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Emotional intelligence has limits: Hone your "perceptivity" as well
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Emotional intelligence has limits: Hone your "perceptivity" as well
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Most people think they are better judges of character than everyone
else. (Of course, that statement is statistically impossible — read
it again.) For years scholars cast doubt on this notion, regarding
perceptivity as more a learned skill than a natural ability. However,
recent research into what is called “the good judge” of character
suggests that some people do have an advantage in this area. One 2019
study found “consistent, clear, and strong evidence that the good
judge does exist” — in other words, some people are indeed better
than others at judging personality.My own experience bears out this
finding. Over my two decades of working with leaders across industries
as wide-ranging as private equity, apparel, health care, and
agribusiness, I’ve found that some people are extraordinarily adept
at judging others, but these individuals are few and far between. The
vast majority of professionals think their judgment of others’
personalities is accurate. In truth, they fall prey to a whole range
of biases that skew how they size people up and in turn lead to
horrible decision-making.
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Ten Classic American Brands Owned by Foreign Companies
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Moreover, the industry is America’s biggest private-sector employer,
responsible for one of every four jobs, or 55 million employees. Yet
in today’s challenging consumer environment, retailers are facing
higher e-commerce penetration and inflationary pressures—across an
industry notoriously known for razor-thin margins. Known for its
everyday low prices, Walmart achieves a competitive advantage through
pricing goods approximately 25% cheaper than traditional retail
competitors. Overall, groceries make up more than half of total sales.
While its main customer base is often low and middle-income shoppers,
the retail giant is seeing a surge in sales from higher-income
customers as shoppers seek out lower grocery prices.
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Lung-targeted CRISPR therapy offers hope for cystic fibrosis
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Gene therapies for cystic fibrosis have previously struggled to reach
the faulty lung cells, but a new approach has succeeded in achieving
long-lasting modifications in mice
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The surprising mental health and brain benefits of weight-loss drugs
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Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have unexpected effects on the brain,
opening up potential new ways to treat depression, anxiety, addiction
and Alzheimer’s
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Organizations Work to Reduce Animal Deaths With Relegated Passageways
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More than 4 million miles of public roads across the U.S. provide
vital links for commerce, services, and travel, but they’re
treacherous barriers for wildlife seeking food, water, and mates.
Exposed and unsure about the noisy, unfamiliar terrain presented by an
open road, an animal that hesitates or misjudges the speed of an
approaching vehicle risks fatal consequences.Unfortunately, those
encounters are all too common on busy roadways. According to the
Federal Highway Administration, there are more than 1 million
wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVCs) every year in the U.S. In addition
to the hundreds of thousands of animals killed and maimed, WVCs also
result in hundreds of human fatalities and tens of thousands of
injuries.
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Why Does Spaceflight Destroy Astronautsâ™ Red Blood Cells?
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Recent research, however, suggests otherwise: A paper published in
Nature Medicine in 2022 found that space anemia is the result of a
dramatic and persistent spike in red blood cell destruction. Whereas
on Earth our bodies break down 2 million cells every second, in space
they ramp up to 3 million per second, a 50 percent increase.Notably,
the condition does improve throughout post-flight rehabilitation. And
astronauts have dealt with it just fine up to now, but most trips to
outer space, like those for individuals on the International Space
Station, last only six months. It’s unclear how human physiology
would fare on the multi-year voyages of the future — not to mention
permanent colonies on the moon or Mars.
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The best car camping essentials
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There are a thousand and one ways to enjoy the great outdoors—and
not all of them involve a six-person tent. Many people (present
company included) are taking advantage of the mobile accommodation
currently parked in their driveway, i.e., car camping. Unlike a
traditional tent-and-pole campsite, camping à la automobile is more
convenient, great for last-minute adventures, and allows you to pack
as heavy or as light as you'd like. While you could, in theory, hit
the road with nothing but a toothbrush and a case for wanderlust, I've
found that there are a few specialty items that make sleeping on the
road a little more comfortable.I’ve been on my fair share of car
camping trips, including a 5-week jaunt around the U.S in a tiny Honda
Civic, to National Park-centric road trips during which I car camped
the entire time. I’ve spent plenty of time packing and unpacking my
vehicle, folding down the seats, and setting up a makeshift bed and
kitchen in the back. Here are some car camping essentials I recommend.
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Can vitamin D help fight cancer?
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Our own immune system is one of our greatest allies in suppressing the
development of cancer in our bodies, but it often needs a little push.
One way of doing this is by using a class of medications called
‘checkpoint inhibitors.' These medicines release the brakes on
certain immune cells—called killer T cells—that then try and kill
cancer cells. These can be very effective treatments for certain kinds
of skin, lung, and kidney cancers, but unfortunately, they don’t
work for every patient.A flurry of studies published in 2018
demonstrated that the patients’ microbiome may have something to do
with this. People who did or didn’t respond to checkpoint inhibitor
therapy were found to have consistent differences in the bacteria
commonly found in their gut. And in 2021, two studies found that
transferring microbes from the fecal matter of people who did respond
to the therapy to the gut of those who didn’t, could improve
therapeutic benefits in the latter patients.
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How to Convince Putin He Will Lose
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Two ideas dominate discussions about how to bring the war in Ukraine
closer to an end: the West should either pressure Ukraine to make
concessions to Russia or support Ukraine’s efforts to win on the
battlefield. Both approaches rightly recognize that negotiations will
remain futile until changing circumstances compel one side to accept
peace terms that it rejects today. Nonetheless, neither approach is
likely to end the war.Withholding arms from Ukraine could eventually
force it to offer concessions to Russia as part of a desperate attempt
to end the war, but advocates of this approach overlook how it would
also affect Russia’s war aims. Moscow would react to its newfound
military advantages by doubling down on its most extreme
demands—further territorial gains in places such as Kharkiv and
Odessa, regime change, demilitarization, and more. Any willingness in
Kyiv to make concessions would be offset by Moscow’s newly expanded
war aims. The result would be Russian gains on the battlefield, not
peace.
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The Taiwan Aid Bill Wonâ™t Fix the Arms Backlog
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In April, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law a trio of emergency
supplemental spending bills, including one focused on the Indo-Pacific
that is commonly referred to as the Taiwan aid bill. The new
legislation seeks in part to address Taiwan’s roughly $19.7 billion
backlog of arms sales from the United States—a hot-button issue
given China’s increasingly provocative military activities around
Taiwan and the perception among some U.S. analysts that Taiwan is not
as much of a priority as Washington claims.In April, U.S. President
Joe Biden signed into law a trio of emergency supplemental spending
bills, including one focused on the Indo-Pacific that is commonly
referred to as the Taiwan aid bill. The new legislation seeks in part
to address Taiwan’s roughly $19.7 billion backlog of arms sales from
the United States—a hot-button issue given China’s increasingly
provocative military activities around Taiwan and the perception among
some U.S. analysts that Taiwan is not as much of a priority as
Washington claims.
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U.S. Military Planes Are in Haiti. Haitians Donâ™t Know Why.
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In the past several weeks, I have watched dozens of sleek U.S.
military planes descend over Toussaint Louverture International
Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where I live. They were the first
flights to land since gangs blockaded and halted commercial air
traffic in March. U.S. news reports suggest that the aircraft
contained civilian contractors and supplies to pave the way for the
deployment of a Kenyan-led security mission to Haiti, which is
expected to begin any day now.In the past several weeks, I have
watched dozens of sleek U.S. military planes descend over Toussaint
Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where I
live. They were the first flights to land since gangs blockaded and
halted commercial air traffic in March. U.S. news reports suggest that
the aircraft contained civilian contractors and supplies to pave the
way for the deployment of a Kenyan-led security mission to Haiti,
which is expected to begin any day now.
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Supreme Court unanimously rejects challenge to mailed abortion pills
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“Given the broad and comprehensive conscience protections guaranteed
by federal law, the plaintiffs have not shown—and cannot show—that
FDA’s actions will cause them to suffer any conscience injury,”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the opinion. “Federal law fully
protects doctors against being required to provide abortions or other
medical treatment against their consciences—and therefore breaks any
chain of causation between FDA’s relaxed regulation of mifepristone
and any asserted conscience injuries to the doctors.”Reproductive
rights advocates will celebrate the ruling, which helps safeguard
access to one of the most common methods of abortion. Mifepristone is
used in roughly two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. The figure surged
after the court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, triggering
new laws and restrictions in 25 states.
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The fight over medical abortion has worsened pregnancy care
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The Supreme Court unanimously shut down one of many troubling tugs of
war over access to abortion. By tossing out FDA v. Alliance for
Hippocratic Medicine, it quashed the utterly mistaken notion that the
Food and Drug Administration improperly approved mifepristone, a drug
used for medical abortion, nearly a quarter century ago.This
Texas-based case, which sought to roll back access to one of two
abortion medications, was not really about anti-abortion doctors
supposedly being harmed by the government’s actions. It was about a
political drive to unfairly question and restrict a longstanding,
safe, and sometimes necessary medical treatment to end pregnancies.
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Do We Really Need National Political Conventions?
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Our staff debates whether the quadrennial events are a pointless waste
of money or valuable messaging opportunities.
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What Itâ™s Like to Not Buy New Clothes for 7 Years
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Three women who have done long-term shopping bans share their advice.
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How a Secret Society Discovered Irrational Numbers
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Myths and legends surround the origins of these numbers
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JWST Detects the Earliest, Most Distant Galaxy in the Known
UniverseâAnd Itâ™s Super Weird
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed an unusually large and
highly luminous galaxy at a record-breaking 290 million years after
the big bang
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Is Google S.E.O. Gaslighting the Internet?
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In March, Gisele Navarro watched Google Search traffic to her Web
site, HouseFresh, disappear. HouseFresh evaluates and reviews air
purifiers. Her husband, Danny Ashton, launched the site in 2020, when
the pandemic created a spike in demand for air purification, and at
its peak the business had fifteen paid contributors. (Navarro and
Ashton also work together at NeoMam, a content studio that Ashton
founded.) Google traffic to HouseFresh had been slowly declining since
last October, but the recent drop was far more dramatic—from around
four thousand daily search referrals, or click-throughs from Google
results, to around three hundred. The site makes money from affiliate
fees, taking a small cut when a reader follows a link from HouseFresh
to purchase an air purifier online; less traffic means less revenue,
and the site can now only afford to pay one full-time employee.
Navarro told me, “We are living our lives like Google is gone for
us.”In May, we got a glimpse into the inner workings of Google
Search, from a leak of twenty-five hundred pages of the company’s
internal documentation. The files seem to have been uploaded to GitHub
by an unknown party, in March, but gained attention only when Erfan
Azimi, a search-engine-optimization consultant, sent it to Rand
Fishkin, a veteran S.E.O. expert and a commentator on the industry.
The leak is from Google Search’s A.P.I., or application programming
interface, a kind of directory of labels that external developers can
refer to in their code in order to call up information from Google’s
internal infrastructure. It is a vast list of coding tags
incomprehensible to the lay reader. But the documents identify many of
the variables that Google’s search algorithm takes into account,
without going so far as to specify how those variables are weighted or
how a site’s ranking is ultimately determined.
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Happy Seventy-eighth Birthday, Mr. Ex-President
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On Thursday, when Donald Trump met with Republicans in Washington, it
was the first time he’d visited Capitol Hill in the four years since
he pressed Congress to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In a
statement, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized him for
“returning to the scene of the crime” and warned that he was on a
“mission of dismantling our democracy.” Trump’s allies in the
Republican Party, meanwhile, suggested that he would be in
forward-looking policy mode as he talked about plans for a second term
in the White House. Yeah, right.Trump, it will perhaps not surprise
you to learn, has not been reborn as a statesman or a wonk. Reliable
accounts suggest that his private remarks before the House Republicans
were pretty much in keeping with his public appearances these
days—sclerotic, rambling, nasty, and often incomprehensible. Fox
News’s senior congressional correspondent reported, rather
tactfully, that the ex-President meandered through “lots of
tangents”; a small sampling, from the many accounts to emerge of
what went on in the room, included Trump sharing his opinion on
everything from Taylor Swift’s prospective endorsement of Joe Biden,
to the “dirty, no-good bastards” at the Justice Department, to why
he is a “big fan” of William McKinley. (Tariffs!) Trump wondered
if his close ally Marjorie Taylor Greene was being “nice” to
Speaker Mike Johnson these days. He called Biden a “dope” and, in
one of those split-screen moments that tells you everything about the
stakes of the 2024 election, warned that Ukraine is “never going to
be there for us”; Biden, meanwhile, was in Europe, pledging
unequivocal support to Ukraine in the form of a ten-year bilateral
security agreement. Trump even trashed Milwaukee, where Republicans
are soon to meet to nominate him as their Presidential candidate for a
third straight election, as “a horrible city.” Once Trump’s
comment became public, there were many competing explanations from
attendees as to why he might think so; he apparently did not say.
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When Anxiety Is Not a Superpower
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There is no feeling or metaphysical concept that Pixar Animation
Studios can’t turn into some sort of blob. This was my complaint
with the studio’s previous effort, 2023’s Elemental, which
conjured a city populated by talking gobs of fire and water who
clumsily embodied broader metaphorical topics. The first Inside Out,
released nearly a decade ago, was the peak of Pixar’s blob
cinema—a children’s drama about brightly colored beings
representing human emotions such as joy and sadness, warring with one
another as a representation of an 11-year-old’s evolving inner life.
The systematization of something so multifaceted felt a little glib,
but Pixar knows how to entertain, and so Inside Out pushed my buttons
with practiced ease.Inside Out 2 is, similarly, quite entertaining.
Still, there were more than a few moments when I bristled at Pixar’s
willingness to boil the headiest emotional concepts into the kind of
bland CGI goop one might encounter during an Apple keynote. Joy being
a chipper, canary-yellow lady, sure; Anger being a grumpy red stump
with flames for hair, fine. But have you ever wondered what
someone’s “sense of self” might look like? Inside Out 2 has the
answer: a bunch of glowing strings tied into a tree-shaped bow. Every
time staggeringly vague matters of the mind were reduced to
screenwriting MacGuffins, some insidious blob in my own mind—call
that emotion “David’s nonsense detector”—had me wondering what
Jung might make of all this.
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What Children Remember About Their Fathers
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Father’s Day looks different for each family. For some, it is a
moment to celebrate the dad(s) in your life and let them know how much
you appreciate them. Maybe it’s with a homemade card, or pancakes,
or an afternoon in which a dad is allowed to take a nap and watch
replays of the 1998 NBA finals uninterrupted. But the day can also be
steeped in mourning, as the loss of a father, or father figure, is
felt more acutely and the memories of that person can come bubbling to
the surface.In The Atlantic’s archives, you can see these themes
playing out across time. I found myself deeply moved by the
connections between a March 1950 essay by Virginia Woolf about her
father, Leslie Stephen, and a January 2024 essay by my colleague Ross
Andersen, about his father, Erik Dybkaer Andersen.
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If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), Youâ™ll Meet His Immortal Soul in
the Cloud
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Ray Kurzweil rejects death. The 76-year-old scientist and engineer has
spent much of his time on earth arguing that humans can not only take
advantage of yet-to-be-invented medical advances to live longer, but
also ultimately merge with machines, become hyperintelligent, and
stick around indefinitely. Nonetheless, death cast a shadow over my
interview with Kurzweil this spring. Just minutes before we met, we
both learned that Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning
psychologist and one of Kurzweil's intellectual jousting partners, had
suffered that fate.Back then, many people regarded his predictions as
over the top. Computers achieving human-level intelligence by 2029?
Way too soon! In the age of generative AI, that timeline seems
conventional, if not conservative. So it's not surprising that
Kurzweil's new book, out this month, is called The Singularity Is
Nearer. A lot of the dotted lines in the first book's charts have now
been filled inâand are impressively on the mark. Still, even though
I'm bowled over by the technological advances that Kurzweil correctly
predicted, I have trouble wrapping my (unaugmented) mind around his
sunny scenario of our disembodied brains thriving hundreds of years
from now in some kind of cloud consciousness.
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The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? Nanobots
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We are now in the later stages of the first generation of life
extension, which involves applying the current class of pharmaceutical
and nutritional knowledge to overcoming health challenges. In the
2020s we are starting the second phase of life extension, which is the
merger of biotechnology with AI. The 2030s will usher in the third
phase of life extension, which will be to use nanotechnology to
overcome the limitations of our biological organs altogether. As we
enter this phase, we’ll greatly extend our lives, allowing people to
far transcend the normal human limit of 120 years.Only one person,
Jeanne Calment—a French woman who survived to age 122—is
documented to have lived longer than 120 years. So why is this such a
hard limit to human longevity? One might guess that the reasons people
don’t make it past this age are statistical—that elderly people
face a certain risk of Alzheimer’s, stroke, heart attack, or cancer
every year, and that after enough years being exposed to these risks,
everyone eventually dies of something. But that’s not what’s
happening. Actuarial data shows that from age 90 to 110, a person’s
chances of dying in the following year increase by about 2 percentage
points annually. For example, an American man at age 97 has about a 30
percent chance of dying before 98, and if he makes it that far he will
have a 32 percent chance of dying before 99. But from age 110 onward,
the risk of death rises by about 3.5 percentage points a year.
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Why we need to shoot carbon dioxide thousands of feet underground
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Storing captured climate pollution is a crucial and often overlooked
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How gamification took over the world
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Gamification was always just behaviorism dressed up in pixels and
point systems. Why did we fall for it?
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How to Get Your Colleagues On Board with Your Idea
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In the early stages of your career, getting people to not only listen
to, but to agree to or to act on your ideas or views can be
challenging. It’s often a time when you have the least amount of
influence and are still building your reputation. When you want to
persuade someone to see (or do) things your way, you may default to
skills you’ve been socialized to exhibit: making a rational argument
supported by data, persisting in the face of a challenge, and
projecting confidence. But these strategies can be counterproductive.
When others seem to be resisting your ideas, there is usually a deeper
belief or concern informing their view — one that they aren’t
saying out loud. To uncover these roadblocks and see better results,
you need to understand the other person’s reasoning, instead of
trying to explain your own. The key is to ask the right questions.
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Why Cofounder Partnerships Fail â and How to Make Them Last
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Up to 43% of startup founders ultimately buy out their cofounder due
to interpersonal rifts and power struggles. To understand why so many
cofounder partnerships end in failure, the authors conducted research
on lead founders seeking cofounders, finding that lead founders tend
to prioritize skillsets and execution while potential cofounders
prioritize interpersonal compatibility. This mismatch in priorities is
the root of so many cofounder splits. To overcome this, the authors
offer three recommendations for lead founders and cofounders alike: 1)
Put yourself in the other person’s shoes, 2) Don’t neglect the
interpersonal aspect in initial conversations, and 3) Consider
co-creating the idea with a partner.
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It's the Summer Without Interns. Here's What That Means for Your
Talent Pipeline
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Job postings for internships in 2024 fell well below 2022 and 2023
levels, according to a new report from Indeed. And in a new analysis
from the job site Handshake, the number of internship postings
dropped more than 7 percent in the year leading up to May compared to
that same period the year before, as first reported by Bloomberg. In
professional services, nonprofits, and the technology and financial
services sectors, the drop was particularly apparent. That's not
surprising, considering the labor market has cooled considerably since
2022. But while hiring for teen workers has steadily increased since
the beginning of this year, it's faded for workers ages 20 to 24--the
ones prime for internships--noted Nick Bunker, economic research
director for North America at Indeed Hiring Lab, in the Indeed
report.
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The FDA lost a whistleblower complaint about unsanitary conditions at
an infant formula plant for a year, auditors revealed
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The Department of Labor received the email and three days later
forwarded it to an FDA address specifically for such complaints. But
one of several staff members charged with managing the FDA inbox at
the time “inadvertently archived” the email in February 2021, and
it wasn’t found until a reporter requested it in June 2022.The FDA
took some actions and did follow-up inspections but “more could have
been done leading up to the Abbott powdered infant formula recall,”
the auditors wrote. The FDA needs better policies for reporting the
status of complaints to senior leaders and to make sure that
inspections are done quickly, the report concluded.
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Trevor Lawrence Reaches $275 Million Deal With JaguarsâTying Joe
Burrow As NFLâ™s Highest-Paid Player In Contract Extension
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Lawrence was selected first overall by the Jaguars in the 2021 NFL
Draft and, after a low-performing rookie year, helped the team secure
the AFC South title in 2022 and a playoff win against the Chargers.
The former Clemson quarterback led the Jaguars to a strong start in
2023 before he suffered multiple injuries in the latter part of the
season, when the team lost five of their last six games. Lawrence has
a 20-30 record and a 63.8% career completion percentage heading into
the 2024 season.
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Tencent-Backed AI Drug Discovery Startup Xtalpi Rises In Hong Kong
Debut
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The company, formally known as QuantumPharm, finished its first day of
trading at HK$5.8, up 9.8% from its HK$5.28-a-share price set for its
initial public offering. Its stock surged as much as 24.6% in intraday
trading. Xtalpi, which uses artificial intelligence and quantum
physics to discover new drugs, raised HK$989.3 million ($126.7
million) in its listing.Xtalpi was the first to go public under a Hong
Kong new listing rule for specialist technology companies with smaller
market cap and lower revenue, which was introduced more than a year
ago to revive the city’s sluggish IPO market. The AI-powered drug
discoverer attracted cornerstone investors including the investment
holding company owned by Peter Lee, co-chairman of Hong Kong’s
Henderson Land Development; and the private fund controlled by Gong
Hongjia, the Chinese billionaire behind surveillance product supplier
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, among others.
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After 13.8 billion years, why hasn't the Big Bang faded away?
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For the past 13.8 billion years, our Universe has been expanding,
cooling, and gravitating. The hot Big Bang itself was, at least for
our observable Universe, a one-time event that was the proverbial
starting gun for everything that’s happened since. As we expanded
and cooled, we formed atomic nuclei, neutral atoms, stars, galaxies,
and eventually, rocky planets like Earth. Although extremely early
relic signals exist — including a background of gravitational waves
generated during the phase of cosmic inflation that preceded the Big
Bang and a background of neutrinos released just a second after the
hot Big Bang — the earliest signal we’ve observed is today’s
cosmic microwave background (CMB), created when the Universe was a
scant 380,000 years old.The existence of this leftover radiation,
originally known as the “primeval fireball” when it was theorized,
was an astonishing prediction dating back to George Gamow all the way
in the 1940s, and it shocked the astronomical world when it was
directly detected back in the 1960s. Over the subsequent 60 years,
we’ve measured its properties exquisitely, learning a tremendous
amount about our Universe in the process. What’s perhaps most
remarkable, however, is that this early, relic signal still persists a
whopping 13.8 billion years after atoms first became neutral and this
background radiation was first emitted. It still hasn’t faded away,
and the scientific explanation for why is nothing short of profound.
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Overthinking? Refocusing on bodily sensations may calm your mind
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Why is it that visiting the beach sometimes assuages a bad mood? The
Sun warms your cheek, a cool breeze ruffles your hair, and, suddenly,
all seems well. There’s something about getting out of your head and
into your senses that can make all your troubles melt away, even if
only for a moment. In fact, research suggests that vulnerability to
depressive spells may have less to do with overthinking than
under-sensing. While it’s long been thought that negative thought
patterns underpin depression, it may be the case that rumination
simply distracts depressed patients from their sensory experiences —
and that sensory inhibition may be the primary culprit. Over the past
two decades, University of Toronto psychology professor Norman Farb
and his colleague Zindel Segal have conducted studies on how healthy
and depressed people experience sadness, exploring questions like
whether they’d respond to clips from sad films in different ways, or
whether their brains would show particular patterns of activity
compared to people who weren’t depressed.
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Complexity science could transform 21st-century research. Here's how.
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A new science is emerging that promises to become the defining field
of the 21st century. More than just a narrow specialization, it’s
not just a new field but a new way of doing science — a new way of
organizing intellectual domains and effort. Given its broad impact, it
goes by several names, but the one that embraces its full potential is
complexity science. Today, I want to briefly introduce why it’s
already so important and why it’s likely to define the frontiers of
human inquiry for decades to come.I’m writing this essay after
beginning a door-jam of a book called Foundational Papers in
Complexity Science. Volume One, 1922-1962. It’s part of an intended
four-volume set to be published by the incomparable Santa Fe Institute
(SFI). As promised in the title, the book contains key papers in the
development of complexity as a field. What really makes the book
worthwhile, however, is that each paper features an introduction
written by a current researcher and annotated by that scientist. Even
better yet, the first volume contains a masterful introduction to the
field by David Krakauer, the head of SFI.
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Did warm-bloodedness pave the path to sentience?
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We feel, therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of
self. They are crucial to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings:
present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who feel this
way? Do other animals? Will future machines? Weaving together
intellectual adventure and cutting-edge science, neuropsychologist
Nicholas Humphrey describes in his book “Sentience” his quest for
answers: from his discovery of blindsight in monkeys and his
pioneering work on social intelligence to breakthroughs in the
philosophy of mind. In the following excerpt from “Sentience,” he
challenges traditional explanations for the evolution of sentience in
mammals and birds, proposing that warm-bloodedness may have played a
crucial role.Birds and mammals have in common a physiological feature
that distinguishes them from all other animals: They
are warm-blooded. That’s to say, they maintain a constant body
temperature higher than the surroundings, typically 37 degrees Celsius
(98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) for mammals and 40 degrees Celsius (104
degrees Fahrenheit) for birds.
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How Activist Investors Could Push Southwest Airlines to Cater to
Higher-Paying Business Travelers
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Known for its single-class layout, unassigned seating, minimalist
onboard fare, and almost unbelievably enduring "bags fly free" policy,
Southwest has become a favorite carrier with voyagers happy to trade
frills for lower fares. But its refusal to put on the dog--and rake in
the considerably augmented revenue that doing so generates for
competitors--has thrust the airline and its management in the
crosshairs of activist investors. They are now looking to boost
profit and stock prices by forcing fundamental cultural and
operational changes on the carrier. That is the message of the
letter hedge fund Elliott Management sent to Southwest's board this
week after taking a $1.9 billion stake in the company and becoming
one of its major shareholders. The missive offered even fewer
flourishes than the airline's flights. It got straight to the point,
calling out the current management's "poor execution and
leadership's stubborn unwillingness to evolve" by adopting the
hardcore business practices and myriad fees characteristic of more
profitable rivals.
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OpenAI is Reportedly Making Bank Amid the AI Revolution
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OpenAI's ChatGPT was already one of the best-known AI brands amid
the surge of artificial intelligence tech coming from Google,
Microsoft, and others, but its role as market leader may have been
cemented this week when Apple confirmed it was partnering with the
chatbot maker to power key features of its "Apple Intelligence" AI
push.Now new information suggests that OpenAI really is raking in
incredible sums from its sometimes-controversial tech, despite the
competition from its deep-pocketed rivals. It may even have doubled
its annual revenues compared to last year's figures.
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Microsoft President Brad Smith appeared before the House of
Representatives panel on homeland security on Thursday, where he will
field questions about the company's security practices after Chinese
hackers breached its systems past year.China-linked hackers stole
60,000 U.S. State Department emails last year by breaking into the
tech giant's systems, while a Russian group separately spied on
Microsoft's senior staff emails earlier this year, according to the
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How Canvas Beauty Founder Stormi Steele Drove $1 Million in TikTok
Shop Sales in a Single Day
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Last Saturday, Canvas Beauty founder Stormi Steele sat behind a
bright pink table full of her haircare and beauty products for more
than five hours, phone camera and lights pointing at her. The
TikTok livestream she was creating became a hit -- in
fact, Steele claims it made her the first person to hit $1 million
in sales during a single TikTok livestream.Steele believes it is
her authenticity that has driven her popularity among consumers. "By
the time you hit 'CEO status,' you're supposed to look a certain way.
You're supposed to maneuver a certain way, you're supposed to have
people on your team, have assistants -- and it's like, a lot of
people who are just starting aren't there yet," Steele says. "So when
I got on TikTok, they was able to see something that was successful,
yet something that was still very close to home."Â
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If You're Not Supporting LGBTQ+ Workers, You're Missing Out on a Giant
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On June 11, Inc. hosted a panel discussion in its New York City
headquarters on economic opportunities and challenges facing the
LGBTQ+Â community, entrepreneurs in particular. Hosted by Inc.
editor-in-chief Mike Hofman, the panel featured Lee Badgett, an expert
on LGBTQI economics and the co-founder of Koppa; Marc Coleman, founder
and CEO of the Tactile Group, an Inc. 5000 company; and Brian Ellner,
president of One Strategy Group. The conversation centered
around headwinds LGBTQ+ professionals and entrepreneurs face in
a variety of areas, including underrepresentation on startup and
corporate boards -- only 0.8 percent of Fortune 500 companies have an
LGBTQ+ board member -- as well as the lack of investment by venture
capital firms and the ongoing threat to LGBTQ+ rights playing out in
the Supreme Court and halls of government.Â
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TikTok Has Introduced a Image Search Feature to TikTok Shop
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The video-sharing platform has launched a visual search tool
that is available to users in the United States and Southeast
Asia, TechCrunch reported earlier this week. Instead of using
the search bar to find products, users can now take or upload a photo
of an item, and the app will show similar products for consumers to
purchase on TikTok Shop. Visual search features aren't new in the
e-commerce world. Google has enabled shopping through its visual
search feature, Google Lens, since 2018. Bing Image Search, Yahoo
Image Search, and Pinterest Visual Search Tool are also popular tools
that help consumers find products.
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Solomon Choi, Founder of 16 Handles Frozen Yogurt Chain, Dies at 44
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Solomon Choi, a two-time restaurant industry founder and investor in
early-stage food and beverage brands, died on June 7, the company's
new owner and CEO Neil Hershman confirmed. Choi was 44 years
old."He was a visionary who came to New York City in his 20s and
founded this iconic frozen dessert brand. 16 Handles is where I got my
personal start in franchising, and I owe so much to Solomon for the
opportunities, education, mentorship and friendship he provided me
throughout the years," Hershman said in a statement, as cited
by Restaurant Business.Â
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5 Traps to Avoid as You Gain Power as a Leader
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As you transition to a leadership role, your relationship to power
changes: You gain more of it, and people start acting differently
around you due to your authority. How can you avoid the hidden traps
of gaining power, which shapes you in ways you may not realize? The
authors outline five key traps leaders can fall into — the savior
trap, the complacency trap, the avoidance trap, the friend trap, and
the stress trap — and offer ways to counteract each.
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Tech at Work: The Future of Spatial Computing
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The Apple Vision Pro is the latest in a long line of trendy, expensive
spatial computing headsets. (Remember Google Glass?) But the augmented
reality and virtual reality features that these devices enable can
have an impact beyond video games. Pioneering companies are using
these immersive tools to train employees and to engage with consumers
in digital and retail settings. It’s growing increasingly important
for senior leaders to explore the possible use cases and to understand
the potential benefits and ongoing challenges that accompany these
technologies.
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How to Get Your Colleagues On Board with Your Idea
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In the early stages of your career, getting people to not only listen
to, but to agree to or to act on your ideas or views can be
challenging. It’s often a time when you have the least amount of
influence and are still building your reputation. When you want to
persuade someone to see (or do) things your way, you may default to
skills you’ve been socialized to exhibit: making a rational argument
supported by data, persisting in the face of a challenge, and
projecting confidence. But these strategies can be counterproductive.
When others seem to be resisting your ideas, there is usually a deeper
belief or concern informing their view — one that they aren’t
saying out loud. To uncover these roadblocks and see better results,
you need to understand the other person’s reasoning, instead of
trying to explain your own. The key is to ask the right questions.
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Why Cofounder Partnerships Fail -- and How to Make Them Last
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Up to 43% of startup founders ultimately buy out their cofounder due
to interpersonal rifts and power struggles. To understand why so many
cofounder partnerships end in failure, the authors conducted research
on lead founders seeking cofounders, finding that lead founders tend
to prioritize skillsets and execution while potential cofounders
prioritize interpersonal compatibility. This mismatch in priorities is
the root of so many cofounder splits. To overcome this, the authors
offer three recommendations for lead founders and cofounders alike: 1)
Put yourself in the other person’s shoes, 2) Don’t neglect the
interpersonal aspect in initial conversations, and 3) Consider
co-creating the idea with a partner.
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How Organizations Are Using Custom AI to Protect Data and Drive
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These general-purpose large language models (LLMs) contain hundreds of
billions or even trillions of parameters. Like a public library, they
contain vast amounts of information about as many topics as possible,
and familiarity with what they offer can empower you to solve
difficult problems and improve your performance on a number of tasks.
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A little-known AI startup is behind Nigeria's first government-backed
LLM
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Earlier this year, Nigeria’s technology minister, Bosun Tijani,
announced that the country would build its own large language model,
trained in five low-resource languages and accented English. This LLM,
he said, would help increase the representation of Nigerian languages
in the artificial intelligence systems being built around the
world.Tijani said the project would be a partnership between the
nonprofit Data.org; two government bodies, the National Information
Technology Development Agency and the National Centre for Artificial
Intelligence and Robotics; and Awarri, a Lagos-headquartered
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The most important news from Apple isn't about AI
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Apple is hosting its annual developer conference this week, and the
big news so far has been all about AI. The company announced a new
partnership with OpenAI and a deep integration of AI tools across the
next version of the iPhone’s operating system, iOS 18. It’s a
major collaboration between two Silicon Valley giants, and it’s
already reshuffling the internal politics of the industry: OpenAI
co-founder-turned-rival Elon Musk did not take the announcement well,
threatening to ban iPhones at his companies if the changes go
through.But while AI dominated the headlines, Apple made a smaller
announcement at Monday’s keynote that could have a far greater
impact. While running through a list of new features in iOS 18,
Apple’s software chief, Craig Federighi, said that iMessage will
support RCS messaging, an open protocol intended to succeed SMS. It
might sound like a dry, technical change, but it’s a big step in
leveling the walled garden Apple has built around iMessage. And given
iMessage’s huge presence in the U.S. — and minimal presence
everywhere else — that could make a huge difference in tearing down
global tech barriers.
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LinkedIn's AI Career Coaches Will See You Now
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Many burned-out workers have likely dreamed of hiring a career coach
or résumé writer. Now, LinkedIn is introducing chats with
generative AI career experts based on real people. Other new AI tools
within the platform will help people write résumés and cover
letters or evaluate their qualifications for jobs posted.LinkedIn has
ramped up its generative AI tools in the past year and is moving to
incorporate the tech into even more of its offerings. On Thursday, the
career site announced new features like a pilot for AI-powered expert
advice, an interactive chat to break down information in LinkedIn
courses, and more AI features that can be used to search for and apply
for jobs for its premium users in English. The changes showcase a
massive push by LinkedIn to capitalize on generative AI. (LinkedIn is
owned by Microsoft, which has invested heavily in OpenAI, which in
turn is powering the platformâ™s AI offerings.) And as
LinkedIn continues its drive to become more than just a job site,
people may spend their time there socializing or learning new skills
through video courses.
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Emotional intelligence has limits: Hone your "perceptivity" as well
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Most people think they are better judges of character than everyone
else. (Of course, that statement is statistically impossible — read
it again.) For years scholars cast doubt on this notion, regarding
perceptivity as more a learned skill than a natural ability. However,
recent research into what is called “the good judge” of character
suggests that some people do have an advantage in this area. One 2019
study found “consistent, clear, and strong evidence that the good
judge does exist” — in other words, some people are indeed better
than others at judging personality.My own experience bears out this
finding. Over my two decades of working with leaders across industries
as wide-ranging as private equity, apparel, health care, and
agribusiness, I’ve found that some people are extraordinarily adept
at judging others, but these individuals are few and far between. The
vast majority of professionals think their judgment of others’
personalities is accurate. In truth, they fall prey to a whole range
of biases that skew how they size people up and in turn lead to
horrible decision-making.
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Ten Classic American Brands Owned by Foreign Companies
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Moreover, the industry is America’s biggest private-sector employer,
responsible for one of every four jobs, or 55 million employees. Yet
in today’s challenging consumer environment, retailers are facing
higher e-commerce penetration and inflationary pressures—across an
industry notoriously known for razor-thin margins. Known for its
everyday low prices, Walmart achieves a competitive advantage through
pricing goods approximately 25% cheaper than traditional retail
competitors. Overall, groceries make up more than half of total sales.
While its main customer base is often low and middle-income shoppers,
the retail giant is seeing a surge in sales from higher-income
customers as shoppers seek out lower grocery prices.
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Lung-targeted CRISPR therapy offers hope for cystic fibrosis
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Gene therapies for cystic fibrosis have previously struggled to reach
the faulty lung cells, but a new approach has succeeded in achieving
long-lasting modifications in mice
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The surprising mental health and brain benefits of weight-loss drugs
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Drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have unexpected effects on the brain,
opening up potential new ways to treat depression, anxiety, addiction
and Alzheimer’s
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Organizations Work to Reduce Animal Deaths With Relegated Passageways
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More than 4 million miles of public roads across the U.S. provide
vital links for commerce, services, and travel, but they’re
treacherous barriers for wildlife seeking food, water, and mates.
Exposed and unsure about the noisy, unfamiliar terrain presented by an
open road, an animal that hesitates or misjudges the speed of an
approaching vehicle risks fatal consequences.Unfortunately, those
encounters are all too common on busy roadways. According to the
Federal Highway Administration, there are more than 1 million
wildlife-vehicle collisions (WVCs) every year in the U.S. In addition
to the hundreds of thousands of animals killed and maimed, WVCs also
result in hundreds of human fatalities and tens of thousands of
injuries.
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Why Does Spaceflight Destroy Astronautsâ™ Red Blood Cells?
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Recent research, however, suggests otherwise: A paper published in
Nature Medicine in 2022 found that space anemia is the result of a
dramatic and persistent spike in red blood cell destruction. Whereas
on Earth our bodies break down 2 million cells every second, in space
they ramp up to 3 million per second, a 50 percent increase.Notably,
the condition does improve throughout post-flight rehabilitation. And
astronauts have dealt with it just fine up to now, but most trips to
outer space, like those for individuals on the International Space
Station, last only six months. It’s unclear how human physiology
would fare on the multi-year voyages of the future — not to mention
permanent colonies on the moon or Mars.
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The best car camping essentials
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There are a thousand and one ways to enjoy the great outdoors—and
not all of them involve a six-person tent. Many people (present
company included) are taking advantage of the mobile accommodation
currently parked in their driveway, i.e., car camping. Unlike a
traditional tent-and-pole campsite, camping à la automobile is more
convenient, great for last-minute adventures, and allows you to pack
as heavy or as light as you'd like. While you could, in theory, hit
the road with nothing but a toothbrush and a case for wanderlust, I've
found that there are a few specialty items that make sleeping on the
road a little more comfortable.I’ve been on my fair share of car
camping trips, including a 5-week jaunt around the U.S in a tiny Honda
Civic, to National Park-centric road trips during which I car camped
the entire time. I’ve spent plenty of time packing and unpacking my
vehicle, folding down the seats, and setting up a makeshift bed and
kitchen in the back. Here are some car camping essentials I recommend.
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Can vitamin D help fight cancer?
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Our own immune system is one of our greatest allies in suppressing the
development of cancer in our bodies, but it often needs a little push.
One way of doing this is by using a class of medications called
‘checkpoint inhibitors.' These medicines release the brakes on
certain immune cells—called killer T cells—that then try and kill
cancer cells. These can be very effective treatments for certain kinds
of skin, lung, and kidney cancers, but unfortunately, they don’t
work for every patient.A flurry of studies published in 2018
demonstrated that the patients’ microbiome may have something to do
with this. People who did or didn’t respond to checkpoint inhibitor
therapy were found to have consistent differences in the bacteria
commonly found in their gut. And in 2021, two studies found that
transferring microbes from the fecal matter of people who did respond
to the therapy to the gut of those who didn’t, could improve
therapeutic benefits in the latter patients.
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How to Convince Putin He Will Lose
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Two ideas dominate discussions about how to bring the war in Ukraine
closer to an end: the West should either pressure Ukraine to make
concessions to Russia or support Ukraine’s efforts to win on the
battlefield. Both approaches rightly recognize that negotiations will
remain futile until changing circumstances compel one side to accept
peace terms that it rejects today. Nonetheless, neither approach is
likely to end the war.Withholding arms from Ukraine could eventually
force it to offer concessions to Russia as part of a desperate attempt
to end the war, but advocates of this approach overlook how it would
also affect Russia’s war aims. Moscow would react to its newfound
military advantages by doubling down on its most extreme
demands—further territorial gains in places such as Kharkiv and
Odessa, regime change, demilitarization, and more. Any willingness in
Kyiv to make concessions would be offset by Moscow’s newly expanded
war aims. The result would be Russian gains on the battlefield, not
peace.
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The Taiwan Aid Bill Wonâ™t Fix the Arms Backlog
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In April, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law a trio of emergency
supplemental spending bills, including one focused on the Indo-Pacific
that is commonly referred to as the Taiwan aid bill. The new
legislation seeks in part to address Taiwan’s roughly $19.7 billion
backlog of arms sales from the United States—a hot-button issue
given China’s increasingly provocative military activities around
Taiwan and the perception among some U.S. analysts that Taiwan is not
as much of a priority as Washington claims.In April, U.S. President
Joe Biden signed into law a trio of emergency supplemental spending
bills, including one focused on the Indo-Pacific that is commonly
referred to as the Taiwan aid bill. The new legislation seeks in part
to address Taiwan’s roughly $19.7 billion backlog of arms sales from
the United States—a hot-button issue given China’s increasingly
provocative military activities around Taiwan and the perception among
some U.S. analysts that Taiwan is not as much of a priority as
Washington claims.
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U.S. Military Planes Are in Haiti. Haitians Donâ™t Know Why.
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In the past several weeks, I have watched dozens of sleek U.S.
military planes descend over Toussaint Louverture International
Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where I live. They were the first
flights to land since gangs blockaded and halted commercial air
traffic in March. U.S. news reports suggest that the aircraft
contained civilian contractors and supplies to pave the way for the
deployment of a Kenyan-led security mission to Haiti, which is
expected to begin any day now.In the past several weeks, I have
watched dozens of sleek U.S. military planes descend over Toussaint
Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where I
live. They were the first flights to land since gangs blockaded and
halted commercial air traffic in March. U.S. news reports suggest that
the aircraft contained civilian contractors and supplies to pave the
way for the deployment of a Kenyan-led security mission to Haiti,
which is expected to begin any day now.
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Supreme Court unanimously rejects challenge to mailed abortion pills
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“Given the broad and comprehensive conscience protections guaranteed
by federal law, the plaintiffs have not shown—and cannot show—that
FDA’s actions will cause them to suffer any conscience injury,”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in the opinion. “Federal law fully
protects doctors against being required to provide abortions or other
medical treatment against their consciences—and therefore breaks any
chain of causation between FDA’s relaxed regulation of mifepristone
and any asserted conscience injuries to the doctors.”Reproductive
rights advocates will celebrate the ruling, which helps safeguard
access to one of the most common methods of abortion. Mifepristone is
used in roughly two-thirds of abortions in the U.S. The figure surged
after the court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, triggering
new laws and restrictions in 25 states.
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The fight over medical abortion has worsened pregnancy care
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The Supreme Court unanimously shut down one of many troubling tugs of
war over access to abortion. By tossing out FDA v. Alliance for
Hippocratic Medicine, it quashed the utterly mistaken notion that the
Food and Drug Administration improperly approved mifepristone, a drug
used for medical abortion, nearly a quarter century ago.This
Texas-based case, which sought to roll back access to one of two
abortion medications, was not really about anti-abortion doctors
supposedly being harmed by the government’s actions. It was about a
political drive to unfairly question and restrict a longstanding,
safe, and sometimes necessary medical treatment to end pregnancies.
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Do We Really Need National Political Conventions?
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Our staff debates whether the quadrennial events are a pointless waste
of money or valuable messaging opportunities.
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What Itâ™s Like to Not Buy New Clothes for 7 Years
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Three women who have done long-term shopping bans share their advice.
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How a Secret Society Discovered Irrational Numbers
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Myths and legends surround the origins of these numbers
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JWST Detects the Earliest, Most Distant Galaxy in the Known
UniverseâAnd Itâ™s Super Weird
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed an unusually large and
highly luminous galaxy at a record-breaking 290 million years after
the big bang
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Is Google S.E.O. Gaslighting the Internet?
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In March, Gisele Navarro watched Google Search traffic to her Web
site, HouseFresh, disappear. HouseFresh evaluates and reviews air
purifiers. Her husband, Danny Ashton, launched the site in 2020, when
the pandemic created a spike in demand for air purification, and at
its peak the business had fifteen paid contributors. (Navarro and
Ashton also work together at NeoMam, a content studio that Ashton
founded.) Google traffic to HouseFresh had been slowly declining since
last October, but the recent drop was far more dramatic—from around
four thousand daily search referrals, or click-throughs from Google
results, to around three hundred. The site makes money from affiliate
fees, taking a small cut when a reader follows a link from HouseFresh
to purchase an air purifier online; less traffic means less revenue,
and the site can now only afford to pay one full-time employee.
Navarro told me, “We are living our lives like Google is gone for
us.”In May, we got a glimpse into the inner workings of Google
Search, from a leak of twenty-five hundred pages of the company’s
internal documentation. The files seem to have been uploaded to GitHub
by an unknown party, in March, but gained attention only when Erfan
Azimi, a search-engine-optimization consultant, sent it to Rand
Fishkin, a veteran S.E.O. expert and a commentator on the industry.
The leak is from Google Search’s A.P.I., or application programming
interface, a kind of directory of labels that external developers can
refer to in their code in order to call up information from Google’s
internal infrastructure. It is a vast list of coding tags
incomprehensible to the lay reader. But the documents identify many of
the variables that Google’s search algorithm takes into account,
without going so far as to specify how those variables are weighted or
how a site’s ranking is ultimately determined.
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Happy Seventy-eighth Birthday, Mr. Ex-President
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On Thursday, when Donald Trump met with Republicans in Washington, it
was the first time he’d visited Capitol Hill in the four years since
he pressed Congress to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In a
statement, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized him for
“returning to the scene of the crime” and warned that he was on a
“mission of dismantling our democracy.” Trump’s allies in the
Republican Party, meanwhile, suggested that he would be in
forward-looking policy mode as he talked about plans for a second term
in the White House. Yeah, right.Trump, it will perhaps not surprise
you to learn, has not been reborn as a statesman or a wonk. Reliable
accounts suggest that his private remarks before the House Republicans
were pretty much in keeping with his public appearances these
days—sclerotic, rambling, nasty, and often incomprehensible. Fox
News’s senior congressional correspondent reported, rather
tactfully, that the ex-President meandered through “lots of
tangents”; a small sampling, from the many accounts to emerge of
what went on in the room, included Trump sharing his opinion on
everything from Taylor Swift’s prospective endorsement of Joe Biden,
to the “dirty, no-good bastards” at the Justice Department, to why
he is a “big fan” of William McKinley. (Tariffs!) Trump wondered
if his close ally Marjorie Taylor Greene was being “nice” to
Speaker Mike Johnson these days. He called Biden a “dope” and, in
one of those split-screen moments that tells you everything about the
stakes of the 2024 election, warned that Ukraine is “never going to
be there for us”; Biden, meanwhile, was in Europe, pledging
unequivocal support to Ukraine in the form of a ten-year bilateral
security agreement. Trump even trashed Milwaukee, where Republicans
are soon to meet to nominate him as their Presidential candidate for a
third straight election, as “a horrible city.” Once Trump’s
comment became public, there were many competing explanations from
attendees as to why he might think so; he apparently did not say.
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When Anxiety Is Not a Superpower
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There is no feeling or metaphysical concept that Pixar Animation
Studios can’t turn into some sort of blob. This was my complaint
with the studio’s previous effort, 2023’s Elemental, which
conjured a city populated by talking gobs of fire and water who
clumsily embodied broader metaphorical topics. The first Inside Out,
released nearly a decade ago, was the peak of Pixar’s blob
cinema—a children’s drama about brightly colored beings
representing human emotions such as joy and sadness, warring with one
another as a representation of an 11-year-old’s evolving inner life.
The systematization of something so multifaceted felt a little glib,
but Pixar knows how to entertain, and so Inside Out pushed my buttons
with practiced ease.Inside Out 2 is, similarly, quite entertaining.
Still, there were more than a few moments when I bristled at Pixar’s
willingness to boil the headiest emotional concepts into the kind of
bland CGI goop one might encounter during an Apple keynote. Joy being
a chipper, canary-yellow lady, sure; Anger being a grumpy red stump
with flames for hair, fine. But have you ever wondered what
someone’s “sense of self” might look like? Inside Out 2 has the
answer: a bunch of glowing strings tied into a tree-shaped bow. Every
time staggeringly vague matters of the mind were reduced to
screenwriting MacGuffins, some insidious blob in my own mind—call
that emotion “David’s nonsense detector”—had me wondering what
Jung might make of all this.
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What Children Remember About Their Fathers
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Father’s Day looks different for each family. For some, it is a
moment to celebrate the dad(s) in your life and let them know how much
you appreciate them. Maybe it’s with a homemade card, or pancakes,
or an afternoon in which a dad is allowed to take a nap and watch
replays of the 1998 NBA finals uninterrupted. But the day can also be
steeped in mourning, as the loss of a father, or father figure, is
felt more acutely and the memories of that person can come bubbling to
the surface.In The Atlantic’s archives, you can see these themes
playing out across time. I found myself deeply moved by the
connections between a March 1950 essay by Virginia Woolf about her
father, Leslie Stephen, and a January 2024 essay by my colleague Ross
Andersen, about his father, Erik Dybkaer Andersen.
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If Ray Kurzweil Is Right (Again), Youâ™ll Meet His Immortal Soul in
the Cloud
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Ray Kurzweil rejects death. The 76-year-old scientist and engineer has
spent much of his time on earth arguing that humans can not only take
advantage of yet-to-be-invented medical advances to live longer, but
also ultimately merge with machines, become hyperintelligent, and
stick around indefinitely. Nonetheless, death cast a shadow over my
interview with Kurzweil this spring. Just minutes before we met, we
both learned that Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel Prize-winning
psychologist and one of Kurzweil's intellectual jousting partners, had
suffered that fate.Back then, many people regarded his predictions as
over the top. Computers achieving human-level intelligence by 2029?
Way too soon! In the age of generative AI, that timeline seems
conventional, if not conservative. So it's not surprising that
Kurzweil's new book, out this month, is called The Singularity Is
Nearer. A lot of the dotted lines in the first book's charts have now
been filled inâand are impressively on the mark. Still, even though
I'm bowled over by the technological advances that Kurzweil correctly
predicted, I have trouble wrapping my (unaugmented) mind around his
sunny scenario of our disembodied brains thriving hundreds of years
from now in some kind of cloud consciousness.
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The Secret to Living Past 120 Years Old? Nanobots
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We are now in the later stages of the first generation of life
extension, which involves applying the current class of pharmaceutical
and nutritional knowledge to overcoming health challenges. In the
2020s we are starting the second phase of life extension, which is the
merger of biotechnology with AI. The 2030s will usher in the third
phase of life extension, which will be to use nanotechnology to
overcome the limitations of our biological organs altogether. As we
enter this phase, we’ll greatly extend our lives, allowing people to
far transcend the normal human limit of 120 years.Only one person,
Jeanne Calment—a French woman who survived to age 122—is
documented to have lived longer than 120 years. So why is this such a
hard limit to human longevity? One might guess that the reasons people
don’t make it past this age are statistical—that elderly people
face a certain risk of Alzheimer’s, stroke, heart attack, or cancer
every year, and that after enough years being exposed to these risks,
everyone eventually dies of something. But that’s not what’s
happening. Actuarial data shows that from age 90 to 110, a person’s
chances of dying in the following year increase by about 2 percentage
points annually. For example, an American man at age 97 has about a 30
percent chance of dying before 98, and if he makes it that far he will
have a 32 percent chance of dying before 99. But from age 110 onward,
the risk of death rises by about 3.5 percentage points a year.
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Why we need to shoot carbon dioxide thousands of feet underground
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Storing captured climate pollution is a crucial and often overlooked
piece of the puzzle.
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How gamification took over the world
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Gamification was always just behaviorism dressed up in pixels and
point systems. Why did we fall for it?
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How to Get Your Colleagues On Board with Your Idea
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In the early stages of your career, getting people to not only listen
to, but to agree to or to act on your ideas or views can be
challenging. It’s often a time when you have the least amount of
influence and are still building your reputation. When you want to
persuade someone to see (or do) things your way, you may default to
skills you’ve been socialized to exhibit: making a rational argument
supported by data, persisting in the face of a challenge, and
projecting confidence. But these strategies can be counterproductive.
When others seem to be resisting your ideas, there is usually a deeper
belief or concern informing their view — one that they aren’t
saying out loud. To uncover these roadblocks and see better results,
you need to understand the other person’s reasoning, instead of
trying to explain your own. The key is to ask the right questions.
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Why Cofounder Partnerships Fail â and How to Make Them Last
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Up to 43% of startup founders ultimately buy out their cofounder due
to interpersonal rifts and power struggles. To understand why so many
cofounder partnerships end in failure, the authors conducted research
on lead founders seeking cofounders, finding that lead founders tend
to prioritize skillsets and execution while potential cofounders
prioritize interpersonal compatibility. This mismatch in priorities is
the root of so many cofounder splits. To overcome this, the authors
offer three recommendations for lead founders and cofounders alike: 1)
Put yourself in the other person’s shoes, 2) Don’t neglect the
interpersonal aspect in initial conversations, and 3) Consider
co-creating the idea with a partner.
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It's the Summer Without Interns. Here's What That Means for Your
Talent Pipeline
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Job postings for internships in 2024 fell well below 2022 and 2023
levels, according to a new report from Indeed. And in a new analysis
from the job site Handshake, the number of internship postings
dropped more than 7 percent in the year leading up to May compared to
that same period the year before, as first reported by Bloomberg. In
professional services, nonprofits, and the technology and financial
services sectors, the drop was particularly apparent. That's not
surprising, considering the labor market has cooled considerably since
2022. But while hiring for teen workers has steadily increased since
the beginning of this year, it's faded for workers ages 20 to 24--the
ones prime for internships--noted Nick Bunker, economic research
director for North America at Indeed Hiring Lab, in the Indeed
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The FDA lost a whistleblower complaint about unsanitary conditions at
an infant formula plant for a year, auditors revealed
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The Department of Labor received the email and three days later
forwarded it to an FDA address specifically for such complaints. But
one of several staff members charged with managing the FDA inbox at
the time “inadvertently archived” the email in February 2021, and
it wasn’t found until a reporter requested it in June 2022.The FDA
took some actions and did follow-up inspections but “more could have
been done leading up to the Abbott powdered infant formula recall,”
the auditors wrote. The FDA needs better policies for reporting the
status of complaints to senior leaders and to make sure that
inspections are done quickly, the report concluded.
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Trevor Lawrence Reaches $275 Million Deal With JaguarsâTying Joe
Burrow As NFLâ™s Highest-Paid Player In Contract Extension
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Lawrence was selected first overall by the Jaguars in the 2021 NFL
Draft and, after a low-performing rookie year, helped the team secure
the AFC South title in 2022 and a playoff win against the Chargers.
The former Clemson quarterback led the Jaguars to a strong start in
2023 before he suffered multiple injuries in the latter part of the
season, when the team lost five of their last six games. Lawrence has
a 20-30 record and a 63.8% career completion percentage heading into
the 2024 season.
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Tencent-Backed AI Drug Discovery Startup Xtalpi Rises In Hong Kong
Debut
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The company, formally known as QuantumPharm, finished its first day of
trading at HK$5.8, up 9.8% from its HK$5.28-a-share price set for its
initial public offering. Its stock surged as much as 24.6% in intraday
trading. Xtalpi, which uses artificial intelligence and quantum
physics to discover new drugs, raised HK$989.3 million ($126.7
million) in its listing.Xtalpi was the first to go public under a Hong
Kong new listing rule for specialist technology companies with smaller
market cap and lower revenue, which was introduced more than a year
ago to revive the city’s sluggish IPO market. The AI-powered drug
discoverer attracted cornerstone investors including the investment
holding company owned by Peter Lee, co-chairman of Hong Kong’s
Henderson Land Development; and the private fund controlled by Gong
Hongjia, the Chinese billionaire behind surveillance product supplier
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, among others.
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After 13.8 billion years, why hasn't the Big Bang faded away?
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For the past 13.8 billion years, our Universe has been expanding,
cooling, and gravitating. The hot Big Bang itself was, at least for
our observable Universe, a one-time event that was the proverbial
starting gun for everything that’s happened since. As we expanded
and cooled, we formed atomic nuclei, neutral atoms, stars, galaxies,
and eventually, rocky planets like Earth. Although extremely early
relic signals exist — including a background of gravitational waves
generated during the phase of cosmic inflation that preceded the Big
Bang and a background of neutrinos released just a second after the
hot Big Bang — the earliest signal we’ve observed is today’s
cosmic microwave background (CMB), created when the Universe was a
scant 380,000 years old.The existence of this leftover radiation,
originally known as the “primeval fireball” when it was theorized,
was an astonishing prediction dating back to George Gamow all the way
in the 1940s, and it shocked the astronomical world when it was
directly detected back in the 1960s. Over the subsequent 60 years,
we’ve measured its properties exquisitely, learning a tremendous
amount about our Universe in the process. What’s perhaps most
remarkable, however, is that this early, relic signal still persists a
whopping 13.8 billion years after atoms first became neutral and this
background radiation was first emitted. It still hasn’t faded away,
and the scientific explanation for why is nothing short of profound.
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Overthinking? Refocusing on bodily sensations may calm your mind
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Why is it that visiting the beach sometimes assuages a bad mood? The
Sun warms your cheek, a cool breeze ruffles your hair, and, suddenly,
all seems well. There’s something about getting out of your head and
into your senses that can make all your troubles melt away, even if
only for a moment. In fact, research suggests that vulnerability to
depressive spells may have less to do with overthinking than
under-sensing. While it’s long been thought that negative thought
patterns underpin depression, it may be the case that rumination
simply distracts depressed patients from their sensory experiences —
and that sensory inhibition may be the primary culprit. Over the past
two decades, University of Toronto psychology professor Norman Farb
and his colleague Zindel Segal have conducted studies on how healthy
and depressed people experience sadness, exploring questions like
whether they’d respond to clips from sad films in different ways, or
whether their brains would show particular patterns of activity
compared to people who weren’t depressed.
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Complexity science could transform 21st-century research. Here's how.
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A new science is emerging that promises to become the defining field
of the 21st century. More than just a narrow specialization, it’s
not just a new field but a new way of doing science — a new way of
organizing intellectual domains and effort. Given its broad impact, it
goes by several names, but the one that embraces its full potential is
complexity science. Today, I want to briefly introduce why it’s
already so important and why it’s likely to define the frontiers of
human inquiry for decades to come.I’m writing this essay after
beginning a door-jam of a book called Foundational Papers in
Complexity Science. Volume One, 1922-1962. It’s part of an intended
four-volume set to be published by the incomparable Santa Fe Institute
(SFI). As promised in the title, the book contains key papers in the
development of complexity as a field. What really makes the book
worthwhile, however, is that each paper features an introduction
written by a current researcher and annotated by that scientist. Even
better yet, the first volume contains a masterful introduction to the
field by David Krakauer, the head of SFI.
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Did warm-bloodedness pave the path to sentience?
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We feel, therefore we are. Conscious sensations ground our sense of
self. They are crucial to our idea of ourselves as psychic beings:
present, existent, and mattering. But is it only humans who feel this
way? Do other animals? Will future machines? Weaving together
intellectual adventure and cutting-edge science, neuropsychologist
Nicholas Humphrey describes in his book “Sentience” his quest for
answers: from his discovery of blindsight in monkeys and his
pioneering work on social intelligence to breakthroughs in the
philosophy of mind. In the following excerpt from “Sentience,” he
challenges traditional explanations for the evolution of sentience in
mammals and birds, proposing that warm-bloodedness may have played a
crucial role.Birds and mammals have in common a physiological feature
that distinguishes them from all other animals: They
are warm-blooded. That’s to say, they maintain a constant body
temperature higher than the surroundings, typically 37 degrees Celsius
(98.6 degrees Fahrenheit) for mammals and 40 degrees Celsius (104
degrees Fahrenheit) for birds.
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How Activist Investors Could Push Southwest Airlines to Cater to
Higher-Paying Business Travelers
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Known for its single-class layout, unassigned seating, minimalist
onboard fare, and almost unbelievably enduring "bags fly free" policy,
Southwest has become a favorite carrier with voyagers happy to trade
frills for lower fares. But its refusal to put on the dog--and rake in
the considerably augmented revenue that doing so generates for
competitors--has thrust the airline and its management in the
crosshairs of activist investors. They are now looking to boost
profit and stock prices by forcing fundamental cultural and
operational changes on the carrier. That is the message of the
letter hedge fund Elliott Management sent to Southwest's board this
week after taking a $1.9 billion stake in the company and becoming
one of its major shareholders. The missive offered even fewer
flourishes than the airline's flights. It got straight to the point,
calling out the current management's "poor execution and
leadership's stubborn unwillingness to evolve" by adopting the
hardcore business practices and myriad fees characteristic of more
profitable rivals.
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OpenAI is Reportedly Making Bank Amid the AI Revolution
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OpenAI's ChatGPT was already one of the best-known AI brands amid
the surge of artificial intelligence tech coming from Google,
Microsoft, and others, but its role as market leader may have been
cemented this week when Apple confirmed it was partnering with the
chatbot maker to power key features of its "Apple Intelligence" AI
push.Now new information suggests that OpenAI really is raking in
incredible sums from its sometimes-controversial tech, despite the
competition from its deep-pocketed rivals. It may even have doubled
its annual revenues compared to last year's figures.
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Microsoft President Brad Smith appeared before the House of
Representatives panel on homeland security on Thursday, where he will
field questions about the company's security practices after Chinese
hackers breached its systems past year.China-linked hackers stole
60,000 U.S. State Department emails last year by breaking into the
tech giant's systems, while a Russian group separately spied on
Microsoft's senior staff emails earlier this year, according to the
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How Canvas Beauty Founder Stormi Steele Drove $1 Million in TikTok
Shop Sales in a Single Day
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Last Saturday, Canvas Beauty founder Stormi Steele sat behind a
bright pink table full of her haircare and beauty products for more
than five hours, phone camera and lights pointing at her. The
TikTok livestream she was creating became a hit -- in
fact, Steele claims it made her the first person to hit $1 million
in sales during a single TikTok livestream.Steele believes it is
her authenticity that has driven her popularity among consumers. "By
the time you hit 'CEO status,' you're supposed to look a certain way.
You're supposed to maneuver a certain way, you're supposed to have
people on your team, have assistants -- and it's like, a lot of
people who are just starting aren't there yet," Steele says. "So when
I got on TikTok, they was able to see something that was successful,
yet something that was still very close to home."Â
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If You're Not Supporting LGBTQ+ Workers, You're Missing Out on a Giant
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On June 11, Inc. hosted a panel discussion in its New York City
headquarters on economic opportunities and challenges facing the
LGBTQ+Â community, entrepreneurs in particular. Hosted by Inc.
editor-in-chief Mike Hofman, the panel featured Lee Badgett, an expert
on LGBTQI economics and the co-founder of Koppa; Marc Coleman, founder
and CEO of the Tactile Group, an Inc. 5000 company; and Brian Ellner,
president of One Strategy Group. The conversation centered
around headwinds LGBTQ+ professionals and entrepreneurs face in
a variety of areas, including underrepresentation on startup and
corporate boards -- only 0.8 percent of Fortune 500 companies have an
LGBTQ+ board member -- as well as the lack of investment by venture
capital firms and the ongoing threat to LGBTQ+ rights playing out in
the Supreme Court and halls of government.Â
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TikTok Has Introduced a Image Search Feature to TikTok Shop
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The video-sharing platform has launched a visual search tool
that is available to users in the United States and Southeast
Asia, TechCrunch reported earlier this week. Instead of using
the search bar to find products, users can now take or upload a photo
of an item, and the app will show similar products for consumers to
purchase on TikTok Shop. Visual search features aren't new in the
e-commerce world. Google has enabled shopping through its visual
search feature, Google Lens, since 2018. Bing Image Search, Yahoo
Image Search, and Pinterest Visual Search Tool are also popular tools
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Solomon Choi, Founder of 16 Handles Frozen Yogurt Chain, Dies at 44
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Solomon Choi, a two-time restaurant industry founder and investor in
early-stage food and beverage brands, died on June 7, the company's
new owner and CEO Neil Hershman confirmed. Choi was 44 years
old."He was a visionary who came to New York City in his 20s and
founded this iconic frozen dessert brand. 16 Handles is where I got my
personal start in franchising, and I owe so much to Solomon for the
opportunities, education, mentorship and friendship he provided me
throughout the years," Hershman said in a statement, as cited
by Restaurant Business.Â
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5 Traps to Avoid as You Gain Power as a Leader
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As you transition to a leadership role, your relationship to power
changes: You gain more of it, and people start acting differently
around you due to your authority. How can you avoid the hidden traps
of gaining power, which shapes you in ways you may not realize? The
authors outline five key traps leaders can fall into — the savior
trap, the complacency trap, the avoidance trap, the friend trap, and
the stress trap — and offer ways to counteract each.
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Tech at Work: The Future of Spatial Computing
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The Apple Vision Pro is the latest in a long line of trendy, expensive
spatial computing headsets. (Remember Google Glass?) But the augmented
reality and virtual reality features that these devices enable can
have an impact beyond video games. Pioneering companies are using
these immersive tools to train employees and to engage with consumers
in digital and retail settings. It’s growing increasingly important
for senior leaders to explore the possible use cases and to understand
the potential benefits and ongoing challenges that accompany these
technologies.
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How to Get Your Colleagues On Board with Your Idea
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In the early stages of your career, getting people to not only listen
to, but to agree to or to act on your ideas or views can be
challenging. It’s often a time when you have the least amount of
influence and are still building your reputation. When you want to
persuade someone to see (or do) things your way, you may default to
skills you’ve been socialized to exhibit: making a rational argument
supported by data, persisting in the face of a challenge, and
projecting confidence. But these strategies can be counterproductive.
When others seem to be resisting your ideas, there is usually a deeper
belief or concern informing their view — one that they aren’t
saying out loud. To uncover these roadblocks and see better results,
you need to understand the other person’s reasoning, instead of
trying to explain your own. The key is to ask the right questions.
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Why Cofounder Partnerships Fail -- and How to Make Them Last
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Up to 43% of startup founders ultimately buy out their cofounder due
to interpersonal rifts and power struggles. To understand why so many
cofounder partnerships end in failure, the authors conducted research
on lead founders seeking cofounders, finding that lead founders tend
to prioritize skillsets and execution while potential cofounders
prioritize interpersonal compatibility. This mismatch in priorities is
the root of so many cofounder splits. To overcome this, the authors
offer three recommendations for lead founders and cofounders alike: 1)
Put yourself in the other person’s shoes, 2) Don’t neglect the
interpersonal aspect in initial conversations, and 3) Consider
co-creating the idea with a partner.
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How Organizations Are Using Custom AI to Protect Data and Drive
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These general-purpose large language models (LLMs) contain hundreds of
billions or even trillions of parameters. Like a public library, they
contain vast amounts of information about as many topics as possible,
and familiarity with what they offer can empower you to solve
difficult problems and improve your performance on a number of tasks.
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A little-known AI startup is behind Nigeria's first government-backed
LLM
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Earlier this year, Nigeria’s technology minister, Bosun Tijani,
announced that the country would build its own large language model,
trained in five low-resource languages and accented English. This LLM,
he said, would help increase the representation of Nigerian languages
in the artificial intelligence systems being built around the
world.Tijani said the project would be a partnership between the
nonprofit Data.org; two government bodies, the National Information
Technology Development Agency and the National Centre for Artificial
Intelligence and Robotics; and Awarri, a Lagos-headquartered
startup.
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The most important news from Apple isn't about AI
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Apple is hosting its annual developer conference this week, and the
big news so far has been all about AI. The company announced a new
partnership with OpenAI and a deep integration of AI tools across the
next version of the iPhone’s operating system, iOS 18. It’s a
major collaboration between two Silicon Valley giants, and it’s
already reshuffling the internal politics of the industry: OpenAI
co-founder-turned-rival Elon Musk did not take the announcement well,
threatening to ban iPhones at his companies if the changes go
through.But while AI dominated the headlines, Apple made a smaller
announcement at Monday’s keynote that could have a far greater
impact. While running through a list of new features in iOS 18,
Apple’s software chief, Craig Federighi, said that iMessage will
support RCS messaging, an open protocol intended to succeed SMS. It
might sound like a dry, technical change, but it’s a big step in
leveling the walled garden Apple has built around iMessage. And given
iMessage’s huge presence in the U.S. — and minimal presence
everywhere else — that could make a huge difference in tearing down
global tech barriers.
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LinkedIn's AI Career Coaches Will See You Now
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Many burned-out workers have likely dreamed of hiring a career coach
or résumé writer. Now, LinkedIn is introducing chats with
generative AI career experts based on real people. Other new AI tools
within the platform will help people write résumés and cover
letters or evaluate their qualifications for jobs posted.LinkedIn has
ramped up its generative AI tools in the past year and is moving to
incorporate the tech into even more of its offerings. On Thursday, the
career site announced new features like a pilot for AI-powered expert
advice, an interactive chat to break down information in LinkedIn
courses, and more AI features that can be used to search for and apply
for jobs for its premium users in English. The changes showcase a
massive push by LinkedIn to capitalize on generative AI. (LinkedIn is
owned by Microsoft, which has invested heavily in OpenAI, which in
turn is powering the platformâ™s AI offerings.) And as
LinkedIn continues its drive to become more than just a job site,
people may spend their time there socializing or learning new skills
through video courses.
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