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Eminem Is Going to Be a Grandpa - The Cut The rapper announced his daughter Hailie Jade’s pregnancy in the music video for his song “Temporary.”
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WorkWorkResearch: Why People Will Pay a Premium to Complete a Task Sooner - Harvard Business Review Traditional economic theory holds that people should always prefer to receive money as soon as possible and postpone paying debt as long as they can. Yet, a recent series of studies found that people are often willing to pay more money if it means they will finish a goal sooner. This is because the mental cost of an unfinished task can outweigh financial gains. The researchers offer insight into how to use their findings to boost motivation on your team.
WorkBill Gates's Netflix series offers some dubious ideas about the future - New Scientist When you want to imagine the future, who do you turn to? Friends and family? Science fiction? New Scientist? Now you can check in with Bill Gates, as the Microsoft co-founder and multibillionaire has worked with Netflix on Whats Next? The future with Bill Gates, in which he digs into make-or-break issues: artificial intelligence, misinformation, climate change, income inequality and disease. WorkScientists Share Mind-Boggling Insights About Human Memory by Mapping Fly Brains - Discover Magazine In the science fiction film The Fly, a scientist accidentally transforms into a winged insect that ultimately destroys him. In a collection of science articles about the fly, a team of scientists this week unpacked the details of how the Drosophila melanogaster brain operates ? paving the way for a better understanding of how the human mind turns senses into actions, processes thoughts, and, perhaps most mysterious of all, stores experiences as memories.
WorkIs Melania Trump her husband's October surprise?The revelation of Melania Trump's staunch defense of a woman's right to an abortion in her upcoming memoir could harm?or even help?her husband, former President Donald Trump, ahead of November's presidential election, experts told Newsweek. WorkHow My Shame Became My StrengthThere are no shortage of reasons for women to feel shame in our over-exposed, image-obsessed world: We?re shamed for being too fat and too thin, for being too sexual or not sexually available enough. Women are shamed for choosing not to have children and the choices we make when we do. We?re penalized for being too aggressive in the workplace at the same time ?lean in? culture suggests we?re not assertive enough.
WorkWorkComputer Scientists Combine Two Beautiful Proof Methods | Quanta MagazineHow do you prove something is true? For mathematicians, the answer is simple: Start with some basic assumptions and proceed, step by step, to the conclusion. QED, proof complete. If there’s a mistake anywhere, an expert who reads the proof carefully should be able to spot it. Otherwise, the proof must be valid. Mathematicians have been following this basic approach for well over 2,000 years.
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WorkWorkHelene Should Trigger a National Rethink of Home InsuranceAs people across the Southeast continue to pick up the pieces from Hurricane Helene, many will continue to face a rude awakening: that they—or their landlords—don’t have flood insurance. Those facing damages from winds or mudslides are more likely to be covered, since that type of damage is included in many basic home insurance packages. But policyholders shelling out potentially record sums for that coverage may still only see a fraction of what repairs, replacement, and rebuilding will actually cost.
WorkWork WorkMany men are dressed badly on dating apps. How to make a better first impression - WSJ LOUISE NISTLER, a 32-year-old New Yorker, estimates that only 10-15% of the men she comes across on dating app Hinge could be described as well-dressed. According to Nistler, a data scientist, some guys “look like they’re trying too hard," posing in garish shirts and fussy accessories like fedoras. Most, however, show themselves in ill-fitting shirts or worn-out polos—as if they “haven’t been shopping since high school." WorkWorkWorkHas the war in Gaza radicalised young Palestinians? - The Economist Among the banks, law firms and luxury hotels of central London, a piece of Palestine is rising. Born in an adjacent falafel joint, Palestine House has spread over five floors. Each depicts a different period of Palestinian history. The walls of one recreate the wooden latticework of a traditional inner courtyard; another, the smashed rubble of Gaza. Palestinian flags and banners protesting against genocide decorate the walls and pavement outside. By the end of the year Osama Qashoo, its founder, plans to open a journalists club, a radio station, a startup hub, an exhibition hall and a cultural salon in the building. Each bomb Israel drops on Gaza is an amplifier, says Mr Qashoo, an exile from the West Bank city of Nablus: We are the carriers making sure Palestines story lives. WorkInside Athlos: Alexis Ohanians Womens TrackStartup - Inc The Reddit co-founder has set his sights on innovating the worlds oldest sport, track, and instead of just cutting a check, the serial entrepreneurs early-stage venture capital firm 776 provided the funding and the planning to create a new and original kind of professional meet with Athlos. WorkVenture capitalist Ben Horowitz says he plans to donate to VP Kamala Harris' campaignAndreessen and Horowitz have been particularly critical of the Biden administration and its position towards startups and crypto. In his latest letter, Horowitz said he's encouraged by his belief in Harris after conversations with her and her team, but "they have not yet stated what their tech policy will be, so the firm will not be updating its position in that regard." WorkIt Could All Depend on Arizona - The New Yorker On Phoenixs hundred-and-eleventh straight day of triple-digit temperatures, when the weather was variously described to me as warm, pretty nice, actually, and not horrible horrible, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard were scheduled to make their first joint stage appearance on behalf of Donald Trump, at Arizona Christian University, in the suburb Glendale. An hour before the event began, the line stretched down the block, past an anti-vaccine activist strumming a guitar, his case open to receive tips. Nearby, a handful of entrepreneurs had assembled. Trumps first assassination attempt had been metabolized into merch. A stand flying a Fuck Joe Biden flag sold T-shirts with a picture of the former President, ear bloodied and fist raised, that said, You Missed Me Bitch, alongside ones that read, Make America Godly Again. A man driving a golf cart was attempting to turn people away. Theyre at capacity, he warned a woman in a pink Women for Trump T-shirt. You wont get in. WorkThe Modern Mathematics of Tiling a Bathroom Floor - Scientific American Rachel Feltman: When I was a little kid, I remember being really perplexed and fascinated by the concept of discovering a new number. Like, if you counted high enough to get to a new spot, did you get naming dibs? What else could discovering a new number even mean? I mean, theyre numbers. WorkWorkWorkWorkHarris, in Michigan, Tries to Head Off Trump's Attacks Over Gas CarsThe politics of the nation’s slow march toward more electric vehicles have been tricky in Michigan, a battleground state that is home to the nation’s three major automakers. As the climate crisis has worsened, President Biden’s administration has required emissions standards that will most likely require about half of the new cars sold in the United States to emit zero emissions by 2032. WorkHow Walmart's Donna Morris Manages the Largest Work Force in AmericaFour years into the job, Ms. Morris has overseen wage increases for workers at the company’s U.S. stores. Walmart says its average hourly wage has risen about 30 percent over the past five years, to close to $18 an hour. That’s a similar rate of wage growth for retail workers in the United States overall. WorkA Deluge of Rain Poured Out of the Heavens. But There's Still No Drinking Water.Bottled water was the only potable water that residents of the city of 94,000 had as of Friday. A treatment plant capable of serving a part of the city that accounts for about 20 percent of its needs was back at full capacity on Friday and city workers were sampling water in pipes to see if it was safe to drink, said Ben Woody, the assistant city manager. Residents have been told to boil any water that does come to them, before drinking it. WorkCampus Protest Investigations Hang Over Schools as New Academic Year BeginsAs campus demonstrations began to roil college campuses last year, a network of conservative and Jewish advocacy groups — such as the Brandeis Center, the Defense of Freedom Institute, StandWithUs and the Lawfare Project — mobilized, lodging complaints against many prominent colleges and universities. WorkWorkWorkHow Gender Became the Election's Crucial Fault LineTrump and Vance have also embraced hyper-masculinity. The retired wrestler Hulk Hogan appeared at the Republican National Convention, ripping his shirt in half. The former president has given interviews to bro-y social media stars like Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports and the Nelk Boys, YouTubers who made a video of themselves watching Harris speak at the Democratic National Convention in which one guy in the group smashes her face on the TV with a sledgehammer. WorkSupporters Who Saw a Gunman Attack Trump Prepare to Welcome Him Back“To go back up to that site where my husband was killed, and open wounds that we’re trying to close — my kids haven’t even started to go back to work yet, and I was afraid it’d take them backwards,” she said. But ultimately, she said, “we decided this was something we needed to do.” WorkCampaigning for Harris, Women Share Their Abortion Stories With NeighborsAnd then there are the women in this room in Wisconsin. They haven’t made headlines with their activism for abortion rights, but they all claim a deep connection to the issue. The Harris campaign is trying to transform them into a hyperlocal organizing force who can drive their friends, family and neighbors to the polls. WorkAs Lawmaker Claims Trump's Shooting Was Inside Job, G.O.P. Indulges HimThough he was left off a bipartisan House task force investigating the shooting, the Republican leaders of the panel invited him and Representative Cory Mills of Florida, another right-wing lawmaker who has embraced conspiracy theories about the first assassination attempt, to testify at their first public hearing. Mr. Mills is among the Republicans accompanying Mr. Trump to a rally in Butler on Saturday. WorkBehind Trump's Views on Ukraine: Putin's Gambit and a Political GrudgeThe meeting is something of a historical footnote to the Trump presidency. It has long been overshadowed by the summit with Mr. Putin the next year in Helsinki, when Mr. Trump famously said he took the word of Mr. Putin over his own intelligence agencies on the question of whether Russia had interfered with the 2016 presidential election. WorkWork5 Takeaways From Melania Trump's Book“A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes,” Mrs. Trump writes. “Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body.” WorkWorkWorkInstructor at Troubled Skydiving Spot Gets 2 Years After Faking CredentialsMr. Turner’s mother, Francine Turner, said in a telephone interview that it was “significant” to see Mr. Pooley, who she believed played a role in her son’s death, go to prison. Ms. Turner, who filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the Parachute Center, said in the interview that she wished that the authorities could have also gone after the facility’s founder, William Dause, who she said had largely escaped responsibility despite the many deaths at his skydiving outfit. WorkIrish budget: Stark difference in UK and Ireland's budgetsIt also looked at Norway, which used its oil money to establish one of the world’s largest wealth funds, and concluded that "the contrasting approaches of two mature, advanced economies that recorded major windfall gains offers important lessons." WorkWill the 'SmartLess' Podcast Be the Biggest Role of Their Careers?Jokes aside, this was a serious career moment for these actors. Months earlier, the three, who are close friends and started their Los Angeles-based podcast during the depths of the pandemic, had signed a three-year distribution and advertising deal with the audio entertainment company SiriusXM reportedly worth more than $100 million. WorkDeadly Marburg Virus Hits Rwanda's Doctors and Nurses HardMarburg, first identified in Africa in the 1970s, is related to Ebola. Outbreaks can be started by contact with Egyptian fruit bats or their caves. Once infected, people can spread the virus to others through contact with bodily fluids such as blood or sweat. WorkWorkUkraine's Donbas Strategy: Retreat Slowly and Maximize Russia's LossesUkraine, a country that is a fraction of the size of Russia and with about a third of the population, is at an inherent disadvantage in this kind of battle. It has fewer men to send to the front, and, despite an influx of Western military aid, remains largely outgunned on the battlefield. WorkWorkWith 'Megalopolis,' the Flop Era Returns to CinemasEven at the peak of Hollywood’s studio era, there were flops — ambitious, big-budget spectacles that got out of hand during production and crashed upon contact with the viewing public. Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963 epic, “Cleopatra,” starring Elizabeth Taylor, brought 20th Century Fox near bankruptcy and failed to recoup its $44 million budget, then a record. |
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