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S3Elephant Greeting Ceremonies are More Complex Than They Look - Discover Magazine (No paywall)  Saying “hi” can be complicated. That greeting’s meaning can be altered by the tone of your voice, the tilt of your head, your eye contact, and whether and how you raise and wave your hand. And the nature of a hand wave could differ if it’s directed toward one person, a group, someone new, or someone familiar.It turns out that greetings — and communication in general — by elephants is equally nuanced. Over the past few decades, researchers have explored three “C’s” of elephant communication: combinations, complexity, and context. Careful elephant observations — both in the field and in zoos — has helped researchers compile an ethography — a description of various behaviors and sounds the large mammals make and what they appear to mean.
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S4The Journey of Early Humans Leaving Africa Reveals a Key Migration Point - Discover Magazine (No paywall) If another area opened up without the competition of another human group, then it’s most likely that humans would go and explore that new area. There were no borders or countries, it was just about survival at all costs, says Pagani. Leaving the continent of Africa would likely have been just about moving into another territory.It’s likely that early humans would have left Africa in groups made up of a few dozen people through the Nile River corridor, which although it was arid, was always adjacent to a reliable water source. We also can’t rule out, says Pagani, that they reached Europe through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a strip of land that connects the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean.
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S5Why health advocates are concerned about a chemical in your decaf - National Geographic (No paywall) Called methylene chloride, the chemical was recently banned for industrial use by the Environmental Protection Agency, due to the fact that it can cause certain cancers, as well as neurotoxicity, liver damage, and sometimes death. “There are alternatives,” says Jaclyn Bowen, the executive director of the Clean Label Project, a nonprofit organization that is advocating for replacing the use of methylene chloride to decaffeinate coffee with other options.These include methylene chloride, which is also called the European method, and is the most widely used method; ethyl acetate, which is sometimes called the “natural solvent,” due to the fact that it is present in a number of fruits, such as bananas and sugarcane; the Swiss water method, which uses hot water to extract the caffeine; and the carbon dioxide method, which uses liquid carbon dioxide. Depending on the method, this can affect the taste, as well as the chemical composition of the coffee.
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S6Britain's Revival Must Start With the BBC - Foreign Policy (No paywall) If he is to win, Keir Starmer, the Labour Party leader, must pull off a voting shift greater even than that achieved by his mentor Tony Blair in 1997, the last time their party seized power. Yet such is the calamitous state of the Conservatives that after 14 years of misrule, a victory for Labour has been pretty much priced in for the election on July 4.The only question is how great a majority it will achieve and whether that can produce a buffer large enough to keep it in power for a decade at least to tackle Britain’s many woes—from the economy to the health service, education, social care, and failed privatizations such as the postal service and water. Indeed, pretty much every area of public infrastructure needs repair.
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S7The Party That Could Shake Up German Politics - Foreign Policy (No paywall) STUTTGART, Germany—At a rally organized around Germany’s newest political party on May 25, those in the crowd seemed most eager to talk about what was wrong with the country’s other parties. They were disappointed with the current coalition government, led by the center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) alongside the Greens and the liberal Free Democrats. They were nervous about the crises Germany faced under its watch: the struggling economy, Russia’s war in Ukraine.STUTTGART, Germany—At a rally organized around Germany’s newest political party on May 25, those in the crowd seemed most eager to talk about what was wrong with the country’s other parties. They were disappointed with the current coalition government, led by the center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) alongside the Greens and the liberal Free Democrats. They were nervous about the crises Germany faced under its watch: the struggling economy, Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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S8Vanda Pharmaceuticals has another suitor - STAT (No paywall) Although it isn’t yet a law, the BIOSECURE Act is already making waves in the biotech industry — as evidenced by some notable shifts at this week’s BIO International Convention in San Diego. STAT’s Jonathan Wosen and I were on site, and found that, with the possible blacklisting of certain Chinese suppliers looming, biotechs are scrambling to find alternatives to manufacturers like WuXi. Meantime, an executive at one U.S.-based CDMO said “month to month, new business has gone through the roof.”“Our customers are mainly small biotechs, and they’re very worried about whether they’ll be able to afford the U.S. CDMOs,” one China-based CDMO employee said. “They’re worried about backlogs, since the U.S. companies are suddenly so busy. My customers are telling me they’re already waiting in line to get a slot, in case we are put on the BIOSECURE list next.”
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S9Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings - STAT (No paywall) Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us, and we’ll share it with others. That’s right. Send us your changes, and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going. However, our regular feature, in which we focus on one specific person, will return next week….
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S10S11S12After Serving Decades in Prison for Murder, Two Men Fought to Clear Their Names - The New Yorker (No paywall) For years, the staff writer Jennifer Gonnerman has reported on the case of Eric Smokes and David Warren. When they were teen-agers in Brooklyn, in 1987, Smokes and Warren were convicted of second-degree murder during the mugging of a tourist; the papers called them “the Times Square Two.” It was the testimony of another teen-ager, James Walker, who received a reduced sentence in a separate case for his coöperation, that sent them to prison. Ever since, Warren and Smokes have protested their innocence, and Walker later acknowledged that he had lied. But in requesting parole, after years in prison, the two men had to take responsibility for their crime, and four years ago, a judge denied their appeal. Gonnerman tells the story of their long fight for justice, and how it finally came to pass.© 2024 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Ad Choices
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S13"Flipside" Is a Treasure Trove of Music and Memory - The New Yorker (No paywall) Chris Wilcha's new documentary, "Flipside," is easy to summarize, but it defies summary nonetheless, because it advances by a lurching, associative method that leaves fault lines on the surface of its unity. Feeling stuck in a rut, Wilcha, a successful director of TV commercials, starts shooting a documentary about a record store in suburban New Jersey, Flipside Records, where he worked as a teen-ager, in the nineteen-eighties. From this slender premise, he develops a breezy but prodigious memory piece, encompassing his family background, his artistic obsessions, and his adventures in the movie business."Flipside" is stuffed with footage from Wilcha's voluminous video archives, a trove that he explores to reveal its deeply personal implications. The work is built of fragments, and Wilcha introduces them in a wryly deceptive way. At the start, the movie seems to be a documentary about Herman Leonard, a photographer best known for his images of jazz musicians. His 1948 picture of Dexter Gordon musing amid a cloud of cigarette smoke is now a widely acknowledged highlight of jazz iconography, yet his jazz photographs had their first exhibition only in 1988, when he was in his sixties. When Wilcha filmed Leonard, in 2010, the photographer was eighty-seven and his work occupied pride of place in a big exhibit of jazz photography in Los Angeles. Leonard was also dying of cancer, and Wilcha rushed to shoot as much footage of him as possible.
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S14How Much Worse Would a Bird-Flu Pandemic Be? - The Atlantic (No paywall) Our most recent flu pandemic—2009’s H1N1 “swine flu”—was, in absolute terms, a public-health crisis. By scientists’ best estimates, roughly 200,000 to 300,000 people around the world died; countless more fell sick. Kids, younger adults, and pregnant people were hit especially hard.That said, it could have been far worse. Of the known flu pandemics, 2009’s took the fewest lives; during the H1N1 pandemic that preceded it, which began in 1918, a flu virus infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, at least 50 million of whom died. Even some recent seasonal flus have killed more people than swine flu did. With swine flu, “we got lucky,” Seema Lakdawala, a virologist at Emory University, told me. H5N1 avian flu, which has been transmitting wildly among animals, has not yet spread in earnest among humans. Should that change, though, the world’s next flu pandemic might not afford us the same break.
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S15If Only People Actually Believed These Trump-as-Jesus Memes - The Atlantic (No paywall) It would be simple to dispose of the matter this way: The meme makers are wrong because Trump is guilty and Jesus was innocent. (In that case, all that the meme makers are saying is that Trump is innocent.) Or maybe they’re saying that Trump is factually guilty of what is only a pretextual crime, meaning he did nothing morally wrong even though he’s technically classed as a convicted criminal. Maybe the whole thing is no more than trolling and nobody really cares about the implications of conflating Trump and Jesus.Scripture certainly makes that association plain. Jesus is said to have spent his time with criminals and outsiders—people such as tax collectors, who were at the time notorious thieves. Tradition holds that the apostle Mary Magdalene was a former prostitute who found a place at Jesus’s right hand. The prophecy that Christians believe Jesus carried out predicts that the Messiah “will be numbered among the transgressors,” which was evidently fulfilled in Jesus’s execution with two thieves at his side, his death among the criminals. And in the narrative of the sheep and the goats, Christ famously declares that the righteous will serve him by serving others, saying, “I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.” Jesus is especially close to those who need him.
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S16Research: Smaller, More Precise Discounts Could Increase Your Sales - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) Retailers might think that bigger discounts attract more customers. But new research suggests that’s not always true. Sometimes, a smaller discount that looks more precise — say 6.8% as compared to 7% — can make people think the deal won’t last long, and they’ll buy more. In a series of nine experimental studies involving around 2,000 individuals considering online or retail purchases of a variety of products, the authors found precise discount depths — the difference between the original and sale price — can increase purchase intentions by up to 21%.
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S17The AI-Augmented Leader - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) Humans are good at inventing tools, but not as good at adapting to the change these tools can cause. While there has been much focus on the technical impacts and potential dark side of AI, the authors’ research has shown that AI can enhance and empower leadership, actually helping make leaders more human. To do this, we need to invest just as much in the development of our human potential as we do in harnessing the power of AI. This means focusing on the core leadership qualities of awareness, wisdom, and compassion, as well as taking on a both/and mindset. The “AI-augmented leader” can leverage both the power of AI and develop their most human qualities, bringing the best of both human and machine to their leadership practice.
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S18What the Vacation Economy Looks Like for Summer 2024 - Inc.com (No paywall) While discretionary spending allocated to travel across American households is not notably high, a 2024 Bank of America Summer Travel Survey found, more than 70 percent of respondents indicated they are planning summer travel. Gen Z and Millennials in particular indicated they are planning to spend more and vacation longer compared to previous years. The survey examined results from 2,010 adult respondents in the U.S. Part of these spending habits indicate a continued commitment to travel experiences, a post-pandemic change in spending priorities, Deloitte reported. The number of young adults planning to travel this summer is increasing. Bank of America found that compared to other generations, Gen Z is planning international trips, taking more vacations than prior years, taking longer trips, and more expensive trips. Millennials are the second most likely to have those priorities.
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S19Buildings for Sale--Cheap, Rockets for Mars, and More - Inc.com (No paywall) The rise of remote work and a 23-year high in interest rates more than doubled the number of commercial real estate foreclosures in major American cities in April from the total in early 2023. The debt structure for the entire sector is under serious strain, too. Office building loan delinquencies also leaped in May, hitting a 7 percent rate, climbing from 4 percent a year ago.Adjustments to the office property market mean some buildings are selling for a fraction of their previous price, and one analyst says, "we're not at the bottom yet." We take a closer look at how these market disruptions could benefit business owners, who may not be buying their own buildings quite yet, but can at least try to negotiate more favorable lease terms.
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S20S21Fear and loathing in Los Angeles over AI. But it doesn't have to be this way - Fortune (No paywall) I can’t recall the exact moment. It might have been during an AI event that I attended last summer where a top union exec proclaimed that she “prefers candles to electricity” in front of a cheering crowd…or it might have been last fall, post-writer’s strike resolution, when I warned that the challenges for Hollywood were not over and someone on X (formerly Twitter) thoughtfully responded with “Die AI Scum.” Or perhaps it was last month when the audience at a SXSW panel with OpenAI loudly and frequently booed speakers who professed any benefit of AI. But I do know that at some point during that sequence of events, I realized the backlash to talk of AI in Hollywood was no ordinary fear of a new technology. And in this case, it’s a fear that will only prolong the troubles plaguing Hollywood if it persists.Fear of new technology, and the changes that come with it, is certainly not new. We can trace it all the way back to The Luddites smashing looms in England during the industrial revolution. But the existential crisis currently facing the entertainment industry has been in the making for decades and it has nothing to do with AI. Distribution fragmentation driven by the rise of internet video and social media platforms has disrupted the gatekeeper era and the monopoly on access to audiences of the mega-network and cable days. Add to that, there’s now a business model imbalance, courtesy of the streaming wars, which drove up the cost of production and marketing so high that basic economic rules (i.e. profits) were forgotten. The result? Ongoing legacy industry consolidation and the seemingly unending layoffs that have haunted the studios for more than a decade.
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S22S23McGregor Vs. Chandler Tickets Exceed Four Times The Average Cost For Record-Breaking UFC Card - Forbes (No paywall) Tickets for UFC 303: McGregor vs. Chandler have reached an average secondary market price of $4,068 ahead of its June 29 date, according to TicketIQ, a high price tag created by the highly anticipated return of Former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor after three years away from the octagon.If UFC 303 exceeds a $20 million live gate, it would mark the promotion’s highest ticket sales ever for a single event, crushing its current record of $17.7 million achieved by UFC 205 in 2016, when McGregor captured the lightweight title to become one of only four fighters to hold two titles at the same time.
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S24Nvidia's stock split is largely 'cosmetic,' and mammoth gains will keep rolling in, tech investor says - Fortune (No paywall) After the market’s close, Nvidia’s 10-for-1 stock split, which was announced in May during the company’s most recent earnings call, went into effect. But it will do little to change the company’s $3 trillion valuation or its underlying fundamentals, which so far, have investors licking their chops. Few other companies have embodied the new corporate hierarchy pecking order ushered in by the proliferation of AI quite like Nvidia has. The company’s stock rose 3,174% over the last five years and 218% in just the last year. During its epic run, Nvidia’s market cap soared past the likes of Amazon and Alphabet. Before the 10-for-1 split, the stock was at a stratospheric $1,209.
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S25Northern Lights May Be Back: Here's Where You Could See The Aurora Borealis Tonight - Forbes (No paywall) Although it's difficult for astronomers to pinpoint where the Northern Lights will be visible, they may be visible as far south as New York, Washington and Wisconsin, according to the NOAA's alert. Other states within the view line include Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan and Maine.The lights are the most active between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. For the best views of the Northern Lights, the agency advises traveling as close to the poles as possible, avoiding city lights and other light pollution, monitoring weather forecasts for prime viewing conditions and finding a position on a vantage point like a hilltop. Smartphone cameras are sensitive enough to pick up the aurora, even when it's invisible to the naked eye. Visit Iceland, a tourist website for Iceland, where the lights are often visible, advises turning on night mode is best to increase smartphone camera exposure.
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S26S27Should the world fear China's chipmaking binge? - The Economist (No paywall) CHINA’S HUNGER for homemade chips is insatiable. In May it was revealed that the government had launched the third iteration of its “Big Fund”, an investment vehicle designed to shore up the domestic semiconductor industry. The $48bn cash infusion is aimed at expanding the manufacture of microprocessors. Its generosity roughly matches similar packages from America ($53bn) and the EU ($49bn), both of which are also trying to encourage the expansion of local chipmaking.Chinese chipmakers are in a tough spot. In October 2022 America’s government restricted the export to China of advanced chips and chipmaking gear made using American intellectual property—which is to say virtually all such devices. This makes it near-impossible for Chinese firms to produce leading-edge microprocessors, the kind whose transistors measure a few nanometres (billionths of a metre) across and which power the latest artificial-intelligence models. But it does not stop them cranking out less advanced chips, with transistor sizes measured in tens of nanometres, of the sort that are needed in everything from televisions and thermostats to refrigerators and cars.
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S29S30Hamantaschen: The iconic jam-filled biscuits that are the signature treat at Purim The ancient dramatic tale of Purim is celebrated every spring with the buttery, triangular-shaped biscuits called hamantaschen.The holiday of Purim celebrated every spring commemorates a foiled attempt to annihilate the Jewish people by the biblical character Haman, a villainous high-ranking official in the court of King Ahasuerus' Persian Empire. Jews today mark the occasion by baking hamantaschen – a crunchy, triangular-shaped biscuit with a slightly nutty-flavoured poppy-seed filling, though other jams like prune, apricot or raspberry can be used to complement the buttery treat.
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S31Eat beans and live longer: One reason why many Ikarians live to be 100 In The Ikaria Way, Greek American chef Diane Kochilas offers a roadmap for people who want to incorporate aspects of the Mediterranean island's "Blue Zone" diet into their lives.As one of the world's five designated "Blue Zones", Ikaria, a small Greek island in the eastern Aegean, has lower rates of chronic disease than most other places, and its more than 8,000 full-time residents have some of the longest life expectancies in the world. In fact, one-third of Ikarians live past 90 years of age, and factors such as strong social and family ties, exercise that is integrated into daily life and frequent napping are thought to be why these island inhabitants often live to be centenarians.
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S3210 Years Ago, a Brilliant Director Redefined HBO's Most Epic Show Neil Marshall talks directing the Battle of Castle Black in Game of Thrones, making The Descent, and his plans for a Dog Soldiers sequel.There’s a moment in “The Watchers on the Wall” when all hope seems truly lost. The Wildlings have breached Castle Black, and the Night’s Watch is just barely fighting back. Then, the tide turns. Jon Snow descends down from the top of the mighty Wall and lunges directly into the thick of the fighting as the camera shifts seamlessly into an unbroken 360-degree shot, revealing the gruesome battle playing out across the castle courtyard.
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S3338 Years Later, Netflix is Bringing Back an Iconic Sci-Fi Franchise's Secret Weapon As wonderful and original as the 1984 Ghostbusters is, what transformed the movie into a franchise was an animated spin-off series aimed at kids. In 1986, The Real Ghostbusters brought the adventures of Ray, Peter, Egon, Winston, Janine, and Slimer into millions of homes. While the original film was very much for adults, the show had a more kid-appropriate vibe, even if the various ghosts, ghouls, and demons could be terrifying. Because no film sequel or spin-off to Ghostbusters ever lived up to the first movie, The Real Ghostbusters remains the only project that ever came close, simply because it did its own thing instead of trying to be a carbon copy. And now, almost four decades after The Real Ghostbusters debuted, Netflix and Sony are bringing the ‘busters back to animation.
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S34The Most Underrated and Overlooked Marvel Game Is Free on Epic Games Store The last few years have been great for gamers who love Marvel. Insomniac’s Spider-Man games have been decent, faithful adaptations of everyone’s favorite webslinger. Crystal Dynamics’ Guardians Of The Galaxy is an exceptional tactical action game and a make-good on the so-so live-service Avengers game. And the card battler Marvel Snap has become one of the biggest games on mobile and PC.One of the weirdest games in this illustrious bunch, however, is Marvel’s Midnight Suns, a title that went largely underappreciated after its 2022 release. Luckily for those who missed it, Midnight Suns is free on the Epic Games Store right now, making it the perfect time to discover this hidden cosmic gem.
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S35Boeing Starliner Helps ISS Process An "Awful Lot Of" Stored Urine" Thanks to the Boeing Starliner, astronauts can soon pee in peace. When the new human-rated spacecraft successfully ferried NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, it added a last-second high-prized payload along with it: A brand new pump for the urine processor. The pump onboard was scheduled to be replaced this coming Fall, but failed earlier than expected. Since then, the ISS has had to store a lot of urine on the ship. Yes, you read that right.
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S36I Only Want Apple's AI Overhaul To Do One Thing -- Fix iMessage AI is coming for iOS — and soon. WWDC is right around the corner and, if frequent Apple leaker Mark Gurman can be trusted (I believe he can) Apple is going to finally hop on the AI hype train with lots of new generative features for the iPhone.According to Gurman, AI could do a lot inside iOS; summarize web pages and emails, create emojis, catch you up on missed notifications, draft responses, and supercharge Siri with more sophisticated multi-step prompts and deeper integration with everything you do on your phone.
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S37Humane's Ai Pin Might Be In the Fast Lane to the Graveyard Humane, the tech startup behind the Ai Pin, sure sounds like it’s in trouble — deep trouble.After releasing the clothing-worn AI gadget in April to mostly poor reviews, the company this week told customers to stop using the polished, egg-shaped charging case. The company said that bad battery cells used in the accessory “may pose a fire safety risk” and despite only receiving “a single report of a charging issue while using a third-party USB-C cable and third-party power source,” it’s advising customers to stop using the accessory “out of an abundance of caution.”
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S3857 Years Later, The Oldest Sci-Fi Show's Biggest Mystery Just Got Even More Confusing The latest Doctor Who episode — “Rogue” — is not explicitly about the complicated Time Lord regeneration canon that has been part of the series since 1966. It is, instead, a romantic romp set in the Regency era, in which the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby (Millie Gibson) have to defeat some shapeshifting aliens with the aid of a bounty hunter named Rogue (Jonathan Groff). The episode also gives the Doctor a new love interest in the form of the titular Rogue and further makes us wonder about all those Susan Twist cameos. But for longtime fans, this episode also briefly, and almost cheekily, drops a massive Easter egg concerning the Doctor’s previous regenerations. There’s a new face here we’ve never seen before, which opens up all kinds of new questions about even more secret Time Lord identities. Doctor Who is living up to its faux-questioning name. Because really, who is that?!
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S3960 of the Most Genius Things Amazon Keeps Selling Out Of When a product has as many rave reviews as the ones on this list, you know it has that something special. From a clever little window track cleaner to portable neck fans, everything below is as a fan favorite that’ll make your life easier. Only catch? They’re so popular, they’re hard to keep in stock. Don’t miss out on the fun — check them out below.This portable neck fan pushes out cool air through its 78 outlets and you can choose between three different speeds. It has a 16-hour run time per charge and an extremely lightweight design that you’ll hardly even feel while wearing.
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S40The Trippiest Sci-Fi Show on Netflix Redefines an Underrated Genre Sam hasn’t been feeling like himself lately. A day ago, he was almost dead. Now, he’s more energetic than ever as he explores the alien planet he’s been shipwrecked on, collecting mud for a shrine he’s compelled to build but can’t explain. When his friend Ursula confronts him about these changes, Sam notices a weird flap in the skin over his heart. Peeling it back, he reveals what could be described as a tiny cthulhu monster wrapped around his arteries.Telling a story with no clear-cut heroes or villains, Scavengers Reign revels in the horror and wonder of transformation. Its most disturbing threats are motivated by biological instinct rather than morality. Instead of simply preying on the human protagonists, these alien creatures seek to change them into something new.
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S41S42S43S44S45Factchecking of Sunak's misleading tax claim shows broadcasters taking a new approach to impartiality In the first televised general election debate, Rishi Sunak claimed more than ten times that a future Labour government would cost households £2,000 more in tax. It took some time for Keir Starmer to rebut the attack, allowing the idea to fester for almost an hour among 5 million prime time television viewers. Senior Conservative politicians repeated the claim and said these figures were generated independently by the civil service. But Treasury officials wrote in a letter to Labour that the figures had not been calculated independently, and that it had warned the government about making this misleading claim.
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S46What a bath, taken 1,000 years ago, can tell us about the conflicted English kingdom of the 11th century On June 8 1023, 1,001 years ago, King Cnut took a bath. In itself this was not particularly remarkable. Contrary to the image of a ubiquitously grubby middle ages that dominates film and television, there is evidence to suggest that among the upper classes, at least, bathing was a regular pleasure. What is unusual is that Cnut’s bath seems to be the first in English history that a (fairly) reliable written source, Osbern of Canterbury, chooses to pin to a particular time and place. But why? What made this particular bath 1,000 years ago deserving of this honour? The answer lies in the complex world of 11th century national power politics.
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S47Donald Duck at 90: how the Disney favourite has evolved to appeal to a changing society Donald Duck’s first appearance on screen was the animated short titled The Wise Little Hen. He was intended as a one-off supporting character, but his immediate popularity meant Disney used him in subsequent comic stories and animated shorts. Within a few years of his debut appearance in 1934, Donald Duck had already achieved a celebrity status comparable to Shirley Temple or Greta Garbo. His popularity is made clear in Disney’s 1939 animated short The Autograph Hound, whereby the Hollywood A-List of the time drop their studio filming commitments to seek Donald’s autograph.
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S48S49We've discovered a gene for trust - here's how it could be linked to good health If a distressed stranger knocked on your door asking to use your phone, would you oblige? How about lending them a fiver for the bus, if they assured you they’d return and pay you back? In today’s fractured world, trust seems elusive and divisions run deep. A lot of people find it hard to trust strangers, perhaps in particular those who are different to us. This is important, as it turns out that trusting people might actually live longer, healthier lives compared to their more sceptical counterparts.
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S50Why the UK really does need a clear plan to fix adult social care Social care is set to be a central theme in the forthcoming UK general election. In the first electoral debate, held on June 4, 2024, Labour leader Keir Starmer promised a full plan to be published within the party’s manifesto. Sunak was altogether vaguer on what the Conservatives aim to do. Whomever ends up in govermnent, adult social care will be one of their biggest challenges. Since the financial crisis of 2008, the problem of how to provide it to an ageing population has reached a critical level.
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