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WorkFlavored vapes at the Supreme Court and crisis pregnancy centers online The use of hormone therapy subsequently plummeted. In 1999, almost 27% of menopausal women in the U.S. used estrogen. By 2020, less than 5% did. In my latest story, I talked to doctors about the latest research on the risks and benefits of hormone therapy, and about why patients might still be hesitant. Read more. Work
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WorkBiden pardon threatens his legacyand Democrats fight against Trump - WSJ (No paywall) WASHINGTONJoe Biden made the central purpose of his presidency clear in his Inauguration Day address: We have learned again that democracy is precious. Democracy is fragile," he said at the U.S. Capitol, where a violent mob had tried that month to overturn his 2020 election victory. Bidens aim would be to unify the nation and shore up its democratic institutions. WorkMore workers feel stuck on the job - WSJ (No paywall) White-collar hiring continues to slow, but workers restlessness to find new work is intensifying, new Gallup data show. More than half of 20,000 U.S. workers surveyed in November said they were watching for or actively seeking a new job. Thats the largest share since 2015, eclipsing the so-called Great Resignation of 2021 and 2022, when millions of people quit jobs for better ones.
WorkWorkAre Intels problems too big to fix? - WSJ (No paywall) Intel announced Monday that Gelsinger is retiring as chief executive and stepping down from the board of directors. The move had the tone of a peaceful transition, but the reality was still clear, with Gelsinger calling the day bittersweet" and board chair Frank Yeary noting the goal of restoring investor confidence" in the press release. Intels stock lost 61% of its value between Gelsingers first day on the job in early 2021 and Fridays close, making it the worst performer on the PHLX Semiconductor Index over that time, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The S&P 500 has gained 53% over the same period.
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WorkWhy Street Cats Are Taking Over Urban Neighborhoods Jane and her husband loved the house they bought in central Los Angeles in 2022, until they noticed the cats. Lots and lots of cats. At any given time, more than a dozen would be lounging in their yard, peeing on their packages, leaving dead birds in the grass and fleas on their outdoor furniture. The amount of cat feces were exposed to is truly insane, says Jane, who asked that her real name or the name of her neighborhood not be used because of the ensuing battle over feeding the cats. Work
WorkWork WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHow Is AI Changing the Science of Prediction? | Quanta Magazine With lots of data, a strong model and statistical thinking, scientists can make predictions about all sorts of complex phenomena. Today, this practice is evolving to harness the power of machine learning and massive datasets. In this episode, co x2d host Steven Strogatz speaks with statistician Emmanuel Candes about black boxes, uncertainty and the power of inductive reasoning. 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. WorkWorkWorkHow the bullet train transformed Japan Sixty years after the world x27 s first high-speed train launched, rail enthusiast Paul Carter rides the bullet train along what x27 s been dubbed the New Golden Route . WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkSyrian insurgents advance on Hama city after capturing Aleppo Assad has remained a pariah figure in the west although there have been recent attempts to reopen diplomatic channels. The US state department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a briefing on Monday that Assad was “a brutal dictator with blood on his hands, the blood of innocent civilians”, and that Washington’s stance on his rule had not changed. WorkAmazon teams up with Orbital to remove CO2 from the air at one of its data centers | TechCrunch But if the cost is low enough, on-site carbon capture is appealing for several reasons. For one, there’s no middleman to take a cut, as is often the case in carbon markets. Plus, the amount of captured carbon is much easier to verify. And if data centers do end up capturing more carbon dioxide than they generate, Amazon and other companies can sell the credits themselves, turning the system into a profit center. WorkWorkThredUp fashion marketplace offloads its European business, Remix | TechCrunch “This is a mutually beneficial outcome for both ThredUp and Remix,” ThredUp co-founder and CEO James Reinhart said in a statement. “We are confident that Remix will thrive under Florin Filote’s leadership and the team’s expertise. This transaction will allow ThredUp to focus on our core U.S. business and continue to innovate and evolve our marketplace.” WorkExclusive: SpinLaunch raises $11M but hoped to raise much more, source says Aria Alamalhodaei covers the space and defense industries at TechCrunch. Previously, she covered the public utilities and the power grid for California Energy Markets. You can also find her work at MIT’s Undark Magazine, The Verge, and Discover Magazine. She received an MA in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Aria is based in Austin, Texas. WorkWorkYurts raises $40 million to be the DoD's AI chatbot | TechCrunch Van Roo believes that we’re just scratching the surface of the potential for enterprise-ready AI. “I’m confident that in the next 10 years, we’re probably going to get a pretty big next step-jump in the model space. And I’m not going to solve that,” he said. “But I think that we have a long way to go to really achieve the value we can in enterprises.” WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkIs Contraception Under Attack? - The New Yorker (No paywall) This year, for the first time in the roughly sixty-year history of the birth-control pill in the United States, it can be bought over the counter. You might not know about this developmentmany people Ive mentioned it to dontbut you can now find an F.D.A.-approved version of the pill at your drugstore or online, without a prescription, at a cost of about twenty dollars for a one-month supply, or less than fifty dollars for a three-month one. At the CVS in my neighborhood in Washington, D.C., its near the condoms, on an open shelf (unlike, for example, the locked-up laundry detergents and air fresheners). The effort to bring the product, sold under the brand name Opill, to the market was more than two decades in the making. It involved numerous studies of safety and effectiveness, investigating everything from the pills optimal formulation to how well people could understand the package insert, including the warnings about a few conditions, such as a history of breast cancer, that would preclude taking it. (They could understand them quite well, the studies showed.) TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs. Our mailing address is 3110 Thomas Ave, Dallas, TX 75204, USA |
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