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- The top 25 stories curated by editors and fellow readers!

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Photographs reveal first glimpse of uncontacted Amazon community

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Automatic cameras in the Brazilian rainforest show images of the
Massaco people, who are flourishing despite environmental threats

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Editor's Note: New images show Brazil's uncontactable people are
thriving - but with success comes a new threat

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Why Talking to Strangers Is the Best Thing You Can Do for Your Mental
Health
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If we can only break through the awkwardness barrier, striking up
conversations at random is the cheapest form of therapy there is
"That's great work you're doing there.

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Up to 13% of Dementia Cases Could Be a Misdiagnosed Treatable
Condition
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As the global population ages, more of us face frightening cognitive
decline, personally or in our loved ones. There are over 10 million
new cases of dementia globally each year.















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What is the Two Generals Problem in Distributed Systems?
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Network reliability is one of the mistaken beliefs about distributed
systems that focuses on network behavior. When designing large-scale
applications, we often assume some messages will be lost during
communication between two nodes.

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11 vibrant images from the Northern Lights Photographer of the Year
awards
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The skies put on a spectacular show in 2024. With the sun experiencing
a particularly active year, the aurora displays around the globe
stunned in their colorful beauty.














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Why is money so hard?
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Every year, we spend and resolve to figure things out later. Now's the
time to make a plan. On the Money is a monthly advice column.

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The desperate last stand to save a forest from Tesla
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The German Tesla factory has faced controversy since its opening in
March 2022.














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The First Sleep Apnea Drug Is Here
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The weight-loss drug Zepbound (tirzepatide) now has another major
benefit: on Dec. 20, it became the first drug approved by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat obstructive sleep apnea.

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Researchers Find 13 Proteins in the Blood That Are Seemingly Linked to
Brain Aging
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Chinese neurologists have identified 13 proteins in the blood that
appear to be good indicators of how fast our brains age. In the
future, this information could help monitor aging in the brain and
keep tabs on age-related cognitive disorders, like dementia.














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The Theory That Volcanoes Killed the Dinosaurs Is Officially Extinct
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For years, scientists have floated an alternative theory to explain
the extinction of the dinosaurs--one involving extreme volcanism. It's
an intriguing idea, but new research seems to have finally put this
competing explanation to rest.

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Longevity 'elixir': have Chinese scientists found a way to extend
life, boost health?
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A team of scientists in China said they have discovered how a type of
bile known as lithocholic acid (LCA) can slow down ageing in a way
similar to how calorie restriction or fasting work.














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Visual resistance training for athletes improves reaction times, study
finds
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Professional athletic sports require elite athletes to function at the
very limit of their abilities. After all, their competition consists
entirely of other elite athletes trying to do just that.

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When Your $3 Million Cello Gets Bumped From Your Flight
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The miseries of flying for work are well documented. Delays.
Cancellations. The eternal gamble: to check or not to check bags,
risking damaged or lost luggage.














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Silicon Valley's Obsession With AI Looks a Lot Like Religion
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The tech world's fixation on artificial intelligence has spawned
beliefs and rituals that resemble religion -- complete with digital
deities, moral codes, and threats of damnation.

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If you use AI-generated code, what's your liability exposure?
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There will be hackers, criminals, rogue nation states, high school
students, and crackpots all attempting to feed erroneous data into
every AI they can find.














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How to Fix Climate Change (A Sneaky Policy Guide)
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We may already have a "miracle" fix for climate change: Electrify
everything.

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Bananas Have Died Out Once Before
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Modern bananas are a monoculture. It's only a matter of time before
some bug or fungus strikes, and many experts believe that strike is
coming very soon.













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David Whyte on the True Meaning of Friendship, Love, and Heartbreak
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"All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual
forgiveness. Without tolerance and mercy all friendships die."

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A Sublime Example of Organic Architecture in Joshua Tree
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The Doolittle house should theoretically be hard to miss. Designed by
architect Kendrick Bangs Kellogg in the 1980s, the 4,643-square-foot
home rises up out of the California desert like an arachnid, its stony
spines hovering in the landscape like a UFO just about to settle down.

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6 Famous Writers Injured While Writing
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When making stuff is hazardous to your health.

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Music Can Change How You Feel About the Past
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Neuroscientists found that music cannot only influence your emotions
in the present - it can also alter how you remember your memories.

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Why Does OpenAI Need So Much Money?
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Early last year, OpenAI raised $10 billion. Just 18 months later, the
company had burned through most of that money. So it raised $6.6
billion more and arranged to borrow an additional $4 billion.

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Fyodor fever how Dostoevsky became a social media sensation
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Being popular on TikTok can make just about anything fly off the
shelves, from beauty products to cucumbers, which became one of the
most-ordered Deliveroo items after "cucumber guy" Logan Moffitt's
recipe videos went viral earlier this year.

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How Coldplay Became Bigger, Happier, and More 'Coldplay' Than Ever
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Chris Martin and the band on their 'Music of the Spheres' tour, future
plans, and defying the critics -- including the ones in their head.

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Need a research hypothesis? Ask AI.
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Crafting a unique and promising research hypothesis is a fundamental
skill for any scientist. It can also be time consuming: New PhD
candidates might spend the first year of their program trying to
decide exactly what to explore in their experiments. What if
artificial intelligence could help?

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How Your Car Might Be Making Roads Safer
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Darcy Bullock, a civil engineering professor at Purdue University,
turns to his computer screen to get information about how fast cars
are traveling on Interstate 65, which runs 887 miles from Lake
Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Real Reason Plumbers Are Becoming Millionaires
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The next generation of neural networks could live in hardware
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Networks programmed directly into computer chip hardware can identify
images faster, and use much less energy, than the traditional neural
networks that underpin most modern AI systems. That's according to
work presented at a leading machine learning conference in Vancouver
last week.

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Flat Earthers Went to Antarctica to Look at The Sun. Here's What
Happened.
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In a surprise conclusion to a project dubbed The Final Experiment,
several well-known believers in a non-spherical Earth have had a
change of heart.

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Nissan needs a Honda rescue. What went so wrong? - WSJ (No paywall)
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Nissan, once a symbol of Japans carmaking prowess, spent the past five
years trying to regain its footing after the arrest of longtime leader
Carlos Ghosn, only to find itself in a precarious spot again.

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Biden Urged to Grant ByteDance 90-Day Wait on Law Requiring TikTok
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Democratic Senator Ed Markey and Republican Senator Rand Paul on
Thursday urged President Joe Biden to extend by 90 days a Jan. 19
deadline for China-based ByteDance to sell the U.S. assets of its
short-video app TikTok or face a ban.

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Trumps Cabinet And Key Jobs: The Apprentice Producer Mark Burnett,
David Fink And Aaron Reitz Among Latest Nominees - Forbes (No paywall)
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President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated a trio of
candidates to positions in his administration, including The
Apprentice producer Mark Burnett as special envoy to the U.K., David
Fink as head of the Federal Railroad Administration and Aaron Reitz to
lead the Justice Departments Office of Legal Policy, the latest among
of flurry of new appointments in recent weeks as Trump continues to
fill out his cabinet.

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A day in the life of Toyosu, the worlds greatest fish market - The
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Wiry and frenetic in a white headband, Yamazaki Yasuhiro presides over
his corner stall. Around him underlings cut and package fish. Like
much of Tokyo, his stall is not exactly cramped but has little space
to spare. He navigates through a maze of tanks holding twitching
prawns and seething crabs; blue buckets in which fish swim in anxious
tight circles, as if aware that plates and chopsticks await; and
stacks of white boxes packed with seafood of all kindsapologising for
his paltry inventory. A typhoon the previous day grounded planes
across Japan, halting deliveries. What looks like abundance is only a
tenth of his usual daily trade, Mr Yamazaki explains.

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Qatar will ?stop? EU gas sales if fined under due diligence law - FT
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Energy minister warns Doha ?not bluffing? over hefty penalties in
corporate sustainability directive

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Albania to ban TikTok for a year as PM Edi Rama claims app inciting
violence and bullying
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A 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death last month, allegedly by a
fellow pupil, with the incident reportedly taking place following an
argument between the pair on social media. The incident sparked a
wider debate in the country.

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Apple's AirPods Made More Money Than Nintendo Last Year
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AirPods may be small in size, but in terms of revenue, they're huge.
Last year, AirPods made Apple over $18 billion in revenue, according
to Bloomberg. If that sounds like a lot, it's because it is.

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Suspect in Germany auto attack that killed 5, injured 200
self-identified as Islamophobic and anti-immigrationist
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The suspect in the German car-ramming attack that killed five and
injured more than 200 on Friday has been identified as Taleb
al-Abdulmohsen, a self-described member of the "liberal opposition" to
Saudi Arabia who has voiced strong anti-Islamic and anti-immigration
views. Two senior U.S.

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Ho-Ho-How to Make ChatGPT Sound Like Santa Claus!
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Santa spends a lot of time at malls this time of year and,
historically, it's the only place you can reliably talk with the big
jolly guy.

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Elon Musk 'Crashing' Trump-Bezos Dinner Sparks Jokes, Memes: 'Cable
Guy'ed'
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Musk reportedly crashed the meeting at Mar-a-Lago between the
President-elect and Amazon CEO on Wednesday. According to The New York
Times, the X CEO "was not initially expected to be part of the dinner
but joined as it was underway."

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Teenager's brain becomes key marketing tool for companies
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After dropping out of an elite junior high school in the Tokyo
metropolitan area, Keita Noda transferred to a public school but
refused to attend classes. Instead, he stayed at home and immersed
himself in the world of an online video game.

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MIT-Linked Company Says It Will Build 'World's First Grid-Scale'
Nuclear Fusion Power Plant
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Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a startup that was spun out of a project
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's research labs,
announced plans this week to break ground on what it calls "the
world's first grid-scale fusion power plant.

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One of Texas' dirtiest coal plants will swap to solar with help from
US grant
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A coal plant in South Texas will shut down and convert to a solar +
battery electricity generation facility, with the help of a $1.4
billion grant from the US Department of Agriculture meant to help
clean energy while saving rural jobs.

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If climate tech is dead, what comes next?
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Humans have an innate desire to name things, but to be honest, we're
not always that good at it. Take climate tech: it's a category of
companies and technologies that, broadly speaking, seek to minimize or
reverse our impact on the climate while also helping us adapt to its
increasing changes.

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The Germany We Knew Is Gone
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When I recently picked up a rental car in Las Vegas -- I was in
America to cover the elections -- the agent at the counter insisted on
"upgrading" me to a BMW. "So you feel at home," he said, looking at my
German driver's license, smiling.

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Drugs like Ozempic now make up 5% of prescriptions in the US
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One out of 20 prescriptions written in the U.S. is for a GLP-1 drug.
US doctors write billions of prescriptions each year. During 2024,
though, one type of drug stood out--"wonder drugs" known as GLP-1
agonists.

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These seven US salaries explain what it means to be rich in 2024
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Is a six-figure salary enough to make anyone feel wealthy these days?
How about a $500,000 salary? In this inflationary era, benchmarks of
wealth are moving targets. Everything seems to cost more.

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How Feminism Can Guide Climate Change Action - Scientific American (No
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This year is projected to be the hottest on record. The latest United
Nations estimates indicate that, without radical and immediate action,
we are headed toward an increasingly unlivable planet with an increase
of up to 3.1 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Solving the
climate crisis requires urgent, global cooperation.

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The G.O.P.'s Elon Musk Problem - The New Yorker (No paywall)
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Musk, who funnelled more than two hundred and seventy million dollars
into Trump's Presidential campaign, has become somewhat ubiquitous in
the weeks since the election: co-chairing a budget-cutting advisory
commission called DOGE, touring Congress, and vociferously supporting
the far-right Alternative f

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Millions to Get Bigger Social Security Checks If Biden Signs New Bill
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Millions of Americans may see their Social Security benefits increase
under a bill headed to President Joe Biden?s desk ? though critics
warn that the measure comes at the cost of pushing the fund further
toward insolvency.

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Elon Musk's journey from Obama to Trump aligns with many Americans
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Billionaire Elon Musk, who quickly became part of President-elect
Donald Trump's inner circle, reflects the political trajectory of many
Americans and a demographic shift moving from support for former
Democratic President Barack Obama to backing Republican Trump.

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A fentanyl antidote is saving lives. But it isn't ending the fentanyl
crisis
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - The death toll from fentanyl and other synthetic
opioids is falling for the first time since the drugs began flooding
America's streets a decade ago.

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