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S1S2Are some routes more prone to air turbulence? Will climate change make it worse? Your questions answered  A little bit of turbulence is a common experience for air travellers. Severe incidents are rare – but when they occur they can be deadly.
The recent Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from London to Singapore shows the danger. An encounter with extreme turbulence during normal flight left one person dead from a presumed heart attack and several others badly injured. The flight diverted to land in Bangkok so the severely injured passengers could receive hospital treatment.
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S3Run streaks: is it safe to run every day? Running is a great form of exercise that has numerous benefits for our health. For instance, people who consistently run at least an hour a week throughout their lives tend to live three years longer and have fewer chronic illnesses, compared with people who don’t do any exercise.
But some people are taking their love of running up a notch – running every day for as many days in a row as possible. This trend is being referred to online as a “run streak”. The rules of the run streak trend are simple: runners must complete a minimum of one mile (1.6km) every day, either on road, trail or the treadmill.
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S7 Acing Value-Based Sales 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.
Imagine that burst of enthusiasm when a senior executive unveils a plan that promises a significant and lasting impact on the organization’s financial performance. “Our new product creates more value for our customers than anything else on the market, and we should get paid accordingly,” they proudly declare. “If we measure and communicate that value precisely, then we can finally get the return we deserve.”
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S8The Truth About Suncreen And Vitamin D Production It’s all kicking off on social media again. This time it’s about wearing sunscreen. The argument began when Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, raised concerns that daily sunscreen use could lead to vitamin D deficiency.
While Spector’s post gained a lot of attention, it isn’t the first time an argument against using sunscreen has been brought to social media – with countless posts discussing the matter. Most of these concerns stem from the fact that sunscreen blocks ultraviolet (UV) radiation – which our body needs to synthesize vitamin D in the skin. Fortunately, research shows us that this is probably not an issue for most people.
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S9Someone Made a DIY Version of Google's Most Exciting AI -- and You Can Use It Right Now Now that Google Glass could be back on the menu, we’re eager to see if Project Astra, Google’s new supercharged computer vision AI, can finally make smart glasses work. For now, however, Google hasn’t committed its prototype AI assistant to anything yet, much less a piece of hardware.
To scratch that itch in the interim, a designer created their own version that’s built using Google’s Gemini generative AI. Pietro Schirano, who’s previously worked at Uber and Facebook, introduced his take on a Google chatbot with vision capabilities called DIY-Astra. It’s not as capable as when compared to Google’s own Project Astra or even OpenAI’s GPT-4o demo, but it is a sneak peek into the potential of these improved AI chatbots.
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S10A New Study Found Microplastics In Every Testicle It Sampled -- Microplastics are omnipresent. These small pieces of plastic, which are leftover from all sorts of consumer products, have been detected in oceans, historic soil samples, and virtually everywhere on the planet. Naturally, they’ve also been found in almost every human organ: In lung tissue, blood, breastmilk, and more. And now, a recent study published in Toxicological Sciences has shown a light on yet another body part they’re ending up in: testicles.
An earlier study had previously assessed the presence of microplastics in human testes and semen. Animal studies have also looked at the interactions between microplastics and fertility, in mice specifically. But in the recent study, a group of researchers at the University of New Mexico collected samples from both human and canine testes. The 23 human testes were taken from men who died in 2016, and the 47 dog testes came from neutering.
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S11As governments crack down on fast fashion's harms, could Shein lose its shine? Fast-fashion brand Shein expressed interest last year in listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). But, having met some opposition from US politicians, including Republican Florida senator Marco Rubio, it has now reportedly turned its attention to London.
While this would be a boost for the London Stock Exchange (LSE), which has lost several organisations to other international exchanges over the last five years, it raises the question of why Shein has not been successful with its application to the NYSE.
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S13Exercise, therapy and diet can all improve life during cancer treatment and boost survival. Here's how With so many high-profile people diagnosed with cancer we are confronted with the stark reality the disease can strike any of us at any time. There are also reports certain cancers are increasing among younger people in their 30s and 40s.
On the positive side, medical treatments for cancer are advancing very rapidly. Survival rates are improving greatly and some cancers are now being managed more as long-term chronic diseases rather than illnesses that will rapidly claim a patient’s life.
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S14We tracked secret Russian missile launchers in Ukraine using public satellite data In the occupied far east of Ukraine, Russian forces are aiming waves of missiles against Ukrainian civilian targets. Each of Russia’s state-of-the-art missile launch systems costs more than US$100 million (A$150 million). They allow Russia to launch attacks from safe positions many kilometres behind the front lines.
The S-300 surface-to-air missile launcher is designed to avoid detection. Their locations are closely guarded secrets. However, using publicly available satellite images, we have detected telltale signs of the operation of these weapons that give away their location.
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S15A dangerous diagnosis: How 'excited delirium' shapes police perception In November 2022, Abdullah Darwich, a nonverbal autistic 19-year-old left his home in Mississauga, Ont. He made his way to a pile of leaves, which he began playing in, dressed only in his underwear. A worried neighbour made a phone call to the police. Despite Darwich being registered to the Peel Police Vulnerable Persons Registry, Darwich’s father arrived soon after to find his son bleeding, terrified and surrounded by police.
When a review was conducted into the incident, the first responding officer explained that he thought Darwich was experiencing excited delirium. As a result of this assessment, the officer thought it necessary to taser Darwich, restrain him and call for backup. The review found no reasonable grounds for misconduct.
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S16Why you shouldn't take pebbles from the beach - here's the science Suzana Ilic was a coastal advisor to the North West Regional Flood and Coastal Committee between 2019 and 2023.
For many people, visiting the beach brings back joyful childhood memories. It is easy to forget that the sand and pebbles provide an important habitat for many creatures. It also provides natural protection for homes and infrastructure from the power of the sea.
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S17Collapsed FTX exchange plans to repay investors - this could be a fresh start for crypto Not everyone’s happy, however. The price of bitcoin has climbed more than 250% since the November 2022 collapse, yet the missing FTX assets will be valued at the prices from that time, leaving investors seriously out of pocket compared to the gains they could reasonably have expected.
So how did it come to this? FTX was co-founded in 2019 by Sam Bankman-Fried (also known as SBF), who was once seen as the golden boy of the cryptocurrency industry. As the CEO of FTX, he grew the company into one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world with more than 1 million users.
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S18How opioid treatment centers can overcome bipartisan NIMBYism to build local support Some residents of Fairmount, an upper-middle-income neighborhood of Philadelphia, are irate that a nearby homeless shelter is being turned into an addiction “triage” center without input from the surrounding community. News of the shelter’s expansion came just a week before the high-profile closing of an encampment of people experiencing homelessness and addiction in Kensington, a North Philadelphia neighborhood that has long been the center of the region’s opioid crisis.
Neighbors quickly started a petition to halt the triage center project, and they garnered over 1,100 signatures. At a contentious community meeting, they expressed fears of their neighborhood becoming “Kensington 2.0.”
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S19An ancient manuscript up for sale gives a glimpse into the history of early Christianity An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, is up for auction at Christie’s in London. This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt containing a combination of biblical and other early Christian texts.
The Crosby-Schøyen Codex was discovered alongside more than 20 other codices near Dishna, Egypt, in 1952. These manuscripts are collectively known as “the Dishna Papers” or “the Bodmer Papyri,” after the Swiss collector Martin Bodmer.
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S20S21More military veterans and active duty service members are dying by suicide than in battle - understanding why can help with prevention Although service members know they may lose their lives in combat in service of their country, they may not expect to lose their lives – or those they love – to suicide. A 2021 study estimated that four times as many active duty service members and veterans died by suicide as died in battle since 9/11.
Despite recent calls to action to improve suicide prevention within the military, suicide rates remain elevated among service members. In particular, active duty Army suicide rates were nearly two times higher than other active duty military services and more than two and a half times higher than the general population. Suicide rates are even more elevated in veterans, with an estimated 17 or more dying by suicide each day in 2021.
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S22Pets give companionship, cuddles and joy - and also unavoidable stresses Owning a pet can be a roller coaster. There are the highs, like when your dog greets you with a full-body wiggle when you return home, or when your cat purrs loudly as you cuddle next to one another. Then there are the lows, like stressful trips to urgent care, waking up to that unpleasant vomiting noise, or making the difficult choice to say goodbye because of medical problems or even intractable behavioral issues.
For those pet-owners who are struggling, it’s beneficial to their mental health to acknowledge that pets can create stress and that some animals are more work than others.
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S23Heat waves can be deadly for older adults: An aging global population and rising temperatures mean millions are at risk A deadly heat wave gripped large regions of Asia for weeks in April and May 2024. As temperatures climbed past 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) in India on May 7, campaigning politicians, local news announcers and voters waiting in long lines passed out from the oppressive heat.
From as far north as Japan to as far south as the Philippines, the relentless heat wreaked havoc on everyday life. Students and teachers in Cambodia were sent home from school, as their hand-held fans provided little protection against the stifling heat and humidity in their poorly ventilated classrooms. Farmers in Thailand saw their crops wither and mourned the loss of livestock that perished under the punishing sun. Hundreds of people died from the heat.
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S24As international support for an independent Palestine grows, here's what Israelis and Palestinians now think of the two-state solution With the announcement by Norway and Ireland that they have recognised Palestine as an independent state, and Spain expected to follow suit by the end of May, it appears that international momentum for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is growing.
The concept has long been supported by the US and its allies, as well as most Arab states and the United Nations. In 2017, Hamas amended its charter to accept the existence of Israel based on borders established after the six-day war in 1967. It reportedly indicated recently a willingness to disarm if a Palestinian state were established. But the present Israeli government led by the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu remains implacably opposed to a two-state solution.
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S252024's Biggest Blockbuster Flop Confirms a Dark Truth About the Modern Movie Industry There’s been a lot of doom and gloom surrounding the theatrical movie experience ever since the streaming age began, but lately it seems like we’ve all but chiseled the movie theater’s tombstone. As ticket prices rise and movies hit the home market faster than ever, casual viewers have more reasons to stay home than go out. But Hollywood, of course, hasn’t abandoned the theater, and one recent movie’s failure reveals the path forward.
Universal Pictures surprised everyone when it announced that its latest Ryan Gosling vehicle, The Fall Guy, would be available to rent or buy digitally just two weeks after its theatrical release. As of today, you can catch the movie in theaters or watch it from your couch for about the same price.
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S26'Elden Ring' DLC Drops Tantalizing New Details Only Lore Weirdos Will Understand There’s no DLC as exciting as From Software DLC. The Dark Souls developer already has an outstanding track record of releasing some of the most beloved games of the past few decades, but just as impressive is its ability to improve on what seemed like perfection with its expansions. We won’t know if Shadow of the Erdtree, the upcoming Elden Ring DLC, holds up against the likes of Bloodborne’s acclaimed The Old Hunters, but based on its latest trailer, we know it’s gonna be brutal and it’s gonna be weird.
So far, we’ve seen quite a bit of the lore of Shadow of the Erdtree, but little gameplay. The latest trailer continues that trend, focusing entirely on story told through pre-rendered cutscenes. This being a From Software game, the trailer doesn’t come right out and say too much, instead hiding its meaning in oblique references, but for players who are already well-versed in the history of Elden Ring’s world, there’s a lot to chew on.
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S27Nintendo Fans Will Likely See More Big Games Ported to the Switch 2 Nintendo is the latest gaming publisher to save a development studio from the clutches of Embracer Group, and the purchase may provide a look at what Nintendo has in store for the near future.
Shiver Entertainment, perhaps best known for their work on the surprisingly stable Nintendo Switch version of 2023’s Hogwarts Legacy, and the less impressive handheld port of Netherrealms’ Mortal Kombat 1, has been purchased by the legendary Japanese game maker just two and a half years after it was scooped up by Embracer.
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S28Max Just Quietly Added the Biggest Sci-Fi Movie of the Year Hot take: It doesn’t actually matter where you watch Denis Villeneuve’s Dune saga. Sure, IMAX will always be the ideal format — it’s the only place where the sheer scale of Villeneuve’s world can truly be felt. Villeneuve himself has been pretty outspoken about catching his films on the largest screen humanly possible, and he’s not the only filmmaker with a preferred viewing format.
But the merits of Dune and its sequel, Dune: Part Two, aren’t beholden to a big-screen experience. You can, in fact, appreciate Villeneuve’s sci-fi duology from the comfort of your couch, or even (controversial as it sounds) on a smart phone. A good movie will hold your attention no matter how you find it — especially Villeneuve’s movies, which specialize in sheer immersion and propulsive storytelling.
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S2921 Years Later, a Forgotten Sci-Fi Movie is Getting Remade By the Perfect Director Yorgos Lanthimos is a restless filmmaker. After his coming-of-age Victorian sci-fi Poor Things helped Emma Stone earn an Oscar, he moved on to a triptych of shorts, Kinds of Kindness, which also features Stone. Now, while Lanthimos shows off Kinds of Kindness at the Cannes Film Festival, his next project has landed a distributor (and, yes, Emma Stone is in it too).
According to Variety, Lanthimos’ next movie, Bugonia, will be released by Focus Features, a departure after Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness were distributed by Searchlight. It’s also written by Will Tracy, a Succession alum and showrunner of the recent HBO series The Regime, instead of Lanthimos’ usual collaborators, Tony McNamara and Efthimis Fillipou.
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S30'Deadpool 3' Is Skewering an Infamous Marvel Tradition Ryan Reynold’s Deadpool has always been Marvel’s black sheep. As the fourth-wall-breaking Merc with a Mouth, the character exists on the fringes of Marvel storytelling. He’s just self-aware enough to poke fun at the absurdity of his world, and he puts his own spin on the tropes that define superhero cinema. That’s part of what makes his films so entertaining, and as Deadpool officially makes his way into the true MCU, it’s safe to expect a few surprises.
Deadpool & Wolverine might be Marvel’s most anticipated project in years. It’s also one of the most important, as it’s embracing and possibly fixing the multiverse. Reynolds will team up with X-Men star Hugh Jackman on a romp through Marvel’s multiverse, and fans are already expecting a few cameos from other members of defunct Marvel franchises. Many also expect Deadpool & Wolverine to deliver a satisfying set-up for Secret Wars, the upcoming crossover event that could reset the MCU for good.
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S31Xbox Reportedly Okays 'Hellblade 2' Follow-Up But Big Questions Remain Developer Ninja Theory may be releasing Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, but a new report suggests Xbox has already approved the U.K. studio’s next game.
Windows Central is reporting that Xbox has given Ninja Theory the go-ahead to begin work on a new title, and has no plans to close down the studio. It’s a reassuring development for Ninja Theory, the storied maker of several cult-classic games, even if it’s just off the heels of Microsoft closing some of its newly acquired studios. Xbox did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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S32Sonos' Lead Designers Get Nerdy About the New Ace ANC Headphones The audio company’s VP of Design, Dana Krieger, and Senior Industrial Designer, David Keating, go deeper into what makes the upcoming Ace headphones so special.
Sonos is finally giving everybody the audio product they’ve been asking for: headphones. Next month, on June 5, Sonos is launching Ace, its first pair of headphones with active noise-cancellation (ANC), worldwide.
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S338 Exciting Humanoid Robots That Make Robo-Butlers Feel Real For so long, the idea of humanoid robots held the promise of taking care of boring tasks and letting us focus on more important things. Yet here we are, without a robot that helps simplify our lives like Rosey the Robot from The Jetsons.
Still, the technology behind robots has been advancing rapidly as of late, leading to bots that have impressive dexterity or AI reasoning. Most of these robots aren’t available to customers yet, but they reignite the hope that we’re closer to robot butlers who can achieve the holy grail — doing our laundry. Here are eight of the most exciting humanoid robots that you could see in your future homes.
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S34Marvel's Most Important New Movie Gets a Huge Update Ever since Disney bought Fox in 2019, the MCU and the X-Men have had a long-running “will-they-or-won’t-they” dynamic. WandaVision introduced Evan Peters as a “recast” Pietro, but he wasn’t really him, just a brainwashed actor. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness introduced its own mutants — and brought back Sir Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier — but they existed in a different universe. Next, Deadpool & Wolverine and the upcoming Fantastic Four movie will make the merger official.
But it’s all leading up to the inevitable: a standalone X-Men movie set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now, there’s an update on the movie: the first signs of life in what is sure to be a huge MCU event.
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S357 Years Later, the MonsterVerse Finally Answers an Unspoken Mystery Ever wonder why no one in the MonsterVerse actually calls Kong by his iconic name? He’s usually referred to as “King Kong,” at least in his original film appearances, but ever since the MonsterVerse rebooted with Kong: Skull Island, the films have been careful to call him Kong and only Kong.
That’s because, until very recently, Kong had yet to be crowned the King of the Apes. For the past 10 years, Godzilla has been the only Titan with the title of king. And as most learned in Godzilla vs. Kong, it’s not a title he’s comfortable sharing. Their rivalry forced Kong into an exile in the Hollow Earth, but after the events of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, this hidden realm has become Kong’s new kingdom.
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S36How To Spot A Fake Aurora Image Auroras are incredible sights to behold — and easy images to fake. Here’s how to tell the difference.
On 10 and 11 May 2024, large parts of the world were treated to their most spectacular display of the aurora – the northern and southern lights – in a generation. Thanks to modern cameras, the phenomenon was all over social media. It seems almost everyone knew someone who managed to snap vivid images of the night sky illuminated in pink, purple, and green.
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S3740 Years Ago, George Lucas Made a Controversial Movie Sequel -- And Changed Hollywood Forever If there is one word to describe most of the Indiana Jones films, it would be “nostalgic.” The series was originally conceived to recall the adventure serials of the 1930s and ‘40s with their swashbuckling epics and cliffhanger endings. Over the years, this nostalgia for the past has only become more powerful, to the point where 2023’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny seemed nostalgic for Indy himself. However, one installment has always remained an outlier. Released 40 years ago on May 23, 1984, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom rejected nostalgia for something darker, and in the process it not only changed the franchise but the course of Hollywood history as well.
The first film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, was a tremendous success, both critically and at the box office. It was the highest grossing film of 1981, proving that its creators, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg had the golden touch regardless of genre or franchise. A sequel was inevitable, but George Lucas, who was going through a divorce, was in a more downcast mood this time around — and it showed.
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S38A lush, whirlwind tribute to the diversity of life in a northern English county | Aeon Videos With its lively animations and immersive audio, That Yorkshire Sound thrusts viewers into the sights and sounds of Yorkshire in northern England. Presenting a flurry of animations that flow from one scene to the next, the UK director Marcus Armitage captures the diversity of daily experience in the county. The images move from rural areas, where farm animals squeal and bicycles spin through the suburbs, to the heart of its urban centres, abuzz with drinking, dancing, gambling and a bit of post-football match mayhem. Simultaneously, the clock seems to move from day to night over the course of the short, giving the impression of time flying through a full day over the course of two minutes. The resulting work is a fleeting yet overflowing tribute to life in this vibrant and historic slice of England.
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S39S40Soviet media downplayed the significance of the D-Day invasion When Russian President Vladimir Putin was not invited to participate in the 75th anniversary commemorations of D-Day held in France in 2019, he claimed it was “not a problem” because the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944, “was not a game changer.”
As the United States, Britain, Canada, France and other nations commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day this year, Putin again will not attend, this time because of the aggressive war he has waged in Ukraine. But it’s worth recalling the actual history of how Soviet media reported on the Normandy invasion, in which masses of Allied troops stormed the beaches and began the process of retaking Europe from the Nazis.
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