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Wrong trees in the wrong place can make cities hotter at night, study reveals | University of Cambridge
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Editor's Note: Although a higher degree of tree canopy cover in street canyons generally results in more cooling effects, excessively high cover may trap heat at the pedestrian level, especially in compact urban zones in high temperature climates. In such locations, narrow species and sparse planting strategies are recommended.
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WorkWorkA Beloved Toy Store Is Closing This Holiday Season. Are Shifting Social Media Algorithms to Blame? - Inc (No paywall) Instagram had been a boon to Keewa Nurullahs Kido boutique in Chicagos South Loop. Since it opened in 2018, Kidos inclusivity and representation-broadening mission, as well as its heirloom-quality toys, appealed to parents and grandparents looking for useful, educational gifts. The shop eschewed the plastic toys often found in big-box stores and instead featured toys from independent brands and books that spoke to kids with differing abilities and diverse families.
WorkDonald Trump Is Picking Fights. Will Anyone Hit Back? - The New Yorker (No paywall) Is anybody prepared to stand and fight Donald Trump? On Wednesday, Christopher Wray, the F.B.I. director whom Trump had vowed to fire as soon as he returned to the White House, announced that he would premptively quit in January, with nearly three years left in his ten-year term, rather than risk a public battle. Going out the door with him will be the crucial concept of a politically independent directorship, enshrined in law by Congress in the nineteen-seventies to protect against just such a scenario of a President seeking to install a partisan loyalist in the countrys most powerful law-enforcement post. This is the best way to avoid dragging the Bureau deeper into the fray, Wray said in a statement, while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important to how we do our work. He did not elaborate on how his self-defenestration would preserve the institutions values and principles from the threats of its incoming director, the Trump loyalist Kash Patel, who said in an interview in September that his first act upon taking over the F.B.I. would be to shut down the agencys main building and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state. Work
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WorkThe Real Problem With the Costumes in 'It Ends With Us' It Ends With Us was always going to be a difficult story to bring to life onscreen. The movie, which is closely based on the wildly popular Colleen Hoover novel of the same name, is essentially a drama about an abusive relationship. Hoover has been frank about the dark themes of her book, revealing that the inspiration for the story was her own mother leaving her abusive father. And in the years since the novel was published in 2016, theres been endless discourse about how it depicts and addresses trauma. All of which is to say that It Ends With Us is no whimsical romanceits a pretty dark movie about an undeniably grim topic. WorkFrance's New PM: Is the Wait Over? The French president raised the suspense by promising--on Tuesday, December 10th--to appoint a prime minister "within 48 hours." However, while possible candidates' names have been circulating, no option has yet been confirmed. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkA list of countries that should change their nameLook. Look. The world has seven jillion more pressing issues than the matter of international toponymy. But i've been staring at maps for long enough that i've got some strong opinions, and there's a lot of confusion to be resolved. WorkWorkHow Knowledge Institutions Can Build a Promethean Moment At launch, we have data from nearly one million public domain books, scanned at Harvard Library as part of the Google Books project. Our structuring and analysis of the corpus is complete and we're working with Google to release this treasure trove far and wide. WorkWorkWorkA new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, the time period during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans, starting about 50,500 years ago and lasting about 7,000 years -- until Neanderthals began to disappear WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWhy is deep sleep so important to memory? It's about time. It's no hidden health secret that sleep is really good for us. It helps our immune systems and supports almost every organ system in the body. We've also known for almost two decades that the slow, synchronous electrical waves in the brain during deep sleep supports memory formation. WorkWhen IBM Built a War Room for Executives It seems to me that every item in the Computer History Museum's collection has a biography of sorts--a life before CHM, a tale about how it came to us, and a life within the museum. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkRussian Troops Advance to Within 3 Miles of Key Ukrainian Transit Hub Ukraine's top general said on Thursday that his troops were facing "extremely fierce" fighting as Russian forces close in on the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, and that "unconventional decisions" would have to be made to bolster Ukrainian defenses. Although the commander, Gen. WorkGoogle's new Project Astra could be generative AI's killer app Top billing goes to Gemini 2.0--the latest iteration of Google DeepMind's family of multimodal large language models, now redesigned around the ability to control agents--and a new version of Project Astra, the experimental everything app that the company teased at Google I/O in May. WorkWorkWorkHow Learning Tibetan Changed the Way I Think When I was nine years old, my parents discovered Buddhism and became students of Lama Tony Karam at Casa Tibet Mexico. That same year, I watched Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire. 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.
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