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Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a
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A non-hormonal, reversible and non-toxic male birth control could be a
step closer, with scientists successfully targeting a protein that's
crucial in making fertile sperm. Knocking this protein out for a
period of time would give men control over their protection window,
much like oral contraceptives for women – but without other side
effects and no long-lasting fertility issues.

Scientists already knew that a serine/threonine kinase 33 (STK33) gene
mutation results in the male being sterile. When Baylor College of
Medicine researchers found a small-molecule compound that could knock
out STK33 temporarily, it produced the same result. While not the
first non-hormonal sperm-targeted therapy, this research finds a new
target as the science world continues its long quest to find 'the
pill' for men.

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S2

Hey, America, here's what's actually going on with the economy -
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Hey, America, we are not in a recession, we haven't been in one for
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S3

Aircraft turbulence is worsening with climate change. Studying birds
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Our skies are getting bumpier, making the need to understand and
predict turbulence increasingly urgent. Researchers propose birds
could provide clues.

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S4

Bill Gates shares the Warren Buffett-inspired scheduling tip he wishes
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates says Warren Buffett taught him an
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S5

In the Philippines a decades-long conflict nears its endgame - The
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Peace in Mindanao matters for regional security

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S6

For Ambitious Employees, a Viable Career Path Can Make Up for a
Just-OK Manager | Lynda Gratton
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The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take
advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides
advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the
benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and
innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health
platform.

The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take
advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides
advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the
benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and
innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health
platform.

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Inside San Pedro, Bolivia's Notorious Prison Run by Inmates
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Tara, daughter of Marcelo who is detained for selling cocaine, takes
care of her newborn sister.

Jose, who was sentenced to 15 years in prison, has one of the most
crowded restaurants in the prison.

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S8

The Not-So-Secret Language Of Financial Scammers
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S9

The surge in hydroelectric dams is driving massive biodiversity loss
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Around the world, free-flowing natural rivers are being fragmented by
dams, weirs and other barriers. It’s one of the biggest, yet least
acknowledged, causes of biodiversity loss worldwide.

River fragmentation is a key reason migratory fish populations have
declined by 81% since 1970, according to a new report by the Living
Planet Index – a rate of wildlife loss six times that of animals
that live on land or in the sea.

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S10

What the economic data told Rishi Sunak about the best date for a
general election
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The announcement of July 4 for the UK general election took many by
surprise. A key question is why it was called then when it did not
have to be? The decision to call an election is always a gamble –
there is perhaps no right time – and many factors feed into that
call.

Legally, a general election had to be called in 2024. Behind the
scenes, those in Number 10 will have been modelling when the vote
should be held with the help of key economic indicators such as
inflation and gross domestic product (GDP), as well as analysing the
polls and speaking to focus groups.

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Louisiana set to reclassify abortion pills as controlled, dangerous
substances - here's what that means
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Louisiana’s Legislature approved a bill on May 23, 2024, that would
reclassify two abortion pills, mifepristone and misoprostol, as
“controlled, dangerous substances.” Both pills have a long history
of safe and effective use in medication abortions as well as for
treatment of miscarriages and other conditions. The bill, which is
expected to be signed into law by the state’s governor, makes it
illegal to possess either of the pills without a prescription.
Surgical and medication abortions are already banned in Louisiana,
with few exceptions.

The Conversation U.S. asked twin sisters Jamie Rowen, a legal scholar,
and Tami Rowen, an obstetrician and gynecologist, to explain the new
law’s implications – both for patients and providers.

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A century ago, the women of Wales made an audacious appeal for world
peace - this is their story
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February 11 1924, on board the RMS Cedric: Saw Statue of Liberty
glowing in the sunlight. Bitterly cold wind, bright sunshine. At
lunch, a press man came to me and said: ‘Mrs Griffiths, I am from
the press.’ ‘I have nothing to say,’ I said. ‘Oh!’ said he,
‘we know your story of the Women of Wales movement, we want only
your photos – will you come to the top deck when you have
finished?’ So [we] trotted up to the top deck first class, where we
found four burly photographers awaiting us.

March 12 1924, Los Angeles: A letter was handed to me as I left the
station – an anonymous letter, telling us to get out of the United
States.

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AI Can't Change the Surface Pro's Ugliest Truth
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Microsoft got a lot right with its new Surface Pro. While the iconic
silhouette of the tablet 2-in-1 hasn’t changed, inside,
Microsoft’s done everything to make the Surface experience better
— and critically, competitive with Apple silicon-based MacBook Airs.

The revamped Surface Pro has an option for a brighter OLED screen, new
Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips inside for more efficient
performance and significantly longer battery life, and a whole host of
AI features, like universal live transcriptions, and Recall, which
catalogs everything you do on your computer and makes it searchable.
Even Surface Pro accessories have been improved. The new Surface Pro
Flex Keyboard is more rigid than before, has a larger haptic trackpad,
and — for the first time — it works detached from the Surface
itself.

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The New Science of Plant Intelligence and the Mystery of What Makes a
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6 ways to encourage political discussion on college campuses
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Since early 2017, I have been observing events on college campuses in
which students are brought together with peers with whom they disagree
to talk about politics. In these sessions, facilitators provide
students with guiding questions that help them to understand their
peers’ political views.

I conducted follow-up interviews with students a few weeks afterward
and, when possible, three years later.

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What is a secular state? How South Africa has tried to separate
religion and politics
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The shifting relationship between state and religion has historically
been a contested space, and the focus of much scholarship. It is
important for observers to understand this unstable boundary, so that
neither political nor religious actors undermine democratic freedoms.
Calvin D. Ullrich, a theologian and philosopher of religion, examines
the evolution of the state-religion context in South Africa.

The primary feature of a secular state is political secularism, which
is the attempt to draw distinctions between state and religious
institutions and their activities. According to this definition,
political secularism did not exist in South Africa at the time it was
established as a unified country in 1910. In other words, no
meaningful differentiation was made between the mechanisms of
statecraft and religious institutions. Instead they were conflated as
a violent politics of racial rule became sanctioned by these
institutions. This crystallised into the system of apartheid.

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Putin's designs on a Baltic island are leading Sweden to prepare for
war
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Gotland has been a popular holiday destination for decades, but
recently Swedish commander-in-chief, Mikael Bydén, claimed that
Russian president Vladmir Putin “has his eyes” on the island.
Concern was further ramped up, showing Gotland was just one part of
Russia’s ambitions in the Baltics, in the last few days when Russia
published a document suggesting that it needed to reassess the
maritime borders in the Gulf of Finland.

That draft decree by the Russian defence ministry, which has since
been removed, proposed that Russia wanted to revise its borders with
Finland and Kaliningrad (based on a resolution adopted by the Soviet
Union’s council of ministers in 1985) and expand its territorial
waters.

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S18

Scrapping FA Cup replays has upset smaller clubs, but they could still
win from being matched against the top sides
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Football fans delight in historic moments enjoyed by their club.
Exeter City supporters for example, will have fond memories of the FA
Cup third round match their team played on the wintry afternoon of
January 8 2005.

Jubilant scenes greeted the final whistle after the side fought
valiantly to secure a 0-0 draw, which gave Exeter City two things
worth celebrating. First, as a non-league side in the fifth tier of
English football, they had gone toe to toe with Alex Ferguson’s
hugely successful Manchester United at Old Trafford. And second, they
secured themselves a lucrative replay to decide which team would
progress to the fourth round.

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S19

Does 'whining' really make you happier? A therapist gives his verdict
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The Sun interpreted this as: “Whining can actually make us happier
– but only in a key setting”. And the Daily Mail as: “Ranting
with your friends can actually make you happier, study finds”. But
does misery really like company so much that we might enjoy being
miserable? Let’s take a closer look at the study.

This process of collective rumination is key to psychotherapy, where
it is not only the telling of negative experiences to another, but the
experience of having your experiences validated, that has the
potential to enable you to feel better – or, at least, less bad.

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Haiti: first Kenyan police arrive to help tackle gang violence - but
the prospects for success are slim
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An advance team of Kenyan special forces police have arrived in the
troubled Caribbean nation of Haiti. They are part of a larger
UN-backed “support” mission tasked with establishing order,
pushing back the advances of criminal gangs and allowing the freshly
appointed interim government to function effectively.

In total, around 2,500 officers are expected to join the mission from
a host of nations, including the Bahamas, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados,
Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Benin and Chad. This multinational
police force will do the heavy lifting on the ground. But the bulk of
the money to see the mission through will come from the US.

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S21

Depression, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder linked with ancient
viral DNA in our genome - new research
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Around 8% of human DNA is made up of genetic sequences acquired from
ancient viruses. These sequences, known as human endogenous
retroviruses (or Hervs), date back hundreds of thousands to millions
of years – with some even predating the emergence of Homo sapiens.

Hervs represent the remnants of these infections with ancient
retroviruses. Retroviruses are viruses that insert a copy of their
genetic material into the DNA of the cells they infect. Retroviruses
probably infected us on multiple occasions during our evolutionary
past. When these infections occurred in sperm or egg cells that
generated offspring, the genetic material from these retroviruses was
passed on to subsequent generations, becoming a permanent part of our
lineage.

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What to watch for in Trump trial's closing arguments, from a law
school professor who teaches and studies them
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After more than four weeks of often sordid testimony, accusations of
lying and even a warning from Judge Juan M. Merchan to a witness to
stop giving him the side-eye, lawyers in the hush-money case involving
former President Donald Trump are expected to make their closing
arguments on May 28, 2024.

In a jury trial, opening statements are meant to provide jurors a
narrative framework to organize all the bits and pieces of evidence
and testimony.

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Election 2024: the stakes are higher than they appear, so quality
information is essential
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With the UK heading for an election on July 4, it can feel like the
result is pre-ordained. Labour has maintained a decisive poll lead for
over a year and nothing Rishi Sunak does appears to shift the dial.

For a start, there is no possible result in this contest that
couldn’t be described as monumental. Should Keir Starmer win, he
would have pulled off the most astonishing electoral turnaround in
living memory and return Labour to power for the first time in 14
years. Should Rishi Sunak win, he’d practically be defying gravity.

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S24

Little evidence suggests Rishi Sunak will benefit from a football
feelgood factor by holding a July election - it may even be an own
goal
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Amid the shock of prime minister Rishi Sunak’s unexpected election
announcement, it has not gone unnoticed that the July 4 date coincides
with this summer’s European Championships in Germany. England and
Scotland are competing in the tournament – though UK football fans
will be relieved to know that the election won’t interfere too much
with their viewing plans. July 4 is a rest day for the tournament,
with no matches taking place.

Is this timing purely coincidental or has prime minister Rishi Sunak
hoping that a general air of national pride and jubilation around the
football will help his chances? If it’s the latter, he may be sorely
disappointed.

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Discovering Degas: new exhibition in Glasgow reveals boldness and
foresight of early British collectors
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Personal Chair of Nineteenth-Century Art, History of Art, The
University of Edinburgh

Frances Fowle is co-curator of Discovering Degas and Senior Trustee of
Sir William Burrell's Trust. The trusteeship is a volunteer role for a
charitable trust.

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