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WorkWorkEli Lilly and Novo Nordisks obesity moat just got stronger The obesity duopoly has been pierced as Amgen positions itself to have a drug on the market in a few years. While this adds competition to a market currently controlled by Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, it also reinforces the dominance of the makers of Wegovy and Zepbound.
WorkA Psychologist Explains Loves Scarcity Principle You may have noticed that were often more drawn to someone who is harder to reach, or that we hold on tighter to relationships the moment they start to develop distance. This isnt just a coincidenceits the scarcity principle in action. This psychological concept explains why we tend to place greater value on things that feel rare or at risk of being lost. WorkPep Guardiola, footballs greatest coach, is in a bind PEP GUARDIOLA isnt used to losing. Since becoming Manchester Citys manager in 2016, he has won 18 trophies, including six Premier League titles and the Champions League, Europes leading club competition. Previously he dominated German football as coach of Bayern Munich, and both the Spanish and European game at Barcelona. Yet Mr Guardiola is suddenly on the ropes. City had just lost five games in a row, the worst run of his tenure, when on November 26th they squandered a three-goal lead to draw against Feyenoord, a little-fancied Dutch side, in the Champions League. Should City lose against Liverpool on December 1st, they will fall 11 points behind the Premier League leaders. Even with two-thirds of the season to play, closing such a gap would be a remarkable sporting feat.
WorkMarine Snow Studies Show How the Ocean Eats Carbon From the sunlit top 200 meters of the sea, plankton carcasses, excrement and molt particles constantly drift toward the depths. As this so-called marine snow sinks, the bits can clump together or break apart, gain speed or sink more slowly, or get eaten up by bacteria. They descend through darker, colder and denser waters, carrying carbon with them and settling on the bottom as biomass. WorkThe Strange Science of Scheduling a College-Football Season On November 23rd, the University of Massachusetts football team played the University of Georgia. It was expected to be less of a game than a slaughter: Georgia was favored by bookmakers to win the game by more than seven touchdowns. The team, which is ranked seventh, has won two out of the past three national championships. UMass, which came into the game with a 28 record, was without its usual starting quarterback and had just fired its head coach.
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WorkJK Rowling might have just won the culture war It is an unlikely return reminiscent of Harry Potter, "The Boy Who Lived", himself (or the Dark Lord Voldemort depending on your opinion). J.K. Rowling, author of the globally adored fantasy series who in recent years became a pariah in some quarters over her views on transgender people, appears to have just won the culture war she has been fighting for the past five years. WorkHe thought he would die in Putins gulag. Now he has a message for the world. Our mission could not be more clear and more necessary: We have a duty to explain what just happened, and why, and what it means for you. We need clear-eyed journalism that helps you understand what really matters. Reporting that brings clarity in increasingly chaotic times. Reporting that is driven by truth, not by what people in power want you to believe.
WorkSyria Sends in Reinforcements to Halt Insurgents BEIRUT The Syrian military rushed in reinforcements Sunday to push back insurgents from advancing farther into the northern Hama countryside after they seized Aleppo and surrounding strategic locations in an adjacent province in a surprise offensive. Work
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WorkYour Chaotic Sleep Schedule Might Be Hurting Your Heart When it comes to getting a healthy night's sleep, it's not just the hours that matter. New research released this week suggests that having a chaotic, inconsistent sleep pattern can raise your risk of cardiovascular problems. Work WorkImpact of coffee on the gut microbiome Consistent with earlier studies, the current study witnessed a strong relationship between coffee consumption and increases in specific microbiome species, particularly L. asaccharolyticus. The median abundance of L. WorkThe Bot Wars - ChatGPT Goes To Work Convincing People If you've been watching the emergence of artificial intelligence onto the scene in our societies, you probably agree that it's happened at a pretty fast clip. Let's start with this chart of GPT progress, showing what happened in just two years. WorkWorkWorkA Psychologist Explains Love's 'Scarcity Principle'You may have noticed that we're often more drawn to someone who is harder to reach, or that we hold on tighter to relationships the moment they start to develop distance. This isn't just a coincidence--it's the scarcity principle in action. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkAs Their Business Flourished, the Marriage Floundered In Unhitched, couples tell the stories of their relationships, from romance to vows to divorce to life afterward. Emily and Matthew Hyland met in September 2001 while they were in college. It was just after Sept. WorkWorkThe Most Important Conversation to Have Before You Die Instead of talking about politics around the Thanksgiving table this year, consider a less fraught topic: death. It's something few of us want to think about, but death is a fact of life that we will all encounter, often first as a caregiver and then, inevitably, when we reach our own. WorkThe man who lived with no brain How do you live in a world that makes no sense at all? How do you exist when every second of your life is an unsolvable puzzle, and the tiny bits you do manage to recognize can't come out? That was the life of Lev Zasetsky, a man who suffered a brain injury fighting in World War II. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkLarge language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results | Nature Human Behaviour Scientific discoveries often hinge on synthesizing decades of research, a task that potentially outstrips human information processing capacities. Large language models (LLMs) offer a solution. LLMs trained on the vast scientific literature could potentially integrate noisy yet interrelated findings to forecast novel results better than human experts. Here, to evaluate this possibility, we created BrainBench, a forward-looking benchmark for predicting neuroscience results. We find that LLMs surpass experts in predicting experimental outcomes. BrainGPT, an LLM we tuned on the neuroscience literature, performed better yet. Like human experts, when LLMs indicated high confidence in their predictions, their responses were more likely to be correct, which presages a future where LLMs assist humans in making discoveries. Our approach is not neuroscience specific and is transferable to other knowledge-intensive endeavours. Large language models (LLMs) can synthesize vast amounts of information. Luo et al. show that LLMs 8212 especially BrainGPT, an LLM the authors tuned on the neuroscience literature 8212 outperform experts in predicting neuroscience results and could assist scientists in making future discoveries. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkSelfies Don''t Kill PeopleAnd no place has ever been ruined by an Instagram post, either. Its time to stop blaming social media for the worlds troubles. WorkWorkWorkWorkUnprecedented protests sweep Georgia after government scraps EU bid The Georgian governments decision to suspend its efforts to join the EU has sparked a political crisis in the South Caucasus country, with tens of thousands of people taking to the streets to demand new elections even as police launched a violent crackdown on protesters. WorkThe First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916 - IEEE Spectrum On 16 May 1916, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers held an unprecedented nationwide meeting, connecting 5000-plus attendees in 8 cities via telephone. This historic event, a century before Zoom, celebrated engineering feats, with greetings from Woodrow Wilson and Alexander Graham Bell. Discover how this remarkable gathering unfolded. WorkKash Patel Would Bring Bravado and Baggage to F.B.I. Role In October 2020, Mr. Patel, then a senior national intelligence official in the Trump administration, inserted himself into a secret effort by members of SEAL Team Six to rescue Philip Walton, 17, an American kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria. WorkD.E.A. Pick Has Trump Connections but Is Rooted in Local Law Enforcement Some D.E.A. veterans spent Saturday and Sunday looking up Sheriff Chronister and quietly wondering whether he was up for the tasks of confronting Mexico’s drug cartels and curbing China’s production of fentanyl. Those tough jobs have gotten harder given Mr. Trump’s repeated threats to put tariffs on both countries as a way of not only stopping the flow of drugs into the United States but also stemming migration. WorkFormer Defense Minister Accuses Israel of Committing War Crimes in Gaza “There’s no Beit Lahia. There’s no Beit Hanoun. They’re now operating in Jabaliya. They’re basically cleaning the territory of Arabs,” he said, referring to towns and cities in northern Gaza where a renewed Israeli offensive against the militant group Hamas has caused extensive damage in recent months. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began in response to the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel in October 2023. |
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