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The World's Oldest Solar Calendar Might Have Been Discovered in Turkey
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Prehistoric peoples may have created the worlds oldest lunisolar
calendar thousands of years ago to mark a calamitous comet strike,
according to a new study. That conclusion is based on a new
interpretation of carvings on stone pillars at the 12,000-year-old
site of Gbekli Tepe in Trkiye.

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China unleashes boldest stimulus in years to boost ailing economy
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China’s central bank unveiled its strongest suite of economic
stimulus measures since the start of the Covid pandemic, underlining
the difficulty it faces in reviving an economy grappling with a
prolonged property crisis and strong deflationary pressures.















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Qualcomm buying Intel doesn't make sense, Wall Street's top chip
analyst says - Business Insider [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
Intel and Qualcomm have not commented on Friday's reports that the
mobile-phone giant is interested in purchasing one of the original
Silicon Valley tech companies. But one of Wall Street's most heeded
chip luminaries has waded in, and he's largely not in favor.

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What Jamie Dimon thinks about junior bankers with hush-hush
private-equity jobs - Business Insider [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
Last week, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon lashed out at investment
bankers in training who quietly accept future-dated jobs with buyout
firms. During the Q&A section of a talk at Georgetown University,
Dimon called the practice "unethical" and said he may "eliminate" it
at JPMorgan, one of Wall Street's biggest and most influential banks.














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The dirty secret of private college scholarships - Business Insider
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Like a lot of seniors in high school, Maggie Beam was worried about
getting into college. And her mom, Siobhan, was worried about paying
for it. Siobhan was thrilled last January, when Maggie got into her
top choice, Winthrop University, not far from their home in Charlotte,
North Carolina. But that thrill turned to panic in April, when
Maggie's financial-aid package arrived.

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Ukraine's strike on a missile storage facility destroyed enough ammo
to impact Russian attacks for months, experts say - Business Insider
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Last Thursday, Colonel Ants Kiviselg, the head of the Estonian Defense
Forces Intelligence Center, said Ukraine's strike on a large warehouse
in the town of Toropets resulted in the explosion of 30,000 tons of
weapons, likely causing around 750,000 artillery shells to be
destroyed.














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A contractor says OceanGate tracked the Titan submersible using an
'idiotic' navigation method that involved pen, paper, and Excel -
Business Insider [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
"Wendy Rush told me, 'Well, we can retrain you so that you understand
how the mapping works, because we've had this foremost expert design
it for us,'" Wilby added, referring to OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush's
wife.

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Germany is ready to fight Turkey's claim over the dner kebabs
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The kebab’s fame has spread worldwide, with fans in the U.K. driving
the multi-billion-pound industry. It has quickly become among the top
takeaway meals seen in the busy streets of London.  














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Top economist in China vanishes after private WeChat comments - WSJ
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A prominent economist at one of China’s top think tanks was placed
under investigation, detained and removed from his posts after he
allegedly criticized leader Xi Jinping’s management of the world’s
second-largest economy in a private chat group, according to people
familiar with the matter.

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Irans new president faces a reality check in New York - WSJ
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was elected on a promise to revive
his country’s weak economy by convincing the West to lift sanctions
on its nuclear program. At his first big diplomatic test—the United
Nations General Assembly this week—he’s set to walk away
empty-handed.














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The vast Hezbollah arsenal awaiting Israel in Lebanon - WSJ
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BEIRUT—Israel launched devastating attacks on Hezbollah in recent
days with airstrikes and remote-control explosions that put the
Lebanese militant group on the defensive and demonstrated Israel’s
vast superiority in intelligence gathering and technology.

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Millions of people are missing from U.S. disability data - STAT
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Swenor is the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Disability Health
Research Center. Landes is an associate professor of sociology and
OHanley faculty scholar at Syracuse University. Hall is director of
the Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies at the
University of Kansas.














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How Foreign Investment Is Boosting U.S. Manufacturing - Harvard
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Foreign investment presents U.S. manufacturers with two opportunities.
Although it might be tempting for manufacturers to invest in solving
only their immediate workforce needs, a larger investment in building
the regional workforce development pipeline can make for stronger
suppliers, as well as a more capable talent pool in the future as the
company prepares to grow.Second, one of the potential benefits of
foreign investment for domestic firms is fresh ideas. But new ideas
only make a difference if manufacturers are open to them and actively
share knowledge with other firms.

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Apollo Global Management May Invest $5 Billion in Intel - Inc.com
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The news comes at a moment of weakness for Intel, which was once the
most valuable chipmaker in the world, but whose shares have lost
nearly 60 percentof their value since the start of the year.














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Children with cancer may benefit from having a cat or dog 'pen pal' -
New Scientist [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
There is something just so unconditional about the love of an animal
and the listening that an animal can provide, says Anne Ingalls
Gillespie at the University of Colorado, a former paediatric nurse.
They dont argue, they dont question; they just listen and validate.

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Chinese Takeout in Saudi Arabia? You Bet - Bloomberg
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Meituan is following a fleet of businesses investing in what they see
as the next China.













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Inside a ferroelectric RAM chip
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Ferroelectric memory (FRAM) is an interesting storage technique that
stores bits in a special "ferroelectric" material.Ferroelectric memory
is nonvolatile like flash memory, able to hold its data for
decades.But, unlike flash, ferroelectric memory can write data
rapidly.Moreover, FRAM is much more durable than flash and can be be
written trillions of times. With these advantages, you might wonder
why FRAM isn't more popular.The problem is that FRAM is much more
expensive than flash, so it is only used in niche applications.

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The Death of LCDs, Means New Life for Chips
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Around 20 years ago I was in a media briefing with a senior executive
of AU Optronics, then Taiwan’s largest flat-panel maker. LCD
displays were hot and the days of bulky cathode-ray tube TVs were
numbered.

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Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience
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At any social gathering of neuroscientists, the conversation can turn
to what’s holding back the field. “Funders,” some grumble,
lamenting the amount of money thrown at microbiology instead.
“Journals,” others chip in, grousing at the gatekeeping editors
who stop new ideas from flourishing. “The tyranny of old-timers,”
some newly minted principal investigator often mutters, cursing the
difficulty of challenging entrenched ideas.

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The Many Lives of James Lovelock by Jonathan Watts ' man of many myths
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Along the driveway to James Lovelock's remote house of Coombe Mill was
a warning one might hardly expect amid the tranquil Devon hills: a
radiation hazard sign. It was not there simply to deter unwanted
snoopers, for what lurked in Lovelock's private laboratory adjoining
his house was truly hair-raising: radioactive sources, TNT and semtex.
If there had ever been a fire, Lovelock laughed, "it would've blown
up the house".

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Japans Next Leader Will Be Different, and Flawed - Bloomberg
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A pack of three leads the crowded race to be the next prime minister.
But each of the trio brings their own risks.

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What a Huawei laptop reveals about China's dream of tech
self-sufficiency - FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
A look inside the bestselling Qingyun L540 shows how the campaign to
use locally made components is progressing

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South Korea's central bank chief warns over Gangnam-style housing boom
- FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
Rhee Chang-yong calls for caps on university admissions from upmarket
capital districts to check price growth

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Is the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine Better?
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Its fall, which means its time to get updated on the winter season
shots. That includes vaccines for flu, RSV (for babies and the
elderly) and, for anyone six months or older, COVID-19.

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Robinhood touts rock-bottom fees for options trading. Then come hidden
costs. - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
The findings, released this month, offer a rare glimpse into
brokers’ transaction costs—the spreads between the price you pay
when buying options and the price you get when selling them. While
brokers disclose how much they charge in fees, they shed little light
on the costs associated with such spreads.

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Frances borrowing costs converge with Spain as budget concerns grow -
FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
Gap between two countries 10-year bond yields falls to lowest level
since 2008

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What if the Fed doesnt matter? - FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
An interesting heresy

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Japan warns Russia over violating airspace, fires flares for first
time - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
Japanese jet fighters fired warning flares at a Russian military
reconnaissance plane that violated Japan’s airspace on Monday, the
first time Tokyo has taken such an aggressive stance against
incursions of its airspace mostly carried out by Moscow.

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TPG Poised to Close Debut Secondaries Fund at About $1.8 Billion -
Bloomberg [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
Firm expected to close the GP-led secondaries fund by fall

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Yevgeny Prigozhin secretly used JPMorgan and HSBC for Wagner payments
- FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
Banks unwittingly handled transactions for companies in Africa
controlled by deceased Russian warlord

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Benjamin Netanyahus polls rebound after aggressive Israeli operations
- FT [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
Since approving assassinations in Beirut and Tehran, premiers Likud
party has taken lead in national surveys

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'Age catching up with us': No pranks or stunts on Wolfs set for George
Clooney and Brad Pitt
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LOS ANGELES – George Clooney and Brad Pitt first heard about each
other in the 1990s, when the two then little-known American actors
both auditioned to play the handsome hitchhiker in crime drama Thelma
& Louise (1991).

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Governments are bigger than ever. They are also more useless - The
Economist [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
You may sense that governments are not as competent as they once were.
Upon entering the White House in 2021, President Joe Biden promised to
revitalise American infrastructure. In fact, spending on things like
roads and rail has fallen. A flagship plan to expand access to fast
broadband for rural Americans has so far helped precisely no one.
Britains National Health Service soaks up ever more money, and
provides ever worse care. Germany mothballed its last three nuclear
plants last year, despite uncertain energy supplies. The countrys
trains, once a source of national pride, are now always late.

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Cloudflare's new marketplace will let websites charge AI bots for
scraping | TechCrunch
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Cloudflare announced plans on Monday to launch a marketplace in the
next year where website owners can sell AI model providers access to
scrape their site’s content. The marketplace is the final step of
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince’s larger plan to give publishers
greater control over how and when AI bots scrape their websites.

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Americans living abroad could swing key states
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The presidential election in November looks set to be an extremely
tight contest, making the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina and Georgia even more crucial than
usual.

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Why America hates to love chicken nuggets
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Chicken nuggets are a food I have never fed my kids, TikTok creator
@thehealthywife says as she carefully places raw chicken breasts into
a food processor, in a video from this spring that got more than
50,000 likes. Thats because I prioritize their health over
convenience.

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What the US can learn from the role of AI in other elections
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When the generative-AI boom first kicked off, one of the biggest
concerns among pundits and experts was that hyperrealistic AI
deepfakes could be used to influence elections. But new research from
the Alan Turing Institute in the UK shows that those fears might have
been overblown. AI-generated falsehoods and deepfakes seem to have had
no effect on election results in the UK, France, and the European
Parliament, as well as other elections around the world so far this
year.

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Chinese overcapacity is crushing the global steel industry - The
Economist [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=69034&nl=daily]
Each year China makes as much steel as the rest of the world combined.
The vast scale of its output—around 1bn tonnes a year—is obscured
by the fact that most of it stays in the country. Lately, however,
China’s exports of the metal have surged, reaching 90m tonnes in
2023, up by 35% on the previous year (see chart 1). That may be a
fraction of China’s total production, but it is more than what
America or Japan make in a year. And it is enough to build a thousand
Golden Gate bridges.

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Biden, Addressing U.N., Will Argue His Vision Has 'Produced Results'
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Mr. Biden, who arrived in New York on Monday evening, will also meet
on Tuesday with the secretary general of the United Nations, António
Guterres, to discuss efforts between the U.N. and the United States to
advance peace, safeguard human rights and help countries develop. And
he will host a meeting of a coalition to address the global opioid
crisis.

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Spurned by Social Media, Publishers Chase Readers on WhatsApp
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“WhatsApp is a big community for Hispanics — it is the platform to
go to to talk to family members and friends, outside the U.S.
especially,” she said. Meta, which owns the app, says about 1.9
billion of its two billion users live outside the United States.

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Restaurant Portions Are About to Get Smaller. Are Americans Ready?
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Some restaurants have already taken action. In January, Subway
introduced a snack-focused menu that includes smaller bites like $3
hot wraps. Burger King’s largest franchisee shrank its 10-piece
chicken nugget order to eight. Panera Bread’s You Pick Two — a cup
of soup with half a sandwich or half a salad — is among its most
popular menu items.

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Suspected poisoning of 30 magpies in Cootamundra under investigation
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Karlie Johnston, the practice manager at Cooper Street veterinary
hospital in Cootamundra, said 30 magpies had been brought into the vet
in recent days. Many were unable to stand or walk, and some had
completely lost the use of their legs.

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Middle East crisis live: 50 children among 558 killed by Israeli
airstrikes in Lebanon, health ministry says, as thousands flee their
homes
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Israeli and Lebanese media are reporting continued strikes on either
side of the UN-drawn blue line that separates Israel and Lebanon.
Haaretz reports that about 50 rockets have been fired into northern
Israel, with at least one fire breaking out as a result. Lebanese
outlets report airstrikes in the Beqaa Valley and north of the city of
Baalbek.

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The U.S. News College Rankings Are Out. Cue the Rage and Obsession.
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Indeed, to students and their parents, the rankings can be tools for
narrowing college searches, and status symbols surrounding admissions
to certain schools. To university leaders, the rankings are often
publicly heralded but privately detested. To regulators, including
Education Secretary Miguel A. Cardona, the rankings are responsible
for “an unhealthy obsession with selectivity" and the development of
“the false altar of U.S. News and World Report."

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Rare Copy of U.S. Constitution, Found in a File Cabinet, Is Up for
Auction
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The document is more valuable as a historical artifact, Mr. Gerhardt
said, because it is well-preserved, has Mr. Thomson’s signature on
it and is a ratified version. He called it “probably the most
important copy of the Constitution that would exist.”

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These Maternity Homes Offer Sanctuary, but It Can Feel Oppressive
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But Florida allows most homes to operate without state standards or
state oversight. An examination by The New York Times and the
investigative podcast and radio show Reveal found that many homes
require residents to agree to strict conditions that limit their
communications, their financial decisions and even their movements.

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Trump Stokes Fears About Haitian Migrants in a Pennsylvania Community
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Simon J. Levien is a Times political reporter covering the 2024
elections and a member of the 2024-25 Times Fellowship class, a
program for journalists early in their careers. More about Simon J.
Levien

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Trump Tells Women That They Won't 'Be Thinking About Abortion'
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Simon J. Levien is a Times political reporter covering the 2024
elections and a member of the 2024-25 Times Fellowship class, a
program for journalists early in their careers. More about Simon J.
Levien

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Trump Gets a Lift From Arizona Ticket-Splitters Backing a Democrat for
Senate
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In 2022, Ms. Lake angered many traditionally Republican voters during
her divisive governor’s race, feuding with the governor at the time,
Doug Ducey, a conservative Republican, and angering supporters of
Senator John McCain, who died in 2018, by saying her political rise
“drove a stake through the heart of the McCain machine.” She
further alienated some Republicans by filing a series of lawsuits
after she lost her election, claiming that it had been stolen.

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Harris Is Set to Visit Border, Trying to Cut Into Trump's Immigration
Edge
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But she struggled in that role and drew criticism after telling the
NBC News host Lester Holt in a 2021 interview, when he asked why she
had not yet visited the southern border, that she had “never been to
Europe” either. The Trump campaign has used that exchange in
advertisements attacking her record on immigration. Ms. Harris
traveled to the border soon after her interview with Mr. Holt.

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