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S1Bans on Lab-Grown Meat May Keep it From U.S. Stores  Earlier this month, both Florida and Alabama banned the sale of cultivated meat and seafood, which is grown from animal cells. In Iowa, the governor signed a bill prohibiting schools from buying lab-grown meat. Federal lawmakers are also looking to restrict it.
It's unclear how far these efforts will go. Some cultivated meat companies say they're considering legal action, and some states--like Tennessee--shelved proposed bans after lawmakers argued they would restrict consumers' choices.
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S2How to imagine a better future for democracy US democracy needs repair — and care is the answer, says author adrienne maree brown in conversation with writer and activist Baratunde Thurston. In a sweeping discussion on what it means to be an active citizen, they unpack how to design a future for democracy where we all belong.Continued here
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S312 predictions for the future of technology Techno-optimist Vinod Khosla believes in the world-changing power of "foolish ideas." He offers 12 bold predictions for the future of technology — from preventative medicine to car-free cities to planes that get us from New York to London in 90 minutes — and shows why a world of abundance awaits.Continued here
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S4My Dad Invented the Robocall But He Made the Classic Inventor's Mistake It was 1975 and Dad owned a chain of carpet stores, was a great entrepreneur, and as such, was always looking for new ways to grow his business. Back then, phone answering machines were fairly new and a big deal.Â
One day he came home from work and was checking the answering machine. He said, "Wouldn't it be great if, instead of receiving incoming calls and playing a taped answer, the machine could, could ... make outbound calls and play a taped pitch?"Â
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S56 Ways to Win the Battle for Attention and Influence Do you now find yourself skimming through headlines, preferring summaries and requesting soundbites? Guess what? Your customers and employees are not much different. Inattention is not just a personality quirk or source of irritation, it's a business epidemic.
In today's fast-paced world, every business competes in the battle to win customer, employee, subscriber, follower and investor attention. But attention is not only coveted, it's heavily compromised. Attention spans are shrinking and attention fatigue setting in. The result? People concentrate less, miss what matters -- and make worse decisions.Â
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S7This Woman-Led Photography Exhibition Showcases the Diversity of Middle Eastern Femininity The Middle East Institute show, “Louder Than Hearts,” explores portraits of Arab and Iranian women through the lens of ten celebrated female artists
The Middle East Institute (MEI) in Washington, D.C. is hosting a new exhibition, "Louder Than Hearts: Women Photographers from the Arab World and Iran," highlighting the work of ten different Egyptian, Iranian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Saudi and Yemeni artists capturing portraits of women in their regions.
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S8Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang | Quanta Magazine About 13.8 billion years ago, the entire cosmos consisted of a tiny, hot, dense ball of energy that suddenly exploded.
That's how everything began, according to the standard scientific story of the Big Bang, a theory that first took shape in the 1920s. The story has been refined over the decades, most notably in the 1980s, when many cosmologists came to believe that in its first moments, the universe went through a brief period of extraordinarily fast expansion called inflation before settling into a lower gear.
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S9It's Time to Acknowledge the Emotional Realities That Impact Buying Behaviors The best leaders, CEOs and CMOs among them, must be adept at identifying and processing signals. Not just signals from the marketplace, but from the culture. Unfortunately, the daily sturm and drang of running a business today creates a "look down" focus when what is also required is a "look up" orientation.
That paradox went through my mind when I read the results of Gallup's recent survey on immigration. The findings are striking. More than inflation, more than the views of the government itself, "Immigration remains the most important U.S. problem." And it has held that position for three straight months. A record.
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S10U.S tech giants are building dozens of data centers in Chile. Locals are fighting back Earlier this month, as Chilean President Gabriel Boric announced the arrival of 28 new data centers in the country, Rodrigo Vallejos watched the livestream with skepticism.
Even as Boric assured that investment in these buildings would be “environmentally responsible,” Vallejos had his doubts. After all, he has spent the past two years monitoring data centers in Chile — including those operated by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — and found them to have a significant impact on water supply in the country. Since 2022, Vallejos has been one of the leading activists filing citizen observations regarding Microsoft’s new data center in Santiago’s metropolitan area.
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S11Mutations in a non-coding gene associated with intellectual disability Almost 1,500 genes have been implicated in intellectual disabilities; yet for most people with such disabilities, genetic causes remain unknown. Perhaps this is in part because geneticists have been focusing on the wrong stretches of DNA when they go searching. To rectify this, Ernest Turro—a biostatistician who focuses on genetics, genomics, and molecular diagnostics—used whole genome sequencing data from the 100,000 Genomes Project to search for areas associated with intellectual disabilities.
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S12Google Chrome's plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week Google Chrome will be shutting down its older, more capable extension system, Manifest V2, in favor of exclusively using the more limited Manifest V3. The deeply controversial Manifest V3 system was announced in 2019, and the full switch has been delayed a million times, but now Google says it's really going to make the transition: As previously announced, the phase-out of older Chrome extensions is starting next week.
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S13S14Google's AI Overview is flawed by design, and a new company blog post hints at why On Thursday, Google capped off a rough week of providing inaccurate and sometimes dangerous answers through its experimental AI Overview feature by authoring a follow-up blog post titled, "AI Overviews: About last week." In the post, attributed to Google VP Liz Reid, head of Google Search, the firm formally acknowledged issues with the feature and outlined steps taken to improve a system that appears flawed by design, even if it doesn't realize it is admitting it.
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S15Journalists "deeply troubled" by OpenAI's content deals with Vox, The Atlantic On Wednesday, Axios broke the news that OpenAI had signed deals with The Atlantic and Vox Media that will allow the ChatGPT maker to license their editorial content to further train its language models. But some of the publications' writers—and the unions that represent them—were surprised by the announcements and aren't happy about it. Already, two unions have released statements expressing "alarm" and "concern."
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S17Harvard's Golden Silence The university will no longer make statements about political matters. Other schools should follow suit.All sorts of events tempt a university to make a public statement of support or condemnation: a terrorist attack on New York City and Washington, D.C. A mass shooting at a nearby elementary school. Faculty and student enthusiasm for protest movements such as Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. A social reckoning like #MeToo. Thugs storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. In the moment, the benefits of making a statement feel as though they outweigh the costs.
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S18Trove of 600 Looted Italian Artifacts Worth $65 Million Comes Home The collection includes artifacts spanning the ninth century B.C.E. to the second century C.E.
Some 600 ancient Italian artifacts—once stolen, trafficked and sold to museums and collectors in the United States—have returned to their homeland. Italian law enforcement collaborated with their U.S. counterparts to recover the $65-million trove, which was displayed earlier this week in Rome.
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S19People Are Spotting Rare, Blue-Eyed Cicadas Around Illinois As two broods of periodical cicadas emerge across the U.S. this spring, people have discovered a few of the bugs that don't have their trademark red eyes
This spring, two broods of cicadas have been emerging across the Midwest and the Southeast, with the bugs spotted in locations stretching from Georgia and Alabama to Iowa and Illinois.
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S20S21S22How to pivot like a ballerina in the turbulent age of AI Everyone has their own favorite pivot story. Twitter was a podcast curator that turned to social networking; Flickr was an online roleplaying game and pivoted to photo-sharing; and Shopify once just sold snowboards. Heck, even Johannes Gutenberg pivoted from selling relics to inventing the printing press when he saw an opportunity. Pivoting is as old as good business — if you want to get rich and stay rich, you have to sway a little.
Pivots — whether personal career swerves or corporate course changes — are the natural response to new times and fresh challenges. When the winds of change blow, a successful company is one that bends like the willow. And AI is not so much a wind as a category-five typhoon. One way to learn how to pivot successfully is to take a lesson from those who’ve already done so. To do just that, Big Think met with Angie Westbrock, the CEO of Standard AI. We talked about her personal journey and how her company is looking to adapt to the age of AI.
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S23Ask Ethan: Why didn't the Big Bang become a black hole? Here in our Universe, despite how vast it is and how intricately we can probe it, there are still limits to what we can observe, test, and measure. We can obtain signals from very far away and infer the existence of an early, hot, dense, uniform, and rapidly expanding state: the hot Big Bang. However, even the earliest signals that we can detect don’t take us all the way back to the start of the Big Bang itself: just as close to it as we can get. It’s up to us to infer the rest. Similarly, we can only detect signals from outside of a black hole’s event horizon, both before and after the formation of a black hole. And yet, from the properties that we do observe, we can conclude that black holes exist, including their locations and masses, despite not being able to probe the interior of the black hole itself.
It’s by putting these two ideas together, the Big Bang and black holes, that led Rick Mott to ask this week’s Ask Ethan question:
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S24Odd one out: How "schema theory" can help us make better decisions at work Let’s play a game. From the following lists, identify the odd one out. In each case, which one is different? I suspect that for each, you’ll have your own answers and rationale:
When you play the odd-one-out game, you’re applying a mental framework known as a schema. A schema is a filtering system that helps you categorize the world you see. It ties things together and labels your perceptions. It translates a world of incoherent, overwhelming sensations, into something that makes sense.
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S25Everyday Philosophy: Should you always call out bad opinions? I was wondering: is age really an indication of who deserves respect? I’ve been taught growing up that you should always respect your elders, no matter what. But if your elders are incorrect in a belief, isn’t it your ethical responsibility to call them out on it? Or would that be morally wrong, since they’re older and apparently wiser than you?
When you tell people that you write about philosophy for a living, they tend to do one of two things. Usually, they nod politely, possibly making some reference to a philosophy book they read at school, and then we all move on to other, easier topics. Occasionally, though, they see it as a challenge. This is their time to have that debate they’ve been agitating for. And so they bring out the debate. They raise some philosophical conundrum — usually to do with ethics or religion — and hope for a good tête-à-tête. I almost always disappoint. The truth is, I find debating quite exhausting. Like any kind of exercise, I find I need to be in the right mood and warm up thoroughly beforehand. Which means I will usually just nod along, acquiesce to the most ridiculous of suppositions, and try to talk about the weather.
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S26We're not doomed. Here's how to revive Planet Earth “If given a chance, nature can rebound, and nature can rebound dramatically.” Biologist Sean B. Carroll discusses the resilience of nature and how humans can help it thrive.
Humans litter, start wars, hunt, and poach, but history has also shown we are capable of undoing our damage. Carroll highlights Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, where a brutal civil war decimated 98% of the large animal population. Yet, through dedicated conservation efforts, the park has seen a remarkable recovery – and this is not the only example.
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S27Hyundai and Suppliers Sued for Alleged Child Labor Violations in Alabama The complaint filed Thursday follows an investigation by the department's Wage and Hour Division that found a 13-year-old worked between 50 and 60 hours a week operating machines on an assembly line that formed sheet metal into auto body parts.
The defendants include Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama LLC, SMART Alabama LLC and Best Practice Service, LLC. The lawsuit said it seeks to end the use of child labor and require that the companies give up profits linked to the alleged practice.
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S28Google Explains What Went Wrong With Those Wacky AI Overviews The internet giant released a lengthy statement on May 30 outlining exactly what went wrong with the release of AI Overviews, a feature in which a language model generates answers to Google searches using data from the web. After Google rolled out the feature at its I/O developer conference earlier this month, social media platforms were flooded with screenshots of nonsensical answers created by the AI, like recommending that people put glue on pizza. The company says there's one major contributing factor to these wacky answers: The AI's lack of a sense of humor. In other words, it has trouble determining what's the truth and what's satire or sarcasm.Â
In the statement, Google vice president Liz Reid, who leads to company's search division, wrote that it would be inaccurate to say that the more off-kilter answers generated by AI Overviews are "hallucinations" such as the ones displayed by other language models like ChatGPT. That's because nearly all of the AI Overview answers are pulled from somewhere on the internet. The problem identified by the Google search team, according to Reid, lies in the AI's "ability to interpret nonsensical queries and satirical content."Â
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S29From Customers to Superfans: The Secret Sauce of Unstoppable Business Growth Have you ever wondered why some businesses seem to have raving fans that can't stop talking about them, and others fizzle out? I had the same question, so I turned to my friend, customer experience speaker and author of Creating Superfans (Page Two, 2023) Brittany Hodak, who has spent years mastering the art of turning customers into lifelong advocates. Our chat was eye-opening, filled with insights and practical advice on how you can transform your customers into passionate advocates.Â
Hodak remembers a quote from Shiv Singh, the former Global Head of Digital at PepsiCo., that ignited her curiosity around superfandom: "The purpose of a business is to create a customer who creates customers." The idea serves as a powerful reminder of what--or more accurately, who--drives your business success: your customer.Â
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S30Altman Dodges Some Tough Questions While Talking Up AI's Promise OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was a star speaker at the annual AI for Good conference Thursday, addressing the U.N. telecommunications agency's annual gathering about how to tap the societal promise of artificial intelligence technology.
But Altman spent part of his virtual appearance fending off thorny questions about governance, an AI voice controversy and criticism from ousted board members.Altman's appearance to talk about AI's benefits comes as his company has been battling a rising tide of concern about its business practices and how it handles AI safety.
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