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Can't Find An Email? Use This Hack. Most of us write email subject lines based on our own organizational systems or preferences, making it difficult to locate specific messages on the spot — especially ones containing issues that have come up in more than one thread, each with an inconveniently unique subject line. It’s impossible to keep track of every headline. Continued here

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How I Covered Up a Packaging Mistake to Rescue Our Company Before It Even Launched Brutus Bone Broth CEO Sue Delegan had to act fast when she learned their marketing language ran afoul of state regulators. Her solution helped a charity as well as the new brand. Continued here

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How My Son and I Created a Family Jewelry Business From the Ground Up Tammy Nelson built an Inc. 5000 company as a side hustle while working for another Inc. 5000 company. Continued here

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How I Built a Recruiting Company Around Values TalentWoo founder Jerel Cain knew how to hire people. Hiring the right people is something he had to learn while scaling his booming business. Continued here

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What Makes Leadership Development Programs Succeed? Leadership development is a massive industry. But do these programs actually pay off for the leaders who participate in them? Through a series of experiments, surveys, and analyses of data from more than a thousand participants in six different leadership development programs around the world, the authors determined that these initiatives can substantially boost personal growth and wellbeing — but only when implemented correctly. To address this gap, the authors share seven research-backed strategies to help program designers address common pitfalls and build experiences that actually drive real, positive, lasting impact. Continued here

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Use the Science of Flourishing to Increase Your Well-Being Millennials and Gen Zers experience the highest rates of burnout of any generational cohort. Early-career professionals eager to make a good impression often fall into patterns of working extended hours at the expense of rest and are experiencing, especially high levels of isolation and disconnect from their colleagues.  If you identify as a part of this group, leveraging the science of flourishing can help you protect and rebuild your mental and physical health. Flourishing means that we are able to connect to a sense of purpose in our lives, experience positive emotions, feel connected to people and communities that matter to us, and recognize and appreciate our accomplishments even in challenging moments and chapters of our lives. Continued here

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Why Every Tech Company Needs ESG at the Core of Its Strategy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM OPPO As technological advancements become increasingly integrated into every facet of people’s lives, particularly with billions using mobile technologies to access an array of life-enhancing services, technology companies must now deeply embed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles into every facet of their business to help individuals, society, and the world. Continued here

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Sign Up Now: Meet Jamie Siminoff, the Inventor Who Sold the Ring Doorbell to Amazon for $1 Billion, in This Exclusive March 2 Livestream The entrepreneur who 'lost' on Shark Tank for pitching his idea for a wi-fi enabled video doorbell eventually went on to sell his company to Amazon. Continued here

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What Is Emotional Intelligence, Really? Here Are Some Real-Life Examples Emotional intelligence can be a hard concept to grasp. Here's what it can look like in real life. Continued here

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How to Make a Career Pivot -- Without Taking a Pay Cut Making a career transition is never easy — and it may feel impossible when financial responsibilities get in the way. In this piece, the author outlines four steps you can take to take control of your career journey and reshape your trajectory so that, eventually, you’ll end up exactly where you want to be. Continued here

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How These Co-Founders Monetized Their Market-Research Mind-Meld Holland Martini and Maria Vorovich offer GoodQues clients something beyond focus groups: the humanity in the data. Continued here

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The tech workers exiled from Europe's last dictatorship Early in the summer of 2020, as Belarus was gearing up for a presidential election, it seemed clear that the vote would once again be far from free and fair. Authorities removed one opposition candidate after another, arresting them or invalidating their candidacy, and officials already sounded confident that Alexander Lukashenko, known abroad as “Europe’s last dictator,” would win a sixth term. Pavel Liber, at the time a tech executive in the capital Minsk, didn’t want to sit idly by. Together with dozens of anonymous volunteers, he launched a project called Golos, meaning “voice,” which allowed people from across Belarus to submit — through chatbots on Viber and Telegram — voting sheets that showed who they had voted for. The idea was to highlight any discrepancies between official figures and the real ballot count — and gather proof of any election-rigging. Continued here

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How to Stay Motivated After a Failure What you can do to get back on track after a setback in business. Continued here

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Science Out of the Box On balance, science tends to follow a slow and incremental path: new observations build on previous findings, often over many years, contributing piecemeal to a larger body of knowledge. But every now and then, insights arise that can dramatically accelerate our understanding of a given subject or take the field in unexpected directions. In this special edition, we've rounded up just these kinds of advances—what Thomas S. Kuhn called “paradigm shifts” in his 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. You'll see in this anthology that revolutionary discoveries can happen in nearly every field. In biology and evolution, researchers have uncovered a remarkable sense of magnetism within birds' eyes that they use to navigate during migrations. Dinosaurs, long thought of and depicted as impressive but drab-looking creatures, in fact weren't drab at all—research on fossilized melanin cells shows that dinosaurs were feathered in bright colors; some even sported dots and stripes. In human history, archaeologists are amending their assumptions about the economic roles that women played in Viking and medieval society, based on recent analyses of North Atlantic textiles. Continued here

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Why Is It So Hard to Make Vegan Fish? Futuristic food science technology could finally bring plant-based salmon filets and tuna steaks to the table When I went vegetarian a decade ago, I found it pretty painless to pass on most animal-based dishes. Burgers? Plant-based patties were abundant and, for the most part, delicious. Poultry? Easy: vegan chicken nuggets tasted just like the real deal. Pork? I’d never been a huge fan in the first place. My one weakness was sushi. No matter where I looked, I just couldn’t find a satisfying veggie alternative to my favorite form of seafood. Continued here

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The Ins and Outs of the Influencer Industry Online influencers are an increasingly important way for companies to find new customers and drive sales. Whether you’re a marketer who wants to more effectively use social media or a consumer targeted by influencer content – in good ways and bad – you’ll benefit from better understanding how the industry works. Emily Hund, researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, explains that it was born from not only increased connectivity but also Great Recession job cuts which forced people in creative fields to innovate. She argues that these are entrepreneurs who now have an impact on many different sectors of the economy and offers advice for both them and the brands wanting to develop better influencer marketing strategies. Hund is the author of the book The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media. Continued here

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3 Habits that May Be Derailing Your Career Contrary to popular belief, a significant number of high-performing individuals have an equally high risk of derailing their careers. You’ve probably been recognized for your achievements, have a supportive boss, and you’ve been meeting every goal. Yet, somewhere down the line, you hit a wall and can no longer accomplish as much as you did before. Why does this happen? There are several damaging behaviors that you may not be aware of that often stem from much deeper habits. Continued here

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Muhammad Ali: A Case Study in Purpose-Driven Decision Making BRIAN KENNY: Today we discuss what it means to be great, and what greatness means is an age-old debate. Is it all about medals and banners unfurled, or does greatness entail changing the world? One thing I think we’re sure to find is that everybody has in mind an opinion about who is the greatest, but the truth is much more complicated. So, today we explore what the answers could be in a case about the greatest, Muhammad Ali. Today on Cold Call, we’ve invited Professor Robert Simons to discuss the case entitled, Muhammad Ali: Changing the World. I’m your host Brian Kenny and you’re listening to Cold Call on the HBR Podcast Network. Bob Simons’ research focuses on the relationship between business strategy, organization design and management control systems, and he created a course in the MBA program called “Changing the World,” and that’s what we’re going to talk about today. Bob, thanks for joining me. Continued here

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Can clothes ever be fully recycled? On the Swedish coast of the Baltic Sea, in the city of Sundsvall – home to the country's pulp and paper industry – a team of scientists, chemists, entrepreneurs and textile manufacturers are celebrating a milestone birthday, under a banner which features the slogan "#SolutionsAreSexy". The Swedish pulp producer Renewcell has just opened the world's first commercial-scale, textile-to-textile chemical recycling pulp mill, after spending 10 years developing the technology. Continued here

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3 Investments That Will Always Pay Off for Your Company - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM TELUS INTERNATIONAL Fortunately, these are false dichotomies, in my view—doing good really is good for business, good for the economy, good for humanity, and good for the planet. Emerging research continues to validate the thesis. And it has certainly been my experience as CEO over the past 15 years that in any economic climate, it’s always a sure bet for companies to invest in their people, technology, and communities. Continued here

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5 Essential Soft Skills to Develop in Any Job If you’ve been laid off, you might find yourself working in a job outside your industry — for example, in transportation, health care, social assistance, accommodation, food service, etc. — to support yourself and your family. Even if that job’s responsibilities seem far afield from your chosen career path, this is an opportunity to develop or elevate skills that are needed in any industry. The author discusses five soft skills to focus on during your time outside your chosen field — teamwork, influencing without authority, effective communication, problem solving, and leadership — and how to position them on your resume. Continued here

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Meet the Founder: The Village's Lakeysha Hallmon Lakeysha Hallmon talks pandemic pivots, her admiration for other Black women entrepreneurs, and her passion for elevating Black-owned businesses. Continued here

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Sharpshooter Insects Use 'Superpropulsion' to Catapult Their Pee Sharpshooter insects use a physics phenomenon called superpropulsion to efficiently fling away droplets of pee at extremely high speeds Few threats are more damaging to a vineyard or citrus grove than a blight of sharpshooters. The half-inch-long insects are destructive agricultural pests because of their unquenchable thirsts and splashy bathroom habits: when nature calls, these bugs launch droplets of their watery pee and create puddles of disease-causing waste. Continued here

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Diversity in Tech is a Problem. Here's How to Empower Yourself. People naturally connect with those who resemble themselves, and if you are the “different” one on a new team, you may come up against barriers or be overlooked. This is especially true in the tech sector, where women and communities of color make up a very small portion of the workforce. If you are from a community that is underrepresented in tech and interested in joining the sector, here’s how to leverage your differences as the assets they are and empower yourself as a worker in (or entering) the field. Continued here

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How I Spun a Horrible Summer Job Experience Into a Lucrative Niche Outsourcing Business Horatio co-founder and CEO Jose Herrera went back to his native Dominican Republic and turned the idea of an outsourced call center on its head. Continued here

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How I Brought Fresh Produce to America's Backyard Lettuce Grow founder Jacob Pechenik built a multimillion-dollar business out of sculptural hydroponic towers that serve as microfarms. Continued here

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These Bookshelf Speakers Sound Massive for the Money If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED Top standalone bookshelves like SVS’ new Prime Wireless Pro and KEF’s LSX II (9/10, WIRED Recommends) are not only minimalist and convenient, but also come loaded with virtually every feature and playback method you could want. You’ll find HDMI ARC for seamless control with your TV remote, a dedicated app to adjust settings, and a rainbow of streaming options.  Continued here

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You've heard of Darwin's finches. His foxes were way cooler South America’s “foxes” are the most diverse collection of canids on the planet, and they were initially documented scientifically by none other than legendary naturalist Charles Darwin. In 1835, during the now famous voyage of the HMS Beagle, Darwin discovered a great many finches on the Galapagos Islands, all varying in form and behavior. He later cited the diversity of their beaks as evidence for his theory of evolution by natural selection. Continued here

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All the Best Gadgets We Saw at MWC 2023 Mobile World Congress, the annual trade show dedicated primarily to the mobile communications industry, has returned to Barcelona. While not the first year of MWC since the pandemic started (it is now officially called MWC, maybe because Mobile World Congress sounds about as exciting as a legislative body), 2023 was the first with the truly bustling halls we remember from 2019 and before.  What was announced there? True, manufacturers have got into the habit of revealing their top devices at their own events—but there was still plenty of new tech to tout at MWC 2023. Here are some of the highlights.  Continued here

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"Hyperwar": How AI could cause wars to spiral out of human control Excerpted from FOUR BATTLEGROUNDS: POWER IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, written by Paul Scharre and published by W. W. Norton & Company. It can be daunting to stand at the dawn of a new cognitive age of human-​machine teaming in warfare and imagine the future, and we should be humble in our ability to do so. The deep learning revolution is only a decade old, and the capabilities of AI systems and how they are used decades from now may bear little resemblance to today. In 1913, a decade after the first flight at Kitty Hawk, airplanes were just beginning to be integrated into military forces, predominantly in reconnaissance roles. There was no hint of the fleets of bombers that would devastate entire cities in World War II or the supersonic jets and intercontinental nuclear bombers that would be invented during the Cold War. We are at a similar position with AI, attempting to peer into an unknown and highly uncertain future. Continued here

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Do you see subtitles when someone is speaking? You aren't alone Subtitles are increasingly common in our video-dominated media landscape. Now imagine seeing captions whenever someone talks to you — or even an “lol” float by when you hear laughter. This is reality for people with ticker tape synesthesia (TTS). A new study, published in the journal Cortex, investigates this little understood form of synesthesia. Synesthesia is a perceptual phenomenon that results in a crossing of sensory pathways. More common forms include grapheme-color synesthesia (in which synesthetes perceive letters or numbers as colored) and sound-to-color synesthesia (in which sounds are accompanied by experiences of colors).  Continued here

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How to Bring Your Cultural Identity to Work When cultural minority employees talk about their race, ethnicity, or nationality in meaningful ways with colleagues, it can lead to more inclusivity, according to new research from Wharton’s Rachel Arnett. If they share too much about their cultural background, they risk being professionally penalized or socially ostracized by the majority. To play it safe, many minority employees downplay their differences in the workplace. Continued here

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Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth? The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs are simply families If you’ve ever heard the term “alpha wolf,” you might imagine snapping fangs and fights to the death for dominance. The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator is pervasive, lending itself to a shorthand for a kind of dominant masculinity. Continued here

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Why Is the Workplace Experience in 2023 So Bad? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM APPSPACE While an organization can mandate a return to the office, its people don’t want to return to a physical space if they don’t feel connected to their workplace culture. And they’re never going to feel connected if they’re cut off from the information that plugs them into the pulse of their company—or if simple, necessary tasks like finding a desk, booking a meeting room, or welcoming a visitor become overly complex. Continued here

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Uber and Lyft Are More Likely to Fire Drivers of Color, Report Says James Jordan had worked as an Uber driver in Los Angeles for five and a half years by the spring of 2022. But in late March, after a flurry of customer complaints, Jordan found that his account had been permanently deactivated, leaving the single father of five, for whom Uber was his only source of income, functionally jobless with no notice. “I had done more than 27,000 rides,” he says. “Then in one week or 10 days, I got more complaints than I had within those five and a half years.” Continued here

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Dell refreshes XPS desktop, announces updates to XPS 15 and 17 laptops Dell has begun refreshing its popular XPS lineup of desktops and laptops with the latest mobile processors and GPUs. These updates mostly focus on chip upgrades, suggesting only mild improvements to the series that shouldn't make owners of last year's models very envious. Continued here

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The Unexpected Romance of Lego Sets During the Valentine's Day–themed episode of ABC's Abbott Elementary, Gregory gifts his girlfriend, Amber, a Lego flower bouquet because she’s allergic to real flowers. A romantic gesture gone wrong, Amber unenthusiastically asks whether the gift is for her or her kids. Simultaneously, Gregory's coworker, Janine, receives a Telfar handbag from her boyfriend, Maurice. When Janine mistakes it for a shopping bag, Maurice explains that the handbag is the gift—a designer one. On the way out of school, Amber jealously eyes the Telfar bag, and Janine the Lego set. Prior to meeting my boyfriend, I would've sided with Amber in this scenario. I'd written Lego blocks off a long time ago. As a kid, I preferred Barbie dolls and Play-Doh. As a babysitting teenager, I saw the blocks as a hazard. When I wasn't dodging them in a playroom like a real-life version of Floor Is Lava, I was gently extracting them from a toddler's little hands before a bite-size piece made its way into their throat. I would've never considered it a fun hobby, let alone a romantic gift idea. Continued here

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Ultra-bandage: How bioelectric technology could quickly heal severe wounds Excerpted from We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body’s Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds by Sally Adee. Copyright © 2023. Available from Hachette Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Your skin is a tightly coordinated collective of billions of cells. It’s organized into three layers of tissue called epithelium, the outside-facing of which is called the epidermis. If you’ll permit an oversimplified metaphor, you can think of your skin as a scaled-up cell membrane, but for your whole body. That’s especially true from an electrical perspective. Epithelium generates a voltage across itself. You could interpret it as an ‘all systems nominal’ signal. When your skin is intact, it generates an electric potential so that the outer skin surface is always negative with respect to the inner skin layers.  Continued here

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Saad Bhamla: The fascinating physics of insect pee Scientist Saad Bhamla is on a mission to answer a question most people don't think to ask: How do insects pee? Taking inspiration from the incredible "butt flickers" of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Bhamla presents a fascinating study of the physics behind how bugs take care of business and invites us to be more curious about the seemingly mundane. Continued here

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Psychotherapy works, but we still can't agree on why Say you’re feeling depressed, distressed, helpless or anxious. Whom should you turn to for professional help? A cognitive behavioral therapist, who’d challenge your dysfunctional thoughts? An old-fashioned Freudian analyst, who might have you lie on a couch, spending months, maybe years, and thousands of dollars delving into your unconscious responses to the ways your parents raised you? But what if all you need is a much less expensive social worker — or even a life coach? hese questions have fueled a fierce debate among researchers and clinical practitioners. The argument isn’t whether “talk therapy” is helpful. Hundreds of clinical trials have shown that various mainstream forms of psychotherapy can help treat many mental afflictions, including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, obsessive-compulsive disorder and eating disorders. Indeed,  most Americans prefer talk therapy to medication, and talk therapy alone may  work just as well and in some cases last longer than medication for some mental health problems. The argument is more about how and why these treatments work, and, accordingly, which therapeutic approaches are most likely to achieve the best results at the lowest cost. Continued here

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No, our Universe isn't made of pure mathematics At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most popular ideas have one thing in common: they begin from a mathematical framework that seeks to explain more things than our currently prevailing theories do. Our current frameworks for General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory are great for what they do, but they don’t do everything. They’re fundamentally incompatible with one another and cannot sufficiently explain dark matter, dark energy, or the reason why our Universe is filled with matter and not antimatter, among other puzzles. It’s true that mathematics enables us to quantitatively describe the Universe, it’s an incredibly useful tool when applied properly. But the Universe is a physical, not mathematical entity, and there’s a big difference between the two. Here’s why mathematics alone will always be insufficient to reach a fundamental theory of everything. Continued here

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Beyond Good & Evil 2 studio rocked by reported gov't labor investigation Ubisoft Montpellier, which also developed the first Beyond Good & Evil two decades ago, is being looked at by its local branch of the Inspection du Travail, according to "three sources familiar with the development," cited by Kotaku. In December, that office reportedly started looking into reports that dozens of developers had taken extended leave over stress or sickness over the last year. Employees have been interviewed regarding their health and well-being by a third party, according to the report. Continued here

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Transformative Change Starts With Responsible Research Responsible research can help businesses and leaders gain a sustainable edge in today’s volatile markets, write Wharton Dean Erika James and INSEAD Dean Ilian Mihov. Responsible research can help businesses and leaders gain a competitive and sustainable edge in today’s volatile markets, write Wharton Dean Erika James and INSEAD Dean Ilian Mihov in the following opinion piece. In June 2022, INSEAD and Wharton co-organized the 2022 Responsible Research Summit. This year’s summit will take place at INSEAD’s Europe Campus later this year. Continued here

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How India’s CSR Experience Can Shape ESG Strategies New research co-authored by Wharton’s Aline Gatignon offers unprecedented insights into how a variety of firms choose to spend Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds across different dimensions. In 2013, India enacted a pioneering mandate that required companies above a certain size, revenue or profit threshold to invest 2% of their net profits on corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects every year. A recent paper that identified patterns of CSR investments after the law was enacted holds pointers for other countries that may consider similar mandates, said Wharton management professor Aline Gatignon. Continued here

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India's YouTube Vigilante Is Wanted for Murder On the afternoon of February 14, Junaid Khan, 32, and his nephew Nasir Khan, 25, left their small village of Ghatmeeka in India's northwestern state of Rajasthan to attend a family function. They didn't come back. "When they didn't return the same night, we got worried," says Arshad Khan, 44, Junaid's brother-in-law. "Their phones were switched off as well. We searched for them the whole day." Continued here

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Solar Geoengineering Should Be Regulated, U.N. Report Says A panel of independent experts urged international leaders to set rules for the stratosphere and solar geoengineering CLIMATEWIRE | A panel of climate experts convened by the United Nations is calling for international regulations to extend into the stratosphere. Continued here

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Watch these glassy-winged sharpshooters fling pee bubbles with anal catapult The glassy-winged sharpshooter drinks huge amounts of water and thus pees frequently, expelling as much as 300 times its own body weight in urine every day. Rather than producing a steady stream of urine, sharpshooters form drops of urine at the anus and then catapult those drops away from their bodies at remarkable speeds, boasting accelerations 10 times faster than a Lamborghini. Georgia Tech scientists have determined that the insect uses this unusual "superpropulsion" mechanism to conserve energy, according to a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications. Continued here

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Your brain produces THC-like molecules called endocannabinoids Over the past two decades, a great deal of attention has been given to marijuana – also known as pot or weed. As of early 2023, marijuana has been legalized for recreational use in 21 states and Washington, D.C., and the use of marijuana for medical purposes has grown significantly during the last 20 or so years.  But few people know that the human body naturally produces chemicals that are very similar to delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana, which comes from the Cannabis sativa plant. These substances are called endocannabinoids, and they’re found across all vertebrate species.  Continued here

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No One Really Knows How Much COVID Is Silently Spreading … Again The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was revolutionary—so why was it nearly forgotten? Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. More immunity and chiller behavior add up to a new COVID mystery: How common is symptomless spread now? Continued here

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Cute Animals Are Overrated. Let's Save the Weird Ones The biodiversity crisis is a math problem. Unlike most math problems, however, this is one where getting hung up on the precise numbers can lead you astray. Maybe 1 million species are at risk of extinction. Or if you're going by species that scientists have specifically identified as threatened, it's 42,100. But neither of these is exactly right. At least we can agree that extinction rates are 1,000 times higher than historical averages. Or is it 100 times higher? Here's the thing: Whichever numbers you plug into the calculation, you get the same result. The planet is in a dire state. There are many, many more species faced with extinction than we can realistically save. We're in an emergency, and in emergency situations we need to triage our victims.  Continued here

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Introducing: 'Holy Week' The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was revolutionary—so why was it nearly forgotten? Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusion to a powerful era of civil rights in America, but how did this hero’s murder come to be the stitching used to tie together a narrative of victory? The week that followed his killing was one of the most fiery, disruptive, and revolutionary, and is nearly forgotten. Over the course of eight episodes, Holy Week brings forward the stories of the activists who turned heartbreak into action, families scorched by chaos, and politicians who worked to contain the grief. Seven days diverted the course of a social revolution and set the stage for modern clashes over voting rights, redlining, critical race theory, and the role of racial unrest in today’s post–George Floyd reckoning. Subscribe and listen to all eight episodes beginning March 14, 2023. Continued here

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An Apple Store Worker Is the New Face of US Labor Law Reform In the weeks before Apple Store employees in Oklahoma City voted on whether to unionize last October, managers walked a couple of them at a time to a ghostly empty storefront at the mall. Around a table under spotlight-like illumination, a manager or two and an Apple human resources staffer offered takeout from Panera and Chick-fil-A and told spooky stories about how a union would ruin workers’ relationships with their bosses. “That, essentially, we would lose the ability to actually be able to talk to the managers,” says Kirsten Civick, a technical expert at Apple’s Oklahoma City store who sat in at least three of these sessions. Apple’s goal with those allegedly mandatory briefings was clear: to dissuade employees from voting to unionize. The legality of its method? Ambiguous. What Apple and many employers regard as informational lunch ‘n’ learns have been described by union activists and a key US official as captive audience meetings that amount to illegal coercion. “It was just like six weeks of solid union-busting roundtables, which were scheduled throughout the day,” Civick says. Customer queues back at the store lengthened in the meantime, she says. Continued here

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We Have a Mink Problem The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was revolutionary—so why was it nearly forgotten? Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. Bird flu, at this point, is somewhat of a misnomer. The virus, which primarily infects birds, is circulating uncontrolled around much of the world, devastating not just birds but wide swaths of the animal kingdom. Foxes, bobcats, and pigs have fallen ill. Grizzly bears have gone blind. Sea creatures, including seals and sea lions, have died in great numbers. Continued here

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Robots let ChatGPT touch the real world thanks to Microsoft Last week, Microsoft researchers announced an experimental framework to control robots and drones using the language abilities of ChatGPT, a popular AI language model created by OpenAI. Using natural language commands, ChatGPT can write special code that controls robot movements. A human then views the results and adjusts as necessary until the task gets completed successfully. Continued here

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Practise ‘intuitive eating’ and feel a lot happier about food | Psyche Ideas is professor of psychology and health sciences at Rutgers University-Camden in New Jersey. Her books include Body Positive: Understanding and Improving Body Image in Science and Practice (2018), The Body Image Book for Girls (2020), Being You: The Body Image Book for Boys (2022) and ‘Adultish: The Body Image Book for Life’ (forthcoming). ‘I had completely lost the ability to trust myself and my body,’ a young woman recently told me, reflecting on her difficult relationship with food and eating. She had spent so much of her adolescence trying to avoid eating certain foods, and to avoid eating ‘too much’ of any food, that she had become disconnected from her intuitive sense of what or when she should eat. Continued here

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David Bowie's 80,000-Item Archive Will Go on Display London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has acquired David Bowie’s 80,000-item archive, the museum announced in a statement last week. Starting in 2025, the collection will be housed at the David Bowie Center for the Study of Performing Arts, which is currently under construction in Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The archive will reveal “the creative processes of one of the most pioneering and influential figures in the history of live and recorded music, film, fashion and beyond,” says the museum in the statement.  Continued here

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Why Democrats Are Scared to Challenge Biden in 2024 The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was revolutionary—so why was it nearly forgotten? Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Continued here

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The Atlantic Announces Holy Week, Narrative Podcast Coming March 14 The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was revolutionary—so why was it nearly forgotten? Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. Over eight episodes, Holy Week explores the uprisings that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, and how those seven days in America diverted the course of a social revolution. Continued here

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Dealmaster: Best tablet deals for Samsung Galaxy Tab If you're looking for a premium Android tablet, Samsung's Galaxy Tabs are terrific options. Not only do the latest Galaxy Tab S8 models compete head to head with the rival iPad in terms of design and build quality, but Samsung's slate also comes with a few features not available on Apple's tablet, including a desktop DeX mode, various screen sizes and resolutions, and integration into the Samsung and Windows ecosystems. Continued here

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Tesla shareholder suit says Musk and co. lied about Full Self-Driving safety A class-action complaint alleges that Tesla and CEO Elon Musk repeatedly made false statements about the capabilities and safety of the electric carmaker's Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology. Continued here

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Google adds client-side encryption to Gmail and Calendar. Should you care? On Tuesday, Google made client-side encryption available to a limited set of Gmail and Calendar users in a move designed to give them more control over who sees sensitive communications and schedules. Continued here

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Breaks taken during psych experiments lower participants' moods An unfortunate feature of science is that two experiments that are ostensibly looking at the same thing can produce different results. Often, the different results are greeted unhelpfully as the experimenters—and sometimes even the entire field—are accused of being garbage. A more helpful response is to consider whether the experiments, while looking at the same thing, might not be identical. And, if they're not, whether the differences between them might tell us something. Continued here

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You Should Be Reading Sebastian Barry The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was revolutionary—so why was it nearly forgotten? Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. Five years ago, when Sebastian Barry was appointed laureate for Irish fiction, he delivered a lecture that began with what he confessed was a truism: “All things pass away, our time on Earth is brief, and yet we may feel assailed at great length in this brief time, and yet we may reach moments of great happiness.” The whiplash repetition of “and yet” is typical Barry, and so is the stoic resolve behind the truism, a long, bleak perspective that accedes to the inevitable, with misery and joy cozying up to each other. Reading his novels is like braving Irish weather: You’re chilled and drenched and dazzled and baked in buffeting succession. Continued here

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FDA official behind Alzheimer's drug scandal steps down The Food and Drug Administration official who allegedly had an inappropriately cozy relationship with the maker of the controversial Alzheimer's drug, Aduhelm, is stepping down from his role, effective immediately, according to numerous media reports. Continued here

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The Pixel Watch's promised fall detection is finally rolling out With the launch of the Pixel Watch in October, Google started slowly trying to claw its way back into smartwatch relevance. A few months later, it's launching a big feature that has been on the Apple Watch for four years: fall detection. Continued here

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The Lab Leak Will Haunt Us Forever The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was revolutionary—so why was it nearly forgotten? Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. The lab-leak theory lives! Or better put: It never dies. In response to new but unspecified intelligence, the U.S. Department of Energy has changed its assessment of COVID-19’s origins: The agency, which was previously undecided on the matter, now rates a laboratory mishap ahead of a natural spillover event as the suspected starting point. That conclusion, first reported over the weekend by The Wall Street Journal, matches up with findings from the FBI, and also a Senate minority report out last fall that called the pandemic, “more likely than not, the result of a research-related incident.” Continued here

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The Shortest Path to Peace The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was revolutionary—so why was it nearly forgotten? Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. Supporting and arming Ukraine, and accelerating the collapse of the Russian military, is the most realistic way to end the conflict. Continued here

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Elon Musk Has Broken Disaster-Response Twitter The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was revolutionary—so why was it nearly forgotten? Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. For years, Twitter was at its best when bad things happened. Before Elon Musk bought it last fall, before it was overrun with scammy ads, before it amplified fake personas, and before its engineers were told to get more eyeballs on the owner’s tweets, Twitter was useful in saving lives during natural disasters and man-made crises. Emergency-management officials have used the platform to relate timely information to the public—when to evacuate during Hurricane Ian, in 2022; when to hide from a gunman during the Michigan State University shootings earlier this month—while simultaneously allowing members of the public to transmit real-time data. The platform didn’t just provide a valuable communications service; it changed the way emergency management functions. Continued here

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The Double Life of John le Carré The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination was revolutionary—so why was it nearly forgotten? Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. As The Spy Who Came In From the Cold turns 60, a reassessment of John le Carré and the forces that shaped the writer and the man Continued here