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

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Low-Intensity Interval Training Can Be as Effective as HIIT

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you spend more time working out.

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Editor's Note: People with bone and joint problems may not enjoy HIIT
due to the heavy loading that it requires. And though HIIT is
reasonably safe for people with heart problems, it's worth knowing
that heart attacks are five times more likely following a HIIT workout
than other types of exercise in higher risk cardiac patients. However,
the benefits of any exercise often outweigh the risks, in both healthy
people and those with health conditions.

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How California's high-speed rail line will advance in 2025
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Phase 1 of the project focuses on linking San Francisco in the north
to Anaheim via Los Angeles in the south, with plans to extend the line
north to Sacramento and south to San Diego in Phase 2.

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A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has
revealed a 127-room villa twice the size of the U.S. White House
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Archaeologists in northern Iraq have conducted an extensive magnetic
survey using an exhaustive magnetic survey at Khorsabad, once the
ancient Assyrian capital, and with the help of this technology have
found the remains of a huge villa (with 127 rooms), royal gardens, the
city's water gate and fi















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China approves Tibet mega dam that could generate 3 times more power
than Three Gorges
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China has approved the construction of a colossal hydropower project
on Tibet's longest river that could generate three times more energy
than the Three Gorges Dam, state news agency Xinhua reported on
Wednesday.

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Air missile accident emerges as probable cause of crash tragedy
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An Azerbaijan Airlines crashed on Wednesday morning in the city of
Aktau in Kazakhstan, killing 38 of the 67 on board the Embraer 190,
according to officials.














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Elon Musk urges supporters not to donate to Wikipedia after it spent
$50M on DEI: 'Wokepedia'
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Elon Musk urged his supporters not to donate to the nonprofit that
runs Wikipedia after the organization budgeted more than $50 million
to spend on controversial diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)
initiatives. The Wikimedia Foundation site said that it set a goal of
spending $51.

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Experts warn of mental health risks after rise in magic mushroom use
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Magic mushrooms are rapidly growing in popularity, sparking a
"psychedelic renaissance" as people become more interested in their
mental health benefits. But experts have warned that using them
recreationally risks doing more harm than good.














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FinlandEstonia power cable hit in latest Baltic Sea incident
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An undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia broke down on
Wednesday, Finland's prime minister said, the latest in a series of
incidents involving cables and energy pipelines in the Baltic Sea.

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Nvidia sees 'remarkable' influx of retail investor dollars as traders
flock to AI darling
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As Michael MacGillivray saw artificial intelligence becoming more
ubiquitous in everyday life, the 25-year-old wanted his investments to
reflect that. It didn't take long to figure out how he wanted to play
the trend.














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Bilderberg Group changes itself for the modern world and return of
Trump
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The former head of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, has been named the new
co-chair of the influential Bilderberg Group, which convenes a yearly
transatlantic policy conference and has long been the subject of
conspiracy theories around the extent of its power to shape global
events.

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The rise and rise of Maye Musk Chinas love affair with Elon Musks
mother
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Maye Musk is a busy woman. As well as being the mother of the world's
richest man, she has been jetting between various glamorous events -
many of them in China.














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The birth of Jesus would probably have been forgotten if it wasnt for
a plague
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In our Christmas imagery, ancient symbols such as fir trees,
mistletoe, holly and ivy sit alongside the baby Jesus, Virgin Mary,
angels and shepherds. This mixture of pagan and Christian traditions
reminds us that Christmas was superimposed on to much older midwinter
festivities.

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GRAPHIC: Recent Tyson Foods, Butterball meatpacking plant closures
highlight industry trend
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Meatpacking plants closed at an unprecedented rate this year,
accelerated by a number of factors such as rising livestock costs,
workforce shortages, food safety violations and foodborne illnesses,
and ongoing industry consolidation.














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'We are not California': New Jersey dealers push back on electric
truck rules
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As a handful of states start adopting California's sales mandates for
zero-emission trucks, dealers in New Jersey are pushing back. These
rules are designed to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles
in heavy trucking.

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Stan Lee's Last Days: A Shocking Tale of Love and Abuse
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IN APRIL 2018, a video appeared on YouTube that changed everything.
It was recorded on a cellphone at the Silicon Valley Comic Con, a
comic book convention where Stan Lee was a star attraction. In the
grainy video, the 95-year-old creator of Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man,
Hulk, Black Panther, X-Men and others appears unable to sign his name.
Which is important to note, because Lee and his handlers were there to
sell his signature for $120 a pop. A dark-haired man in his 40s,
dressed like an MTV gangster, in a black skinny suit, black fedora and
sunglasses, coached the barely cognizant writer through the task.














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The Economy Has Been Great Under Biden. Thata??s Why Trump Won.
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Astronomers discover 'tunnel' connecting solar system to other stars
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Astronomers have made a shocking new discovery about our solar system.
The research was conducted by astronomers at the Max Planck Institute
in Germany led by Dr. L. L. Sala.













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Ireland embraced data centers that the AI boom needs. Now they're
consuming too much of its energy
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CLONDALKIN, Ireland (AP) -- Dozens of massive data centers humming at
the outskirts of Dublin are consuming more electricity than all of the
urban homes in Ireland and starting to wear out the warm welcome that
brought them here.

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Luigi Mangione Prosecutors Have a Jury Problem: 'So Much Sympathy'
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An attorney has said that jury selection may be very difficult in
Luigi Mangione's murder trial as there is so much public sympathy for
the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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My horrible career -- Bitfield Consulting
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I recently had a fascinating, and wide-ranging, conversation with ace
developer advocate Zack Proser, of the highly recommended Supercharge
Your Dev Skills blog.

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Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Revealed: Next Film Is 'Mythic
Action Epic' Shot With New Imax Technology
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Sing to me, muse! Details of Christopher Nolan's star-studded next
project at Universal have finally been revealed. According to a new X
post from Universal Pictures, the filmmaker's next project "is a
mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film
technology.

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A new years resolution for the Federal Reserve - WSJ (No paywall)
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It should embrace clear monetary-policy rules and explain its
reasoning for departing from them.

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Chasing the highest-yield savings account: More trouble than its
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With the Fed cutting rates, some savers say they are done moving money
from bank to bank in pursuit of the best return on cash.

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It was a bad year for the worlds autocrats - WSJ (No paywall)
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Regimes fell in Syria and Bangladesh, marking unexpected defeats
against a rising tide of authoritarianism in the world.

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Israelis see chance to remake Middle East in war?s wake - WSJ (No
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TEL AVIV?Since the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has dealt a
series of damaging setbacks to its most dangerous regional
adversaries. It has hobbled Hamas in Gaza, severely damaged Shiite
militia Hezbollah in Lebanon and fended off missile salvos from Tehran
while landing its own blows in Iran.

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What Happened in AI in 2024, And What Will the New Year Bring? - Inc
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Perhaps more than any other technology, AI has dominated the headlines
this year. For reasons good, bad, fascinating, and possibly a little
terrifying. And we wonder: what world-changing advances will happen in
2025?

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What It Takes to Thrive During a Crisis - Harvard Business Review (No
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Keith Ferrazzi, founder of the consulting firm Ferrazzi Greenlight,
surveyed more than 2,000 executives to learn how they changed their
operations during the pandemic. The results show that some companies
had already been cultivating a kind of extreme adaptability before the
pandemic. That practice helped them come out on top.

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Netflix Set For $150 Million NFL Christmas Test As Stock Heads To Best
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Netflix?s first run as a bigtime sports broadcaster will surely catch
the eye of Wall Street, though the company has already delivered a
great year for investors as the streaming leader rapidly grows
profits.

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The Hollywood Slog That Led Adam Scott to "Severance" - The New Yorker
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In late 2012, Dan Erickson was a twenty-eight-year-old aspiring
screenwriter in L.A., working a dull job in office management at a
door-parts company. Day after day, he sat at a computer monitor
cataloguing hinges and cabinet pulls. He longed to escape the
drudgery, but he needed the money; he was saddled with debt, and drove
a dinky scooter to save on gas. One morning, while walking into work,
Erickson had a thought: What if I could skip ahead to the end of the
day, and my work would magically be done? During his lunch breaks, he
began turning this idea into a pilot for a high-concept workplace
thriller called "Severance." The result was part "The Office," part
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." A sinister corporation called
Lumon Industries has invented a microchip brain implant that can
bisect a person's consciousness into an "innie" and an "outie"--an
office self and a home self. Lumon employees who choose to have the
implant installed work on a subterranean "severed floor" of Lumon's
headquarters. The chip is activated as they ride an elevator down,
erasing their knowledge of their outside lives. Their home selves, in
turn, know nothing of what happens within the office's walls. The
show's protagonist, Mark Scout, is a severed man toiling in Lumon's
Macrodata Refinement Department, sorting numbers into arbitrary
groupings. Outside the office, his outie is a bereft widower who chose
to sever his mind just to get some emotional relief. At work, his
innie is upbeat, affable, on task--and, like his severed co-workers,
effectively trapped forever at the office, by design.

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Food groups develop a taste for cocoa alternatives - FT (No paywall)
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High commodity prices and sustainability concerns prompting investment
by likes of Mondel?z into lab-grown versions

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Iraq Plans to Cut Gas Flaring to 20% Next Year to Reduce Imports -
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The nation lowered flaring to 33% this year: deputy minister Baghdad
has been trying to cut wasteful gas burning for years

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The surprisingly selfish reason people give terrible gifts
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AI Models Are Getting Smarter. New Tests Are Racing to Catch Up
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Despite their expertise, AI developers don't always know what their
most advanced systems are capable of?at least, not at first. To find
out, systems are subjected to a range of tests?often called
evaluations, or ?evals??designed to tease out their limits. But due to
rapid progress in the field, today?s systems regularly achieve top
scores on many popular tests, including SATs and the U.S. bar exam,
making it harder to judge just how quickly they are improving.

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Agentic AI vs Generative AI: Understanding the Key Differences and
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Large Language Models (LLMs) (opens new window) like GPT (opens new
window) can generate text, answer questions, and assist with many
tasks. However, they are reactive, meaning they only respond to the
input they receive based on patterns they've learned.

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The top billionaires have these 7 things in common
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Most investors will never become billionaires, but there are still
some valuable lessons to be learned by examining what the richest
people in the world have in common. You may be able to apply some
things to your own life or portfolio, even if you don't ultimately
reach billionaire status.

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Resist a??predatorya?? Boxing Day gambling offers, say NHS bosses amid
worsening crisis
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In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116
123, or email [email protected] or [email protected]. In the US, the
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is at 988 or chat for support.
You can also text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis text line
counsellor. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11
14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org

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PharmEasy investor cuts value of its stake drastically, implying new
valuation of $456M | TechCrunch
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The startup’s financial challenges emerged after it deferred an $843
million IPO planned for November 2021. It then turned to debt
financing, including a $300 million loan from Goldman Sachs, which
proved problematic as the company struggled to repay those loans and
raise new equity in a deteriorating market.

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A Look Inside Huawei's Phone Shows How China's Chip Advance Has
Stalled
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In the tense geopolitical rivalry between China and the United States
for control of advanced technology, Huawei is often in the middle. The
Chinese telecommunications giant is a main target of a U.S.

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Yes, Americans are much richer than Japanese people
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Now, Samo makes what I think is a major mistake here -- using GDP at
market exchange rates rather than at purchasing power parity. If only
imports mattered for living standards, we could use market exchange
rate GDP here, since that reflects how many imports you can afford.

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Behind closed doors: The spy world scientists who argued covid was a
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A car and driver had been readied to whisk Jason Bannan from FBI
headquarters early one morning in August 2021 to brief the White House
on a novel virus that was killing hundreds of thousands of Americans
and had stopped the world in its tracks.

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Untangling Why Red Wine Causes Headaches - Scientific American (No
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Medical accounts of red wine headaches go back to Roman times, but the
experience is likely as old as winemaking ? something like 10,000
years. As chemistsspecializing in winemaking, we wanted to try to
figure out the source of these headaches.

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How A.I. Could Reshape the Economic Geography of America
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As the technology is widely adopted, some once-struggling midsize
cities in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South may benefit, new
research predicts.

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Hanukkah in Pictures: Keeping the Flame Alive
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Jews around the globe lit the first of eight candles on Wednesday and
came together to celebrate and reflect on their history.

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Beyonce's Netflix Halftime Set: A Stunning 'Cowboy Carter' Showcase
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The star performed songs from her country-and-more album for the first
time during an N.F.L. game, spotlighting her onstage prowess and the
contributions of her collaborators.

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A Young Sudanese Trapped by War Makes Painful Choices and Is Viewed
With Suspicion
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Trapped in Sudan’s brutal civil war, a young woman chose to work in
a clinic on the front line, treating civilians and combatants. She had
to navigate suspicion from both sides.

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Five Journalists Killed in Gaza Strike, Palestinian Officials Say
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The Israeli military said it had struck a vehicle containing a
“terrorist cell” in the Nuseirat area of Gaza.

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Still Sounding Young at 85, She Is the Voice of Old Japan
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Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of
“Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never
quite joined the modern world.

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Opinion | No, You Don't Get an A for Effort
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High marks reward excellence, not grit.

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Opinion | Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and the Brute Force of
Celebrity P.R. Tactics
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On the internet, the truth and the manufactured lies about celebrities
are hard to sort through.

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Prosecutors in Taiwan Indict Ko Wen-je, Former Presidential Candidate
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The prosecutors asserted that Ko Wen-je, a former mayor, took bribes.
He and his supporters have maintained that the charges are a political
vendetta.

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The best PS5 accessories for 2025
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Here are the best accessories for the Sony PlayStation 5, as chosen by
Engadget editors.

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