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How Inventors Find Inspiration in Evolution

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centuries, engineers have turned to nature for inspiration. Leonardo
da Vinci dreamed of gliding machines that would mimic birds. Today,
the close study of animals and plants is leading to inventions such as
soft batteries and water-walking robots.

Cassandra Donatelli, a biologist at the University of Washington,
Tacoma and an author of a recent review of the burgeoning field of
"bioinspiration," credits the trend to sophisticated new tools as well
as a new spirit of collaboration.

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Marriage Ruling Relieves Gay Americans and Leaves Conservatives
Pledging New Challenges
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The Supreme Court chose not to revisit a case involving same-sex
marriage. The number of married same-sex couples has doubled in the
last 10 years.

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Goldman Sachs' $110mn EA deal fee sets record for the bank - FT
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Wall Street lender was sole adviser to the video game maker on
largest-ever take-private transaction

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Front-facing camera will be invisible in a 2027 iPhone, says leaker
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It seems a near certainty that Face ID will be embedded into the
display of the iPhone 18 Pro, and...

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The heroes who saved the world's last tigers | National Geographic
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Despite early conservation successes, by the 1990s the world's tiger
population was under dire threat. In this beautifully photographed
feature, National Geographic reported on the valiant individuals
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Recessions have become ultra-rare. That is storing up trouble - The
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From 1300 to 1800, economic historians estimate that England and then
Britain were in recession almost half the time. The economy was
volatile, with storming recoveries following crashing downturns. As
capitalism matured and policymaking improved, recessions became less
frequent. In the 19th century the country was in recession only a
quarter of the time. Then, in the 20th century, downturns became even
less common, as was also the case in other rich countries. And today
things look even more placid: recessions have become something of an
endangered species.

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Living with the water: the Netherlands' floating futures - photo essay
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Photographer Alessandro Gandolfi's latest project looks at how
sustainable floating neighbourhoods offer a way forward as the sea
rises

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Trump pardons top allies who aided bid to subvert the 2020 election
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Pardon recipients include Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman
and dozens more.

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Mexico has become a less deadly place under Claudia Sheinbaum - The
Economist [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=252577&nl=daily]
Stickers declaring that "#ElBuenoEsHarfuch" ("Harfuch is the one")
still adorn car windows in Mexico City. The slogan dates from Omar
Garcia Harfuch's mayoral bid in 2023. During his four-year stint as
the city's security chief under then-mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, the
murder rate fell by about 40%, one of the biggest drops in the
country. This made him wildly popular. He won Morena's nomination in a
landslide, then stood aside for the female runner-up so the party
could meet its gender quotas. Instead he followed Ms Sheinbaum to the
National Palace in October 2024 as her security minister, to apply his
intelligence-led approach to tackling Mexico's drug gangs on a
national scale. Many Mexicans believe he is their best hope of
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Space food made from astronaut pee to be tested aboard the ISS | The
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Future astronauts on long-duration missions to the Moon or Mars could
survive on a protein powder made from "thin air" and urine, the
European Space Agency has announced.A new pilot program aims to test
the feasibility of producing a protein powder called Solein, which
requires just microbes, air and electricity to manufacture.

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Can the tallest running shoe out there chart the path for Nike's
comeback? - WSJ [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=252577&nl=daily]
Elliott Hill is trying to regain Nike's lead in the innovation
race--and its chunkiest running shoe ever may be the model for getting
there, he says.With more than 2 inches of stack height, the $230
Vomero Premium is now the tallest running sneaker you can buy since it
landed on store shelves last month. But it is how the uber-cushioned
shoe was developed--in about eight months, instead of the typical
18--that Nike's chief executive wants to replicate across the sneaker
giant.

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Trump Wants $10K Bonus for Air Traffic Controllers Who Didn't Call Out
Sick During the Shutdown - BI [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=252577&nl=daily]
President Donald Trump is not happy with air traffic controllers who
called in sick during the government shutdown."For those that did
nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew
they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY
WITH YOU," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Monday.

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Palantir CEO Says This 1 Type of Elite College Grad Is 'Effed'
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"We've had a number of nations call us, like at the national level,
and say, 'Hey, we want to learn from this,'" he says. "How do you
select? How do you train? We're exposing them to a wide swath of core
ideas."















 












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Opinion | A.I. Chatbots Should Be Legally Allowed to Keep Your Secrets
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On New Year's Day, Jonathan Rinderknecht purportedly asked ChatGPT:
"Are you at fault if a fire is lift because of your cigarettes,"
misspelling the word "lit." "Yes," ChatGPT replied. Ten months later,
he is now being accused of having started a small blaze that
authorities say reignited a week later to start the devastating
Palisades fire.

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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy released from prison pending
appeal
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Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal conspiracy for his role in
securing funding for his 2007 presidential campaign.

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: We can't let supply chain shortages burst the bubble boy's balloon

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'Tremendous chaos': Northern Calif. politician wants to split state in
two
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Apple Pulls China's Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order | WIRED
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Apple has removed two of the most popular gay dating apps in China
from the App Store after receiving an order from China's main internet
regulator and censorship authority, WIRED has learned. The move comes
as reports of Blued and Finka disappearing from the iOS App Store and
several Android app stores circulated on Chinese social media over the
weekend.

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Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live
threat - Live Updates - POLITICO
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Library of Congress employees were informed to take caution when
emailing the office of the congressional scorekeeper.

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What autistic people - and those with ADHD and dyslexia - really think
about the word 'neurodiversity'
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A new UK survey of more than 900 neurodivergent adults has revealed
strong feelings about the language of neurodiversity.

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The UN climate summits are working - just not in the way their critics
think
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Many say UN climate summits are pointless. They're wrong.







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Being bilingual delays ageing, but being multilingual is even better -
study
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But being multilingual is even better, because the more languages
spoken, the greater the effect.

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Guitar Hero at 20 - how a plastic axe bridged the gap between rock
generations
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Guitar Hero's controllers let anyone become a star in their own living
room - and made the bands featured in the game household names again

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Quentin Willson, Top Gear Presenter And Electric-Vehicle Advocate,
Dies At 68
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Willson was a co-host on the famed BBC motoring program between 1991
and 2001, and a big believer in the potential of EVs.

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Tutor sought for ?180k job to teach baby to become a 'gentleman'
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The advert seeks "an extraordinary tutor" required "to support child
on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."

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Meta is killing off the external Facebook Like button
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Next year will see the end arrive for two of Facebook's external
social plugins.

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Exclusive: Altman And Masa Back a 27-Year-Old's Plan to Build a New
Bell Labs Ultra
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There's very little about Louis Andre on the internet, which will
stand out as strange in a few paragraphs' time.I can tell you that
he's 27 years old and grew up in Europe. He has a French mother and a
father who hails from Madagascar. Andre began studying neuroscience
and computer science at University College London before embarking on
a scientific odyssey, hopping to labs at Princeton and Stanford and a
Parkinson's disease-related biotech startup backed by Sergey Brin.As
of Monday, however, Andre will find himself at the center of much
attention. He's revealing a new company called Episteme that's backed
by Sam Altman, Masayoshi Son and a host of other (as of yet)
undisclosed investors, as Core Memory can report exclusively. Based in
San Francisco, Episteme is an effort to create a modern-day Bell Labs
or Xerox PARC in that it hopes to attract the world's top scientists
and have them work on a wide range of potential breakthrough products.

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Canada loses measles elimination status after ongoing outbreaks
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International health experts say Canada is no longer measles-free
because of ongoing outbreaks, as childhood vaccination rates fall and
the highly contagious virus spreads across North and South America.
The loss of the country's measles elimination status comes more than a
year after the highly contagious virus started spreading. Canada has
logged 5,138 measles cases this year and two deaths. Both were babies
who were exposed to the measles virus in the womb and born
prematurely.

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FDA Strips Breast Cancer Warning from Menopause Hormone Therapy |
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A black box warning is the most severe notification of safety issues
on a medication and is typically applied to an entire class of
treatments based on how they work in the body. The FDA's commissioner
Marty Makary called the use of black box warning labels for HRT for
menopause "unscientific" in a press conference about the announcement.

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Buffett Gives $1.3 Billion to Four Charities in Latest Letter -
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The 95-year-old investor will convert 1,800 of Berkshire's Class A
shares into 2.7 million Class B shares, the firm said in a statement
Monday. He'll then give 1.5 million of those shares to the Susan
Thompson Buffett Foundation, named for his late wife, and 400,000 to
each of his children's foundations, the Sherwood Foundation, the
Howard G. Buffett Foundation and NoVo Foundation.

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If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here's Where They Should Go |
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A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint
of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren't
where they're being built.

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'I can't afford to be sick': The true cost of getting cancer in your
20s, 30s, and 40s - BI
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Young cancer, rising health costs, and financial strain are reshaping
America's healthcare system as more people under 50 face early cancer
diagnoses.

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The US's most ambitious shipyard project just got tougher - WSJ
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When President Trump recently announced his support for South Korea to
build a nuclear-powered submarine in the U.S., he singled out the
place where he wants it built: a historic shipyard in
Philadelphia.Philly Shipyard, bought last year by South Korean naval
giant Hanwha Ocean, was already central to Trump's bold plans to
revitalize American shipbuilding and narrow a yawning maritime gap
with China.

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A new project aims to predict how quickly AI will progress - The
Economist [[link removed]}&lead=419599&emailid=252577&nl=daily]
The Longitudinal Expert AI Panel (LEAP) sets out to do three things.
First, rather than assessing vague claims about concepts like AGI, it
offers specific, testable hypotheses. When will self-driving cars
account for 20% of American ride-hailing trips? What proportion of the
country's electricity will be used for AI by 2040? What will be the
benchmark scores for open-source and proprietary AI models in 2025,
2027 and 2030?

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Toxic 'Hammerhead Worm' Is Invading Texas, Triggering Warnings
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"Don't kill it, don't squish it, don't cut it up," Texas Agriculture
Commissioner Sid Miller warned residents via NBC as a toxic flatworm
spreads across North Texas.While this invasive species has been in the
US for years, the state's fatally heavy rains, fueled by climate
change, are enabling the hammerhead flatworm (Bipalium kewense) to
thrive and spread.

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Syria's President Meets Trump at White House for First Time
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The visit by President Ahmed al-Shara is another step in the
transformation of the former rebel leader once wanted by the United
States as a terrorist.

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Video: How Syria's President Transformed His Image
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Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara’s meeting with President Trump in
Washington signifies a new turn for al-Shara, a former Islamist rebel
leader who was once designated by the United States as a terrorist
with a $10 million bounty on his head. Our reporter Christina Goldbaum
describes the meeting.

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Opinion | On Veterans Day, This Is the Lonely, Terrible Sorrow We Must
Never Forget
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To imagine the cost of an “America First” policy, walk through
World War II cemeteries in Europe.

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Canada no longer measles-free as outbreaks spread
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Experts from the Pan American Health Organization, an independent
health agency, made the determination after analyzing data on
Canada’s outbreaks that showed the virus has spread continuously for
a year.

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Rising unemployment could affect budget, interest rates, pay and more
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This no longer seems to be uppermost in employers’ minds. Whether it
is the use of artificial intelligence or just a more gloomy outlook in
some sectors – such as the car industry – workers are being let go
without much care for the business implications in a month or year
when they might be needed again.

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Protests as rightwing Charlie Kirk activist group makes final campus
tour stop
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Mason, the freshman, said she was perplexed why Turning Point USA had
chosen to host the event at the famously liberal campus, but that she
was pleased to see the turnout. “I’m glad a lot of people came
together and showed up.”

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Minister suggests BBC should apologise to Trump over documentary as
president threatens $1bn lawsuit - UK politics live
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Why Trump is threatening to sue the BBC for $1bn - podcast
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How did it all come about? Michael Savage reports on who put the
dossier together and outlines the criticisms - of BBC Arabia, and
coverage of gender - in it. He explains why BBC watchers are saying
that Conservative figures inside the corporation are to blame for the
row and are calling it a coup. Helen Pidd asks why the BBC has not
done more to defend itself and who will take on these difficult roles
now. And finally, how damaging is it to public trust?

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The NYC Demographic Trends That Shaped Mamdani's Win
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Moderate Black voters and young progressives favored Zohran Mamdani
for mayor, while Andrew Cuomo won many wealthy New Yorkers and those
who voted for Donald Trump.

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Dismantled by DOGE, a Foreign Policy Center Finds New Life
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The Kennan Institute, which researches Russia and the surrounding
region, has re-emerged in a form that is smaller but more impervious
to government control.

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For Trump, Nothing Was Off Limits During the Shutdown
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President Trump pressured Democrats by taking punishing actions no
previous administration ever took during a shutdown.

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Shutdown Deal Revives Democratic Infighting
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The agreement prompted a backlash within the party, not only against
the Democratic defectors who supported it, but against Senator Chuck
Schumer, the leader who did not.

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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Verdict in E. Jean Carroll Case
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The president said the assertions behind a judgment that he sexually
abused and defamed the writer were “implausible” and
“unsubstantiated.”

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Trump Pardons the Husband of a Republican Congressional Ally
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Robert Harshbarger Jr. pleaded guilty in 2013 to health care fraud and
distributing a misbranded drug. His wife, Diana Harshbarger, is a
member of Congress.

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Mobile Lounge Crashes at Dulles Airport, Causing Injuries and Damage
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More than a dozen people were hospitalized after a bus-like vehicle
for passengers crashed into a dock at the Washington airport.

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Age Is the Issue That Democrats Can't Shut Down
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A restless Democratic base is seething at older leaders in Washington.

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