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S15

Medicaid is paying millions for salty, fat-laden 'medically tailored'
cheeseburgers and sandwiches - STAT (No paywall)
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These are among the offerings sold by an Idaho-based company,
Homestyle Direct, which is paid millions of dollars each year by
taxpayer-funded state Medicaid programs to deliver what the company
calls medically tailored meals. The company, which advertises
delivering 7.8 million meals annually, has menus catering to customers
trying to manage their cancer and diabetes, as well as heart healthy
and renal friendly dishes.However, multiple nutrition experts told
STAT that many of Homestyle Directs offerings fall far short of what
theyd consider medically tailored meals, a class of foods that have
been proven to help those suffering from diet-related conditions
improve their health and stay out of the hospital. Most also dont
appear to meet new voluntary accreditation standards crafted by
medically-tailored meal providers.

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S1

Why The Next President Might Be The Worst-Paid In U.S. History -
Forbes (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33374&nl=daily]

Inflation may degrade the commander-in-chief's salary to an all-time
low by 2028. But a look at history shows that big swings arent
necessarily new.

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S2

Founder Of Korean Gaming Company Becomes Billionaire As Shares Surge
On Listing - Forbes (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33374&nl=daily]

Shift Up shares jumped 18% in their public-trading debut and made its
founder and CEO, Kim Hyung-tae, a billionaire.

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S3

Too many Chinese factories are trying to supply the same strategic
industries - Fortune Asia (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33374&nl=daily]

Back in 2017, when he set upZhejiang Huanergy Co., Pan aimed to seize
on what he forecast would be a vast needfor super-thin copper foil
used in electric-vehicle batteries and electronic circuitry. He was
right, and consumption ballooned. Huanergy,as the company is
known,suppliesChinese powerhouses like BYD Co. and Contemporary
Amperex Technology Co. Ltd.The predicament isvisible across
green-energymanufacturing, one of the key sectors in Xis effort get
ahead of geopolitical rivals. Solar panel producers havebeen engulfed
by anoversupply crisisthats pushing companies tohefty lossesand
forcing a brutal shakeout. Inbatteries, Chinas capacity is already big
enough to feed all of global demand and more.

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S4

Deutsche Bank and HSBC are winning Europe's AI talent war - Fortune
Europe (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33374&nl=daily]

Last years U.S. tech grads had scarcely watched their mortarboards hit
the ground before they were being swarmed with job offers from Wall
Streets biggest banks. Its fair to say their peers across the Atlantic
have taken a more relaxed approach to getting the talent they need to
manage the AI boom.Speaking to Fortune at its AI Symposium in June,
Evidents Mousavizadeh said U.S. banks made a conscious decision to be
AI-first early into the techs big breakthrough. From this flowed the
creation of labs, the publishing of research, al flowing from a
dedicated AI hiring team.

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S5

How Lonnie G. Bunch III Is Renovating the Nations Attic - The New
Yorker (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33374&nl=daily]

In September, 2016, when the Smithsonian's crown-like National Museum
of African American History and Culture (N.M.A.A.H.C.) opened its
doors to the public, its founding director, Lonnie G. Bunch III, might
easily have rested on his laurelscontent, in his words, to know that
he'd succeeded in "making the ancestors smile." Securing Black history
a permanent place on the National Mall had once seemed like "A Fool's
Errand"the title of his memoir about the experiencean endeavor so
fraught with political and racial baggage that its achievement had
eluded his predecessors for over a century. He'd spent more than a
decade courting donors, lobbying lawmakers, arguing with architects,
and crisscrossing the country for a grassroots acquisitions campaign
modelled on "Antiques Roadshow." (The collection would come to include
everything from James Brown's cape to a segregated train car from the
Jim Crow South.) It all culminated in a star-studded celebration,
choreographed by Quincy Jones, in which Barack Obama rang a bell from
one of the country's oldest Black churches. The joyful mood was
transient, but the museum wasn't. Months later, when Bunch gave a tour
of N.M.A.A.H.C. to a blithe and bewildered Donald Trump, the
"Blacksonian" became a symbol of all the progress that reactionary
grievance politics couldn't reverse.With relevance and reinvention has
come scrutiny, as the Smithsonian is buffeted by the culture war's
gathering winds. The two new museums, which Congress approved in 2020,
have been threatened with cancellation by conservative lawmakers, who
have framed them as divisive concessions to progressive identity
politics. In December, Bunch testified before the Committee on House
Administration, and Republicans grilled him on drag events, the
alleged racism of an exhibition that discussed whiteness, and even his
panda-retention efforts: Was a lust for cute bears leaving the
Smithsonian open to malign influence from the C.C.P.? Bunch has
shrewdly tacked and jibed between placating the Smithsonian's
right-wing critics and pushing the institution forward. But it remains
to be seen how long he'll be able to renovate the nation's attic while
its representatives are tearing up the house.

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S6

The Euros Are Like Europe, Only Better - The New Yorker (No paywall)
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There are two ways of confronting the tensions that have seized hold
of Europe in recent days and weeks. Two ways, that is, of trying to
understand the fears (genuine or misplaced), and the promises (vacant
or smilingly hopeful), that fill the air. Method A is adopted by
well-informed and gravely troubled citizens who read the Times and
recall, with a pang, that lovely little place near the Pantheon where
they first ate carciofi alla romana. These days, they fret about the
rightward lurch that was evident in the elections to the European
Parliament in early June; about the armfuls of votes that were
gathered in by the National Rally, in France, and that have spooked
Emmanuel Macron into calling a snap election; about Fidesz, in
Hungary; the Brothers of Italy; and the question of whether there is
an alternative, in Germany, to the Alternative for Germany; about mass
immigration, climate change, farmers protests, and what it all means
for the carciofi harvest. Was ever a landmass so plagued, and what on
earth is to be done?If those names leave you blank, then you havent
been tuned into the UEFA European Football Championshipsin common
parlance, the Euroswhich are currently taking place in Germany. And
you therefore didnt catch Turkey v. Georgia on June 18th. Poor you. It
was hell for leather, and heaven for the nonpartisan observer: a
two-way rampage, untarnished by caution, much of it contested in
lashing rain, and capped by a curling, long-range strike from Arda
Gler. To soccer junkies, he is a known quantity, already employed in
the ranks of Real Madrid, but not until now had his skills flourished,
with quite such a blast, on the international stage. Give the kid a
break. Hes only nineteen. As he stood there in the downpour, a slender
figure, drinking in the waves of adulation, his expression was hard to
read: pure delight at his own prowess, or the thrill of being allowed
to stay up past his bedtime?

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S7

China's Self-Imposed Isolation - The Atlantic (No paywall)
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Xi Jinpings policies are cutting off his country from the world, to no
ones ultimate benefit.

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S8

White-Collar Work Is Just Meetings Now - The Atlantic (No paywall)
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The meeting-industrial complex has grown to the point that
communications has eclipsed creativity as the central skill of modern
work.

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S9

The Greatest Climate-Protecting Technology Ever Devised - WIRED (No
paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33374&nl=daily]

It's about 70 meters tall and 2.6 meters in diameter, Bible says,
leaning back to take in the behemoth stretching above him. From way
down here on the shady floor of the forest, he has no hope of seeing
all the way to the tree's top. But thanks to a 279-foot-high tower
that rises above the trees, Bible, who helps manage this site on
behalf of the US Forest Service, has had the chance to know this old
Doug from above as well as below.From hundreds of feet up, at canopy
level, he says, you begin to get a new vision of the complexity of
structure that defines an old forest. It looks like a mountain range,
Bible says. You've got ridges and peaks and valleys. Singular trees
like the big Doug reach high over their neighbors. At around 500 years
of age, it isn't the oldest tree in the forest, but a lucky location
near a wetland has made it one of the biggest.

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S10

How the Math of Cracks Can Make Planes, Bridges and Dams Safer -
Scientific American (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33374&nl=daily]

Better predictions of how cracks grow can make machines and structures
more reliable

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S11

Gen X Faces Higher Cancer Rates Than Any Previous Generation -
Scientific American (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33374&nl=daily]

Researchers are investigating changes in cancer risks among young
people as new data predict that rising rates of leading cancers, such
as colon cancer, will overtake improvements

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S12

The Life and Untimely Death of a Boeing Whistleblower - Intelligencer
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Before he died in March, Mitch Barnett catalogued dangerous flaws in
the companys aircraft.

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S13

'The Economy Ruined My Relationship' - The Cut (No paywall)
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Your boyfriend may feel as if his only option is to move somewhere
cheaper, but hes also choosing to walk away.

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S14

Free medical school tuition unlikely to have a major impact on the
U.S. health care system - STAT (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33374&nl=daily]

Most of Johns Hopkins Universitys medical school students will have
free tuition starting this fall, thanks to a $1 billion gift from
Bloomberg Philanthropies, a longtime donor of the university, whose
school of public health is named after Michael Bloomberg. The largesse
is striking, but, even combined with other recent moves to relieve
future doctors of crushing medical debt, the move may not reverberate
to bring improvements to the broader health care system, experts
say.According to the announcement, part of the gift will go toward
increased tuition aid for health care students other than future
doctors, such as public health and nursing. For future doctors
attending the school, the impact will be more significant. All medical
students from households earning under $300,000 a year will qualify
for free tuition, and students from households earning less than
$175,000 a year can have fees and living expenses paid for. Nearly
two-thirds of currently enrolled students will enjoy one or both of
these benefits.

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S16

Is Canada Free-Riding on Defense? - Foreign Policy (No paywall)
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As leaders from NATO countries gather in Washington this week to mark
the security alliances 75th anniversary, a majority of member states
are proudly proclaiming how they are spending more than 2 percent of
their GDPs on defensea response not only to years of U.S. pressure but
also to the reality of Russias ongoing war in Ukraine. One country is
facing tough criticism for allocating a relatively small 1.3 percent
of its GDP to defense spending: Canada.As leaders from NATO countries
gather in Washington this week to mark the security alliances 75th
anniversary, a majority of member states are proudly proclaiming how
they are spending more than 2 percent of their GDPs on defensea
response not only to years of U.S. pressure but also to the reality of
Russias ongoing war in Ukraine. One country is facing tough criticism
for allocating a relatively small 1.3 percent of its GDP to defense
spending: Canada.

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S17

What Should Britain's Role in the World Be Now? - Foreign Policy (No
paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33374&nl=daily]

When Labour left government 14 years ago, the global foreign-policy
landscape reflected the strong steer of New Labours liberal
interventionist ethical foreign policy. The last Labour government had
embraced a global role for Britain, one that was supposedly driven by
moral idealism. While the United States was the clear economic winner
of the Cold War, in the pre-9/11 world order, Tony Blairs government
had positioned the country as the globes moral compass. In a televised
speech seeking support for Britain and NATOs intervention in Kosovo,
Blair argued, We are doing what is right, for Britain, for Europe, for
a world that must know that barbarity cannot be allowed to defeat
justice. In negotiations in Northern Ireland, in interventions in
Kosovo and Sierra Leone, as well as in framing discussions among the
G-7 leaders about aid and development policies, New Labour positioned
itself as the conscience of globalization. Blair believed that the
inevitability of globalization demands a parallel globalization of our
best ethical values.When Labour left government 14 years ago, the
global foreign-policy landscape reflected the strong steer of New
Labours liberal interventionist ethical foreign policy. The last
Labour government had embraced a global role for Britain, one that was
supposedly driven by moral idealism. While the United States was the
clear economic winner of the Cold War, in the pre-9/11 world order,
Tony Blairs government had positioned the country as the globes moral
compass. In a televised speech seeking support for Britain and NATOs
intervention in Kosovo, Blair argued, We are doing what is right, for
Britain, for Europe, for a world that must know that barbarity cannot
be allowed to defeat justice. In negotiations in Northern Ireland, in
interventions in Kosovo and Sierra Leone, as well as in framing
discussions among the G-7 leaders about aid and development policies,
New Labour positioned itself as the conscience of globalization. Blair
believed that the inevitability of globalization demands a parallel
globalization of our best ethical values.

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Trump-Proofing Europe - Foreign Affairs (No paywall)
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As Russias war in Ukraine enters its third year, Europe has performed
far better than expected. For decades after World War II, it counted
on the United States to be the ultimate guarantor of its security. The
continent relied on Washington to guide NATO policy, provide nuclear
deterrence, and forge consensus among European countries on
controversial questions such as how to resolve the 200912 European
debt crisis. Europe continued to take the U.S. security umbrella for
granted after the Cold War ended, slashing defense spending, failing
to stop the Bosnian genocide in the early 1990s, and refusing to play
a political role in resolving the crisis in Syria, even as it remained
the regions biggest provider of humanitarian aid. After Russia invaded
Ukraine in 2022, many anticipated that Europeans might balk at helping
Kyiv. The last time Russian President Vladimir Putin marched over
Ukrainian bordersannexing Crimea in 2014Europe responded with weak
sanctions and halfhearted attempts at diplomatic compromise while
increasing its dependence on Russian gas.But over the last few years,
the world has seen a glimpse of a stronger Europe. European countries
have sustained a united front in resisting Russias aggression, hosting
millions of refugees, coordinating painful decoupling from Russian gas
supplies, imposing strong economic sanctions and export restrictions
on Russia, training Ukrainian soldiers, and inviting Ukraine to join
the European Union. The $53 billion EU aid package to Ukraine that was
slated for approval in February set Europes combined economic and
military assistance to Kyiv, including its multiyear commitments, at
double the amount the United States is providing. For the first time
since 2007, the EU has even gathered the confidence to substantially
enlarge itself. In December 2023, it extended candidate status to
Georgia and launched accession talks with Moldova and Ukraine.

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NATO Cannot Survive Without America - Foreign Affairs (No paywall)
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Last month, NATO, the worlds most successful military alliance,
celebrated its 75th anniversary. Some fear that it may have been its
last anniversary with the United States playing a leading role. Former
U.S. President Donald Trump still views the alliance as obsolete. If
reelected, he says he would encourage Russian leaders to do whatever
the hell they want to member states that do not pay what he considers
to be enough for defense. A second Trump presidency could have dire
implications for European security.Trumps defenders argue that he is
bluffing to pressure Europe into spending more on defense. But former
U.S. officials who worked closely with Trump on NATO during his
tenure, including one of us (Hooker), are convinced he will withdraw
from the alliance if he is reelected. Trump hugely resents the more
moderate advisers who kept him in check during his first term. If he
reaches the White House in 2025, the guardrails will be off.

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S20

Epidurals may do more than relieve pain--they could save lives -
National Geographic Premium (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33374&nl=daily]

With childbirth being a leading cause of death in many areas of the
world, expectant mothers have long tried to mitigate the fear and
discomfort associated with having a baby. Historically, thats meant
using all manner ofpain-relief interventions including hypnosis,
opium, counterpressure, water immersion, and herbal remedies such as
raspberry leaf and black cohosh.Though pain relief is the primary
reason most women choose an epidural, new research from scientists at
the University of Glasgow and the University of Bristol shows that
having an epidural also lowers the risk of serious complications in
the weeks following childbirthby as much as 35 percent.

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S21

Trouble sleeping on planes? These science-backed tips will help you
snooze while flying - National Geographic (No paywall)
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Rick Steves, the indomitable travel writer and guide, described his
travel routine in an email: I dress warm and loose for flights and
cuddle up with my sweater and scarf. Next, I slip on my
noise-canceling headphones, which both mute the rumble of the engines
and the mind-numbing chatter of people around me."The physical
limitations of sleeping are joined by a host of other in-flight
demons. The humidity in the passenger cabin is low and the resulting
dry air can irritate the eyes and nose. Air pressure is also lower,
which can trigger headaches and nausea, neither conducive for nodding
off. Some people can experience the unsettling feeling of altitude
sickness when the plane hits 4,500 feet, about 10 minutes into the
flight.

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S22

Why Do Some People Always Seem To Get Lost? - Discover Magazine (No
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Like many of the researchers who study how people find their way from
place to place, David Uttal is a poor navigator. When I was 13 years
old, I got lost on a Boy Scout hike, and I was lost for two and a half
days, recalls the Northwestern University cognitive scientist. And hes
still bad at finding his way around.The world is full of people like
Uttal and their opposites, the folks who always seem to know exactly
where they are and how to get where they want to go. Scientists
sometimes measure navigational ability by asking someone to point
toward an out-of-sight location or, more challenging, to imagine they
are someplace else and point in the direction of a third location and
its immediately obvious that some people are better at it than others.

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S23

Mapped: Population Density of Brazil - Visual Capitalist (No paywall)
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Brazil is ranked seventh in the world with a total population of 217
million people. This map shows the population density of Brazil.

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S24

Visualizing 170 Years of Cumulative GHG Emissions - Visual Capitalist
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From this graphic, we can identify the three largest regional emitters
as Europe & Central Asia, East Asia & Pacific, and North America.
Together, they account for 79% of global cumulative GHG emissions
since 1850. This is the equivalent of 2.06 million gigatons, or
2,060,000,000,000,000 metric tons of COe.

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S25

How Sea Creatures Have Adapted To Life In Sunken World War II Vessels
- Discover Magazine (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33374&nl=daily]

In March of 1942, the U.S. was only a few months into the Second World
War. Already, German submarines lurked near the Atlantic coast,
hunting for supply freighters and battleships. Late in the month, a
U-71 detected the Dixie Arrow, an oil tanker carrying more than 86,000
barrels of crude oil from Texas to New Jersey.More than three million
known shipwrecks have found their way to the bottom of the worlds
waterways. Although ships have been sinking for thousands of years,
scientific inquiry into these wrecks is more recent. In the 1920s,
British scientist Lilian Lyle investigated a wreck in Scapa Flow (a
body of water between the Orkney Islands in Scotland) and launched the
academic study of sunken ships.

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S26

This Entrepreneur Had a Major Stroke at 39. While She Recovered, Her
Business Didn't Miss a Beat. Here's How
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For about five minutes last January, Jenny Bristow couldn't speak, and
the 39-year-old lost control of her left hand while playing disc golf
on a trip toArizona with her husband. At first, he thought she was
joking around, but then the left side of her body went numb, and the
left side of her face drooped.Bristow had suffered a major ischemic
stroke that day. She'd later learn that over the past two decades,
she'd had more than 12 mini-strokes. In the six months that followed,
the CEO saw things unravel--she had another mini-stroke, and then
underwent surgery to fix a hole in her heart that her doctors thought
might have been the cause. She continued to suffer debilitating
stroke-induced migraines and memory problems that prevented her from
working for more than an hour a day.

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S27

What Separates Good Leaders from Bad Managers Boils Down to 5 Simple
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In every workplace, managersplay a crucial role in shaping the
environment and influencing the success of their teams. However, not
all managers are leaders, and even if they think they are, not all
leaders are created equal.There's a distinct difference between a good
leader who inspires and motivates and a bad manager (the "boss") who
demoralizes and creates a toxic atmosphere. Let's delve into the
choices thatset them apart:

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S28

Venture Capital Just Hit 'Quality Over Quantity' Mode. Here's What
That Means for New Founders
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Though VC firms are investing more dollars compared to a year ago,
investors are taking a"quality over quantity" approach, backing only
companies with demonstrably strong performance, according to a
second-quarter report from the research firm PitchBook. The value of
U.S. VC investmentsduring the second quarter of 2024 reached $55.6
billion, up from $35.4 billion during Q2 2023. Meanwhile, the number
of dealsfellfrom 3,670 to 3,108, though the actual count may
ultimately turn out to be well over 4,000, the firm estimates, once
new datacomes to light."The peak of the COVID-19 pandemic saw
unprecedented levels of investment in a variety of technologies such
as early-stage blockchain, autonomous vehicles, virtual reality, AI,
and others," Bobby Franklin, chief executive of the National Venture
Capital Association trade group, wrote in thereport. "The initial
flood of investment into these technologies has largely abated, and
now investors are focused on supporting their most promising companies
to maturity amid a historically challenging exit environment."

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Goals Are Worth Absolutely Nothing If You're Not Communicating Them
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What good is a goal if no one knows what it is? If you want a goal to
be achieved as quickly and successfully as possible, you're going to
have to tell other people what it is so they can help you get there.
Sadly, many leaders fail to do just that.As an example, you should
attempt not only to communicate your organization's goals but also its
vision--that far-off horizon that every member of your organization is
actually working toward. Communicate this as often as you possibly
can, and everywhere you possibly can, in every direction (to your
suppliers, your clients, your employees, and so on).

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S30

An Ex-Facebook VP Warned Against Using This Common 3-Word Phrase at
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Imagine the following scenario: You're sitting in a meeting discussing
a problem, and a member of your team expresses a strong opinion. Your
opinion is equally strong, but onthe opposite end of the spectrum."If
not, then'I don't agree'may make the other person instinctively feel
the need to defend their idea," Zhuo, who went on to cofound data
analytics company Sundial,goes on to explain. "And defense mode makes
it harder to be open to new suggestions."

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Economists Aren't Great at Forecasting Inflation
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While policymakers and prediction markets are banking on cooler
inflation, history suggests we have more uncertainty to come, as far
as forecasts. Economists have long had trouble making accurate
inflation calls, and today's data dump looks as up in the air as
ever.As for the latest batch of estimates, the 13 CPI predictions
tracked by FactSet range from 2.7 percent to 3.50 percent, for a total
spread of 80 basis points. That's higher than the five-year average
spread of 49 basis points.

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Unionization on the Table for Uber, Lyft Drivers in Massachusetts
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April Verrett, president of the Service Employees International Union,
said the tens of thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers working in
Massachusetts deserve the collective bargaining benefits of
unions.Attorney General Andrea Campbell, who secured the
settlement--which included what she described as "an unprecedented
package of minimum wage, benefits and protections"--is also backing
the ballot question.

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California Fast Food Workers See Reduced Hours after Minimum Wage Hits
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Lawrence Cheng, whose family owns seven Wendy's locations south of Los
Angeles, took orders at the register and emptied steaming hot baskets
of French fries and chicken nuggets, salting them with a
flourish--typical shift activities.Cheng used to have nearly a dozen
employees on the afternoon shift at his Fountain Valley location in
Orange County. Now he only schedules seven for each shift as he
scrambles to absorb a dramatic jump in labor costs after a new
California law boosted the hourly wage for fast food workers on April
1 from $16 to $20 an hour.

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Dangerous DoorDash Drivers to Be Removed from Platform
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In a letter sent in Juneto DoorDash and other food delivery companies,
Boston officials said they were seeing an increase in the unlawful and
dangerous operation of motorcycles, mopeds and motorized scooters by
delivery workers.San Francisco-based DoorDash said it has created a
dedicated point of contact for the Boston Police Department to make it
faster and easier to process requests for drivers' records. The
company said it would also consider removing drivers from the platform
if police report they have broken traffic laws.

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Will AI Help or Hurt Sustainability? Yes | Andrew Winston
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The proverbial ship of artificial intelligence is moving ahead at warp
speed, icebergs and societal risks be damned. The pace of change in
what it can do is staggering. Breathless predictions say AI will add
trillions of dollars to the economy through massive cost savings and
entirely new products and markets. While the capabilities of AI, along
with both excitement and fear, are exploding, its a good time to ask
what AI might mean for the worlds serious challenges (climate change,
inequality, threats to democracy, and more). Will it help us or hinder
us or both? What does AI mean for the quest for a more regenerative
and net-positive world? This could obviously be a book-length
discussion, but let me focus on four big categories of impact AIs
upside for helping on climate change and sustainability, its rising
energy demands, the dangers of AI-enhanced misinformation, and its
impact on peoples livelihoods and provide a snapshot of where we are
right now.

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S36

A Yearlong NASA Mars Simulation Revealed the Biggest Obstacle to
Colonizing the Red Planet
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Four volunteers sacrificed a year of their lives to investigate how a
commonly-overlooked item found in our homes will be critical to
surviving on Mars. They learned that on Mars, the lettuce that gets
forgotten in our refrigerators would be a treasure. On Saturday, the
378-day Mars analog mission Crew Health and Performance Exploration
Analog (CHAPEA) 1 came to an end. Its four crew members lived inside a
1,700 square foot habitat to mimic what life on Mars might be like.
They communicated to the outside world with 22-minute delays, like
those regularly occurring between NASA and its spacecraft at the Red
Planet. They endured isolation from their loved ones. They also grew
and harvested their own vegetables.

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'The Acolyte' Just Flubbed a Pivotal Twist That 'The Last Jedi' Nailed
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Memory is a funny thing. Science tells us that each time you remember
an event from your life, you actually change the story ever so
slightly without even realizing it. Retell the same moment from your
past too many times and you may forget how it really happened.Plenty
of movies and TV shows explore the weird nature of memories too,
showing us overlapping flashbacks of the same event that disagree or
outright contradict each other. The most well-known example of this is
Rashomon, the Japanese movie from 1950 in which four witnesses share
four different accounts of the same murder. But over the years, weve
also seen the Rashomon effect used in various Star Wars stories, with
mixed results.

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S38

Hands-On With Samsung's Galaxy Ring: Is It an Oura Killer?
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When Samsung surprise-announced the Galaxy Ring at the end of its
Unpacked event in January for the launch of the Galaxy S24 series
phones, it left everyone with tons of unanswered questions. Now, we
know all of the official details.At its Unpacked event in Paris,
alongside new foldables (Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6), smartwatches
(Galaxy Watch Ultra and Watch 7), and wireless earbuds (Galaxy Buds 3
and Buds 3 Pro), Samsung finally formally took the wraps off the
Galaxy Ring its first smart ring in full, and shared features, release
date information, and pricing.

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The Galaxy Watch Ultra Is Samsung's Answer to the Apple Watch Ultra
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Its pretty obvious where Samsung got its inspiration, but how does it
actually compare to Apples rugged smartwatch?Four years ago, Samsung
gave its flagship Galaxy S series smartphones the Ultra treatment with
the Galaxy S20 Ultra. Today, at Unpacked in Paris, Samsungs smartwatch
is leveling up with the Galaxy Watch Ultra. Samsung also announced the
Galaxy Watch 7, but thats more of an annual spec bump than a new class
of smartwatch to covet.

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Hands-On With Samsung's More Durable Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6
Foldable Phones
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As widely expected, Samsung used its Unpacked event in Paris to
announce a tsunami of new Galaxy products. Chief among them were two
new foldable phones: the Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Z Flip 6.The
sixth-generation Samsung foldables, available in book-style Fold and
clamshell-style Flip, are yet again iterations of what came before.
While it may seem like Samsung has become complacent as competitors
release foldables that are thinner, lighter, and have more desirable
dimensions, the Korean tech giant has made several upgrades and
additions that I think deserve a closer look.

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S41

Hands-On With Samsung's Galaxy Buds 3 and Buds 3 Pro That Look Like
AirPods
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Among all of the new products Samsung announced at Unpacked in Paris,
Samsungs new Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 ($179.99) and Buds 3 Pro ($249.99)
might be the most divisive... because of how much they look like
AirPods.Everybody and I do mean everybody I spoke to who got a first
look at Samsungs redesigned wireless earbuds said the obvious: the
Galaxy Buds 3 and Buds 3 Pro look like AirPods 3 and AirPods Pro 2,
respectively.

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S42

'The Acolyte' Just Rebooted a Very Obscure Dark Side Power
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The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to powers some might consider
unnatural, and also some powers no one has ever used in Star Wars
before. In The Acolyte Episode 7, Choice, the Witches of Brendok
manage to possess the bodies of two Jedi. But is this a new Force
power, or something Star Wars has already shown us?In terms of
onscreen canon, the Force possession we see in The Acolyte is fairly
new. And even if there are a few precedents, the scope of this power
is a game-changer not just for the Jedi in The Acolyte, but pretty
much all of Star Wars, from the distant past to the unknown future.
Spoilers ahead.

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S43

'The Acolyte' Just Sneakily Set Up a Major Finale Twist
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The Acolyte Episode 7 finally gave viewers the real version of what
went down at Brendok, not just what Osha and Mae remember. Sol and his
Jedi colleagues commit a series of mistakes that leave Mae to fend for
herself, Osha adopted by the Jedi, and the entire Brendok coven
dead.Among all the excitement, we learn that Osha and Mae arent just
twins, but have identical Force symbionts. Essentially, theyre one
consciousness split into two beings. This reveal is more than a
testament to their sisterly connection; it suggests that their true
origin is a sinister one.

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S44

Xbox Game Pass Has Officially Jumped the Shark
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The best deal in gaming has officially jumped the shark, as Xbox
announced yet another wave of convoluted changes to its stagnant
subscription service. Xbox Game Pass will get a significant price
increase as well as changes to whats included in each of its tiers,
Microsoft announced on July 9. For starters, Game Pass Ultimate, the
premium tier that includes games on console and PC, access to EA Play,
cloud streaming, and playable first-party Xbox games on release day,
is going from $17 to $20 per month.

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S45

After '12 Monkeys,' Aaron Stanford Is Ready To Take On Another Bruce
Willis Role
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The X2 and 12 Monkeys veteran reflects on why he plays such heavy
characters in science fiction.When Marvel fans go to see Deadpool &
Wolverine this summer, old-school X-Men fans will be delighted to see
the return of Aaron Standford as the infamous mutant known as Pyro.
But the X2 actors career is more varied and unique than his Marvel
role suggests. In fact, Stanford has traveled the multiverse of
various sci-fi franchises and has emerged as something of a journeyman
throughout it all.

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S46

7 Big WearOS 5 Features That Make the Galaxy Watch Ultra a Real Apple
Watch Rival
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Google already teased its Wear OS 5 features earlier this year, but
now, with the unveiling of Samsungs Galaxy Watch Ultra, we have a more
complete idea of what the upcoming OS will look like.Its been a whole
year since Wear OS 4 also debuted with the Galaxy Watch 6, and Google
has clearly been working on some big changes, including better battery
life, more detailed running metrics, and even a watch face that shows
the weather.

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How 'Maxxxine' Brings Ti West and Mia Goth's X Universe Full Circle
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Ti West, Mia Goth, and Kevin Bacon speak about the making of the final
film in the X trilogy.For the director, who hadnt made a horror movie
in nearly 10 years when he set out to write X, a 1970s-set slasher
about amateur adult filmmakers facing off against murderous
octogenarians on a decrepit farm in rural Texas, the idea that he was
setting in motion an entire franchise of A24-produced films was too
ambitious to entertain.

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The Most Mysterious New Star Wars Movie Could Repeat a Tired Marvel
Trope
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The Marvel and Star Wars universes are two sides of the same coin.
Both are massive sci-fi franchises owned by Disney, both rely on
interconnected storytelling across films and Disney+ TV shows, both
are major tentpoles of the blockbuster scene, and the Venn diagram of
their respective fandoms has a large overlap.But while their output
may be similar, the franchises themselves are quite different. Space
operas and superhero stories can share the same DNA, but what works in
The Outer Rim wont work in Stark Tower. Despite that, a new rumor
claims that Star Wars will be borrowing a major talent from Marvel. If
true, it may be the wrong move.

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7 New AI Features Samsung Galaxy Fans Need to Know About
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Samsungs Unpacked event brought the grand reveal of the latest Galaxy
Z Fold 6 and Galaxy Z Flip 6 foldables, and while it mostly played it
safe on the hardware front, it did introduce some impressive AI
features to make the experience feel fresh.Some of the Galaxy AI
features build upon what was first introduced with the earlier
Unpacked event this year that debuted the Galaxy S24 models, but some
tap even further into generative AI to add more image creation,
translation, and more. Here are seven of the must-know AI features
that are coming to Samsungs latest foldables.

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Samsung's Galaxy Ring Is the Apple Watch Replacement I Didn't Know I
Needed
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Im not a smartwatch guy. Thats not a knock on the Apple Watch or its
ilk, or anyone who wears one. But for me, there are (to put things in
divorce terms) some irreconcilable differences.But Im a modern man,
after all, and just because smartwatches and I dont vibe on the level
needed to tie the knot doesnt mean they dont do lots of things that I
like. If only I a definitive hater could cherry-pick the stuff that I
do like and leave the rest behind. If only there was...

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