Read 1 article(s) to regain complimentary premium membership (No paywall)͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ 

View online [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily] |
Unsubscribe (one-click)
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]













[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]

-------------------------

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

Editor's Pick

The year in tropical rainforests: 2024
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily a
complete comparison of tropical forest loss in 2024 with previous
years is not yet available, there are currently no indications that
this year’s loss will be markedly higher. A sharp decline in
deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon—partially offset by widespread
forest fires—suggests the overall rate of loss may be lower.

The Brazilian Amazon experienced a notable decline in deforestation in
2024, offering a rare glimmer of optimism for the embattled
rainforest. According to Brazil’s National Institute for Space
Research (INPE), forest loss fell by 30.6% between August 2023 and
July 2024, reaching its lowest level in nine years. The 6,288 square
kilometers of rainforest cleared—a swath roughly the size of
Delaware—marks the smallest annual loss since 2015.

Continued here
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]

Editor's Note: The Brazilian Amazon experienced a notable decline in
deforestation in 2024, offering a rare glimmer of optimism for the
embattled rainforest. According to Brazil's National Institute for
Space Research (INPE), forest loss fell by 30.6% between August 2023
and July 2024, reaching its lowest level in nine years. The 6,288
square kilometers of rainforest cleared - a swath roughly the size of
Delaware - marks the smallest annual loss since 2015.

Work

The Ones Who Need Little Sleep
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Short sleepers cruise by on four to six hours a night and don't seem
to suffer ill effects. Turns out they're genetically built to require
less sleep than the rest of us.

Work

China's BYD closes in on Tesla as sales jump
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Chinese car maker BYD saw sales jump at the end of last year, leaving
it closer to claiming the title of the world's best-selling electric
vehicle (EV) maker of 2024. The company says it sold 207,734 EVs in
December, taking its annual total to 1.















Work

Trucks in New Orleans Attack and Las Vegas Explosion Were Rented Using
the Same App
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
The trucks used in the deadly attack in New Orleans and the explosion
at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on Wednesday were rented
through the same peer-to-peer rental app, Turo, according to the
company.

Work

How exercise may be the 'most potent medical intervention ever known'
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Well, this particular research with the rats doesn't answer that
question, but, fortunately, we have lots of research to give us a good
answer to that question. And although you read lots of different
things as every new study comes up, the overall advice has remained
the same.














Work

Manhunt after mass shooting in Montenegro
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
At least some of the deaths happened inside a restaurant in the
Cetinje area, before the suspect reportedly moved to other locations.
The suspect is still at large and a manhunt is under way. Prime
Minister Milojko Spajic described the shooting as a "terrible
tragedy".

Work

'Our own little Y2K': L.A. Sheriff's computer dispatch system crashes
on New Year's Eve
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
A few hours before the ball dropped on New Year's Eve, the computer
dispatch system for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
crashed, rendering all patrol car computers nearly useless and forcing
deputies to handle all calls by radio, according to officials and
sources in the department.














Work

Pupil size in sleep reveals how memories are processed
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Cornell University researchers have found that the pupil is key to
understanding how, and when, the brain forms strong, long-lasting
memories.

Work

Jeff Koons on why he has drawn a red line on AI in art I dont want to
be lazy
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
His hands-off approach to the production of his famous balloon dogs
and stainless steel rabbits has been criticised in the past but Jeff
Koons, the world's most expensive artist, has drawn a red-line: "I
wouldn't - for my own base work - be looking at AI to be developing my
work.














Work

What are stars made of? A century ago, this woman found out--and
changed physics forever
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were
mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our understanding of the
universe. Humans have observed the stars for millennia, ever since our
ancestors looked toward the sky.

Work

Space debris weighing over 1,000 pounds reportedly crashes into
village in Kenya
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Kenyan officials said Wednesday they were investigating fragments of
metal, believed to be from a rocket, that crashed into a village in
the country's south. The issue of space junk has risen in tandem with
increased spatial traffic.














Work

Meghan Markle raises questions over divorcee title on Instagram
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
The change would seem innocuous to most people and may have been
entirely accidental. After all, Prince Harry reportedly shot the video
that she posted of her skipping across a beach to write "2025" in the
sand.

Work

Meta's Big Bet on Bots
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Among Meta’s many resolutions for the new year — making augmented
reality and the metaverse happen, positioning itself to absorb TikTok
refugees if the app gets banned, cracking open Apple’s platforms to
get more access to user data, and attriting its competition in
artificial intelligence with breathtaking spending — one stands out
as plain weird: filling its social-media platforms with bots.
According to the Financial Times:














Work

Tesla Truck Explodes Outside Trump?s Las Vegas Hotel
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
LAS VEGAS ? Firework mortars and camp fuel canisters were found
stuffed into the back of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside
President-elect Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel early Wednesday,
killing a suspect inside the vehicle and sparking an intense
investigation into possible terrorism.

Work

Protocells emerge in experiment simulating lifeless world: 'There is
no divine breath of life'
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Researchers from a Spanish laboratory observe, for the first time, the
formation of compartments alongside the basic ingredients of organisms
Geologist Juan Manuel Garcia Ruiz still speaks with amazement about
how he and his colleagues have created "a proto-world" in their
laboratory, located














Work

Britain wants to reset its Brexit reset
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
By all accounts, the new U.K. prime minister is getting on well with
EU leaders. But misunderstandings over visas for young people,
disputes over fish, and the small matter of being taken to court by
the European Commission have put a dampener on things.

Work

How Suicide Drones Transformed the Front Lines in Ukraine
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Outnumbered and desperate, the nation began hacking cheap consumer
UAVs with explosives -- bringing a brutal new form of terror to
21st-century warfare.













Work

Tesla Is Secretly Recalling Cybertruck Batteries
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow
us on Google News! Something interesting has been going on with Tesla
Cybertrucks. Tesla has been quietly replacing their battery packs,
seemingly a lot of them.

Work

Prosecutors in Taiwan Indict Former Presidential Candidate
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
He had run unsuccessfully for president of Taiwan as a maverick
candidate, promising to clean up the island's political system. Now,
he has been officially accused of corruption.

Work

We finally know what caused Florida fish to spin in circles until they
died
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Early testing of the water ruled out a red tide event--a bloom of
toxic dinoflagellates--and dissolved oxygen, salinity, pH, and
temperature were all within normal range and not suspected to be a
cause.(See photos of extreme algal blooms worldwide.

Work

Is Monogamy Over? Inside Love's Sharing Economy
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
How consensual non-monogamy became the new till death do us part.

Work

Out of a Magic Math Function, One Solution to Rule Them All
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Mathematicians used "magic functions" to prove that two highly
symmetric lattices solve a myriad of problems in eight- and
24-dimensional space.

Work

Could the Soviet Union Have Survived?
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]

Work

How to effectively refine engineering strategy.
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
In Jim Collins' Great by Choice, he develops the concept of Fire
Bullets, Then Cannonballs. His premise is that you should cheaply test
new ideas before fully committing to them.

Work

The Right (and Wrong) Things to Say to a Grieving Friend
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
It can be hard to find the right words to say to a friend whose loved
one has died. Experts share the dos and don'ts of expressing
condolences.

Work

Should You Let Your Car Insurance Track Your Driving for Cheaper
Rates?
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Many companies offer smart driving programs in exchange for a
potentially more affordable premium. Here's what to know before you do
it.

Work

How to Take Rejection Way Less Personally
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
The pain is real, but understanding it can stop you from spiraling.

Work

This Is Not Your High School Gym Teacher's Stretching Routine
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
The key to stretching properly is knowing when to do static or dynamic
stretching.

Work

I went undercover as an Uber Eats courier and made just $1.74 per hour
online. Here's what I learned about the troubling cost of convenience
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
By

Work

Damascus uncorked: Syria throws a new years party for the ages - WSJ
(No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
DAMASCUS, SyriaThe people of Syria said good riddance in the past
month to the dictatorship that ruled for half a century. They have no
idea what is coming next. So when the clock struck midnight, Damascus
let rip.

Work

Green electricity costs a bundle - WSJ (No paywall)
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
As nations use more and more supposedly cheap solar and wind power, a
strange thing happens: Our power bills get more expensive. This
exposes the environmentalist lie that renewables have already
outmatched fossil fuels and that the green transition" is irreversible
even under a second Trump administration.

Work

The Palestinian Authority takes on Hamas militants in West Bank power
struggle - WSJ (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Palestinian Authority security forces are battling militants from
Hamasand its alliesin the occupied West Bank, in a fight that has the
potential to shape the long-running struggle for the leadership of the
Palestinian cause.

Work

How McKinsey Resisted Disruption - Harvard Business Review (No
paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
The consulting firm McKinsey has helped its clients navigate
disruption in a wide range of industries. But what can we learn from
how McKinsey itself responded to disruption in the management
consulting industry in the early aughts?

Work

New Orleans Truck Attack: Biden Says Suspect Posted Videos Inspired By
ISIS (Live Updates) - Forbes (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
At least 15 people were killed on New Orleans Bourbon Street early
Wednesday after a driver rammed a truck into a crowd in the popular
tourist district during New Years celebrationsand President Joe Biden
says suspected assailant Shamsud-Din Jabbar posted videos suggesting
he was inspired by ISIS hours earlier.

Work

Social pressure holds back sales of alcohol-free drinks, research
finds - FT (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Other challenges include price and taste expectations, with Gen Zers
most likely to succumb

Work

Miami's Beachfront High-Rises Are Sinking Fast. It's a Warning for
Coastal Properties Worldwide.
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Miami's luxurious barrier islands high-rises are sinking, pointing to
an expensive issue for coastal properties and cities worldwide.

Work

Can probiotic supplements prevent hangovers?
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
The ads on podcasts and social media were tantalizing:
over-the-counter probiotic supplements that could ward off the worst
effects of a hangover if taken before drinking. As a bourbon reviewer
who enjoys the flavor of spirits but has always been easily prone to
hangovers, Eric Burke was intrigued.

Work

MrBeast Engaged to Fellow YouTuber Thea Booysen
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Internet personality Jimmy Donaldson, best known for his YouTube
alter-ego MrBeast, is ready for the biggest collaboration of his life
... he's engaged to content creator Thea Booysen.

Work

The Players on the Eve of Destruction
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
I'd like some help finding a poem, if any of you happen to know it. I
read it when I was a teenager, and I forget who it was by -- possibly
Louise Gluck. Anyway, the poem was about a woman watching two happy
young lovers, and wanting to warn them that their love would
eventually fade.

Work

Can 4G feature phones rise again on the back of QVGA, thin clients,
and remote browsers?
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
It's hard to get excited about feature phones with 320 x 240
resolution, but Shioupyn Shen thinks precisely such devices are about
to bring millions of people to the web in a new way. Shen is CEO of
CloudMosa - a developer that for over a decade has offered a remote
browser named Puffin.

Work

Police raid Muan airport over deadly Jeju Air plane crash
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
MUAN, South Korea, Jan. 2 (Yonhap) -- Police on Thursday raided Muan
International Airport, the office of Jeju Air and other locations over
the airline's deadly crash that killed 179 people.

Work

Thousands swarm to free Robbie Williams gig at maxed out Fed Square in
Melbourne
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
“That’s why additional safety measures have been put in place by
Fed Square including an increased number of security, fencing, first
aid, additional amenities, water fountains and a strong police
presence,” the spokesperson said.

Work

The nameless dead: scientists hunt for identities of thousands who
tried to reach Europe
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
“This work is ultimately about the people who are left behind. They
can’t grieve properly until they get the answers they deserve about
their loved one,” said Marsden. “No matter how big or small the
part of them they get back is, it is really important that they do.
That is why we do this work, so that we can help to close that chapter
for them and allow them in some way to move on.”

Work

Bank of America Lines up 2 Top Picks for 2025
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of
the featured analysts. The content is intended to be used for
informational purposes only. It is very important to do your own
analysis before making any investment.

Work

The notable lives we lost in 2024
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against Russian President Vladimir Putin,
former President Jimmy Carter, U.S. congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee,
actress Maggie Smith and hall-of-fame baseball player Willie Mays are
among some of the notable people who died this year

Work

OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators
specify how they want their works to be included in -- or excluded
from -- its AI training data. But 7 months later, this feature has yet
to see the light of day.

Work

US companies vouched for China during Trumps first term. Not anymore.
- WSJ (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
Businesses including Apple, Nike and small retailers said raising
tariffs on imports from China would raise prices for consumers.
Farmers and other businesses that exported to China warned about
retaliatory tariffs from Beijing.

Work

An attack in New Orleans raises fears about Islamic State - The
Economist (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
WHEN MAKING New Years resolutions few have violence on their minds.
That was evidently not the case for Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old
American citizen and military veteran from Texas. He rammed a rented
Ford pickup truck into a crowd of revellers on Bourbon Street in New
Orleans in the early hours of January 1st, killing 15 and injuring 35.
After the crash police killed Mr Jabbar in a shoot-out. The FBI is
investigating the attack as an act of terrorism; a black Islamic State
(IS) flag flew from the bumper of the truck driven by Mr Jabbar and
social media posts suggest he was a man of faith with intent to kill.
The fact that he avoided detection suggests a fairly sophisticated
conspiracy. This is not a garden-variety attack, says Colin Clarke of
the Soufan Center, a global-security research group.

Work

How Much Vitamin D Do You Need to Stay Healthy? - Scientific American
(No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
For a while vitamin D was looking like a bona fide health elixir. It
was recognized a century ago as the cure for rickets, a childhood
disease that causes weak and deformed bones. Then, in the early 2000s,
researchers began amassing a pile of studies suggesting that low
vitamin D levels could be a factor in cancer, cardiovascular disease,
dementia, depression, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, fractures,
respiratory illnesses and Parkinsons disease. It seemed reasonable to
think that raising our levels of this simple vitaminone that our
bodies make when lit up by sunshine and that we can get more of from
supplementscould cure practically whatever ailed us.

Work

MrBeast announces engagement to YouTuber Thea Booysen
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
In a post responding to IGN's review on X, MrBeast said it was "sad
one person who doesn't like me can just label something a thousand
people poured their lives into a 2/10 when it's clearly not".

Work

How Saffron, a Precious Import, Became an American Cash Crop
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]
It’s hard work to harvest, but a growing cadre of small farmers and
home gardeners are cultivating the spice for profit, or simply
pleasure.

TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives
About Us [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]  |  Advertise
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]  |  Privacy Policy
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]

Unsubscribe (one-click)
[[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=121517&nl=daily]

You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with
TradeBriefs.
Our mailing address is 3110 Thomas Ave, Dallas, TX 75204, USA