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You can turn any random sequence of events into a clock - New
Scientist (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

A set of mathematical equations can help turn apparently random
observations into a clock and then measure its accuracy

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Mapped: The Population Density of France - Visual Capitalist (No
paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

As a leading economic hub in France, Lyon is the second-most densely
populated in the country, at 1,491 people per square kilometer. With
one of the strongest GDPs in Europe, the city creates 10,000 new
businesses annually across a highly diversified economy. Major sectors
in the city include machinery, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and
energy.As the fifth-biggest metropolitan in the country, Nices primary
economic driver is tourism. Located on the eastern coastline of
France, roughly 40% of residents are employed directly or indirectly
from the tourism industry. This is thanks to its rich architectural
history and idyllic beaches in the French Riviera.

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Lions' record-breaking swim across channel captured by drone camera -
New Scientist (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

Two lions, one missing a leg, made a 1.5-kilometre swim through
crocodile-infested waters in Uganda, probably in order to mate with
females

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S4

Dingoes and Domestic Dogs: Common Ancestors, but Different
Evolutionary Paths - Discover Magazine (No paywall)
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Although the scientists had anticipated the domestic-dingo divergence,
the study still yielded surprises. First, they were able to recover
full genomic data from dingo remains over 2,000 years old. Second, the
data revealed significant variations between dingoes from the east and
west parts of the continent dating back at least 2,500 years. And,
finally, they discovered that modern dingoes did little to no
interbreeding with contemporary dogs. If we look at things in term
generation time, that is number of generations elapsed, on average,
since dingoes arrived into Australia, that is equivalent to the number
of generations humans have been out of Africa, Souilmi says. So
dingoes are as genetically distinct as an Eskimo is from a Masai."

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When Scientific Citations Go Rogue: Uncovering 'Sneaked References' -
Discover Magazine (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

A researcher working alone apart from the world and the rest of the
wider scientific community is a classic yet misguided image. Research
is, in reality, built on continuous exchange within the scientific
community: First you understand the work of others, and then you share
your findings.Reading and writing articles published in academic
journals and presented at conferences is a central part of being a
researcher. When researchers write a scholarly article, they must cite
the work of peers to provide context, detail sources of inspiration
and explain differences in approaches and results. A positive citation
by other researchers is a key measure of visibility for a researchers
own work.

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Your khaki pants have a history that may surprise you - History (No
paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

The first use of khaki fabric in military uniforms is attributed to
Sir Harry Lumsden, founder of the Corps of Guides in India and his
second-in-command William Hodson. Established in 1846 during the
British East India Companys occupation, the Corps of Guides was made
up of Indian soldiers who acted as scouts and participated in combat
on behalf of the British Indian Army. In 1848, Hodson said he would
make [the Guides] invisible in a land of dust.Khaki military uniforms
were the first widespread use of tactical camouflage, and the light
fabric was more suitable for combat in warm regions. In 1897, khaki
became the official uniform for all British troops overseas. Other
armies soon began to use khaki uniforms, including the U.S. Rough
Riders fighting in the Spanish-American War and South African soldiers
in the Boer War.

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It's hard to reconnect with old friends. Science may have a solution.
- National Geographic (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

Hearing from an old friend youve lost touch with can be a pleasant
surprise, and reviving those old friendships can be extremely
fulfilling. Psychologists have long noted the benefits of more
friendships and more diverse friendships. But according to a new study
by psychologists from Simon Fraser University and University of
Sussex, we often hesitate to initiate those reconnections.The study
included seven large surveys of almost 2,500 participants. Over 90
percent of participants in the first survey could think of a
particular friend with whom they had lost touch and would like to
speak with again. However, even when participants expressed wanting to
reconnect, thought the friend would be appreciative, and were given
time to draft a message, only about a third actually sent the message.

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The Dysfunctional Superpower - Foreign Affairs (No paywall)
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The United States now confronts graver threats to its security than it
has in decades, perhaps ever. Never before has it faced four allied
antagonists at the same timeRussia, China, North Korea, and Iranwhose
collective nuclear arsenal could within a few years be nearly double
the size of its own. Not since the Korean War has the United States
had to contend with powerful military rivals in both Europe and Asia.
And no one alive can remember a time when an adversary had as much
economic, scientific, technological, and military power as China does
today.The problem, however, is that at the very moment that events
demand a strong and coherent response from the United States, the
country cannot provide one. Its fractured political
leadershipRepublican and Democratic, in the White House and in
Congresshas failed to convince enough Americans that developments in
China and Russia matter. Political leaders have failed to explain how
the threats posed by these countries are interconnected. They have
failed to articulate a long-term strategy to ensure that the United
States, and democratic values more broadly, will prevail.

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Will Pezeshkian's Win Lead to a Thaw in U.S.-Iran Relations? - Foreign
Policy (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

To the surprise of many, a relatively unknown candidate won Irans
presidential elections. Masoud Pezeshkian, a parliamentarian and
former health minister who had next to no name recognition outside
Iran and is not even an especially high-profile figure domestically,
prevailed against arch-hardliner Saeed Jalili in the runoff on July
5.To the surprise of many, a relatively unknown candidate won Irans
presidential elections. Masoud Pezeshkian, a parliamentarian and
former health minister who had next to no name recognition outside
Iran and is not even an especially high-profile figure domestically,
prevailed against arch-hardliner Saeed Jalili in the runoff on July 5.

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Unsettling truths about maternal mortality in the U.S. - STAT (No
paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

Both sides are partially right, because measuring maternal mortality
is uniquely challenging. The question at the heart of identifying a
maternal death Would this person have died if she hadnt been pregnant?
often cant be answered simply from a medical record. In medical
emergencies that occur during birth, such as unstoppable bleeding, the
decision is straightforward. The answer in a death that occurs several
months after giving birth, like was a stroke or opioid overdose
related to the pregnancy, is a challenging judgment call and honest
people can disagree.The U.S. uses three different systems to identify
maternal deaths; each has its particular strengths and limitations.
The National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) has the most timely, if
least precise, data and makes it publicly available for analysis. The
Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Pregnancy Mortality
Surveillance System (PMSS) is more reliable but slower, doesnt provide
state level estimates, and is available only to CDC researchers. State
Maternal Mortality Review Committees can do the richest analyses and
provide concrete, localized recommendations, but theyre also generally
the slowest, are not consistent across states, and dont provide
national estimates.

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CAR-T therapy's complications, as well as its benefits, become clearer
in 'flurry' of cancer studies - STAT (No paywall)
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Researchers were perplexed when the Food and Drug Administration
announced it was investigating whether CAR-T therapy, one of the most
effective treatments for blood cancers, could cause lymphoma. This was
always a theoretical risk of genetically engineered therapies like
CAR-T, but it never materialized in the decades after the technologys
birth.So, when the agency pointed late last year to a couple dozen
cases of T cell lymphoma in patients who had previously been treated
with CAR-T cells, it felt like an old question had been reignited. The
field jumped to investigate whether CAR-T truly could cause new
cancers and what the odds were if so. Those efforts have led to a
flurry of publications, said Marcela Maus, a CAR-T researcher at Mass
General Cancer Center.

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Kevin Hart Sued for Millions Over Allegedly Breached Sex-Tape
Settlement - Vulture (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

Former friend J.T. Jackson claims the comedian failed to clear his
name and fabricated evidence.

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The Wedding of the Year Is Upon Us - The Cut (No paywall)
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Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant (and their massively wealthy
families) are tying the knot for real.

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The Supreme Court Threw Us--and the Chevron Deference--Overboard with
Its Fish Ruling - Scientific American (No paywall)
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A case about Atlantic herring has resulted in SCOTUS ending a 40-year
policy to defer to expert agencies when considering regulations. The
effects will likely be felt far beyond fishing

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Can AI Be Superhuman? Flaws in Top Gaming Bot Cast Doubt - Scientific
American (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

By learning exploits from adversarial AI, people could defeat a
superhuman Go-playing system

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Joe Bidens Less-Than-Awful Press Conference Does Not Mean Everything
Is Now O.K. - The New Yorker (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

By the time Joe Biden took the stage on Thursday evening, almost an
hour late, for his first solo news conference in eight months, it was
hard to imagine what the President could say that would satisfy
nervous Democrats who are wondering whether he needs to pull the plug
on his relection campaign: I'm sorry? I'm going to do better? I quit?
He didn't say any of those things, of course. Though maybe he should
have.There was a bad whiff about the event well before it began. In
the hours leading up to the press conference, more dire news stalked
Bidena Pew Research poll found that seventy-one per cent of Biden's
own voters wanted both him and former President Donald Trump to drop
out; a steady drip of Democratic lawmakers was practically begging him
to "do the right thing" and step aside; quotes to the press from
anonymous Biden aides declared his candidacy all but dead as his
approval rating sank to a new low of just under thirty-seven per cent
in the FiveThirtyEight average. "He needs to drop out," one Biden
campaign staffer told NBC News. "He will never recover from this."

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John Fettermans War - The New Yorker (No paywall)
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On a cool, sunny evening in April, John Fetterman, the junior senator
from Pennsylvania, relaxed into the passenger seat of his
robin's-egg-blue Ford Bronco, which was parked just outside the U.S.
Capitol. He was headed to his parents' house, in York, Pennsylvania,
where he grew up, and did not seem unhappy to be leaving Washington. A
few hours earlier, in an elevator off the Senate chamber, he had
closed his eyes and let his head slump against the control
panelwhether from exhaustion or annoyance, it was hard to tell. Now,
as an aide inched the Bronco through traffic, Fetterman mentioned that
his Republican opponent in 2022, the TV doctor Mehmet Oz, had spent
twenty-seven million dollars of his own fortune on the campaign. "And
I'm, like, for what?" Fetterman said. "The glamour? I live in a tiny,
very expensive apartment. It's basically a couch and a bed. I go home
and I order Grubhub."A certain geographic specificity has been
essential to Fetterman's riseif Donald Trump represented a Republican
version of what the politics of industrial decline might look like,
then Fetterman, a left-of-center populist from western Pennsylvania,
could embody the Democratic one. He is six feet eight and thickly
built, a onetime college offensive tackle with a shaved head, a
prominent brow, and a laconic, watchful demeanor. No matter how formal
the setting, he dresses in a hoodie and athletic shorts, a costume
that inspired the passage of a bipartisan billthe Show Our Respect to
the Senate (SHORTS) Actrequiring business attire of every senator in
the chamber. Fetterman's wardrobe reinforces his populist politics,
but it also has physical advantages. One of his former aides told me,
"I've been in big-and-tall stores with him. It is impossible to find a
suit that looks decent when you are that big."

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An Attempt to Check the Supreme Court's Power - The Atlantic (No
paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

House Democrats articles of impeachment wont advance, but theyre a
striking escalation.

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A Hundred Years of Mocking Vegetarians - The Atlantic (No paywall)
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For a rare lifestyle choice, vegetarianism tends to drive people
pretty bonkers.

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OpenAI Is Testing Its Powers of Persuasion - WIRED (No paywall)
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This week, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Arianna Huffington, founder
and CEO of the health company Thrive Global, published an article in
Time touting Thrive AI, a startup backed by Thrive and OpenAIs Startup
Fund. The piece suggests that AI could have a huge positive impact on
public health by talking people into healthier behavior.Altman and
Huffington write that Thrive AI is working toward a fully integrated
personal AI coach that offers real-time nudges and recommendations
unique to you that allows you to take action on your daily behaviors
to improve your health.Persuasiveness is a key element in programs
like ChatGPT and one of the ingredients that makes such chatbots so
compelling. Language models are trained in human writing and dialog
that contains countless rhetorical and suasive tricks and techniques.
The models are also typically fine-tuned to err toward utterances that
users find more compelling.

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How Watermelon Cupcakes Kicked Off an Internal Storm at Meta - WIRED
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But when a club for Muslim workers revealed plans to spend $200 in
company funds to serve nine dozen cupcakes in watermelon colors at the
event, Meta management called the offering disruptive and demanded the
group go another routesuch as traditional Muslim sweets, a staffer
overseeing internal community relations wrote in a chat to an
organizer. Watermelon references or imagery should not be included as
part of materials or giveaways (e.g. cupcakes).Watermelon for decades
has been a stand-in for Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation
because its colors match the Palestinian flag. The fruits symbolic
usage has grown since the latest fighting broke out last October.
Jewish and Israeli tech workers have felt targeted as pro-Palestinian
rhetoric and symbols sometimes get interspersed with what they view as
antisemitic or anti-Zionist hate.

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Russia believed to be behind plot to assassinate Europe's top defence
boss - FT (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

Rheinmetall chief Armin Papperger says German government providing
great level of security

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The US had an exceptionally good inflation report. Now what? - FT (No
paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

We just have to make sure we stay at 2 per cent

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PwC hits the brakes on summer Fridays as growth slows and salaries get
squeezed - Fortune Europe (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

The first target is its popular summer Fridays scheme allowing them to
take a half day every week during the warmer months. Commonly found in
New York, the scheme reportedly started as far back as the 1960s when
execs downed tools early to pack their bags for holiday homes in the
Hamptons. Some spots on the east end of Long Island are known for
being as buzzy as Manhattan during the summer months, with business
meetings and important networking held out of the city.Employees
hailed the opportunity to start their weekends early. Nearly
three-quarters said it had improved their wellbeing to a great extent,
detailing in an internal survey how they would spend their extra time
with friends and family. The employees also had the relief of a
quieter email inbox on the days they would finish early.

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Amazon trails behind in latest U.K. compliance test and is threatened
with investigation over poor supplier treatment - Fortune Europe (No
paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

The survey shows clearly that many suppliers do not believe that
Amazon is complying with the code, said Mark White, the Groceries Code
Adjudicator, in a statement. I will not hesitate to launch a formal
investigation if appropriate and necessary to ensure Amazon is
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without notice.

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A Psychologist Explains PebblingA Wholesome Dating Trend On The Rise -
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This animal-kingdom inspired dating trend is gaining traction
onlineand it's undeniably cute. Here's how it manifests in romantic
relationships.

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This AI-Powered Coach Catches Hallucinations In Other AI Models -
Forbes (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

AI evaluation company Patronus AI claims that its new model, Lynx can
not only catch hallucinations produced by large language models but
also explain why they're wrong.

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Faddish thinking is hobbling education in the rich world - The
Economist (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

That the pandemic messed up schooling is well known. Between 2018 and
2022 an average teenager in a rich country fell some six months behind
their expected progress in reading and nine months behind in maths,
according to the OECD. What is less widely understood is that the
trouble began long before covid-19 struck. A typical pupil in an OECD
country was no more literate or numerate when the coronavirus first
ran amok than children tested 15 years earlier. As our special report
argues, education in the rich world is stagnating. This should worry
parents and policymakers alike. In America long-running tests of maths
and reading find that attainment peaked in the early 2010s. Since
then, average performance there has gone sideways or backwards. In
Finland, France, Germany and the Netherlands, among other places,
scores in some international tests have been falling for years. What
has gone wrong?

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Efforts to teach character bring promise and perils - The Economist
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Aristotle TAUGHT his students the importance of managing their
emotions. John Dewey, an early 20th-century reformer, sparked the idea
that teachers must educate the whole child. For decades wealthy
parents in Britain (and a few other places) sent kids to boarding
schools in the hope that they would pick up traits such as
independence and resilience. It is not controversial to argue that a
young childs first years in education are as much about learning
social skills and self-control as about anything else.Many educators
today take enthusiastically to this thinking, under the auspices of
social and emotional learning (SEL), a term as fuzzy as it is
ubiquitous. Proponents of SEL say that teachers could be doing heaps
more to instil in youngsters useful attributes such as optimism,
empathy and emotional stability. The pandemic supercharged interest in
this approach, as educators searched for ways to shore up young teens
lagging social skills or give them techniques for beating the blues.
Yet critics see a shiny distraction from the hard graft of academic
learning. They worry that all sorts of spurious ideas are riding in on
its coat-tails.

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Find the AI Approach That Fits the Problem You're Trying to Solve
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AI moves quickly, but organizations change much more slowly. What
works in a lab may be wrong for your company right now. If you know
the right questions to ask, you can make better decisions, regardless
of how fast technology changes. You can work with your technical
experts to use the right tool for the right job. Then each solution
today becomes a foundation to build further innovations tomorrow. But
without the right questions, youll be starting your journey in the
wrong place.

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To Implement Change, You Don't Need to Convince Everyone at Once
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Managers launching a new initiative often try to start big. They work
to gain approval for a substantial budget, recruit high-profile
executives, arrange a big kick-off meeting, then look to move fast,
gain scale, and generate some quick wins. But starting with a big
kickoff campaign is more likely to activate resistance than it is to
win over a majority. Its also unnecessary. Decades of research shows
that you dont need to convince everybody for an idea to take hold.In
fact, a significant minority is completely sufficient to create
change. So rather than trying to convince the skeptics from the
outset, a much more effective strategy is to identify people who are
already enthusiastic about the idea and want the transformation to
succeed. Then, when people see that something is working, they want to
be involved, and they bring in others who can bring in others still.
Thats how you can grow your initiative and tip the scales toward
widespread change.

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S32

Intuit's CEO Just Said AI Is the Reason He's Laying Off 1,800
Employees. His Memo [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=33910&nl=daily]

I've written a number of times about CEOs sending out an all-company
memo detailing how the company is laying off employees. It's not a fun
thing to write about, but I do think it's important especially as
there are lessons every leader can learn.The latest example comes from
Intuit's CEO, Sasan Goodarzi, who announced the company would lay off
around 1,800 employees, or 10 percent of its workforce. Interestingly,
Goodarzi says the move isn't about cutting costs. Instead, it's about
freeing up money for "additional investments to our most critical
areas to support our customers and drive growth as detailed below."

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Costco Just Announced a Risky Change and It All Starts This Fall
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There are a lot of reasons people love Costco. For example, there are
the $1.50 hot dog combo and $4.99rotisserie chickens. There's also
the--by retail standards--very generous return policy. With a few
understandable exceptions, you can pretty much return anything to
Costco if you're not happy, no questions asked.Those are nice perks,
but the real appeal is that Costco is exclusive. I mean, technically
anyone can shop there, but you have a membership. It's a strategy that
works well for the company, which has more than 130million members,
all paying for the privilege of shopping at the discount warehouse
retailer. Now those customers are about to pay a little bit more.

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S34

Neuroscience Says Olympians Like Simone Biles Use the 'Autopilot
Trick' To Achieve Peak Performance. So Can You