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

Editor's Pick

The big idea: can what you eat change your mind'

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designer drinks to dodgy leftovers, our brain responds to food in
surprising ways

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Editor's Note: When you take a sip of a sugary drink, your brain
processes the sensory information - the taste, bubbles on the tongue,
and so on. But it doesn't stop there. Once you've swallowed, your
digestive system tells the deep reward structures of the brain - via
the vagus nerve again - that what you've eaten has calories. You also
register that it's hydrating. These signals reinforce your behaviour:
they tell your brain to pursue that particular drink again in future.

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Supreme Court Could Rule On TikTok Ban WednesdayAfter Signaling It May
Uphold Law - Forbes (No paywall) [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=128077&nl=daily]
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The Supreme Court could rule on TikToks fate as soon as Wednesday,
after justices signaled during oral arguments Friday they may uphold
the federal law banning TikTok unless it divests itself from
ByteDance, expressing skepticism of TikToks opposition to the policy.

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How to Work for a Hands-Off Manager When Youre Fully Remote - Harvard
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Having clear and consistent communication with your manager is
essential to delivering strong results. You need to know their
expectations, and they need to have insight into your work to give
useful feedback and help you grow. Thats why working with a manager
who is too hands-off can be challenging, especially for people in
remote environments. If you find yourself in this situation, the first
way to improve the relationship is to get clear on your and your
managers work styles. Once you each understand how the other prefers
to communicate and solve problems, you can set up a system that works
for you both. You should also advocate for a weekly one-on-one meeting
with your boss to make sure youre aligned on goals. Lastly, its in
your benefit to network with your managers peers. Being connected to
other leaders in the company will give you access to
cross-departmental opportunities, and make your work more visible
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AP PHOTOS: Amid charred neighborhoods, a handful of L.A. homes remain
untouched
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Rows of the remains of charred homes filled the Los Angeles landscape
as flames engulfed entire neighborhoods. But among the crumbling
walls, some homes stand untouched.

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Cuffing Season: Why People Want to Settle Down for the Winter Months
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Another reason could be men's testosterone levels increase over the
winter months.







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The world's first saber-toothed cat mummy has been found in Siberia
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The ancient cat's coloration is another longstanding question. Modern
cat coat colors tend to be associated with their hunting environment.
Lions, cougars, and cats that live in open, grassy habitats often have
light and relatively uniform coats.

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Their wealth is in their homes. Their homes are now ash. - WSJ (No
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LOS ANGELES Sylvia Sweeney and her husband, Bob Honeychurch, bought
their three-bedroom home nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel
Valley for $780,000 in 2009. At the start of this year, it was worth
more than double that$1.6 million, by one estimate.















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Will the EU fight for the truth on Facebook and Instagram
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“What has happened in the US is just the beginning,” the Filipino
site Rappler, founded by Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, concluded. “It
is an ominous sign of more perilous times in the fight to preserve and
protect our individual agency and shared reality.”

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Why Honda is merging with Nissan: factories, SUVs, and China
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Honda's potential merger with Nissan would represent one of the
largest shake-ups to the industry since the creation of Stellantis in
2021. But there are huge risks involved, too.







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'Frankenstein Fraud' Is Quickly Becoming the Most Dangerous Form of
Identity Theft
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Criminals stitching parts of people together sounds like something out
of a horror movie. Unfortunately, it's happening every day with
fragments of people's identities.

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Goldman sees financing as the future. It is rearranging itself to
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The Wall Street giant plans to combine three key groups in its global
banking and markets division that work on finding or facilitating
various types of financing deals, according to people familiar with
the matter. Goldman plans to call the new group the Capital Solutions
Group and unveil plans for it Monday.






















 









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Why fire lawsuits against Los Angeles city will likely fail
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The Los Angeles Fire Department estimates that about 10,000 structures
have been burned down or damaged in the city's fires. That includes
houses, sheds, garages and cars. Celebrities who lost their homes in
the fire included model and actor Paris Hilton, actor Billy Crystal,
and actor Miles Teller.

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Bidens Final Attempts at Legacy Polishing Won't Boost His Standing.
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President Joe Biden is down to his last week in the White House and
hes about to discover how little his half-century of service to the
Democratic Party gets him once he is back on the outside.














 









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Eli Lilly scientific chief Skovronsky says Scorpion deal 'checked all
the boxes'
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Lilly, flush with cash from the booming sales of its obesity and
diabetes drugs, has recently acquired startups including Morphic
Therapeutics, DICE Therapeutics, Versanis Bio, and POINT Biopharma.

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This YC Partner Just Raised $30 Million For An AI Startup Automating
Paperwork For Biotech
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When Surbhi Sarna set out to raise funding for her ovarian cancer
detection startup more than a decade ago, she faced a lengthy
struggle. A solo founder not long out of college at the time, she
scraped together $500,000 for nVision Medical in 18 months and got to
work.






















 









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Chinese social media app RedNote is the number one app as TikTok ban
looms
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While it’s unlikely any of these apps will remain popular for long,
the fact that so many relatively unknown apps have risen to the top of
the app stores so quickly is yet another sign of how influential
TikTok’s users and creators can be. It also highlights how banning
TikTok alone won’t curb the influence of Chinese tech companies in
the US.

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Dutch Central Bank Restores Amsterdam's 'Ugliest Building'
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Following a EUR320 million renovation by Dutch architecture firm
Mecanoo, the once-ridiculed De Nederlandsche Bank building is more
open and sustainable.






















 









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Why bond yields are surging around the world - WSJ (No paywall)
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The worldwide bond rout threatens to complicate the efforts of central
banks that have been cutting short-term interest rates. Rate cuts aim
to lower borrowing costs for consumers and businesses. But the rise in
yields is instead making it costlier to borrow, tightening financial
conditions" in Wall Street parlance. The average 30-year U.S. mortgage
rate rose to 6.9% last week.

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A Deep Sleep Clears the Mind at Night Like a Dishwasher Cleaning-But
Beware of Sleeping Pills
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A good night's sleep clears your mind, suggests new research, like
turning on a dishwasher before you go to bed and waking up with a
clean brain. The international team of scientists describes the
process as washing away waste that builds up in the brain during
waking hours.

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Ackmans Pershing Square Proposes Merger With Howard Hughes - Bloomberg
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Pershing Square Capital Management LP has proposed a deal to merge one
of its subsidiaries with real estate company Howard Hughes Holdings
Inc., according to a letter to investors.

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Amazon is 'winding down' some of its DEI programs
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Like Meta, Amazon is ending some of its diversity, equity, and
inclusion (DEI) programs.

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Dollar rises to 2-year high after strong data dims rate-cut prospects
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The dollar hit fresh highs against several currencies, continuing its
rise after Fridays strong U.S. jobs data further dimmed prospects for
Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts this year.

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The signals of workplace submissiveness - The Economist (No paywall)
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Animals have evolved many different ways to signal submissiveness to
their more powerful counterparts. Lower-ranking chimpanzees might
greet a dominant chimp by producing a breathy sound known as a
pant-grunt. Hanuman langurs present their hindquarters. Spotted hyenas
of both sexes (yes, both) have a habit of displaying erections to
acknowledge that they sit lower down the pecking order. Chickens
invented the very concept of pecking orders.

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Why cost avoidance became an AI buzzword for holding down headcount -
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Businesses are starting to link their artificial intelligence
initiatives with paring back hiring plans, or so-called cost
avoidance, in an effort to justify investing in the technology.

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AfD embraces mass deportation of migrants as German election nears
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Germany's far right is in a buoyant mood. On Saturday, while its
conference was under way in the eastern city of Riesa, in Saxony,
Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) laid out ambitions to close
Germany's borders, resume buying Russian gas and, in effect, dismantle
the EU.

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Biden and Netanyahu discuss Gaza ceasefire talks as momentum builds
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US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
have spoken by phone - Biden's final week in office - as momentum
builds towards a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal.

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Just make people come in on the second Thursday of the month workspace
provider Mark Dixon on the WFH debate
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Working from home isn't generally a success for Mark Dixon. "I'm too
easily distracted," he says. "You have to be quite disciplined to be a
successful home worker, whether that's for one day or five days."

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Jamie Dimon isn't surprised Donald Trump won the election--he says
people were tired of being lectured to by a 'swamp' of ineffective
government
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BYJamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, isn't surprised that Trump won
the electionKent Nishimura/Bloomberg - Getty Images

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Statista data show half of Dutch don't wash their hands after using
the toilet
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As Europe grapples with the flu season personal hygiene is more
important than ever. The infection, formally known as influenza, may
not seem all that dangerous thanks to advancements in vaccines but it
kills an estimated 27,600 people every year around Europe.

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Meta moderators were already in Texas before Zuckerberg announced move
say ex-workers
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Thousands of full-time employees work for Meta in Texas in several
different departments. More than 220 workers were laid off in the
state in 2022, however, as part of a large restructuring of the social
media company. In all, Meta laid off more than 11,000 employees
worldwide with Zuckerberg deeming it the “year of efficiency”.
Meta’s trust and safety teams were some of the hardest hit.

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After a Great Run for Stocks, Be Ready for Something Different
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Financial markets have been choppy since the November election, and
for good reason. With the next presidential administration promising
sharp policy changes on a broad range of economic issues, there is
plenty to be nervous about. The new proposals are dizzying.

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Demi Moore Teaches Hollywood a Lesson
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Demi Moore has said that before she got the script for "The
Substance," she thought that maybe her days in the movies were done.

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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is resigning from the company today,
effective immediately, with board member Tom Conrad filling the role
of interim CEO. It's the most dramatic development yet in an
eight-month saga that has proven to be the most challenging time in
Sonos' history.

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Meta built a global fact-checking operation. Will it survive?
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Meta's announcement it will end professional fact checking on Facebook
and Instagram in the U.S. has left fact checkers elsewhere around the
world uncertain about their futures. Meta said the rollback is
"starting in the U.S." but does not apply to other countries "at this
time.

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AI has venture investors excited about (yes) accounting firms - WSJ
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Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Thrive Capital are among
the venture outfits taking stakes in accounting firms on the heels of
a series of deals led by private equity.

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NYCs congestion pricing is unpopular for now
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Biogen CEO confirms he's shopping for biotechs: 'We will be doing
deals'
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Biogen would like to make additional biotech
acquisitions in 2025 beyond Friday's offer to buy its financially
troubled partner Sage Therapeutics, chief executive Chris Viehbacher
told me Sunday.

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The Good Guy/Bad Guy Myth
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Pop culture today is obsessed with the battle between good and evil.
Traditional folktales never were. What changed?

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Weight training plus electricity adds extra muscle and strength
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Using a run-of-the-mill, portable and non-invasive electrical muscle
stimulator while doing resistance training can yield greater gains in
muscle strength and muscle mass than doing resistance training alone,
according to new research.

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FEMA administrator says L.A. officials were "very prepared" for
wildfires, but "they have never seen 100 mile an hour winds"
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Washington -- FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell said Sunday that L.A.
officials were "very prepared" for devastating wildfires, noting that
the area is prone to fires. But "they have never seen 100 mile an hour
winds that are fueling the fire," she said.

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Biden's administration proposes new rules on exporting AI chips,
provoking an industry pushback
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Biden administration is proposing a new
framework for the exporting of the advanced computer chips used to
develop artificial intelligence, an attempt to balance national
security concerns about the technology with the economic interests of
producers and other countries.

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A Los Angeles Teen Started a Recovery Fund for Wildfire Victims. Now
It's a Movement
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Avery Colvert, 14, never imagined her recovery fund for the teenage
victims of the Eaton Fire, one of multiple blazes raging in Los
Angeles County, would go viral, but less than 24 hours after its
creation, it did just that. Paris Hilton posted about Altadena Girls
on her Instagram story.

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AI is changing the way we grieve and perceive death
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Imagine attending a funeral where the person who has died speaks
directly to you, answering your questions and sharing memories. This
happened at the funeral of Marina Smith, a Holocaust educator who died
in 2022.

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IndiGo preparing for launch of operations to Western Europe
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IndiGo has been a surprise story over the past couple of years as it
breaks away from the mould that observers have cast it, investors and
everyone else.

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UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for massive
datacenters
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Britain's planning system is still seen as a significant barrier to
the development of datacenters.

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In defence of productivity crap
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I was reading through the top Bear blog posts last night and found
this at the very top: Stop wasting time on productivity crap. Just
shut up and work. They're right, to a certain extent.

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Bill Ackman aims to create 'modern-day Berkshire Hathaway' with Howard
Hughes deal
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What to Know About the Latest Effort to Bring an End to Turkey's
40-Year Kurdish Conflict
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A fresh drive to bring an end to Turkey's 40-year Kurdish conflict has
seen politicians from the pro-Kurdish party meet jailed leaders.

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The first AI chip startup to go public in 2025 will be Blaize |
TechCrunch
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“All of the AI hype is happening in the data center. Interestingly,
they’ve totally neglected and forgotten about real physical world
use cases that are very real, that are touching people’s lives and
are happening now and making money,” Munagala told TechCrunch.
“We’re focused on the practical use of AI in the physical
world.”

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Researchers Have Found a Way to Help Erase Bad Memories
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Being able to erase bad memories and traumatic flashbacks could help
in the treatment of a host of different mental health issues, and
scientists have found a promising new approach to do just this:
weakening negative memories by reactivating positive ones.

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Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is willing to hand over
two captured soldiers from North Korea back to their home country in
exchange for Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia. Ukraine said on
Saturday that the men were captured on 9 January.

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