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Boosted Breeding and beyond: 3 tech trends that could end world hunger
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This article is an installment of Future Explored, Freethink’s
weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like
this one straight to your inbox every Saturday morning by subscribing
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It’s 2050. The global population has increased to nearly 10 billion,
and while we’re still working to ensure every person on the planet
has the opportunity to live their best life, we have eliminated one of
humanity’s oldest foes: tonight, no one will go to bed hungry.
Here’s how we’ll (maybe) do it.
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The race to be the tallest building in the world
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As 1930 approached, New York City seemed flush with money,
construction sites, and excitement—despite the recent stock market
crash. The Woolworth Building, a Gothic Revival skyscraper designed to
celebrate the success of Woolworth “Five-and-Dime” stores, had
stood as the tallest building in the world since 1913. But that was
about to change.
An unofficial competition had broken out between former business
partners William Van Alen and H. Craig Severance, both
designing skyscrapers they hoped would be the tallest in the world.
Severance kept adding floors to the Manhattan Bank Building (now 40
Wall Street) until he was sure that its height would exceed what was
proposed in Van Alen’s design for the Chrysler Building. However,
Van Alen had a surprise. To Severance’s dismay, he added a
125-foot-long spire to his design, secretly constructed within the
Chrysler Building. Once the spire was hoisted to the top of the
building, the Chrysler towered over the Manhattan Bank Building. Van
Alen had bested his former partner and earned the title he desired for
his skyscraper.
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10 Essential Procedures Every Business Must Document
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Adi Klevit, an Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) member in
Portland, Oregon, is the co-founder of Business Success Consulting
Group, which helps leaders create and document custom processes and
tailor-made management systems. We asked Adi to share her expertise
around the most critical procedures businesses must document:Â
Business owners around the world struggle with each of these
scenarios. In fact, I recently interviewed a business owner who lived
in terror that a key employee might leave--because that would mean the
entire company would fall apart.
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A Massive New Stanford Study Says This Is What Happens to Your Brain
When You Stay Up Too Late
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Writing in the journal Psychiatry Research, Stanford University
researchers said they surveyed 73,880 adults as part of a study about
whether people's chronotypes, which basically means their preferred
sleep timing, correlated with their actual sleep timing.
"We found that alignment with your chronotype is not crucial here, and
that really it's being up late that is not good for your mental
health," said senior author Jamie Zeitzer, a Stanford professor
of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. "The big unknown is why."
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Why You Should Tackle the Big Things First
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Let's say you're trying to teach an elephant how to recite poetry
while balancing on a soccer ball. How should you allocate your
time and money between training the elephant and designing the
soccer ball?
The right answer, of course, is to spend zero time thinking about
the ball. But most people will rush off and start designing a really
great soccer ball first. Why? Because at some point the boss is
going to pop by and ask for a status update -- and you want to be
able to show off something other than a long list of reasons why
teaching an elephant to talk is really, really hard.
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From Corporate Giant to SME: Navigating Your Transition Successfully
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Transitioning from a large company to a small or
medium-size enterprise (SME) can be a profound shift, requiring a
distinct set of adjustments and an understanding of the new
environment. If you've spent significant time in a large corporation,
the move to a smaller entity can feel like venturing into a different
world. Here are five critical areas to focus on to navigate
this transition effectively.
First, understand that the scope and nature of responsibilities in an
SME can be vastly different. In large corporations, roles are often
highly specialized, with each employee focusing on a specific set of
tasks within a defined framework. However, SMEs typically require a
more generalist approach. You might find yourself wearing multiple
hats, engaging in a broader range of activities than you used to. For
instance, if you were an IT specialist in a large company, your role
might have been strictly technical, focusing solely on network
security or database management. In an SME, you might still handle
these tasks, but also find yourself involved in user support, project
management, or even marketing strategy. This broadened scope
necessitates a willingness to step out of your comfort zone and tackle
a variety of challenges, often simultaneously.
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5 Ways to Master Tactfulness: A Quick Guide to Highly Effective
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Tact is a delicate balancing act between forthrightness, bluntness,
and callousness on the one hand, and sensitivity, delicacy, and
mindfulness on the other. To be tactful is to be both straightforward
and direct--blunt but not cruel, frank but not offensive.
First, speaking too quickly, before you've had a chance to think, can
be avoided by practicing good listening and being able to tune into
others' emotions. You want to understand the other person's position
and express it back, using the same emotional language. Once you can
do that, you can open the door to understanding where they're coming
from, and hopefully avoid those situations when you go home and think,
"I should have said this instead!"
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Are You Promoting Your Emotionally Intelligent People?
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Speaking at a conference recently, I was wrapping things up and opened
the floor to questions. All started well enough until this one guy
got the mic. He just would not, well, shut up. His questions were all
prefaced with lengthy monologues and the queries were all about his
specific situation. On and on and on he went. Finally, with the
audience exasperated, I had to be more direct than I preferred,
interrupted him, and told him I had to move on.Â
No matter where you work, there is always someone who just doesn't
"get it"--folks who are obnoxious, rude, lazy, loud, mean,
narcissistic, selfish, manipulative, clueless, whatever. It is a
wonder they ever get hired.Â
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5 Hard Questions to Ask Yourself Before Selling Your Business
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For many founders, selling a company is the ultimate accomplishment.
The dream of starting something from scratch, growing and scaling the
business, finding a buyer, and exiting is the stuff movies are made
of. While it can be quite thrilling and satisfying, it can also be a
dramatic and, at times, a traumatic process.
As a strategic growth coach, I've worked with dozens of companies on
how to create and implement successful scaling strategies, and many of
them have found successful exits. I've also been a founder and CEO
myself and successfully sold my business. While they were all big
wins, they came with a lot of complexity and anguish that could have
been avoided.
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Today's Most Overlooked Mergers and Acquisitions Cybersecurity and
Compliance Risks
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Merger and acquisition activity has been volatile for several
years. With a surge in the last quarter of 2023 globally, analysts
predict an M&A rebound in 2024, with deal volumes expected to rise as
much as 50 percent year-over-year.
While this is a good indicator of things to come for the global
economy, I strongly believe that business leaders should focus on the
journey, not the destination. I know from personal experience, that if
you build a great company, good things will happen--one of which could
be a merger or an acquisition.Â
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You Don't Need to Offer Clients the World
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I recently threw away a giant, overflowing makeup organizer that was
taking up valuable space on a bathroom shelf. It had been driving me
nuts for months: I had somehow accumulated a ton of products that I
did not use or like and felt like I was sifting through a pile of
half-used junk to find the five products that IÂ consistently used.
Who knows why we hold onto things that don't work. All I can tell you
is that it felt so good to get rid of those ten never-worn lipsticks
and put my five workhorse products into a sleek black bag--one that
takes up about a quarter of the space on my shelf.
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How Non-Traditional Education is Preparing Tech Talent For the Future
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While unemployment rates are at an all-time low, the talent
shortage in the tech space persists. According to a study by HCA,
92 percent of tech leaders report challenges finding skilled
talent, and nearly six in 10 predict a significant hiring challenge
will be the lack of applicants with the skill sets needed to support
essential initiatives.
According to Gaper, the talent shortage has led to a situation
where only 65 positions out of every 100 open job roles get
filled. However, despite this glaring shortage, young Americans are
not flocking to colleges to be trained to fill this gap. The reason is
that the tech-talent gap has also coincided with a time
when University enrollment is lower than in recent history.Â
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Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit
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Experts aren't unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup's
practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to
defamationâbut some say plaintiffs would have strong cases.
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The Studio Executive Who Wants Hollywood to Get Real About Bad
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As the entertainment industry rebounds, Kamala Avila-Salmon, head of
inclusive content at Lionsgate, wants to make sure it comes back
healthier than before.
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A Catastrophic Hospital Hack Ends in a Leak of 300M Patient Records
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The rolling series of breaches targeting customers of cloud platform
Snowflake appears to be a supply chain attack wrapped in another
supply chain attack. A hacker who claims to have been involved in the
attacks tells WIRED that the hackers, known as ShinyHunter, stole
victims' Snowflake credentials by first breaching an employee of a
third-party contractor. (The contractor, however, says it does not
believe it was involved.)
Ultimately, the breach of the Snowflake customer accounts, which
include Ticketmaster, banking firm Santander, and potentially more
than 160 other companies, was possible because their Snowflake
accounts did not have multifactor authentication enabled.
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The 49 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (June 2024)
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Bridgerton, Scavengers Reign, and Sweet Tooth are just a few of the
shows you need to watch on Netflix this month.
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If youâ™re one of the millions of Americans worried about
your pocketbooks and the general cost of living, you might have picked
up on some good news recently: Inflation has really been cooling off
this summer, as long-sticky (and long-lamented) food and energy prices
continue to moderate. Some economic indicators remain stubborn,
howeverâÂÂand they arenâ™t likely to abate anytime in
the near future, no matter how long the Federal Reserve keeps interest
rates high, what tweaks President Joe Biden makes to his trade policy,
whether corporations decide themselves to slash prices on certain
products, or whether Covid-battered supply chains finally get some
long-needed fixes.
Other, grimmer recent headlines help to explain why. Hard rains from a
tropical disruption in the Gulf have been battering
Floridaâ™s southern regions for days, leading to a rare
flash-flood emergency. Another batch of storms is swirling near Texas
at the moment and could form into a tropical depression, according to
forecasts from the National Hurricane Center. Even if both states end
up missing bigger storms now, itâ™s likely only a matter of
time before theyâ™re threatened again: The National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration predicts that the United States will
see its worst hurricane season in decades this summer.
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The 46 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (June 2024)
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Hit Man, Under Paris, and Godzilla Minus One are just a few of the
movies you should watch on Netflix this month.
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How to Exercise Safely During a Heat Wave
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When summer starts with a stifling heat wave, as many places are
seeing in 2024, it can pose risks for just about anyone who spends
time outside, whether they're runners, people who walk or cycle to
work, outdoor workers, or kids playing sports.
Susan Yeargin, an expert on heat-related illnesses, explains what
everyone should think about before spending time outside in a heat
wave and how to keep yourself and vulnerable family members and
friends safe.
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The 6 Best Linen Sheets for Cool and Comfy Summer Sleeping (2024)
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Linen might not be your first choice for bed sheets, but give it a
try, especially in the warmer months. Here's the linen we love
sleeping on.
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Jabra Enhance Select 500 Review: Excellent Hearing Aids
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Anyone who says you shouldn't mess with a good thing is wrongâthat's
old and busted thinking. That kind of talk is a recipe for
complacency, particularly in the hearing aid world, where things can
and should always get better.
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These Are the Best Laptop Backpacks We've Tried and Tested
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A backpack is the best, most efficient, and most comfortable way to
carry your stuffâthere's a reason why you don't see people hiking the
Appalachian Trail with a tote. But finding the right one that works
for you and your lifestyle isn't easy. Whether you're commuting to an
office or school, running to your local coffee shop, or going on a
weekend trip, a good backpack will look good and keep your stuff
organized. It's easier on your neck and shoulders than an overstuffed
purse or briefcase (and miles better than trying to hold everything in
your hands).
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How a Band Falls Apart, According to 'Stereophonic'
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The Tony-winning play explores the heartbreak and turmoil that
sometimes accompany great music.Like the members of Fleetwood Mac, or
the Mamas & the Papas, or the Beatles, or Van Halen, the rock band at
the center of the Broadway play Stereophonic can't seem to keep its
act together. The bassist stumbles drunk and late into a recording
session; the guitarist keeps futzing with the tempo on a song. The
musicians are clearly close with one anotherâlots of inside jokes,
lots of casual touchingâbut that only makes the bickering more
personal.
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The Books The Atlantic Loved--And Hated
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This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The
Atlantic's archives to contextualize the present and surface
delightful treasures. Sign up here.Working on the Books desk of a
167-year-old publication offers incredible opportunitiesâand dredges
up some insecurities. Will our judgment hold up to future readers'
evaluations? Is the work we're putting out worthy of the magazine's
illustrious traditions? Over the years, The Atlantic's literary
coverage has taken on both the task of criticismâor situating a work
in its era, evaluating its ideas, and considering its symbolsâand of
reviewing which titles are worth people's time and why. Today, my job
includes editing book recommendations and essays on new releases, and
contributing to avowedly ambitious projects such as our recent list of
great American novels. This involves listening to the opinions and
disagreements of our contemporary readers. But there's also an entire
archive full of people who talk back, disagree, and weigh in, too.
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The Flimsiness of Trumponomics
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Trump's latest reported idea would result in massive tax cuts for the
ultrarichâat the expense of other Americans.This is an edition of The
Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest
stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the
best in culture. Sign up for it here.
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An Attack on Free Speech at Harvard
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Universities require a culture of open inquiry, viewpoint diversity,
and constructive disagreement.In a recent op-ed in The Harvard
Crimsonâ"Faculty Speech Must Have Limits"âthe university's dean of
social science, Lawrence Bobo, made an extraordinary set of claims
that seriously threaten academic freedom, including the chilling idea
that faculty members who dare to criticize the university should be
punished. Bobo is a senior administrator at Harvard, overseeing
centers and departments including history, economics, sociology, and
African and African American studies. When he writes about faculty
free speech, those within and outside his division listen.
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Dog Food Is So Fancy Now That I Ate Some
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Canumi's yellowfin tuna is caught in the Atlantic and then gently
steamed and packed with fresh water in a storied factory in Galicia,
Spain. A tin costs about $6 and comes inside an Instagram-ready,
peach-colored box designed with spunky typefaces. (The brand also
makes tote bags.) I am, honestly, desperate to try it, but it's been
sold out in America for weeks. Also, it's for dogs.If you are old
enough to be reading this and you grew up with a dog, he probably did
not eat anything that would appeal to a human adult with a reasonably
sophisticated palate. What he ate, in all likelihood, was kibble:
hard, stinky, cereal-like pellets of grains and a small amount of
meat, processed at high heat and pressure and sold by a global food
mega-conglomerate in a big, unphotogenic bag. Whoever was in charge of
buying the kibble may have had a choice among, say, salmon, chicken,
and beef, but those distinctions were less about a meaningful
difference in taste or composition than about the feeble work of
flavoring agents. Your dog might have liked the food; your dog might
have hated the food. He almost certainly didn't know anything better.
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'The Party of the Ultrarich and the Ultra-poor'
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When the Supreme Court blocked President Joe Biden's plan to cancel
student debt, his administration hurried to find a work-around. Less
than a year later, Biden has now forgiven more than $160 billion in
college loans for nearly 5 million borrowersâtotals that, as he often
notes, would be much higher if not for the Court.To Representative
Seth Moulton, the policy that Biden tried so hard to implement is a
prime example of how the Democratic Party has gone astray and why
Biden might lose to Donald Trump. "In many ways, we have become the
party of the ultrarich and the ultra-poor, and a lot of people in the
middle think Democrats are out of touch," Moulton told me.
Student-debt relief is "a terrible priority because it sends a message
to everyone who didn't get the opportunity to go to college that
they're less important than the people who did."
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'Kinds of Kindness' May Test Your Patience
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With his new film, Yorgos Lanthimos returns to his freaky-deaky
rootsâwith mixed results.When I saw Yorgos Lanthimos's breakout 2009
film, the surreal and violent fable Dogtooth, I did not think the
director was destined to grow into a Hollywood brand. Yet that's
exactly what has happened to the Greek filmmaker, whose fascination
with human brutality has not stopped him from becoming a recurring
Oscar favorite who makes crossover art-house hits. Lanthimos's steady
rise culminated in last year's Poor Things, which was somehow one of
the feel-good hits of the fall: a freaky tale set in steampunk
Victorian England about a woman's corpse that is revived with a baby's
brain.
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Aileen Cannon Is Who Critics Feared She Was
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The judge handling Trump's classified-documents case has shown that
she's not fit for the task.One year ago, when former President Donald
Trump was indicted on charges related to his hoarding of classified
documents, the case was randomly assigned to Aileen Cannon, a federal
judge for the Southern District of Florida.
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Google Is Turning Into a Libel Machine
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A few weeks ago, I witnessed Google Search make what could have been
the most expensive error in its history. In response to a query about
cheating in chess, Google's new AI Overview told me that the young
American player Hans Niemann had "admitted to using an engine," or a
chess-playing AI, after defeating Magnus Carlsen in 2022âimplying
that Niemann had confessed to cheating against the world's top-ranked
player. Suspicion about the American's play against Carlsen that
September indeed sparked controversy, one that reverberated even
beyond the world of professional chess, garnering mainstream news
coverage and the attention of Elon Musk.Except, Niemann admitted no
such thing. Quite the opposite: He has vigorously defended himself
against the allegations, going so far as to file a $100 million
defamation lawsuit against Carlsen and several others who had accused
him of cheating or punished him for the unproven
allegationâChess.com, for example, had banned Niemann from its
website and tournaments. Although a judge dismissed the suit on
procedural grounds, Niemann has been cleared of wrongdoing, and
Carlsen has agreed to play him again. But the prodigy is still
seething: Niemann recently spoke of an "undying and unwavering
resolve" to silence his haters, saying, "I'm going to be their biggest
nightmare for the rest of their lives." Could he insist that Google
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The Enduring Fascination With Women in Water
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Weeki Wachee Springs State Park, located some 50 miles north of Tampa,
Florida, is best known for its mermaids. Since 1947, synchronized
swimmers in shimmering tails have performed for audiences in the
park's 400-seat aquariumlike theater, which is built roughly 16 feet
below the surface of the Weeki Wachee River's crystalline spring. As a
young girl, watching their water ballet through a wall of glass, I
studied the mermaids' every move in astonishment. Their talents and
allure were otherworldlyâthe soft billowing of their hair, the smooth
weightlessness of their movements, the poise they maintained in
environs inhospitable to any mere mortal.The Weeki Wachee mermaid show
was among dozens of roadside attractions that capitalized on the
success of Esther Williams, a former competitive swimmer who parlayed
her talents in the pool into movie stardom in the 1940s and '50s. Her
films, often dubbed "aquamusicals," were known for their impressive
underwater choreography and synchronized-swimming sequencesâas well
as their enormous success at the box office.
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Will Publishing's Diversity Gains Last?
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Published works of fiction by nonwhite authors more than doubled from
2019 to 2023âbut we may now be seeing a reversal in this trend.This
is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors' weekly guide to the
best in books. Sign up for it here.
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America's Doublethink on Working Through the Heat
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Heat can be deadly; no federal rules currently exist to protect
workers against that danger.It's troublingly hot in June, which means
the United States is entering the heat-death zone for workers again.
We've been here before. In San Antonio, on a blisteringly hot June day
in 2022, Gabriel Infante, a 24-year-old construction worker, died in
his first week on the job, after he entered a state of delirium while
laying fiber-optic cable; medics measured his temperature at 109.8
degrees Fahrenheit. That same month, Esteban Chavez Jr., also 24, died
after passing out while delivering packages in Pasadena, California,
in temperatures above 90 degrees.
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The 'Espresso' Theory of Gender Relations
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The men dominating the Billboard Hot 100 this summer are doing
traditional male things: picking fights, playing guitar, bellowing
about being saved or sabotaged by the opposite sex. Meanwhile, what
are the women of popular music up to? Being brats.Brat may sound like
an insult; Hollywood's "Brat Pack" certainly didn't appreciate the
term in 1985. But when the hipster diva Charli XCX titled her new
album Brat, which spawned a wave of memes with its bile-green cover,
she crystallized a cultural mood: Seeming a little immature, a little
selfish, a little nasty, has taken on an air of glamour. Although
riffing on the archetype of the bad girl is pop tradition, the new
insouciance has a distinctly mischievous bent. It's the sound of young
women cracking jokes with one another against a backdrop of growing
alienation between the genders.
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Americans Have Lost the Plot on Cooking Oil
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Olive oil is a great choice. So is canola oil, vegetable oil, avocado
oil, and pretty much everything else.Every meal I make begins with a
single choice: extra-virgin olive oil or canola? For as long as I've
cooked, these have been my kitchen workhorses, because they're
versatile, affordable, andâmost of allâhealthy. Or so I thought.
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The Improbable, Unstoppable Rise of Goose
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or the sake of brevity, let's skip the first verse and the chorus.
Let's jump over some ambient noodling and the gradual building of
musical tension. Let's begin, in jam-band parlance, on a peak, a
moment of sonic culmination. Let's begin at Radio City Music Hall on
June 25, 2022. Specifically, we're two hours and 12 minutes into the
evening when the house lights come up, a red-haired 57-year-old man
with a guitar walks onstage, and all 6,000 people in attendance
collectively lose their minds as they realize what they are
witnessing.
The redhead is the Phish front man Trey Anastasio. But this isn't a
Phish show. The headliner tonight is Goose, a band of five
30-somethings in the midst of a meteoric rise. This is Goose's
second-straight sold-out show at Radio City; just three years and
three days earlier, the band was playing at Kenny's Westside Pub, in
Peoria, Illinois.
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S38
Maybe Don't Spray-Paint Stonehenge
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They run toward Stonehenge in white shirts. Just Stop Oil is
emblazoned on the front, marking them as emissaries of a British
climate-activism group. The pairâone of them young, the other
olderâcarry twin orange canisters that emit a cloud of what looks
like colored smoke (we later learn it's dyed corn flour). A bystander
in a gray coat and baseball hat chases them, screaming, then grabs the
man and tries to pull him away from the historic monument in a failing
bid to protect it. As the cloud clears, the orange stains remain,
soaked into the ancient sarsen stone.
A video of Wednesday's act of vandalism, posted by an X account
devoted to Stonehenge, has accumulated more than 30 million views. The
camps have coalesced as you'd expect: Conservative and moderate voices
have reacted with outrage, while left-leaning environmentalists have
argued that critics should be more concerned about the state of the
planet than a bit of plant-based coloring that was easily removed. If
I have to pick a side, I'm with the gentlemen wielding the washable
dye. (I am an environmental-studies professor, after all.) But the
protest left me frustrated: yet another example of environmental
activism that produces more rancor over its means than focus on its
message.
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Triple-Digit Highs Can Be Misleading
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Summer has only just officially begun, and the world is already
sweltering. This week, two counties in northwestern Maine were under
their first-ever excessive-heat warningâpart of a record-breaking
"heat dome" that has settled on the eastern part of the country.
Washington, D.C., might hit its first triple-digit high since 2016.
Globally, the temperatures this spring have been even more shocking.
Last week, the Sonoran Desert hit 125 degrees, the highest recorded
temperature in Mexican history. Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, hit that same
temperature. Last month, part of New Delhi, India, soared above 120
degrees.
These triple-digit highs are alarming and dangerous. In Mecca,
hundreds of pilgrims making the Hajj pilgrimage to the holy Islamic
city reportedly died in the heat. But in isolation, such temperatures
can also be misleading. Not all 100-degree days are the same. The
highest daily temperature isn't the most revealing number about what a
heat wave actually feels like, or what it does to our bodies.
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All The Washington Post Has Is Its Credibility
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Hours after my Washington Post colleagues and I published the first of
several articles in 2017 about the Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy
Moore's history of pursuing teenage girls, the Republican nominee's
powerful allies launched an elaborate campaign seeking to discredit
the story. The best-known of these efforts was an attempt carried out
by the far-right activist group Project Veritas to dupe us into
publishing a false story, an operation we exposed. But there were
others, perhaps none more insidious than the spreading of false rumors
across Alabama that The Washington Post had paid Moore's accusers to
come forward, and were offering thousands of dollars to other women
for salacious stories about him.
There is a reason Moore's allies used this particular tactic: They
knew that any whiff of a financial motive behind the stories would
taint them. There is also a reason their efforts failed. And there is
a reason I'm bringing this up seven years later.
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Boosted Breeding and beyond: 3 tech trends that could end world hunger
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This article is an installment of Future Explored, Freethink’s
weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like
this one straight to your inbox every Saturday morning by subscribing
here.
It’s 2050. The global population has increased to nearly 10 billion,
and while we’re still working to ensure every person on the planet
has the opportunity to live their best life, we have eliminated one of
humanity’s oldest foes: tonight, no one will go to bed hungry.
Here’s how we’ll (maybe) do it.
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The race to be the tallest building in the world
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As 1930 approached, New York City seemed flush with money,
construction sites, and excitement—despite the recent stock market
crash. The Woolworth Building, a Gothic Revival skyscraper designed to
celebrate the success of Woolworth “Five-and-Dime” stores, had
stood as the tallest building in the world since 1913. But that was
about to change.
An unofficial competition had broken out between former business
partners William Van Alen and H. Craig Severance, both
designing skyscrapers they hoped would be the tallest in the world.
Severance kept adding floors to the Manhattan Bank Building (now 40
Wall Street) until he was sure that its height would exceed what was
proposed in Van Alen’s design for the Chrysler Building. However,
Van Alen had a surprise. To Severance’s dismay, he added a
125-foot-long spire to his design, secretly constructed within the
Chrysler Building. Once the spire was hoisted to the top of the
building, the Chrysler towered over the Manhattan Bank Building. Van
Alen had bested his former partner and earned the title he desired for
his skyscraper.
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10 Essential Procedures Every Business Must Document
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Adi Klevit, an Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) member in
Portland, Oregon, is the co-founder of Business Success Consulting
Group, which helps leaders create and document custom processes and
tailor-made management systems. We asked Adi to share her expertise
around the most critical procedures businesses must document:Â
Business owners around the world struggle with each of these
scenarios. In fact, I recently interviewed a business owner who lived
in terror that a key employee might leave--because that would mean the
entire company would fall apart.
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A Massive New Stanford Study Says This Is What Happens to Your Brain
When You Stay Up Too Late
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Writing in the journal Psychiatry Research, Stanford University
researchers said they surveyed 73,880 adults as part of a study about
whether people's chronotypes, which basically means their preferred
sleep timing, correlated with their actual sleep timing.
"We found that alignment with your chronotype is not crucial here, and
that really it's being up late that is not good for your mental
health," said senior author Jamie Zeitzer, a Stanford professor
of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. "The big unknown is why."
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Why You Should Tackle the Big Things First
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Let's say you're trying to teach an elephant how to recite poetry
while balancing on a soccer ball. How should you allocate your
time and money between training the elephant and designing the
soccer ball?
The right answer, of course, is to spend zero time thinking about
the ball. But most people will rush off and start designing a really
great soccer ball first. Why? Because at some point the boss is
going to pop by and ask for a status update -- and you want to be
able to show off something other than a long list of reasons why
teaching an elephant to talk is really, really hard.
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From Corporate Giant to SME: Navigating Your Transition Successfully
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Transitioning from a large company to a small or
medium-size enterprise (SME) can be a profound shift, requiring a
distinct set of adjustments and an understanding of the new
environment. If you've spent significant time in a large corporation,
the move to a smaller entity can feel like venturing into a different
world. Here are five critical areas to focus on to navigate
this transition effectively.
First, understand that the scope and nature of responsibilities in an
SME can be vastly different. In large corporations, roles are often
highly specialized, with each employee focusing on a specific set of
tasks within a defined framework. However, SMEs typically require a
more generalist approach. You might find yourself wearing multiple
hats, engaging in a broader range of activities than you used to. For
instance, if you were an IT specialist in a large company, your role
might have been strictly technical, focusing solely on network
security or database management. In an SME, you might still handle
these tasks, but also find yourself involved in user support, project
management, or even marketing strategy. This broadened scope
necessitates a willingness to step out of your comfort zone and tackle
a variety of challenges, often simultaneously.
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5 Ways to Master Tactfulness: A Quick Guide to Highly Effective
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Tact is a delicate balancing act between forthrightness, bluntness,
and callousness on the one hand, and sensitivity, delicacy, and
mindfulness on the other. To be tactful is to be both straightforward
and direct--blunt but not cruel, frank but not offensive.
First, speaking too quickly, before you've had a chance to think, can
be avoided by practicing good listening and being able to tune into
others' emotions. You want to understand the other person's position
and express it back, using the same emotional language. Once you can
do that, you can open the door to understanding where they're coming
from, and hopefully avoid those situations when you go home and think,
"I should have said this instead!"
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Are You Promoting Your Emotionally Intelligent People?
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Speaking at a conference recently, I was wrapping things up and opened
the floor to questions. All started well enough until this one guy
got the mic. He just would not, well, shut up. His questions were all
prefaced with lengthy monologues and the queries were all about his
specific situation. On and on and on he went. Finally, with the
audience exasperated, I had to be more direct than I preferred,
interrupted him, and told him I had to move on.Â
No matter where you work, there is always someone who just doesn't
"get it"--folks who are obnoxious, rude, lazy, loud, mean,
narcissistic, selfish, manipulative, clueless, whatever. It is a
wonder they ever get hired.Â
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5 Hard Questions to Ask Yourself Before Selling Your Business
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For many founders, selling a company is the ultimate accomplishment.
The dream of starting something from scratch, growing and scaling the
business, finding a buyer, and exiting is the stuff movies are made
of. While it can be quite thrilling and satisfying, it can also be a
dramatic and, at times, a traumatic process.
As a strategic growth coach, I've worked with dozens of companies on
how to create and implement successful scaling strategies, and many of
them have found successful exits. I've also been a founder and CEO
myself and successfully sold my business. While they were all big
wins, they came with a lot of complexity and anguish that could have
been avoided.
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Today's Most Overlooked Mergers and Acquisitions Cybersecurity and
Compliance Risks
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Merger and acquisition activity has been volatile for several
years. With a surge in the last quarter of 2023 globally, analysts
predict an M&A rebound in 2024, with deal volumes expected to rise as
much as 50 percent year-over-year.
While this is a good indicator of things to come for the global
economy, I strongly believe that business leaders should focus on the
journey, not the destination. I know from personal experience, that if
you build a great company, good things will happen--one of which could
be a merger or an acquisition.Â
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You Don't Need to Offer Clients the World
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I recently threw away a giant, overflowing makeup organizer that was
taking up valuable space on a bathroom shelf. It had been driving me
nuts for months: I had somehow accumulated a ton of products that I
did not use or like and felt like I was sifting through a pile of
half-used junk to find the five products that IÂ consistently used.
Who knows why we hold onto things that don't work. All I can tell you
is that it felt so good to get rid of those ten never-worn lipsticks
and put my five workhorse products into a sleek black bag--one that
takes up about a quarter of the space on my shelf.
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How Non-Traditional Education is Preparing Tech Talent For the Future
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While unemployment rates are at an all-time low, the talent
shortage in the tech space persists. According to a study by HCA,
92 percent of tech leaders report challenges finding skilled
talent, and nearly six in 10 predict a significant hiring challenge
will be the lack of applicants with the skill sets needed to support
essential initiatives.
According to Gaper, the talent shortage has led to a situation
where only 65 positions out of every 100 open job roles get
filled. However, despite this glaring shortage, young Americans are
not flocking to colleges to be trained to fill this gap. The reason is
that the tech-talent gap has also coincided with a time
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As the entertainment industry rebounds, Kamala Avila-Salmon, head of
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healthier than before.
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A Catastrophic Hospital Hack Ends in a Leak of 300M Patient Records
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The rolling series of breaches targeting customers of cloud platform
Snowflake appears to be a supply chain attack wrapped in another
supply chain attack. A hacker who claims to have been involved in the
attacks tells WIRED that the hackers, known as ShinyHunter, stole
victims' Snowflake credentials by first breaching an employee of a
third-party contractor. (The contractor, however, says it does not
believe it was involved.)
Ultimately, the breach of the Snowflake customer accounts, which
include Ticketmaster, banking firm Santander, and potentially more
than 160 other companies, was possible because their Snowflake
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The 49 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (June 2024)
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If youâ™re one of the millions of Americans worried about
your pocketbooks and the general cost of living, you might have picked
up on some good news recently: Inflation has really been cooling off
this summer, as long-sticky (and long-lamented) food and energy prices
continue to moderate. Some economic indicators remain stubborn,
howeverâÂÂand they arenâ™t likely to abate anytime in
the near future, no matter how long the Federal Reserve keeps interest
rates high, what tweaks President Joe Biden makes to his trade policy,
whether corporations decide themselves to slash prices on certain
products, or whether Covid-battered supply chains finally get some
long-needed fixes.
Other, grimmer recent headlines help to explain why. Hard rains from a
tropical disruption in the Gulf have been battering
Floridaâ™s southern regions for days, leading to a rare
flash-flood emergency. Another batch of storms is swirling near Texas
at the moment and could form into a tropical depression, according to
forecasts from the National Hurricane Center. Even if both states end
up missing bigger storms now, itâ™s likely only a matter of
time before theyâ™re threatened again: The National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration predicts that the United States will
see its worst hurricane season in decades this summer.
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The 46 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (June 2024)
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Hit Man, Under Paris, and Godzilla Minus One are just a few of the
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How to Exercise Safely During a Heat Wave
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When summer starts with a stifling heat wave, as many places are
seeing in 2024, it can pose risks for just about anyone who spends
time outside, whether they're runners, people who walk or cycle to
work, outdoor workers, or kids playing sports.
Susan Yeargin, an expert on heat-related illnesses, explains what
everyone should think about before spending time outside in a heat
wave and how to keep yourself and vulnerable family members and
friends safe.
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The 6 Best Linen Sheets for Cool and Comfy Summer Sleeping (2024)
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Linen might not be your first choice for bed sheets, but give it a
try, especially in the warmer months. Here's the linen we love
sleeping on.
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Jabra Enhance Select 500 Review: Excellent Hearing Aids
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Anyone who says you shouldn't mess with a good thing is wrongâthat's
old and busted thinking. That kind of talk is a recipe for
complacency, particularly in the hearing aid world, where things can
and should always get better.
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These Are the Best Laptop Backpacks We've Tried and Tested
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A backpack is the best, most efficient, and most comfortable way to
carry your stuffâthere's a reason why you don't see people hiking the
Appalachian Trail with a tote. But finding the right one that works
for you and your lifestyle isn't easy. Whether you're commuting to an
office or school, running to your local coffee shop, or going on a
weekend trip, a good backpack will look good and keep your stuff
organized. It's easier on your neck and shoulders than an overstuffed
purse or briefcase (and miles better than trying to hold everything in
your hands).
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How a Band Falls Apart, According to 'Stereophonic'
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The Tony-winning play explores the heartbreak and turmoil that
sometimes accompany great music.Like the members of Fleetwood Mac, or
the Mamas & the Papas, or the Beatles, or Van Halen, the rock band at
the center of the Broadway play Stereophonic can't seem to keep its
act together. The bassist stumbles drunk and late into a recording
session; the guitarist keeps futzing with the tempo on a song. The
musicians are clearly close with one anotherâlots of inside jokes,
lots of casual touchingâbut that only makes the bickering more
personal.
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The Books The Atlantic Loved--And Hated
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This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The
Atlantic's archives to contextualize the present and surface
delightful treasures. Sign up here.Working on the Books desk of a
167-year-old publication offers incredible opportunitiesâand dredges
up some insecurities. Will our judgment hold up to future readers'
evaluations? Is the work we're putting out worthy of the magazine's
illustrious traditions? Over the years, The Atlantic's literary
coverage has taken on both the task of criticismâor situating a work
in its era, evaluating its ideas, and considering its symbolsâand of
reviewing which titles are worth people's time and why. Today, my job
includes editing book recommendations and essays on new releases, and
contributing to avowedly ambitious projects such as our recent list of
great American novels. This involves listening to the opinions and
disagreements of our contemporary readers. But there's also an entire
archive full of people who talk back, disagree, and weigh in, too.
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The Flimsiness of Trumponomics
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Trump's latest reported idea would result in massive tax cuts for the
ultrarichâat the expense of other Americans.This is an edition of The
Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest
stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the
best in culture. Sign up for it here.
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An Attack on Free Speech at Harvard
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Universities require a culture of open inquiry, viewpoint diversity,
and constructive disagreement.In a recent op-ed in The Harvard
Crimsonâ"Faculty Speech Must Have Limits"âthe university's dean of
social science, Lawrence Bobo, made an extraordinary set of claims
that seriously threaten academic freedom, including the chilling idea
that faculty members who dare to criticize the university should be
punished. Bobo is a senior administrator at Harvard, overseeing
centers and departments including history, economics, sociology, and
African and African American studies. When he writes about faculty
free speech, those within and outside his division listen.
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Dog Food Is So Fancy Now That I Ate Some
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Canumi's yellowfin tuna is caught in the Atlantic and then gently
steamed and packed with fresh water in a storied factory in Galicia,
Spain. A tin costs about $6 and comes inside an Instagram-ready,
peach-colored box designed with spunky typefaces. (The brand also
makes tote bags.) I am, honestly, desperate to try it, but it's been
sold out in America for weeks. Also, it's for dogs.If you are old
enough to be reading this and you grew up with a dog, he probably did
not eat anything that would appeal to a human adult with a reasonably
sophisticated palate. What he ate, in all likelihood, was kibble:
hard, stinky, cereal-like pellets of grains and a small amount of
meat, processed at high heat and pressure and sold by a global food
mega-conglomerate in a big, unphotogenic bag. Whoever was in charge of
buying the kibble may have had a choice among, say, salmon, chicken,
and beef, but those distinctions were less about a meaningful
difference in taste or composition than about the feeble work of
flavoring agents. Your dog might have liked the food; your dog might
have hated the food. He almost certainly didn't know anything better.
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'The Party of the Ultrarich and the Ultra-poor'
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When the Supreme Court blocked President Joe Biden's plan to cancel
student debt, his administration hurried to find a work-around. Less
than a year later, Biden has now forgiven more than $160 billion in
college loans for nearly 5 million borrowersâtotals that, as he often
notes, would be much higher if not for the Court.To Representative
Seth Moulton, the policy that Biden tried so hard to implement is a
prime example of how the Democratic Party has gone astray and why
Biden might lose to Donald Trump. "In many ways, we have become the
party of the ultrarich and the ultra-poor, and a lot of people in the
middle think Democrats are out of touch," Moulton told me.
Student-debt relief is "a terrible priority because it sends a message
to everyone who didn't get the opportunity to go to college that
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'Kinds of Kindness' May Test Your Patience
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With his new film, Yorgos Lanthimos returns to his freaky-deaky
rootsâwith mixed results.When I saw Yorgos Lanthimos's breakout 2009
film, the surreal and violent fable Dogtooth, I did not think the
director was destined to grow into a Hollywood brand. Yet that's
exactly what has happened to the Greek filmmaker, whose fascination
with human brutality has not stopped him from becoming a recurring
Oscar favorite who makes crossover art-house hits. Lanthimos's steady
rise culminated in last year's Poor Things, which was somehow one of
the feel-good hits of the fall: a freaky tale set in steampunk
Victorian England about a woman's corpse that is revived with a baby's
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Aileen Cannon Is Who Critics Feared She Was
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The judge handling Trump's classified-documents case has shown that
she's not fit for the task.One year ago, when former President Donald
Trump was indicted on charges related to his hoarding of classified
documents, the case was randomly assigned to Aileen Cannon, a federal
judge for the Southern District of Florida.
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Google Is Turning Into a Libel Machine
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A few weeks ago, I witnessed Google Search make what could have been
the most expensive error in its history. In response to a query about
cheating in chess, Google's new AI Overview told me that the young
American player Hans Niemann had "admitted to using an engine," or a
chess-playing AI, after defeating Magnus Carlsen in 2022âimplying
that Niemann had confessed to cheating against the world's top-ranked
player. Suspicion about the American's play against Carlsen that
September indeed sparked controversy, one that reverberated even
beyond the world of professional chess, garnering mainstream news
coverage and the attention of Elon Musk.Except, Niemann admitted no
such thing. Quite the opposite: He has vigorously defended himself
against the allegations, going so far as to file a $100 million
defamation lawsuit against Carlsen and several others who had accused
him of cheating or punished him for the unproven
allegationâChess.com, for example, had banned Niemann from its
website and tournaments. Although a judge dismissed the suit on
procedural grounds, Niemann has been cleared of wrongdoing, and
Carlsen has agreed to play him again. But the prodigy is still
seething: Niemann recently spoke of an "undying and unwavering
resolve" to silence his haters, saying, "I'm going to be their biggest
nightmare for the rest of their lives." Could he insist that Google
and its AI, too, are on the hook for harming his reputation?
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The Enduring Fascination With Women in Water
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Weeki Wachee Springs State Park, located some 50 miles north of Tampa,
Florida, is best known for its mermaids. Since 1947, synchronized
swimmers in shimmering tails have performed for audiences in the
park's 400-seat aquariumlike theater, which is built roughly 16 feet
below the surface of the Weeki Wachee River's crystalline spring. As a
young girl, watching their water ballet through a wall of glass, I
studied the mermaids' every move in astonishment. Their talents and
allure were otherworldlyâthe soft billowing of their hair, the smooth
weightlessness of their movements, the poise they maintained in
environs inhospitable to any mere mortal.The Weeki Wachee mermaid show
was among dozens of roadside attractions that capitalized on the
success of Esther Williams, a former competitive swimmer who parlayed
her talents in the pool into movie stardom in the 1940s and '50s. Her
films, often dubbed "aquamusicals," were known for their impressive
underwater choreography and synchronized-swimming sequencesâas well
as their enormous success at the box office.
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Will Publishing's Diversity Gains Last?
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Published works of fiction by nonwhite authors more than doubled from
2019 to 2023âbut we may now be seeing a reversal in this trend.This
is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors' weekly guide to the
best in books. Sign up for it here.
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America's Doublethink on Working Through the Heat
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Heat can be deadly; no federal rules currently exist to protect
workers against that danger.It's troublingly hot in June, which means
the United States is entering the heat-death zone for workers again.
We've been here before. In San Antonio, on a blisteringly hot June day
in 2022, Gabriel Infante, a 24-year-old construction worker, died in
his first week on the job, after he entered a state of delirium while
laying fiber-optic cable; medics measured his temperature at 109.8
degrees Fahrenheit. That same month, Esteban Chavez Jr., also 24, died
after passing out while delivering packages in Pasadena, California,
in temperatures above 90 degrees.
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The 'Espresso' Theory of Gender Relations
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The men dominating the Billboard Hot 100 this summer are doing
traditional male things: picking fights, playing guitar, bellowing
about being saved or sabotaged by the opposite sex. Meanwhile, what
are the women of popular music up to? Being brats.Brat may sound like
an insult; Hollywood's "Brat Pack" certainly didn't appreciate the
term in 1985. But when the hipster diva Charli XCX titled her new
album Brat, which spawned a wave of memes with its bile-green cover,
she crystallized a cultural mood: Seeming a little immature, a little
selfish, a little nasty, has taken on an air of glamour. Although
riffing on the archetype of the bad girl is pop tradition, the new
insouciance has a distinctly mischievous bent. It's the sound of young
women cracking jokes with one another against a backdrop of growing
alienation between the genders.
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Americans Have Lost the Plot on Cooking Oil
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Olive oil is a great choice. So is canola oil, vegetable oil, avocado
oil, and pretty much everything else.Every meal I make begins with a
single choice: extra-virgin olive oil or canola? For as long as I've
cooked, these have been my kitchen workhorses, because they're
versatile, affordable, andâmost of allâhealthy. Or so I thought.
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The Improbable, Unstoppable Rise of Goose
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or the sake of brevity, let's skip the first verse and the chorus.
Let's jump over some ambient noodling and the gradual building of
musical tension. Let's begin, in jam-band parlance, on a peak, a
moment of sonic culmination. Let's begin at Radio City Music Hall on
June 25, 2022. Specifically, we're two hours and 12 minutes into the
evening when the house lights come up, a red-haired 57-year-old man
with a guitar walks onstage, and all 6,000 people in attendance
collectively lose their minds as they realize what they are
witnessing.
The redhead is the Phish front man Trey Anastasio. But this isn't a
Phish show. The headliner tonight is Goose, a band of five
30-somethings in the midst of a meteoric rise. This is Goose's
second-straight sold-out show at Radio City; just three years and
three days earlier, the band was playing at Kenny's Westside Pub, in
Peoria, Illinois.
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They run toward Stonehenge in white shirts. Just Stop Oil is
emblazoned on the front, marking them as emissaries of a British
climate-activism group. The pairâone of them young, the other
olderâcarry twin orange canisters that emit a cloud of what looks
like colored smoke (we later learn it's dyed corn flour). A bystander
in a gray coat and baseball hat chases them, screaming, then grabs the
man and tries to pull him away from the historic monument in a failing
bid to protect it. As the cloud clears, the orange stains remain,
soaked into the ancient sarsen stone.
A video of Wednesday's act of vandalism, posted by an X account
devoted to Stonehenge, has accumulated more than 30 million views. The
camps have coalesced as you'd expect: Conservative and moderate voices
have reacted with outrage, while left-leaning environmentalists have
argued that critics should be more concerned about the state of the
planet than a bit of plant-based coloring that was easily removed. If
I have to pick a side, I'm with the gentlemen wielding the washable
dye. (I am an environmental-studies professor, after all.) But the
protest left me frustrated: yet another example of environmental
activism that produces more rancor over its means than focus on its
message.
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Triple-Digit Highs Can Be Misleading
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Summer has only just officially begun, and the world is already
sweltering. This week, two counties in northwestern Maine were under
their first-ever excessive-heat warningâpart of a record-breaking
"heat dome" that has settled on the eastern part of the country.
Washington, D.C., might hit its first triple-digit high since 2016.
Globally, the temperatures this spring have been even more shocking.
Last week, the Sonoran Desert hit 125 degrees, the highest recorded
temperature in Mexican history. Mecca, in Saudi Arabia, hit that same
temperature. Last month, part of New Delhi, India, soared above 120
degrees.
These triple-digit highs are alarming and dangerous. In Mecca,
hundreds of pilgrims making the Hajj pilgrimage to the holy Islamic
city reportedly died in the heat. But in isolation, such temperatures
can also be misleading. Not all 100-degree days are the same. The
highest daily temperature isn't the most revealing number about what a
heat wave actually feels like, or what it does to our bodies.
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All The Washington Post Has Is Its Credibility
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Hours after my Washington Post colleagues and I published the first of
several articles in 2017 about the Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy
Moore's history of pursuing teenage girls, the Republican nominee's
powerful allies launched an elaborate campaign seeking to discredit
the story. The best-known of these efforts was an attempt carried out
by the far-right activist group Project Veritas to dupe us into
publishing a false story, an operation we exposed. But there were
others, perhaps none more insidious than the spreading of false rumors
across Alabama that The Washington Post had paid Moore's accusers to
come forward, and were offering thousands of dollars to other women
for salacious stories about him.
There is a reason Moore's allies used this particular tactic: They
knew that any whiff of a financial motive behind the stories would
taint them. There is also a reason their efforts failed. And there is
a reason I'm bringing this up seven years later.
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