries will face trauma. My institution, the Lee
Business School at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), became
one of them on Dec. 6, 2023, when a shooting on campus profoundly
changed our community.

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How Wasps Make Use of Biological Weapons To Conquer Their Prey
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If you puncture the ovary of a wasp called Microplitis demolitor,
viruses squirt out in vast quantities, shimmering like iridescent blue
toothpaste. “It’s very beautiful and just amazing that there’s
so much virus made in there,” says Gaelen Burke, an entomologist at
the University of Georgia.

M. demolitor is a parasite that lays its eggs in caterpillars, and the
particles in its ovaries are “domesticated” viruses that have been
tuned to persist harmlessly in wasps and serve their purposes. The
virus particles are injected into the caterpillar through the wasp’s
stinger, along with the wasp’s own eggs. The viruses then dump their
contents into the caterpillar’s cells, delivering genes that are
unlike those in a normal virus. Those genes suppress the
caterpillar’s immune system and control its development, turning it
into a harmless nursery for the wasp’s young.

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22 Years Later, Cillian Murphy Returns to the Apocalypse Thriller that
Made His Career -- With a Twist
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The star of 28 Days Later will make a “surprising” appearance in
the long-awaited sequel.

After two decades, 28 Days Later is finally getting the sequel it
deserves — but it may not look or feel the way that anyone is
expecting. Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland are
reuniting for 28 Years Later, a direct follow-up to the 2002 sci-fi
horror that put the duo on the map. With Sony Pictures’ backing, the
film it set to hit theaters in summer 2025. It’ll also set the stage
for a new trilogy, and the studio is reportedly hoping to film the
first two installments back-to-back.

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'Wordle' Has Nothing to Fear From Its Newest Puzzle Game Competitor
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I know what you’re thinking — you wish there was somewhere to go
online where you could read the most inane social media drivel
possible, find out which of your old college friends just became
unemployed again, and play games all on the same site. We’ve all
been there. And now, your wish has been granted, as the world’s
greatest repository of brain-addled corporate executive spam has
become a choice destination for word game fans. At least, its owners
seem to be hoping so.

Following in the footsteps of The New York Times, LinkedIn has turned
to word puzzles as a way of driving users to its site. If you head to
LinkedIn’s games page, you’ll currently find three different
games. Pinpoint reveals five words one by one and challenges players
to identify the category they all belong to after revealing the fewest
words. Queens is a Sudoku-esque game about correctly placing crowns on
a grid with rules that restrict where they can be placed. Crossclimb
asks players to guess five words from crossword-like clues, then
rearrange them so that each word has just one letter different from
the previous one, then guess two more words to finish off.

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Apple Previewed the Future of the iPad and Nobody Noticed
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The new iPad Pros are still the best tablets for all your basic stuff
like reading, watching videos, and playing games, but accessories like
the Magic Keyboard and Apple Pencil Pro, and performance from the M4
chip, allow them to perform even more like a laptop or drawing tablet
than ever before.

But is that it? Is the iPad’s future only incremental updates that
inch it closer to laptop functionality, but never morphs it fully into
a MacBook with a Surface Pro-like form factor because of various
software limitations (iPadOS vs. macOS) and input differences
(touchscreen vs. mouse and keyboard)?

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Wait, The Brain Has Its Own Microbiome? What New Research Tells Us
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The microbes that live in your gut are having their moment in the sun.
Even if you haven’t been following the research, you can’t have
missed the hundreds of adverts for probiotics and prebiotics aimed at
selling your products to keep your microbiome healthy.

Other microbiomes have also recently been discovered, and these, too,
play an important role in your health. Your mouth, nasal cavity, skin,
and scalp all have their own unique microbiomes. Some have even
proposed that the brain has its own microbiome.

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Smoking fentanyl can cause irreversible brain damage, report shows
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A middle-aged American man with no previous medical history was found
unconscious in his hotel room, with “unidentified crushed pills and
a white residue” on a nearby table, according to a recent paper in
BMJ Case Reports. White powder was visible around the man’s mouth.

This situation would be fairly unremarkable for a country that is in
its tenth year of an illicit fentanyl epidemic. However, there was
something remarkable about this case. It was the first reported
instance of toxic leukoencephalopathy – damage to the brain’s
white matter from a toxic substance – from smoking fentanyl.

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How Neanderthal language differed from modern human - they probably
didn't use metaphors
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We shared an ancestor with the Neanderthals around 600,000 years ago.
They evolved in Europe while we did so in Africa, before dispersing
multiple times into Eurasia. The Neanderthals became extinct around
40,000 years ago. We populated the world and continue to flourish.
Whether that different outcome is a consequence of differences in
language and thought has been long debated.

But the evidence points to key differences in the brains of our
species and those of Neanderthals that allowed modern humans (H.
sapiens) to come up with abstract and complex ideas through metaphor
– the ability to compare two unrelated things. For this to happen,
our species had to diverge from the Neanderthals in our brain
architecture.

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Kenya is badly prepared for floods: four steps to reduce devastation
and deaths
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Floods in Kenya in April/May 2024 led to the deaths of over 250 people
and caused damage estimated at 4 billion Kenya shillings (US$35
million).

Not for the first time, Kenya’s lack of preparedness was apparent as
flooding rampaged through rural and urban landscapes. There was also
confusion as to who would deal with the disaster – the national or
county governments. And it took several weeks before the government
mobilised emergency agencies.

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Hepatitis C: thousands of people are undiagnosed - here's what you
need to know about the virus
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Demand for hepatitis C tests has surged in the UK following the
publication of the infected blood inquiry findings in May 2024.
According to the BBC, “1,750 people in the UK are living with an
undiagnosed hepatitis C infection after being given a transfusion with
contaminated blood.” Globally, there are thousands more unknowingly
living with virus.

So what is this infection, how would you know if you had it – and
what can you do about it?

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Met Gala: what fairytales can teach us about modern fashion trends
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Fairytales have long woven magic with fabric. But this year’s Met
Gala, the annual fundraiser for the the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s
Costume Institute in New York, took the connection between fantasy and
fashion a step further.

Themed around the museum’s Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion
exhibition, the dress code focused not on opulent displays of
nature’s bounty but a more complex reality: the natural world and
the essence of time. Inspired by J.G. Ballard’s short story, The
Garden of Time, designers were invited to explore the intricate
relationship between materials, their origins, and the fleeting nature
of fashion trends.

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Why Chile has a Palestinian football team - the bigger history
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Club Deportivo Palestino, a football team, play in a uniform of white,
green and red. Their stadium flies Palestinian flags and their social
sports club boasts an open-air pool in the shape of pre-1948
Palestine. But this football team does not play in Palestine, or even
the Middle East. Better known as Palestino, they actually play in
Chile’s top football league, the Primera División de Chile.

Chile is home to the largest population of Palestinians outside of the
Middle East. This Palestinian diaspora, which currently stands at just
under 500,000 people, has helped shape nearly a century of Chilean
policy towards Palestine. At the heart of this community, Palestino
has not only served as a rallying point for the diaspora, but also an
instrument of cultural exchange and diplomacy.

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How Sicilians are resetting their social norms to strengthen future
generations against mafia influence
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Bearing witness to the profound consequences of violence and injustice
for a long period of time can deeply fracture communities, resulting
in collective trauma. But, where there is oppression, a determined
resistance will always rise to challenge it. One such example is the
unyielding battle Sicilians have waged against the mafia.

Despite facing the overwhelming force of the mafia, with its violent
methods and sinister political alliances, many Sicilians have refused
to remain silent. Archival records indicate that as far back as the
1870s, Sicilians started to defy and confront the mafia’s tyrannical
power.

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What is wind shear? An atmospheric scientist explains how it can tear
down hurricanes
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Weather forecasters talk about wind shear a lot during hurricane
season, but what exactly is it?

I teach meteorology at Georgia Tech, in a part of the country that
pays close attention to the Atlantic hurricane season. Here’s a
quick look at one of the key forces that can determine whether a storm
will become a destructive hurricane.

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Was Beethoven truly the greatest?
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On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premiered in
Vienna, Austria. On its 200th anniversary, much was made about this
seminal achievement of a composer routinely touted as the greatest
master who ever lived.

In an essay for The New York Times, conductor Daniel Barenboim wrote
that Beethoven was “the master of bringing emotion and intellect
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United Auto Workers' defeat at Mercedes' Alabama plants underscores
challenges for organized labor in Southern states
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A majority of the workers at two Mercedes plants near Tuscaloosa,
Alabama, rejected an opportunity to join the United Auto Workers union
in an election that concluded on May 17, 2024.

UAW supporters lost 2,642 to 2,045, just one month after the workers
at a Volkswagen plant in the neighboring state of Tennessee chose by a
3-to-1 margin to join the union.

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For many American Jews protesting for Palestinians, activism is a
journey rooted in their Jewish values
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Atalia Omer is affiliated with the Faculty and Staff for Justice in
Palestine at the University of Notre Dame and Tzedek Chicago.

In April 2024, during Passover, a group of American rabbis approached
a border crossing in Israel. Affiliated with Rabbis for Ceasefire, the
group joined Jewish Israeli activists attempting to deliver food to
Gazans.

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Netflix Just Quietly Added the Most Misunderstood Marvel Movie of the
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Is Madame Web a self-aware camp classic, or a spectacular
overestimation of Sony’s Spider-Verse? It all depends on who you
ask. From a box office standpoint, the 2024 film didn’t make
Sony’s nascent franchise any more viable; it’s the lowest-grossing
film based on a Marvel character, ever. The box-office and critical
reception was so bad, that the failure of Madame Web might have Sony
reevaluating its plans for the universe: the studio was reportedly
building a handful of spin-offs around Dakota Johnson’s unlikely
heroine but might have pulled the plug since.

But perhaps time will be kind to Madame Web. Or rather, maybe Madame
Web was never destined to find its audience as a movie theater
blockbuster tentpole. Instead, it’s the kind of film that you watch
watches with friends and forget a day later. Studios are now hungrier
than ever for the next big phenomenon, the film that’s going to
reshape the world. Madame Web was never going to be that, because it
belongs to a bygone era, one where mid-budget chick flicks and
low-risk cult classics had just as much pull as superhero tentpoles.
It straddles those two worlds to varying success. Sure, it flopped at
the box office, but it’s been getting a much warmer reception with
the help of a platform like Netflix.

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Chevy's Electric Camaro Could be One of the Most Affordable EVs in
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General Motors has been busy electrifying its entire portfolio and the
company’s president, Mark Reuss, told MotorTrend that he wants the
Chevrolet Camaro to make a comeback as an EV that stays true to its
pony car roots.

That’s a stark contrast to what Ford has done with the Mustang.
Instead of keeping the classic American muscle look, Ford went with an
SUV design that would appeal to more people. On top of that, Reuss
told MotorTrend that the Camaro EV could be around the same price as
the Equinox EV, which starts at around $35,000. That’s not as cheap
as the current gas-powered Camaro, but an electric version could get
the benefit of up to $7,500 in federal tax credits.

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Star Wars Is About to Expand Into a Disturbing New Genre
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One of the joys of Star Wars is that it can take any form. The
Mandalorian alone has adopted wildly different genres for different
episodes, ranging from space Westerns to samurai stories to heists.
It’s a great way to see how different styles fit into the Star Wars
galaxy, and now The Acolyte appears to be taking Star Wars in yet
another new direction by leaning into a classic genre.

We still don’t know much about The Acolyte. It appeared to focus on
Mae, a Sith assassin targeting Jedi during the last days of the High
Republic. But in the newest trailer, “Plan,” the reality seems far
more complicated: Mae is a former Jedi being hunted by her former
master. Despite the fact we’ve already seen Mae in hand-to-hand
combat with Jedi Master Indara, she insists she isn’t the murderer.

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