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Watch Stray Kids Honor N Sync at the American Music Awards 50th Anniversary - Vulture From “Bye Bye Bye” into “Chk Chk Boom.” Basically a Deadpool & Wolverine medley.
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WorkWorkTaiwan Makes the Majority of the Worlds Computer Chips. Now Its Running Out of ElectricitySome 50 miles southwest of Taipei, Taiwan's capital, and strategically located close to a cluster of the island's top universities, the 3,500-acre Hsinchu Science Park is globally celebrated as the incubator of Taiwan's most successful technology companies. It opened in 1980, the government having acquired the land and cleared the rice fields,with the aim of creating a technology hub that would combine advanced research and industrial production.
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WorkWorkIntense urban battles pitch Russias numbers against Ukraines agility - WSJ KOSTYANTYNIVKA , UKRAINE : The tactics Russia’s army used to seize the eastern town of Niu-York recalled Stalingrad, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. Soldiers advanced in groups of three, darting forward along a street guided by a drone. When Ukrainian defenders opened fire, the survivors would duck into a house. Then another trio would advance toward the position.
WorkNew MIT AI JetPack accelerates entrepreneurial process | MIT Sloan“Maybe it’s not a Ferrari yet, but we have a car,” saidBill Aulet, the center’s managing director. The vehicle: the MIT Entrepreneurship JetPack, a generative artificial intelligence tool trained on Aulet’s 24-step Disciplined Entrepreneurship framework to input prompts into large language models. Work
WorkWhy I Tell My Clients to Eat MarshmallowsYou may have heard of the marshmallow study, a 1960s psychological study in which a Stanford researcher gave preschool children a choice: Eat one marshmallow right now, or wait a short time and get to eat two marshmallows. Researchers tracked the children into adulthood and found that those who delayed gratification and waited for the two marshmallows were more successful students and adults. WorkHow 36 Trillion Cells Work to Keep Us Alive - Discover Magazine Cells are both the smallest biological unit that can survive on their own, as well as the building blocks that construct all living organisms. They contain instructions that can produce over 200 different types each with their own function. Those instructions contain rules about what kind of cells they can divide into.
WorkWorkHow This Tiny Farm Became Sweetgreens Go-To Goat Cheese Provider - Inc Accident, Maryland, is about as far west as you can get in the state. The Appalachian town of about 300 draws second-home owners from Washington, DC, and Baltimore. Theres not a whole lot besides natural beauty nearby, but thats part of what drew Mike Koch and Pablo Solanet to the area. WorkA Worst-Case Hurricane Scenario Could Be Emerging For Tampa Bay - Forbes Tropical Storm Milton is gathering strength in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to become a hurricane within the next day or so. Unlike many tropical systems, it will move west to east over much of the Gulf of Mexico, so it has plenty of warm water ahead of it. The official hurricane track issued by the National Hurricane Center is a potential worst-case scenario for the Tampa Bay region of Florida, and winds could be 120 mph or greater. WorkThe Echoes of Loss and Legacy as the N.H.L. Returns - The New Yorker In 1981, Wayne Gretzky, playing for the Edmonton Oilers, broke the single-season N.H.L. points record, finishing with a hundred and sixty-four points in his second-ever season in the league. He was, at the time, twenty years old, and small even in pads, yet no one could touch him. He was fast, good on his edgesthat was part of it. But he wasnt that fast. No one could touch him because he knew where everyone else was skating, and not only skating but turning and stopping. He understood how to misdirect attention and where to find empty spaces on the ice. He determined how the puck would move, and could see where to send it. He was a prodigy with a prophetic type of genius. He was able to use his anticipation to leverage surprise, which gave him the reputation of a magician. WorkHere's What We Know About Taylor Swift's Net WorthTaylor Swifts music career continues to be incredibly lucrative. On Saturday, Oct. 5, Forbes updated the singers net worth in light of this. The development comes after the massive success of Swifts worldwide record-breaking Eras Tour over the past year and a half. The tour is set to end in December. WorkWorkWorkSuper Thanks: how to tip your favorite video creator on YouTubeIf you spend time on YouTube, you're likely quite familiar with "Super Chats" on YouTube livestreams. Viewers can use Super Chats to give their favorite creators a one-time payment of anywhere from $1 to $500 during a live video. In return, they receive a highlighted comment in the chat, and as a bonus, YouTube creators often acknowledge these chat comments and respond live on the stream. Work"Still no FEMA, still no military": Volunteers blast Helene response on CNNDuring a CNN interview on Sunday afternoon, volunteer pilots and relief organizers criticized the federal government's response to Hurricane Helene, saying there's "still no FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency], still no military" in North Carolina, which was ravaged by the storm late last month. WorkCan Your Stomach Handle a Meal at Alchemist? - The New Yorker Rasmus Munk, the celebrated Danish chef, has such memorable eyes—they are a piercing blue, and often bloodshot—that when a waiter at Alchemist, his restaurant in Copenhagen, served me an eyeball, I recognized it immediately. The iris was flecked with brown and rimmed with red, and the eye stared up at me unwaveringly, at least until I picked up a long-handled spoon and dug in. It had a gleaming gelatinous surface and was both salty and creamy, with a surprisingly nubby texture and a distinct taste of—what was it?—shrimp. WorkThe Medieval Masterpiece, the Book of Kells, Is Now Digitized and Available OnlineIf you know nothing else about medieval European illuminated manuscripts, you surely know the Book of Kells. “One of Ireland’s greatest cultural treasures” comments Medievalists.net, “it is set apart from other manuscripts of the same period by the quality of its artwork and the sheer number of illustrations that run throughout the 680 pages of the book.” The work not only attracts scholars, but almost a million visitors to Dublin every year. “You simply can’t travel to the capital of Ireland,” writes Book Riot’s Erika Harlitz-Kern, “without the Book of Kells being mentioned. And rightfully so.” WorkAnts learned to farm fungi during a mass extinctionWe tend to think of agriculture as a human innovation. But insects beat us to it by millions of years. Various ant species cooperate with fungi, creating a home for them, providing them with nutrients, and harvesting them as food. This reaches the peak of sophistication in the leafcutter ants, which cut foliage and return it to feed their fungi, which in turn form specialized growths that are harvested for food. But other ant species cooperate with fungi—in some cases strains of fungus that are also found growing in their environment. WorkCongress fights to keep AM radio in carsSeveral automakers, most notably Tesla and Ford, have decided to stop putting AM radios in their electric vehicles. They claim their electric motors interfere with the audio quality of the signal and insist that FM and satellite radio are enough. WorkWi-Fi Goes Long Range on New WiLo StandardResearchers have developed a hybrid technology that would combine Wi-Fi with the Long Range (LoRa) networking protocol, yielding a new long-distance wireless concept called WiLo. The research team has designed their proposed WiLo tech to be used on existing Wi-Fi and LoRa hardware. WorkWhen Earth Had RingsPlanetary rings may be one of space’s many spectacles, but in our solar system, they’re a dime a dozen. While Saturn’s rings are the brightest and most extensive, Jupiter and Uranus and Neptune have them, too. What’s more, four icy minor planets—Chariklo, Chiron, Quaoar, and Haumea—that orbit among or beyond our gas giants, also host ring systems. Even so, it would be fanciful to imagine that Earth once had a ring system of its own, wouldn’t it? I mean, that just seems almost too cool to be true. WorkHow to Stop Advertisers From Tracking Your Teen Across the InternetTeens between the ages of 13 and 17 are being tracked across the internet using identifiers known as Advertising IDs. When children turn 13, they age out of the data protections provided by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Then, they become targets for data collection from data brokers that collect their information from social media apps, shopping history, location tracking services, and more. Data brokers then process and sell the data. Deleting Advertising IDs off your teen’s devices can increase their privacy and stop advertisers collecting their data. WorkWorkWorkThe Paradox of Joy, with a Nick Cave Song and a Lisel Mueller PoemEvery month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going. For nearly two decades, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If this labor makes your own life more livable in any way, please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes all the difference. WorkWhat Americas presidential election means for world trade - The Economist In the 1990s presidential hopefuls fought over how much America should open itself up to commerce with other countries. Nowadays, the trade debate revolves around how much America should close itself off. Donald Trump is unquestionably the more radical of the two candidates, with a vision for tariffs that would turn the clock back nearly a century on economic strategy. Kamala Harris is less extreme but still sees a world in which America is best served by soft protectionism, featuring subsidies for favoured industries. WorkAddiction Is Often Rooted in Trauma. New Treatments Offer Hope for Both - Scientific American When I entered rehab at 23, I learned that trauma was a thread woven into most addiction stories. Many people in my program described horrific neglect or maltreatment, including sexual abuse, they had experienced as children. Still, few seemed to realize how traumatizing those things had been. The traces of trauma in my own life were not then obvious to me, either, perhaps because my parents had suffered so much worse. Now, however, I can see that some of my extreme sensitivities, such as my fear of crowds and enclosures, eerily reflect my fathers story. WorkWorkThe profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency roomsThe US presidential campaign is in its final weeks and were dedicated to helping you understand the stakes. In this election cycle, its more important than ever to provide context beyond the headlines. But in-depth reporting is costly, so to continue this vital work, we have an ambitious goal to add 5,000 new members. WorkWorkWorkWhat to Know About the 2024 Nobel PrizesPrevious Nobel Peace Prize recipients include Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai (2014); President Barack Obama (2009); Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk (1993); the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (1989); and Mother Teresa (1979). WorkOne Year LaterIsrael has also weakened Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group on its northern border. Hezbollah began firing missiles into Israel the day after the Oct. 7 attack, in solidarity with Hamas. The barrages have forced tens of thousands of Israelis out of their homes in the north. In recent weeks, Israel has become much more aggressive toward Hezbollah; through airstrikes and covert operations, it has killed many of the group’s members and leaders, including its head, Hassan Nasrallah. WorkWeather tracker: tail end of Hurricane Kirk to bring gusts and rain to EuropeMeanwhile, in South America, drought remains a major crisis for many after months of below normal rainfall. This led to extensive wildfires in Brazil only a few weeks ago. Water levels across the Amazon River have been decreasing for months, with levels reaching a 120-year low at the Port of Manus, which lies on the Negro River tributary in northern Brazil, according to Brazil’s geological service. Water levels here measured 12.66 metres, compared with an average of 21 metres, and are expected to continue dropping for several weeks. WorkStrictlyVC comes to Disrupt 2024 | TechCrunchLoizos has been reporting on Silicon Valley since the late ’90s, when she joined the original Red Herring magazine. Previously the Silicon Valley Editor of TechCrunch, she was named Editor in Chief and General Manager of TechCrunch in September 2023. She’s also the founder of StrictlyVC, a daily e-newsletter and lecture series acquired by Yahoo in August 2023 and now operated as a sub brand of TechCrunch. WorkWorkWorkFood rating lies exposed by BBC secret recordingThe Food Standards Agency said displaying incorrect ratings was potentially illegal. It said its latest audit showed 91% of English businesses displayed the correct ratings, adding that it had long advocated for making the scheme statutory in England - as it is in Wales and Northern Ireland - but that the final decision about that was one for the government. WorkWorkCampuses Are Calmer, but They Are Not Normal, Students and Faculty SayElsewhere across the country, students and faculty members said the campus experience has changed at schools that had pro-Palestinian protest activity after the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. Stricter rules about protests have helped to tamp down demonstrations so far this semester. But underneath the relative calm, students and faculty members say feelings of loss, anger, fear and frustration remain. WorkWork'Ghost Guns' Case Before Supreme Court Has Major Implications for Industry in FluxLocal officials and gun control groups fear that overturning the restrictions could reverse the recent improvements. They also say it could pave the way for a sweeping expansion of a business they say offers untraceable weapons to those banned under federal law from possessing them: criminals, people with histories of mental illness and teenagers, the victims and perpetrators of some of the most horrific crimes involving ghost guns. |
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