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John Quincy Adams on Impostor Syndrome and the True Measure of Success
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“You will never get any more out of life than you expect,” Bruce
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The Global Chip Battle, in Charts
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Governments have stepped up efforts to bolster their domestic
productions of the chips that power everything from cars to
electronics to artificial intelligence, and companies worldwide are
competing to be part of the frenzy. Global semiconductor revenue is
expected to top $1 trillion by the end of the decade, according to
forecasts by the chip-industry consulting firm International Business
Strategies.Stronger domestic production could diversify the highly
specialized semiconductor supply chain, which in certain regions has
strengths in some areas of the process and weaknesses in others. U.S.
companies are leaders in many areas of chip design, for example, while
those in Taiwan, South Korea and mainland China dominate the later
production and assembly stages.

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Nobel laureate Paul Krugman agrees Beijing is making too much stuff:
'The world will not accept everything China wants to export' - Fortune
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China's economy suffers from "vastly inadequate" domestic spending,
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iPhone 16 Pro will break a world record with this new feature,
according to new reports
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However, I'd suggest you have your grain of salt ready. Last August,
shortly before the reveal of the iPhone 15, 9to5Mac claimed that the
iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max models will sport "1.5mm bezels".
The outlet even leaned on Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, a respected Apple
analyst and leaker, to corroborate the rumor. However, this leak
turned out to be false. As such, we won't know for sure if these
rumors are true until the Cupertino-based tech giant reveals the
next-generation iPhones later this year. However, this scuttlebutt
does appear to meet Apple's ultra-thin plans for its products. After
all, the recently unveiled iPad Pro is Apple's thinnest product ever.

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Peter Orszag wants to reimagine Lazard. Will his bankers let him? - FT
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Barack Obama’s economist has brought star power to a faded
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Sam Altman Admits That OpenAI Doesn't Actually Understand How Its AI
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During a recent summit, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was stumped after being
asked how his company's AIs actually work, pointing to a larger issue.

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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle
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Who produces AI hype? As we discuss in the AI Snake Oil book, it is
not just companies and the media but also AI researchers. For example,
a pair of widely-publicized papers in Nature in December 2023 claimed
to have discovered over 2.2 million new materials using AI, and
robotically synthesized 41 of them. Unfortunately, the claims were
quickly debunked: “Most of the [41] materials produced were
misidentified, and the rest were already known”. As for the large
dataset, examining a sample of 250 compounds showed that it was mostly
junk.A core selling point of machine learning is discovery without
understanding, which is why errors are particularly common in
machine-learning-based science. Three years ago, we compiled evidence
revealing that an error called leakage — the machine learning
version of teaching to the test — was pervasive, affecting hundreds
of papers from 17 disciplines. Since then, we have been trying to
understand the problem better and devise solutions. 

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Psychedelics Are Challenging the Scientific Gold Standard - The
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How do you study mind-altering drugs when every clinical-trial
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I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold
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Nvidia's pre-Computex keynote address was certainly something, and
none of it felt good.

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Leading With Compassion When a Teammate Has a Terminal Illness
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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.When an employee is diagnosed with a terminal illness, the
complexities of workplace management deepen significantly. It’s not
merely about handling the practicalities of business continuity or
addressing the aftermath of a loss; it’s also about navigating the
prolonged, emotionally charged period that precedes it. Some employees
may choose to continue working through a terminal illness to maintain
a sense of normalcy, purpose, or financial stability, which can be
crucial for their psychological well-being during such a challenging
time. This journey, marked by uncertainty and emotional upheaval,
demands a compassionate, thoughtful approach from managers.

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'Venom 3' Trailer Reveals a Head-Scratching MCU Crossover
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After over 15 years of movies and TV shows, it seems like every actor
has had the chance to appear in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe. That
may not literally be true, but it’s hard not to believe it when
Marvel alums pop up again and again in different corners of the
franchise. This trend of repeat casting was once pretty rare, a
necessary evil that’s given great actors like Gemma Chan (who had a
minor role in Captain Marvel before starring in Eternals) another
chance to show off their stuff. More recently, though, actors have
been using the multiverse to make increasingly meta cameos, creating
some interesting (if unofficial) crossovers in the process.That might
be the case for Venom: The Last Dance, the third (and maybe final)
film in Sony’s Venom trilogy. Sony’s made an odd effort to build
out its own Marvel Universe, one populated solely by Spider-Man
villains. And while it’s occasionally brushed up against the MCU
with a head-scratching Morbius cameo and some multiversal hijinks in
Spider-Man: No Way Home, The Last Dance may bring these two parallel
timelines closer together than ever.

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This New Handheld PC Has Specs That Could Crush All Other Handheld PCs
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Asus’ new ROG Ally X is here and it may have all the specs to beat
the other handheld gaming PCs — at least on paper.Asus officially
revealed its latest gaming handheld, which should be considered more
of a follow-up or a refresh rather than a next-gen model of its ROG
Ally. That’s because the ROG Ally X largely follows the same design,
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The Best New Platformer On PC Comes From a Horror Developer Banned in
China
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Soulslike games have become so numerous that even fans of the genre
might be feeling a bit burned out on the grueling challenge they
present by now. I know I have. But while From Software’s Dark Souls
and Bloodborne have been imitated and referenced to the point of
exhaustion, the studio’s shinobi masterpiece Sekiro hasn’t gotten
the same treatment. But a new Sekiro-inspired Metroidvania from a
surprising developer shows that more games may want to start looking
at Sekiro’s nerve-wracking parry mechanics for inspiration.Last
week, Red Candle Games released Nine Sols, set in what the studio
calls a Taopunk setting, which “blends cyberpunk elements with
Taoism and Far Eastern mythology.” Taiwanese developer Red Candle is
best known for Detention and Devotion, two psychological horror games
that use religion and China’s oppression of Taiwan as the basis for
their stories. Devotion in particular got a lot of attention for an
Easter egg unflatteringly representing Chinese president Xi Jinping,
which got the game pulled from sale.

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'Helldivers 2' Just Spawned A Black Hole, and Players Already Have
Wild Theories About It
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The valiant Helldivers 2 community spent the weekend snuffing out the
supercolony of Terminids that overtook the remote planet of Meridia.
The victory has been immortalized with the creation of a Black Hole in
distant space, an anomaly that is most definitely a good thing for the
continued fight for democracy. Yep. That’s not weird, and there’s
absolutely no way this could backfire on Super Earth at all.The most
recent major order in Helldivers 2, dubbed “Operation Enduring
Peace,” tasked players with eradicating those pesky bugs from
Meridia through some unusual means: the deployment of a brand new WMD
(short for Weapon of Mass Democracy) called the Dark Fluid.

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Netflix's Wildest New Sci-Fi Show Avoids a Tired Genre Trope
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In 2023, Max dropped a haunting and original animated science fiction
series called Scavengers Reign. Although the show was critically
acclaimed, by May 2024, Max had abruptly canceled the series. But now,
Scavengers Reign has made the leap to Netflix, where it’s currently
streaming and might just get a Season 2 renewal if we’re lucky.
Chronicling the machinations of a group of human survivors marooned on
a planet called Vesta, this series is one of the best sci-fi shows of
the 2020s, and easily the best space-based sci-fi show on Netflix
since the Lost in Space reboot debuted in 2018. And although there is
much to praise about Scavengers Reign, there’s one specific element
that sets it apart from most modern sci-fi movies and shows set in
space: This is a space show that doesn’t accidentally become
military science fiction.

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AI Still Hasn't Lived Up To Its Extraordinary Hype
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Big Tech is telling us that AI is dramatically changing the world, but
according to a recent study, most people have never even heard of it.
Many of us grew up with the looming threat — or excitement,
depending on how you were raised — of artificial intelligence. Once
just the stuff of sci-fi, storytellers prophesized a dramatic future
in which AI would rule over us all.

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This Dwarf Planet Is Basically a Sweet Red Snow Cone
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If there were a recipe for Kuiper Belt’s sweetest dwarf planet, it
would look something like this: Take one 22-mile long, figure-8-shaped
blob of mixed ice, and add a heaping pour of methanol. Bombard with
cosmic rays and solar wind for about 2 billion years, until it reaches
a nice reddish color. Serve chilled to -390 degrees Fahrenheit.A
recent study found that Arrokoth, a weirdly-shaped dwarf planet in the
Kuiper Belt, gets its distinctive reddish coloration from complex
hydrocarbon molecules, which form when cosmic rays and solar wind
bombard the tiny world’s frozen methanol surface. The same chemical
reactions that spawn those hydrocarbons also produce sugars like
glucose and glycerol, which means that if you licked Arrokoth, it
would probably taste sweet, but also a little like soap. (Please
don’t try this, because methanol is poison, and also you shouldn’t
open your spacesuit helmet in a vacuum. Safety first!)

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Netflix Just Quietly Released the Best Sci-Fi Monster Movie of the
Decade
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It’s been six months since Godzilla Minus One emerged — seemingly
out of nowhere — to become one of the best films of 2023. Toho took
a big risk in rebooting its 70-year-old franchise, and the monster
that’s always been at the center of the action. Since the very first
Godzilla in 1954, the eponymous kaiju has slowly but surely become a
character to root for: a hilarious meme, an unlikely athlete, and even
a protector of the innocent. But Minus One reminded us all why
Godzilla was originally a tool of horror, and delivered a
fantastically heartfelt disaster movie in the process.Minus One’s
theatrical run was impressive, but ultimately brief. Though its
glowing word-of-mouth helped extend the film’s time in theaters, and
eventually bolstered its visibility during awards season, Minus One
hasn’t gotten much exposure since. Even after securing the
franchise’s first Academy Award in March, there was no word on when
Minus One would be available on home video... at least in the United
States. But after months of false starts and speculation, Godzilla
Minus One is finally, officially available to stream.

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This 'Team Fortress 2' Spiritual Successor Is Being Made at the Worst
Possible Time
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It may seem like a distant memory now, but Valve was once known for
making games rather than just selling them on Steam. And not just any
games, but great, genre-defining games. Its recent projects, like
Counter-Strike 2 and the Steam Deck tech demo Aperture Desk Job
haven’t quite lived up to that legacy, but that doesn’t
necessarily mean the once-great developer is down and out. Evidence is
mounting that a new game from Valve could be on the way, and it’s an
entry in a popular genre that the studio itself helped create. But
whether that’s something to be excited or worried about is still
unclear.Valve’s worst-kept secret is a game reportedly called
Deadlock. Though the studio hasn’t acknowledged Deadlock’s
existence in any way, leaks have allegedly revealed screenshots,
in-game footage, and details on how the game will actually play. Last
week, Valve leaker Gabe Follower also shared a trademark filing for
Deadlock, seemingly confirming that the game is real. It’s always
possible that the filing could add up to nothing. Developers —
including Valve — frequently file trademarks for projects that never
see the light of day. But what’s most interesting about this latest
movement on Deadlock is that the game could represent either a rebirth
for a struggling genre or a sign of the games industry’s decline.

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How Chevy's New Bolt Could Become the Cheapest EV in the U.S.
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The beloved Chevrolet Bolt is almost back from the brink of
extinction. Even better, GM understands what made the Bolt so popular
in the first place and is doubling down on the affordability aspect.In
an interview with Automotive News, Marissa West, GM’s new North
American president, said that a new Bolt will be “the most
affordable vehicle on the market by 2025.” That’s a bold claim,
but not an impossible one for Chevy. After all, the most affordable EV
on the market right now starts at around $28,000 before any federal
tax incentives. Chevy’s not the only automaker interested in making
entry-level EVs, but here’s how it can make the most affordable
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15 Years Ago, the Studio Behind 'Saints Row' Made the Most Chaotic
Action Game Ever
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The Xbox 360 and PS3 era of video games was filled with countless
titles chasing emerging trends, from the flood of games with massive
open worlds to the increasing push for hyper-realistic graphics.
Arguably the most fun of the half-dozen trends of the generation,
though, were the games all about destruction, where you blow
buildings, enemies, and everything in between into little bits. For a
long time, Battlefield was the king of destruction mechanics, but in
2009, the Red Faction series exploded back onto the scene with one of
the most maniacally fun games ever made, and nothing has topped it
since. The first two Red Faction games were first-person shooters that
took place on a terraformed Mars, chronicling the people’s fight to
liberate themselves from the iron grip of the Ultor Corporation. When
Guerilla released in 2009, it had been seven years since the last
entry, and Volition brilliantly redefined the Red Faction franchise as
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'Baldur's Gate 3' Is The Latest RPG To Add This Highly Requested
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is finally getting mod support in its next big
update, a feature that all but guarantees the longevity of Larian
Studio’s award-winning role-playing masterpiece.The seventh patch
for Baldur’s Gate 3 is set to hit in September, Larian confirmed
Sunday. It will introduce an officially sanctioned toolkit that lets
fans “change up visuals, animations, sounds, stats, and more to
overhaul Baldur’s Gate 3 into the weird nightmare realm of your
dreams.”

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The Oculus Rift Creator Just Made a Bonkers Game Boy Recreation
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There may be a million gaming handhelds to choose from, but only one
of them comes from the famed creator of the Oculus Rift.Palmer Luckey,
the aforementioned progenitor of the Oculus Rift, just announced the
Chromatic — the world’s only “pixel-accurate” Game Boy clone
that actually plays (get this) old-school cartridges.

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China's Chang'e-6 Successfully Landed on the Moon's Elusive Dark Side
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On Saturday, the latest of the Chang’e lunar fleet landed on the
side of the Moon we cannot see from Earth. The mission aims to collect
about four and a half pounds of material, and then will ship the
samples to Earth. This includes surface regolith, or Moon dirt, as
well as excavated material buried as far down as six and half feet
deep, obtained with its scoop and drill.Chang’e-6 is in a lucrative
place. Known as the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin, it’s full of
ejected lunar mantle material. The landscape is therefore rich in
information about the history of the Moon and the Solar System,
according to the non-profit organization The Planetary Society. Closer
to the present day, the lunar south pole is where space agencies are
keen to place their 21st century astronauts. That’s because frozen
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The Most Anticipated Star Wars Show Will Finally Show an Unseen Side
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Almost four years after it was first announced, The Acolyte is finally
hitting Disney+, and the more that’s shared about this
groundbreaking series, the more excited the fandom gets. It’s the
furthest in the past live-action Star Wars has ever gone, giving us
our first live-action look at the High Republic — an era a century
before the prequels when the Jedi were at their peak. Now, it’s
finally time to see just what’s going on with the mysterious
assassin Mae and the golden-robed Jedi of the era, and Lucasfilm is
giving this series the special release it deserves. Here’s
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Nintendo Switch Just Quietly Released the Most Exhilarating Star Wars
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In Star Wars: Hunters, you can play as two Jawas in a trench coat, a
precariously balanced sibling duo that slings scrap metal. It’s the
kind of wacky, creative premise that should tell you all you need to
know about the newest Star Wars video game — this time from gaming
behemoth Take-Two (the parent company behind everything from Grand
Theft Auto to NBA 2K). The new game, available now on Nintendo Switch
and mobile (with cross-platform saves), combines the hero-shooter
genre with the familiar locales of everyone’s favorite galaxy far,
far away.“We have to make that something that is approachable to
people, so that it’s not too unusual where they can’t pick up and
play those things,” design director Scott Warner tells Inverse.
Warner cites games like Overwatch and Apex Legends as influences on
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18 Years Later, Zack Snyder's Most Influential Movie Is Making a
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Hollywood is always hunting for the next bankable franchise, and
it’s got no qualms about going into the past to find it. The
industry is already saturated with prequels, sequels, and spin-offs,
but more are coming as studios and streamers circle back to franchises
that seemed to end decades ago. As frustrating as this trend can be,
it’s not all bad. While audiences aren’t exactly clamoring for
another prequel series to a long-gone IP, one new spin-off could give
an established director a refreshing change of pace.Per Variety, Zack
Snyder is in talks with Warner Bros. to develop a prequel series to
his 2007 epic 300, which would see Snyder return as director and
executive producer. Exact plot details are still up in the air, but
it’s safe to assume the series would follow the rise of Leonidas,
King of Sparta (portrayed in 300 by Gerard Butler). In the film,
Leonidas and his army launch a doomed battle against the Persian king
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This New Male Birth Control Worked Astonishingly Well In Mice. Will It
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In recent years, a spate of potential male contraceptive options have
cropped up. From a hormonal gel that lowers testosterone production to
a non-hormonal pill that blocks the creation of vitamin A, new ways to
safely — and reversibly — prevent impregnation have appeared as
promising mechanisms behind the first potential male contraceptive.
Now, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have identified another
non-hormonal approach that could serve as the basis for male birth
control. The new method involves inhibiting the protein
serine/threonine kinase 33 (STK33), which men require for fertility.
The team identified a molecule that inhibits STK33 temporarily in
mice, preventing the creation of functional sperm as well as
pregnancy. They published their findings last week in the journal
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Hulu Just Quietly Added the Scariest Demonic Thriller of the Year
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With the prevailing rationale being that the horror genre gets way
less scary the more you attempt to explain it, the work of a horror
movie prequel is mostly devoted to justifying its own existence. The
First Omen, which just hit Hulu, is not an outlier to this — it’s
here to show you how we managed to get to the events of the classic
1976 film, The Omen. What makes it different is how effectively it
turns what could be a rote set-up and unnecessary exposition into
fantastic thriller material.The Omen, directed by the late Richard
Donner, doesn’t seem to need much explaining. In fact, the whole
film is devoted to solving the mystery of how the child of an American
diplomat was replaced, and how that new child (Damien, soon to become
a horror movie icon), turned out to be the Antichrist. This all makes
The First Omen seem even more unnecessary on paper. In telling why a
new Antichrist would need to be conceived and what set the wheels in
motion for the rebirth of such an evil entity, it’s essentially a
set-up to a set-up.

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15 Years Later, the Best Sims Game Still Hasn't Been Topped
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By the late 2000s, The Sims was ubiquitous, familiar to Simmers and
non-gamers alike. The first Sims was a runaway hit that acted as a
highly successful proof of concept. The Sims 2 tweaked that formula,
expanding and improving upon it — even though it didn’t match the
sales figures of the first.So when The Sims 3 launched in early June
of 2009, hopes were high. Miraculously, the franchise entry not only
lived up to expectations, it surpassed them. Instead of merely
offering more incremental improvements, The Sims 3 (nearly) perfected
the concept, establishing some of the franchise’s most popular
tropes and setting a high bar that franchise developer Maxis is still
trying to surpass 15 years later.

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Why doctors are ignorant and dismissive of the gut-brain relationship
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A barium X-ray (frontal view) of the colon of a 41-year-old man. Photo
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Buying and selling forest carbon as a commodity is dangerous if it
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Senior Fellow in Forest Governance and Leader of Ecosystems Governance
Group, University of Oxford Forests are great carbon sinks – they
absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than they release. Globally,
forests remove nearly all of the two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide
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Chad's Mahamat Deby doubles down on authoritarian rule in wake of
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The official results of Chad’s presidential elections in May 2024
confirmed the long-term consolidation of power by Mahamat Déby. He
came to power after the sudden death of his father, then president
Idriss Déby Itno, in April 2021.

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Nearly 25% of land in Africa has been damaged - what's to blame, and
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Land degradation is a huge issue across the continent of Africa. One
of its biggest drivers is biological invasions. This is when invasive
species (species that aren’t naturally found in the area) arrive and
produce large numbers of offspring which spread over long distances.
Mlungele Nsikani, a land restoration specialist and environmental
scientist, explains how ecological restoration is a great way to
reverse land degradation.Africa is one of the most degraded continents
in the world. About 23% of the surface of Africa, or over 700 million
hectares of land, is already degraded. Another three million hectares
is being further degraded annually.

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South Africa: coalition government won't fix past failures - expect
the private sector to play a bigger role in delivering power,
transport and security
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University of the Witwatersrand provides support as a hosting partner
of The Conversation AFRICA.To help save the planet, governments across
the globe are choosing to adopt sustainable policies and encourage (or
coerce) the private sector to do likewise. Given the climate crisis,
most responsible governments are focusing on finding every possible
means to meet existing needs without sacrificing the planet to meet
the needs of future generations.

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Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer should emulate Boris Johnson's
distinctive smile - here's the research that shows why
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer will meet in
multiple TV debates over the course of the election campaign. Neither
is considered a big personality, so this will be a test for both men.
TV debates are an opportunity to reach people who often aren’t fully
engaged with politics. For many, this will be the first time they’ve
sat down and watched either leader speak for an extended time.

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Do we have more empathy for people who are similar to us? New research
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How do people successfully interact with those who are completely
different from them? And can these differences create social barriers?
Social scientists are struggling with these questions because the
mental processes underlying social interactions are not well
understood.The theory proposes that people who have very different
identities and communication styles from each other – which is often
the case for autistic and non-autistic people – can find it harder
to empathise with one another. This two-way difficulty is what they
mean by the double-empathy problem.

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Net zero is not just good science - it's also a good deal for ordinary
people
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Head of Policy Engagement, Smith School of Enterprise and the
Environment, University of Oxford and Fellow in Environmental Change,
Reuben College, University of Oxford, University of Oxford As the UK
moves into a general election, a misinformed debate over the
country’s climate transition and legally binding net zero targets
risks further dividing people.

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Brutalist Plants: this pocket picture book is perfectly formed, but
puts style over substance
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To take the frictionless, scrolling pixels from Instagram and
reproduce them in the physical world as a tactile, tablet-sized, small
object of desire, is a curious concept. But the recently published
book, Brutalist Plants, does just that, as its contents are derived
from author Olivia Broome’s Instagram account. Meta’s algorithms
have previously delivered me other micro-niche topics such as
@tiny.houses and @sexygutters, but I had not been aware of
@brutalistplants before receiving this book. If you were, then you
already know exactly what to expect – and you are probably the
target audience. And you probably already know that this book is
somehow about neither brutalist architecture, nor plants.

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Sepsis: why this deadly condition is so hard to diagnose
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Tory MP Craig Mackinlay recently returned to Commons for the first
time after suffering from a life-threatening bout of sepsis last year.
Since his return to public duties, Mackinlay has spoken candidly about
his experience with the near-fatal illness that led to the amputation
of his hands and feet. Last September, Mackinlay said he’d begun
feeling unwell – but didn’t think anything of his symptoms,
especially after testing negative for COVID.

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Studying violence toward women and animals can help us develop
strategies to prevent both
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We live in a world where not everyone feels safe and respected,
especially women. Sexual violence and abuse are significant global
health issues. Intimate partner violence continues to be a problem in
Canada. According to Statistics Canada, of the 117,093 victims of
police-reported intimate partner violence in 2022, almost 80 per cent
were women and girls. More than half of women in the United States
have experienced sexual violence involving physical contact.

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South Africa election: ANC's lost majority ushers in a new era of
coalition politics
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From the moment this year’s South African general election was
called, through the whole campaign, the main question everyone here
was asking was whether the African National Congress (ANC) could
extend its 30-year rule. The party of Nelson Mandela, elected in 1994
on a wave of euphoria and hope, has had its difficult moments –
notably during the Zuma years of corruption – but its hold on power
had always seemed electorally assured. It had brought liberation and
taken South Africa forward.

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Is seeing believing? Not really, so animal welfare campaigns should
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Social justice movements often allude to the idea that “seeing is
believing,” meaning that if people are exposed to a given injustice,
political transformation will follow. An example is a 2019 opinion
piece in the New York Times entitled “Don’t Look Away.” It aimed
to expose the horrors of torture in order to advocate for its
abolition by confronting readers with an image depicting a tortured
prisoner.

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Mexico elects first female president - but will that improve the lot
of country's women?
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After an election period marred by violence, ruling Morena party
candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, a former Mexico City mayor, emerged as
the victor with about 60% of the vote – a larger share of the vote
than her mentor and predecessor, President Andrés Manuel López
Obrador, won in 2018. Sheinbaum beat rival Xóchitl Gálvez, a senator
for the center-right National Action Party, who trailed with less than
30% of the vote.Acknowledging the significance of the occasion,
Sheinbaum said: “For the first time in the 200 years of the republic
I will become the first woman president of Mexico.”

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'The first wave went through hell' - how the 16th Infantry Regiment's
heroism helped bring victory on D-Day
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Among the many Allied military units storming the Normandy coast on
June 6, 1944, was the 16th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army’s 1st
Infantry Division. Its members faced a particularly daunting task: As
part of the first wave of the largest amphibious assault in history,
the regiment was assigned to clear the Omaha Beach landing sectors
code-named “Easy Red” and “Fox Green.” This was no ordinary
assault. Omaha would become the most deadly of the five D-Day landing
beaches, as the U.S., U.K. and allied nations attacked Nazi-occupied
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Here's how climate social scientists are finding their way in the era
of climate crisis
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In early May The Guardian reported on a survey that explored the
thoughts and feelings of 380 climate scientists. It was not uplifting.
The pull quotes tell a story of anguish. “Sometimes it is almost
impossible not to feel hopeless and broken…Running away from it is
impossible.”The acceleration of the climate crisis has been
breathtaking and talking to experts in a time of crisis is a good
thing. But these articles are problematic. They seek to motivate
through fear while usualy offering only vague notions of absent
“political will” to diagnosis the problem and little beyond
“listen to the scientists” as a solution.

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Taylor Swift is ready for her history to be rewritten
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Taylor Swift is famous for writing her life (and, most notoriously,
her ex-boyfriends) into her music. But she is also fascinated by
history, and regularly incorporates historic figures, places and
events into her songs. An avid reader since early childhood, Swift has
long drawn inspiration from women of the past (both real and
fictional) who challenged social conventions and were punished for not
conforming to traditional gender roles.

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Could family meetings help you get on better with your kids? Yes - but
they can also go horribly wrong
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Family meetings are often touted as an effective way to resolve
conflicts, work out some shared goals and bring the family
together.They seem to wax and wane in popularity. But as Google Trends
shows, there has been a steady growth in people searching for
information about family meetings over the past decade, with a spike
during 2021, at the height of the pandemic.

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'An intergenerational crime against humanity': what will it take for
political leaders to start taking climate change seriously?
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It’s not hard to understand why. This year we had a plenary address
by a distinguished IPCC veteran. The speaker began by saying that the
world has “Buckley’s chance” of achieving the 1.5°C target, and
even 2°C is going to be a stretch. If emissions continue at the
current rate, the 1.5°C threshold could be breached as soon as 2028.
Forget the critical decade, what happens every single month during the
next handful of years is crucial in determining how quickly we drain
the remaining carbon budget needed to achieve the temperature goals of
the Paris Agreement.

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Fresh water and key conditions for life appeared on Earth half a
billion years earlier than we thought
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We need two ingredients for life to start on a planet: dry land and
(fresh) water. Strictly, the water doesn’t have to be fresh, but
fresh water can only occur on dry land.Only with those two conditions
met can you convert the building blocks of life, amino acids and
nucleic acids into tangible bacterial life that heralds the start of
the evolutionary cycle.

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