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Success Is Not About Saying 'Yes,' It's About Saying 'No'
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| Date | June 9, 2024 7:04 AM |
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Success Is Not About Saying 'Yes,' It's About Saying 'No'
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Most people spend money on depreciating assets like a car. And they're
wondering why they aren't rich yet. If you want to go beyond six
figures, you need to spend less than you make and reinvest most of
your money back into your core business, rather than upgrading your
lifestyle. If a bad fruit sits in the pile of good fruits, all the
other fruits will go bad. That's the same with your
relationships. They influence you far more than you can ever
imagine. People feel bad about cutting out employees or family and
friends, but these people pull them down and hold them back from
success. Ask yourself: "What relationships do I need to be
successful?"
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This is T-Minus, where Freethink’s Kristin Houser breaks down the
biggest developments in space, from new rocket launches to discoveries
that advance our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
Humanity is reaching new heights in space exploration. Make sure
you’re part of the journey by subscribing here.Compasses stopped
working, causing ships to become lost at sea. Telegraph equipment
began shocking operators and, in some cases, spontaneously catching
fire. Stranger still, some telegraph lines continued to work even
after they were disconnected from their power supplies.
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Starts With A Bang podcast #106 - the troublesome hunt for Planet Nine
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One of the most swiftly forgotten revolutions in all of science is our
understanding of the Solar System out beyond Neptune. Although Pluto
was discovered nearly a full century ago, it wasn’t until the early
1990s that we even discovered the next object beyond Neptune that
wasn’t also part of the Plutonian system. And yet, in the 30 short
years that have passed since then, we’ve learned so much more about
the structure of the Kuiper belt and beyond, but we also face
tremendous challenges in the quest to learn more thanks to an
unwelcome intruder: the rise of satellite megaconstellations.Although
the original team of Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin continue to
advocate for a novel, massive, undiscovered world located at hundreds
of times the Earth-Sun distance, they’re largely alone, as other
scientists have weighed in and see no evidence for this hypothetical
world. Nevertheless, more science must be conducted to know for sure,
and in the meantime, the rise of satellite megaconstellations such as
Starlink now poses an existential threat to all sorts of endeavors,
including planetary astronomy.
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Want a Better Brain? Neuroscience Says Learning to Manage Stress
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The concept was first examined during the late 1980s, when researchers
who performed autopsies on people who had no symptoms of brain disease
before they died had nevertheless had physical brain changes that were
consistent with Alzheimer's disease.The theory was that the reason
these people never showed symptoms and were able to live normal lives
was that they'd accumulated a big enough cognitive reserve during
earlier life to offset whatever damage Alzheimer's had otherwise done.
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3 Best Travel Credit Cards for Entrepreneurs
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So, what are they? As a frequent traveler, I consider them tools to
use carefully. If you intend to have two or more return flights over
the coming year, it is hands-down worth the investment. They
frequently pay for themselves multiple times over. I've enjoyed
free flights and huge discounts on luxury hotels, and often find
myself in some of the best lounges available. Before starting, one
quick disclaimer: I am not being sponsored by any of these companies.
This is just my experience, based on my research and travel, and I'd
like to share a little of what I've learned.Â
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3 Lessons for Navigating the AI Transformation
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The pace of technological change has major impacts on organizations
and the workforce. According to consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers
CEO survey, 45 percent of CEOs say their companies will not be
viable within the next decade if they continue on the same path.
Automation is set to change a third of global jobs over the next 15 to
20 years. AI and the pace of change have forced leaders in every
industry to answer the following question: How can your employees
benefit from new tech, like GenAI, and prepare workforces to adapt as
quickly as technology evolves?
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5 Ways to Maximize Customer Loyalty
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The last few years have been hard on many businesses. Their retention
numbers drop and customer loyalty wane. There were many reasons for
these issues, such as changing budgets, lack of product market fit,
and lack of customer adoption. To retain customers, understanding
their needs as they match with your product is very
important. Customer centricity is a business philosophy that places
the customer's needs at the heart of decision-making. It involves
aligning every aspect of the organization around the needs and
expectations of customers. Just as a fine wine takes time to develop
its complex flavors and aromas, creating a customer-centric culture
requires dedication, patience, and a long-term commitment. It is also
an ongoing process that requires continuous effort and reinforcement,
just as wine-maker tends to vines year after year.Â
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5 Leadership Lessons Learned From Building an All-Women Company
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Tracy Marlowe an Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) member in
Sacramento, is the founder and CEO of Creative Noggin, an
award-winning branding, marketing, and communications firm. An
advocate for female entrepreneurship, Tracy is a public speaker and
has been honored by USA News as one of the "Top 20 Female
Entrepreneurs Leading Change." We asked Tracy to share what she
learned from leading an all-female team.Many of us carry multiple
titles as we build our companies. Often, those titles collide --
creating moments of decision-making to reflect on what kind of company
we want to build and what kind of entrepreneur we strive to be.
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4 Ways to Boost Executive Presence
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In the summer of 2022, I invested in my presentation skills by
enrolling in HEROIC, a public speaking training program, so to
understand what presence means today, I knew I had to call HEROIC's
co-founder, Michael Port, a renowned expert in public speaking and
presentation skills and author of Steal the Show (Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, 2015). He shared some valuable insights you can use to
improve your confidence, communication, and ultimately revenue.Port
says that executive presence means different things to different
people--some see it as likability, and others see it as influence or
power. But at its core, it's about being believable, influential, and
engaging in a way that gives others confidence in your capabilities.
It's a key differentiator for successful leaders and owners. It's not
just about how you look or sound--it's about how you make others feel
and think.
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7 Tactics for Increasing Work Happiness and Satisfaction
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Are you one of those people who believe that happiness at work is
an oxymoron? If so, maybe it's time to rethink your perspective, and
perhaps start enjoying work for a change. As an adviser to new owners
and new ventures, I'm seeing a refreshing new focus by Millennials
on work and successful new companies with a purpose, and more
productivity through happy employees.Results and feedback from several
leading companies, including Google, Apple, and Salesforce, indicate
happiness is the ultimate productivity booster. Happy employees, in
this view, are more loyal, make better decisions, excel at managing
their time, and develop other crucial leadership skills. There are
many good articles that outline what these companies do right.
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How Music and Pictures Can Boost Sales
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Why do we buy what we buy? Most of us think our buying behavior is
logical, but psychological research shows that numbers, colors,
pictures, and seemingly small details can profoundly impact what we
buy. My wife and I met with Dr. Cialdini at a two-day event in
Phoenix, Arizona, in May to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his
best-selling book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Harper
Business, 2006). This book, which publishers have translated into 44
languages, has sold 6.1 million copies and is regarded by Warren
Buffet and other moguls as one of the best business books ever
written.
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Should Marketers Panic Over 'No-Buy Pledges?'
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"What started several years ago as a blogged-about experiment in
budgeting and mindful spending has become a popular
trend on social media. A Reddit group where people share their
experiences has 51,000 members. The challenge primarily gained
popularity on TikTok, where some videos of users seeking to hold
themselves accountable get hundreds of thousands of views."The
article notes individual stories about people creating their own
behavioral nudges to stop spending: leaving home with a bag filled
with books to discourage the purchase of more, unsubscribing from
temptation-rich newsletters , and posting on TikTok to share
reductionist journeys and gain support.
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NYC's Congestion Pricing Should Have Been the Future
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Each of the Past 12 Months Broke Temperature Records
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Last June was the warmest in recorded history. It kicked off an
alarming streak with no end in sight.
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Apple Is Coming for Your Password Manager
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The largest data breach ever may be unfolding before our very eyes.
What started as incidents impacting Ticketmaster and financial
services firm Santander has snowballed into a multi-pronged attack
potentially impacting hundreds of companiesâand hundreds of millions
of people. The source of the allegedly stolen data is Snowflake, a
cloud storage firm, whose customers appear to have been targeted with
infostealer malware that seemingly allowed hackers to access their
Snowflake accounts.Microsoft has also (and once again) had a bad week.
After the tech giant recently announced its new Recall toolâwhich
takes screenshots of everything a person does on their PC every five
seconds and makes it all searchableâsecurity researchers set off the
red alert that this, frankly, sounds like a terrible idea. Indeed, one
researcher used a preview version of Recall to create a tool that
extracts all the data stored by the feature in just seconds. Another
found that the tool was vulnerable to "privilege escalation" attacks,
making it possible for a hacker to access a Recall database even if
they don't have administrative powers. Microsoft apparently took the
criticism to heart, however, and will now turn off Recall by default
and add additional security measures.
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The 48 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (June 2024)
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Bridgerton, Eric, and Ripley are just a few of the shows you need to
watch on Netflix this month.
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The 44 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (June 2024)
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Godzilla Minus One, City Hunter, and The Dig are just a few of the
movies you should watch on Netflix this month.
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With So Much Bird Flu Around, Are Eggs, Chicken, and Milk Still Safe
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Recent outbreaks of bird fluâin US dairy herds, poultry farms in
Australia, and elsewhere, and isolated cases in humansâhave raised
the issue of food safety.So can the virus transfer from infected farm
animals to contaminate milk, meat, or eggs? How likely is this? And
what do we need to think about to minimize our risk when shopping for
or preparing food?
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Things Keep Getting Worse for the Humane Ai Pin
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It has not been a great year for the Humane Ai pin. Pitched to the
world as an AI-infused hologram-projecting phone replacement you could
stick on your lapel, the wearable pin instead turned out to be a sad,
bad little device. After months of hype, the Pin was finally released
to widespread disdain from critics who cited an array of faultsâlike
the fact that the $700 smart gadget lacked key features and overheated
easily and that its touted projector simply wasn't visible in
daylight. Just a few weeks after the pin came out, Humane's leadership
was looking to sell the company off.This week, that somber saga has
gotten even worse for the weary wearable. The New York Times published
a story detailing many of the messy, chaotic decisions behind the
scenes at Humane that led to such a flawed product being released into
the wild. Chief among the problems were that the company knew the
battery didn't last long and that the device's laser display got so
hot that staff had to put ice packs on it to cool it down. (A day
before the NYT story came out, The Verge reported that Humane sent
emails to its customers warning them to stop using the charging case
that came with the pin because they're at risk of catching on fire.)
There's also the fact that leadership didn't listen to internal
criticism that may have led to someone pointing out the myriad ways in
which the device simply did not work. According to The Times, Humane
sold roughly 10,000 devices, less than 10 percent of its goal for an
initial run.
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24 Best Gifts for Dad (2024): Grilling Gear, Coffee, Mitts
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The best gift idea for your dad is a nicer version of something he
already owns. The second best is one of these things.
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Raycon The Magic Power Bank 5-in-1 Review: My New Favorite Portable
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If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a
commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also
consider subscribing to WIREDI'm picky when it comes to portable
chargers. There are plenty of power banks out there with built-in
cables and wall plugs, but in a crowded market, it takes a lot more
than a 10,000-mAh capacity to catch my eye. That's why I was shocked
that Raycon's Magic Power Bank not only did everything I ever wanted
but also some things I didn't know I could want from a portable
battery. And then I discovered the built-in phone stand.
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How to Manage a Cross-Functional Team
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Cross-functional teams — those with people from different
departments who have varied expertise — are becoming more common, as
is the rise of project-based work arrangements. Early in your
career, you may even find that your first “real” leadership role
is managing a newly formed, cross-functional team for a specific and
short-term project. There are a few key actions new leaders can take
to get their team off to a great start.
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Master the Art of Asynchronous Communication
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With the rise of remote and hybrid work, the number of employees
collaborating across time zones is growing. If you accept a position
on a global team, particularly in a hybrid or fully remote
environment, you should not expect to work the same hours as all of
your peers. As a result, you will need to learn an increasingly
important skill: asynchronous business communication. Here are a few
practices that can help.
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The world's largest fungus collection may unlock the mysteries of
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It’s hard to miss the headliners at Kew Gardens. The botanical
collection in London is home to towering redwoods and giant Amazonian
water lilies capable of holding up a small child. Each spring, its
huge greenhouses pop with the Technicolor displays of multiple orchid
species.
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Canada's Extremist Attack on Free Speech
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A bill making its way through the Canadian Parliament would impose
draconian criminal penalties on hate speech and curtail people's
liberty in order to stop crimes they haven't yet committed.In 1984,
George Orwell coined the term thoughtcrime. In the short story "The
Minority Report," the science-fiction author Philip K. Dick gave us
the concept of "precrime," describing a society where would-be
criminals were arrested before they could act. Now Canada is combining
the concepts in a work of dystopian nonfiction: A bill making its way
through Parliament would impose draconian criminal penalties on hate
speech and curtail people's liberty in order to stop future crimes
they haven't yet committed.
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What Trump's Total GOP Control Means Next
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Republicans' denunciations of a "rigged" trial have ushered in a
dangerous new era of absolute loyalty to the leader.The sweeping
attacks from Republican elected officials against former President
Donald Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts last week send a clear
signal that if he wins a second term, he will face even less internal
resistance from the GOP than he did during his first four years in the
White House.
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Animal Behavior's Biggest Taboo Is Softening
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Anthropomorphism, long considered a cardinal sin among researchers, is
making a slow comeback.At the start of Elizabeth Hobson's career as an
ecologist, she knew to stick to one rule: Never anthropomorphize the
animals you study.
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Do Students Need Facts or Stories?
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"I am not wise enough to say where the young can find what they need,"
Neil Postman wrote in 1989. But he had an idea about where to
start.This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through
The Atlantic's archives to contextualize the present and surface
delightful treasures. Sign up here.
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Photos: Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings
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For the past week, sites in the United Kingdom and France have been
hosting a number of events leading up to today, the 80th anniversary
of the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944. Veterans, families,
dignitaries, and visitors have gathered at former battlefields and
cemeteries to commemorate the Allied landings on the beaches of
Normandy, which turned the tide in World War II and led to the
liberation of occupied France and the defeat of Nazi Germany. Gathered
here are images of some of these events, and of some of the few
remaining veterans who took part in that costly invasion eight decades
ago. Bernard Morgan, 100, a veteran of the British Royal Air Force,
visits war graves in Bayeux, France, on June 5, 2024, ahead of the
Royal British Legion Service's plans to commemorate the 80th
anniversary of D-Day. #
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A Bad Week for Backers of the Big Lie
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you
through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas,
and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.This week, two
influential spreaders of Donald Trump's Big Lie faced trouble. These
aren't the first glitches in the conspiracy-theory universe.
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How Can You Part With the Embryo That Could Have Been Your Child?
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One of the first documents patients sign when starting in vitro
fertilization asks them to consider the very end of their treatment:
What would they like to do with extra embryos, if they have any? The
options generally include disposing of them, donating them to science,
giving them to another patient, or keeping them in storage, for a
cost.The idea that one might end up with surplus embryos can seem like
a distant wish for those just beginning IVF. During treatment, eggs
are removed from a woman's body and fertilized with sperm in the lab
to make embryos. These will then be transferred to her uterus,
typically one by one, until she gets pregnant. But with advances in
reproductive technology, many patients end up with extra embryos after
this process is over. Deciding what to do with the leftovers can be
surprisingly emotional and morally thorny; even those who are not
religious or who support reproductive autonomy might still feel a
sense of responsibility for their embryos. So some patients are
turning to a lesser-known alternative: a method called "compassionate
transfer." The procedure is essentially an elaborate form of medical
make-believe, in which clinicians place a spare embryo in a patient's
body at a time in her menstrual cycle when she is unlikely to get
pregnant. It mimics the steps of a traditional embryo transfer, but
here, it's designed to fail; the embryo will naturally flush out.
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If Only People Actually Believed These Trump-as-Jesus Memes
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After Donald Trump's recent guilty verdict, the internet has seen a
meme deluge analogizing Trump to Christ on the grounds that they both
experienced trial, conviction, and criminality. This meme template
actually dates back to Trump's civil fraud trial last year, when Trump
himself shared courtroom-sketch-style fan art of Jesus seated next to
him. Another meme, this time referring to Trump's guilty verdict,
features Jesus standing behind a seated Trump with his hands on the
president's shoulders above loopy script reading "It's okay. They
called me guilty too." Another captions a diptych of Trump's mug shot
and the portrait Christ Crucified by the Spanish painter Diego
Velázquez with the text: "If you don't think you can vote for a
convicted criminal, remember that you worship one."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.
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How Much Worse Would a Bird-Flu Pandemic Be?
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The world has been through multiple flu pandemics. That doesn't mean
it's any more prepared.Our most recent flu pandemicâ2009's H1N1
"swine flu"âwas, 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.
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What the Challenger Disaster Proved
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We take the workings of wide, complicated technological systems on
faith. But they depend on peopleâand, sometimes, people fail.The
modern world runs on a kind of secular faith. Most of us turn on the
faucet and expect water, enter an elevator and expect it to take us to
our destination, drive over a bridge and expect it to hold up beneath
us. Airplanes make this conviction especially visible. Although
American aviation is incredibly safe, fear of flying is a widespread,
well-known anxiety: Some people just can't quite stomach hurtling
unnaturally through the air, seven miles above everything familiar.
But for the large majority of those who travel on planes, trust
supersedes these fearsâor they just don't think that hard about it.
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This Is What It Looks Like When AI Eats the World
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Tech evangelists like to say that AI will eat the worldâa reference
to a famous line about software from the venture capitalist Marc
Andreessen. In the past few weeks, we've finally gotten a sense of
what they mean. This spring, tech companies have made clear that AI
will be a defining feature of online life, whether people want it to
be or not. First, Meta surprised users with an AI chatbot that lives
in the search bar on Instagram and Facebook. It has since informed
European users that their data are being used to train its
AIâpresumably sent only to comply with the continent's privacy laws.
OpenAI released GPT-4o, billed as a new, more powerful and
conversational version of its large language model. (Its announcement
event featured an AI voice named Sky that Scarlett Johansson alleged
was based on her own voice without her permission, an allegation
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has denied. You can listen for yourself here.)
Around the same time, Google launchedâand then somewhat scaled
backâ"AI Overviews" in its search engine. OpenAI also entered into
new content partnerships with numerous media organizations (including
The Atlantic) and platforms such as Reddit, which seem to be operating
on the assumption that AI products will soon be a primary means for
receiving information on the internet. (The Atlantic's deal with
OpenAI is a corporate partnership. The editorial division of The
Atlantic operates with complete independence from the business
division.) Nvidia, a company that makes microchips used to power AI
applications, reported record earnings at the end of May and
subsequently saw its market capitalization increase to more than $3
trillion. Summing up the moment, Jensen Huang, Nvidia's
centibillionaire CEO, got the rock-star treatment at an AI conference
in Taipei this week and, uh, signed a woman's chest like a member of
Mötley Crüe.The pace of implementation is dizzying, even
alarmingâincluding to some of those who understand the technology
best. Earlier this week, employees and former employees of OpenAI and
Google published a letter declaring that "strong financial incentives"
have led the industry to dodge meaningful oversight. Those same
incentives have seemingly led companies to produce a lot of trash as
well. Chatbot hardware products from companies such as Humane and
Rabbit were touted as attempts to unseat the smartphone, but were
shipped in a barely functional state. Google's rush to launch AI
Overviewsâan attempt to compete with Microsoft, Perplexity, and
OpenAIâresulted in comically flawed and potentially dangerous search
results.
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What a Year on Ozempic Taught Johann Hari
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In the fall of 2005, Johann Hari, then a young columnist for The
Independent who was struggling with his weight, described a trip he
said he'd taken to a wellness spa in the foothills of the Carinthian
Alps. After spending just four days there on a cleansing diet that
consisted almost entirely of drinking teaâHari could not bear to stay
a moment longerâhe'd lost seven pounds. "The cravings for lard had
leeched out of my system," he marveled in his write-up, noting that he
hadn't yet regained the weight.Hari tells this Alpine-detox story once
again in Magic Pill, his fourth and latest book, released last
monthâbut the anecdote now appears to hold a different lesson.
Instead of maintaining his new diet, he seems to relapse: "When I got
home, I felt like a failure," he now says of the very same experience.
"Where, I wondered, was my willpower?"
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The Long View of the Challenger Disaster
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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors' weekly guide to
the best in books. Sign up for it here. There were moments in Adam
Higginbotham's new book Challenger that made me gasp and flip to the
endnotes. I wasn't looking to find the story's denouementâI already
knew what happened on the morning of January 28, 1986: The space
shuttle Challenger broke apart just over a minute into its voyage,
killing all seven astronauts aboard. But Higginbotham had so fully
reconstructed the events, including the inner thoughts of people who
died nearly 40 years ago, that while writing about the book, I just
needed to answer the question: How could he possibly know that? How
could he relay what was happening in NASA's disparate hubs in Texas,
Alabama, and Florida? And how could a project like this one, published
38 years after the catastrophe, add new insights to what already
exists?
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The Deepfake Crisis That Didn't Happen
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This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our
writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a
new machine age. Sign up here.Presidential elections in the United
States are prolonged, chaotic, and torturous. (Please, not another
election needle â¦) But they don't come close to rivaling what
happens in India. The country's latest national electionâwhich
wrapped up this week with the reelection of Prime Minister Narendra
Modiâwas a logistical nightmare, as it always is. To set up polling
booths in even the most rural of areas, Indian election officials
hiked mountains, crossed rivers, and huddled into helicopters (or
sometimes all three). More than 600 million voters cast ballots over
the course of six weeks.
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The Shyamalan Secret to Scariness
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Ishana Night Shyamalan's debut film, The Watchers, finds a careful
balance between the freaky and the mundane.In 2006, the director M.
Night Shyamalan attempted to swerve away from the tense thrillers he'd
become known for. His new movie was an ambitious, expansive fairy tale
called Lady in the Waterâan original conceit based on bedtime stories
he'd concocted for his young children. That film, a dizzy mix of
whimsy and horror about a mermaid-like creature who appears in an
apartment building's swimming pool, was largely jeered at the time.
But I couldn't help thinking about it after seeing The Watchers, the
filmmaking debut of Ishana Night Shyamalan, one of M. Night's
daughters and a very commendable protégé.
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EVs Could Last Nearly Forever--If Car Companies Let Them
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In April, a group of people in a red Tesla driving through the
Moroccan desert were glued to the odometer on the car's giant touch
screen. "Two million, Hans! Two million," exclaimed the front-seat
passenger to the owner and driver, Hansjörg von Gemmingen-Hornberg.
His 2014 Model S had become likely the first electric vehicle to drive
2 million kilometers, or more than 1.2 million miles. The car could
have traveled from the Earth to the moon and back, twice, then circled
the equator 11 times.The journey wasn't entirely seamless. The car has
had its share of repairs, including several battery and motor
replacements. A handful of gas-powered cars have driven farther, most
of all a 1966 Volvo that racked up some 3 million miles over five
decades. But such fantastic mileages are becoming far easier to
accomplish for ordinary commuters with electric cars. On a
technological level, it's possible that we're not far from a time when
nobody would flinch at an EV with as much mileage as von
Gemmingen-Hornberg'sâthat is, unless car companies themselves get in
the way.
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What to Read When You Have Only Half an Hour
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A short story has velocity and verve, and the best ones create an
immediate, instinctual bond between the reader and the characters.For
many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it
was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the
reader of these bite-size plots can experience character development,
crisis, and conclusion in just a few thousand words. But intentionally
reading more short stories made me realize that I'd underestimated the
form. These works aren't just compressed novels: They offer an
entirely different experience. The writer Joy Williams, who has
published both novels and short stories to great praise, once
observed: "A novel wants to befriend you, a short story almost never."
Many short stories can be aloof and enigmatic. They pose difficult
questions about life and love, and rarely provide answers.
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How to Decide What to Leave Behind
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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our
editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill
you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.In pop
culture, questions of inheritance take on dramatic, often nasty
proportions. Watching Succession, you'd be forgiven for thinking that
in all wealthy families, the specter of death elicits insults,
infighting, and betrayal. For some familiesâeven those without the
wealth that the Roys are arguing overâthat may well be true. But for
others, deciding what to leave behind is a way to take inventory of a
life well lived. It can also be an opportunity to codify our
connections with the ones we love, whether or not they fall under the
traditional definition of family.
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Archaeologists Discover Clues to Ancient Migration Route That Brought
Humans to Australia
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New research offers evidence that humans did not inhabit the island of
Timor until around 44,000 years ago, suggesting it was not part of the
original migration route from Southeast Asia to
AustraliaArchaeologists on the Southeast Asian island of Timor have
unearthed new evidence that helps pinpoint how Homo sapiens may have
first migrated to arrive in modern-day Australia.
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Success Is Not About Saying 'Yes,' It's About Saying 'No'
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Most people spend money on depreciating assets like a car. And they're
wondering why they aren't rich yet. If you want to go beyond six
figures, you need to spend less than you make and reinvest most of
your money back into your core business, rather than upgrading your
lifestyle. If a bad fruit sits in the pile of good fruits, all the
other fruits will go bad. That's the same with your
relationships. They influence you far more than you can ever
imagine. People feel bad about cutting out employees or family and
friends, but these people pull them down and hold them back from
success. Ask yourself: "What relationships do I need to be
successful?"
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T-Minus: How will solar storms affect Mars astronauts?
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This is T-Minus, where Freethink’s Kristin Houser breaks down the
biggest developments in space, from new rocket launches to discoveries
that advance our understanding of the universe and our place in it.
Humanity is reaching new heights in space exploration. Make sure
you’re part of the journey by subscribing here.Compasses stopped
working, causing ships to become lost at sea. Telegraph equipment
began shocking operators and, in some cases, spontaneously catching
fire. Stranger still, some telegraph lines continued to work even
after they were disconnected from their power supplies.
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Starts With A Bang podcast #106 - the troublesome hunt for Planet Nine
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One of the most swiftly forgotten revolutions in all of science is our
understanding of the Solar System out beyond Neptune. Although Pluto
was discovered nearly a full century ago, it wasn’t until the early
1990s that we even discovered the next object beyond Neptune that
wasn’t also part of the Plutonian system. And yet, in the 30 short
years that have passed since then, we’ve learned so much more about
the structure of the Kuiper belt and beyond, but we also face
tremendous challenges in the quest to learn more thanks to an
unwelcome intruder: the rise of satellite megaconstellations.Although
the original team of Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin continue to
advocate for a novel, massive, undiscovered world located at hundreds
of times the Earth-Sun distance, they’re largely alone, as other
scientists have weighed in and see no evidence for this hypothetical
world. Nevertheless, more science must be conducted to know for sure,
and in the meantime, the rise of satellite megaconstellations such as
Starlink now poses an existential threat to all sorts of endeavors,
including planetary astronomy.
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Want a Better Brain? Neuroscience Says Learning to Manage Stress
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The concept was first examined during the late 1980s, when researchers
who performed autopsies on people who had no symptoms of brain disease
before they died had nevertheless had physical brain changes that were
consistent with Alzheimer's disease.The theory was that the reason
these people never showed symptoms and were able to live normal lives
was that they'd accumulated a big enough cognitive reserve during
earlier life to offset whatever damage Alzheimer's had otherwise done.
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3 Best Travel Credit Cards for Entrepreneurs
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So, what are they? As a frequent traveler, I consider them tools to
use carefully. If you intend to have two or more return flights over
the coming year, it is hands-down worth the investment. They
frequently pay for themselves multiple times over. I've enjoyed
free flights and huge discounts on luxury hotels, and often find
myself in some of the best lounges available. Before starting, one
quick disclaimer: I am not being sponsored by any of these companies.
This is just my experience, based on my research and travel, and I'd
like to share a little of what I've learned.Â
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3 Lessons for Navigating the AI Transformation
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The pace of technological change has major impacts on organizations
and the workforce. According to consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers
CEO survey, 45 percent of CEOs say their companies will not be
viable within the next decade if they continue on the same path.
Automation is set to change a third of global jobs over the next 15 to
20 years. AI and the pace of change have forced leaders in every
industry to answer the following question: How can your employees
benefit from new tech, like GenAI, and prepare workforces to adapt as
quickly as technology evolves?
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5 Ways to Maximize Customer Loyalty
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The last few years have been hard on many businesses. Their retention
numbers drop and customer loyalty wane. There were many reasons for
these issues, such as changing budgets, lack of product market fit,
and lack of customer adoption. To retain customers, understanding
their needs as they match with your product is very
important. Customer centricity is a business philosophy that places
the customer's needs at the heart of decision-making. It involves
aligning every aspect of the organization around the needs and
expectations of customers. Just as a fine wine takes time to develop
its complex flavors and aromas, creating a customer-centric culture
requires dedication, patience, and a long-term commitment. It is also
an ongoing process that requires continuous effort and reinforcement,
just as wine-maker tends to vines year after year.Â
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5 Leadership Lessons Learned From Building an All-Women Company
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Tracy Marlowe an Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) member in
Sacramento, is the founder and CEO of Creative Noggin, an
award-winning branding, marketing, and communications firm. An
advocate for female entrepreneurship, Tracy is a public speaker and
has been honored by USA News as one of the "Top 20 Female
Entrepreneurs Leading Change." We asked Tracy to share what she
learned from leading an all-female team.Many of us carry multiple
titles as we build our companies. Often, those titles collide --
creating moments of decision-making to reflect on what kind of company
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4 Ways to Boost Executive Presence
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In the summer of 2022, I invested in my presentation skills by
enrolling in HEROIC, a public speaking training program, so to
understand what presence means today, I knew I had to call HEROIC's
co-founder, Michael Port, a renowned expert in public speaking and
presentation skills and author of Steal the Show (Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt, 2015). He shared some valuable insights you can use to
improve your confidence, communication, and ultimately revenue.Port
says that executive presence means different things to different
people--some see it as likability, and others see it as influence or
power. But at its core, it's about being believable, influential, and
engaging in a way that gives others confidence in your capabilities.
It's a key differentiator for successful leaders and owners. It's not
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7 Tactics for Increasing Work Happiness and Satisfaction
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Are you one of those people who believe that happiness at work is
an oxymoron? If so, maybe it's time to rethink your perspective, and
perhaps start enjoying work for a change. As an adviser to new owners
and new ventures, I'm seeing a refreshing new focus by Millennials
on work and successful new companies with a purpose, and more
productivity through happy employees.Results and feedback from several
leading companies, including Google, Apple, and Salesforce, indicate
happiness is the ultimate productivity booster. Happy employees, in
this view, are more loyal, make better decisions, excel at managing
their time, and develop other crucial leadership skills. There are
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How Music and Pictures Can Boost Sales
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Why do we buy what we buy? Most of us think our buying behavior is
logical, but psychological research shows that numbers, colors,
pictures, and seemingly small details can profoundly impact what we
buy. My wife and I met with Dr. Cialdini at a two-day event in
Phoenix, Arizona, in May to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his
best-selling book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Harper
Business, 2006). This book, which publishers have translated into 44
languages, has sold 6.1 million copies and is regarded by Warren
Buffet and other moguls as one of the best business books ever
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Should Marketers Panic Over 'No-Buy Pledges?'
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"What started several years ago as a blogged-about experiment in
budgeting and mindful spending has become a popular
trend on social media. A Reddit group where people share their
experiences has 51,000 members. The challenge primarily gained
popularity on TikTok, where some videos of users seeking to hold
themselves accountable get hundreds of thousands of views."The
article notes individual stories about people creating their own
behavioral nudges to stop spending: leaving home with a bag filled
with books to discourage the purchase of more, unsubscribing from
temptation-rich newsletters , and posting on TikTok to share
reductionist journeys and gain support.
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NYC's Congestion Pricing Should Have Been the Future
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Last June was the warmest in recorded history. It kicked off an
alarming streak with no end in sight.
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Apple Is Coming for Your Password Manager
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The largest data breach ever may be unfolding before our very eyes.
What started as incidents impacting Ticketmaster and financial
services firm Santander has snowballed into a multi-pronged attack
potentially impacting hundreds of companiesâand hundreds of millions
of people. The source of the allegedly stolen data is Snowflake, a
cloud storage firm, whose customers appear to have been targeted with
infostealer malware that seemingly allowed hackers to access their
Snowflake accounts.Microsoft has also (and once again) had a bad week.
After the tech giant recently announced its new Recall toolâwhich
takes screenshots of everything a person does on their PC every five
seconds and makes it all searchableâsecurity researchers set off the
red alert that this, frankly, sounds like a terrible idea. Indeed, one
researcher used a preview version of Recall to create a tool that
extracts all the data stored by the feature in just seconds. Another
found that the tool was vulnerable to "privilege escalation" attacks,
making it possible for a hacker to access a Recall database even if
they don't have administrative powers. Microsoft apparently took the
criticism to heart, however, and will now turn off Recall by default
and add additional security measures.
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The 48 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (June 2024)
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Bridgerton, Eric, and Ripley are just a few of the shows you need to
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The 44 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (June 2024)
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Godzilla Minus One, City Hunter, and The Dig are just a few of the
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Recent outbreaks of bird fluâin US dairy herds, poultry farms in
Australia, and elsewhere, and isolated cases in humansâhave raised
the issue of food safety.So can the virus transfer from infected farm
animals to contaminate milk, meat, or eggs? How likely is this? And
what do we need to think about to minimize our risk when shopping for
or preparing food?
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Things Keep Getting Worse for the Humane Ai Pin
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It has not been a great year for the Humane Ai pin. Pitched to the
world as an AI-infused hologram-projecting phone replacement you could
stick on your lapel, the wearable pin instead turned out to be a sad,
bad little device. After months of hype, the Pin was finally released
to widespread disdain from critics who cited an array of faultsâlike
the fact that the $700 smart gadget lacked key features and overheated
easily and that its touted projector simply wasn't visible in
daylight. Just a few weeks after the pin came out, Humane's leadership
was looking to sell the company off.This week, that somber saga has
gotten even worse for the weary wearable. The New York Times published
a story detailing many of the messy, chaotic decisions behind the
scenes at Humane that led to such a flawed product being released into
the wild. Chief among the problems were that the company knew the
battery didn't last long and that the device's laser display got so
hot that staff had to put ice packs on it to cool it down. (A day
before the NYT story came out, The Verge reported that Humane sent
emails to its customers warning them to stop using the charging case
that came with the pin because they're at risk of catching on fire.)
There's also the fact that leadership didn't listen to internal
criticism that may have led to someone pointing out the myriad ways in
which the device simply did not work. According to The Times, Humane
sold roughly 10,000 devices, less than 10 percent of its goal for an
initial run.
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24 Best Gifts for Dad (2024): Grilling Gear, Coffee, Mitts
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The best gift idea for your dad is a nicer version of something he
already owns. The second best is one of these things.
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If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a
commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also
consider subscribing to WIREDI'm picky when it comes to portable
chargers. There are plenty of power banks out there with built-in
cables and wall plugs, but in a crowded market, it takes a lot more
than a 10,000-mAh capacity to catch my eye. That's why I was shocked
that Raycon's Magic Power Bank not only did everything I ever wanted
but also some things I didn't know I could want from a portable
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How to Manage a Cross-Functional Team
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Cross-functional teams — those with people from different
departments who have varied expertise — are becoming more common, as
is the rise of project-based work arrangements. Early in your
career, you may even find that your first “real” leadership role
is managing a newly formed, cross-functional team for a specific and
short-term project. There are a few key actions new leaders can take
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Master the Art of Asynchronous Communication
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With the rise of remote and hybrid work, the number of employees
collaborating across time zones is growing. If you accept a position
on a global team, particularly in a hybrid or fully remote
environment, you should not expect to work the same hours as all of
your peers. As a result, you will need to learn an increasingly
important skill: asynchronous business communication. Here are a few
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It’s hard to miss the headliners at Kew Gardens. The botanical
collection in London is home to towering redwoods and giant Amazonian
water lilies capable of holding up a small child. Each spring, its
huge greenhouses pop with the Technicolor displays of multiple orchid
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Canada's Extremist Attack on Free Speech
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A bill making its way through the Canadian Parliament would impose
draconian criminal penalties on hate speech and curtail people's
liberty in order to stop crimes they haven't yet committed.In 1984,
George Orwell coined the term thoughtcrime. In the short story "The
Minority Report," the science-fiction author Philip K. Dick gave us
the concept of "precrime," describing a society where would-be
criminals were arrested before they could act. Now Canada is combining
the concepts in a work of dystopian nonfiction: A bill making its way
through Parliament would impose draconian criminal penalties on hate
speech and curtail people's liberty in order to stop future crimes
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What Trump's Total GOP Control Means Next
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Republicans' denunciations of a "rigged" trial have ushered in a
dangerous new era of absolute loyalty to the leader.The sweeping
attacks from Republican elected officials against former President
Donald Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts last week send a clear
signal that if he wins a second term, he will face even less internal
resistance from the GOP than he did during his first four years in the
White House.
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Animal Behavior's Biggest Taboo Is Softening
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Anthropomorphism, long considered a cardinal sin among researchers, is
making a slow comeback.At the start of Elizabeth Hobson's career as an
ecologist, she knew to stick to one rule: Never anthropomorphize the
animals you study.
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Do Students Need Facts or Stories?
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"I am not wise enough to say where the young can find what they need,"
Neil Postman wrote in 1989. But he had an idea about where to
start.This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through
The Atlantic's archives to contextualize the present and surface
delightful treasures. Sign up here.
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Photos: Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings
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For the past week, sites in the United Kingdom and France have been
hosting a number of events leading up to today, the 80th anniversary
of the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944. Veterans, families,
dignitaries, and visitors have gathered at former battlefields and
cemeteries to commemorate the Allied landings on the beaches of
Normandy, which turned the tide in World War II and led to the
liberation of occupied France and the defeat of Nazi Germany. Gathered
here are images of some of these events, and of some of the few
remaining veterans who took part in that costly invasion eight decades
ago. Bernard Morgan, 100, a veteran of the British Royal Air Force,
visits war graves in Bayeux, France, on June 5, 2024, ahead of the
Royal British Legion Service's plans to commemorate the 80th
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A Bad Week for Backers of the Big Lie
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This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you
through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas,
and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.This week, two
influential spreaders of Donald Trump's Big Lie faced trouble. These
aren't the first glitches in the conspiracy-theory universe.
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How Can You Part With the Embryo That Could Have Been Your Child?
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One of the first documents patients sign when starting in vitro
fertilization asks them to consider the very end of their treatment:
What would they like to do with extra embryos, if they have any? The
options generally include disposing of them, donating them to science,
giving them to another patient, or keeping them in storage, for a
cost.The idea that one might end up with surplus embryos can seem like
a distant wish for those just beginning IVF. During treatment, eggs
are removed from a woman's body and fertilized with sperm in the lab
to make embryos. These will then be transferred to her uterus,
typically one by one, until she gets pregnant. But with advances in
reproductive technology, many patients end up with extra embryos after
this process is over. Deciding what to do with the leftovers can be
surprisingly emotional and morally thorny; even those who are not
religious or who support reproductive autonomy might still feel a
sense of responsibility for their embryos. So some patients are
turning to a lesser-known alternative: a method called "compassionate
transfer." The procedure is essentially an elaborate form of medical
make-believe, in which clinicians place a spare embryo in a patient's
body at a time in her menstrual cycle when she is unlikely to get
pregnant. It mimics the steps of a traditional embryo transfer, but
here, it's designed to fail; the embryo will naturally flush out.
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If Only People Actually Believed These Trump-as-Jesus Memes
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After Donald Trump's recent guilty verdict, the internet has seen a
meme deluge analogizing Trump to Christ on the grounds that they both
experienced trial, conviction, and criminality. This meme template
actually dates back to Trump's civil fraud trial last year, when Trump
himself shared courtroom-sketch-style fan art of Jesus seated next to
him. Another meme, this time referring to Trump's guilty verdict,
features Jesus standing behind a seated Trump with his hands on the
president's shoulders above loopy script reading "It's okay. They
called me guilty too." Another captions a diptych of Trump's mug shot
and the portrait Christ Crucified by the Spanish painter Diego
Velázquez with the text: "If you don't think you can vote for a
convicted criminal, remember that you worship one."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.
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How Much Worse Would a Bird-Flu Pandemic Be?
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The world has been through multiple flu pandemics. That doesn't mean
it's any more prepared.Our most recent flu pandemicâ2009's H1N1
"swine flu"âwas, 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.
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What the Challenger Disaster Proved
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We take the workings of wide, complicated technological systems on
faith. But they depend on peopleâand, sometimes, people fail.The
modern world runs on a kind of secular faith. Most of us turn on the
faucet and expect water, enter an elevator and expect it to take us to
our destination, drive over a bridge and expect it to hold up beneath
us. Airplanes make this conviction especially visible. Although
American aviation is incredibly safe, fear of flying is a widespread,
well-known anxiety: Some people just can't quite stomach hurtling
unnaturally through the air, seven miles above everything familiar.
But for the large majority of those who travel on planes, trust
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This Is What It Looks Like When AI Eats the World
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Tech evangelists like to say that AI will eat the worldâa reference
to a famous line about software from the venture capitalist Marc
Andreessen. In the past few weeks, we've finally gotten a sense of
what they mean. This spring, tech companies have made clear that AI
will be a defining feature of online life, whether people want it to
be or not. First, Meta surprised users with an AI chatbot that lives
in the search bar on Instagram and Facebook. It has since informed
European users that their data are being used to train its
AIâpresumably sent only to comply with the continent's privacy laws.
OpenAI released GPT-4o, billed as a new, more powerful and
conversational version of its large language model. (Its announcement
event featured an AI voice named Sky that Scarlett Johansson alleged
was based on her own voice without her permission, an allegation
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has denied. You can listen for yourself here.)
Around the same time, Google launchedâand then somewhat scaled
backâ"AI Overviews" in its search engine. OpenAI also entered into
new content partnerships with numerous media organizations (including
The Atlantic) and platforms such as Reddit, which seem to be operating
on the assumption that AI products will soon be a primary means for
receiving information on the internet. (The Atlantic's deal with
OpenAI is a corporate partnership. The editorial division of The
Atlantic operates with complete independence from the business
division.) Nvidia, a company that makes microchips used to power AI
applications, reported record earnings at the end of May and
subsequently saw its market capitalization increase to more than $3
trillion. Summing up the moment, Jensen Huang, Nvidia's
centibillionaire CEO, got the rock-star treatment at an AI conference
in Taipei this week and, uh, signed a woman's chest like a member of
Mötley Crüe.The pace of implementation is dizzying, even
alarmingâincluding to some of those who understand the technology
best. Earlier this week, employees and former employees of OpenAI and
Google published a letter declaring that "strong financial incentives"
have led the industry to dodge meaningful oversight. Those same
incentives have seemingly led companies to produce a lot of trash as
well. Chatbot hardware products from companies such as Humane and
Rabbit were touted as attempts to unseat the smartphone, but were
shipped in a barely functional state. Google's rush to launch AI
Overviewsâan attempt to compete with Microsoft, Perplexity, and
OpenAIâresulted in comically flawed and potentially dangerous search
results.
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What a Year on Ozempic Taught Johann Hari
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In the fall of 2005, Johann Hari, then a young columnist for The
Independent who was struggling with his weight, described a trip he
said he'd taken to a wellness spa in the foothills of the Carinthian
Alps. After spending just four days there on a cleansing diet that
consisted almost entirely of drinking teaâHari could not bear to stay
a moment longerâhe'd lost seven pounds. "The cravings for lard had
leeched out of my system," he marveled in his write-up, noting that he
hadn't yet regained the weight.Hari tells this Alpine-detox story once
again in Magic Pill, his fourth and latest book, released last
monthâbut the anecdote now appears to hold a different lesson.
Instead of maintaining his new diet, he seems to relapse: "When I got
home, I felt like a failure," he now says of the very same experience.
"Where, I wondered, was my willpower?"
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The Long View of the Challenger Disaster
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This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors' weekly guide to
the best in books. Sign up for it here. There were moments in Adam
Higginbotham's new book Challenger that made me gasp and flip to the
endnotes. I wasn't looking to find the story's denouementâI already
knew what happened on the morning of January 28, 1986: The space
shuttle Challenger broke apart just over a minute into its voyage,
killing all seven astronauts aboard. But Higginbotham had so fully
reconstructed the events, including the inner thoughts of people who
died nearly 40 years ago, that while writing about the book, I just
needed to answer the question: How could he possibly know that? How
could he relay what was happening in NASA's disparate hubs in Texas,
Alabama, and Florida? And how could a project like this one, published
38 years after the catastrophe, add new insights to what already
exists?
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The Deepfake Crisis That Didn't Happen
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This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our
writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intelligence and a
new machine age. Sign up here.Presidential elections in the United
States are prolonged, chaotic, and torturous. (Please, not another
election needle â¦) But they don't come close to rivaling what
happens in India. The country's latest national electionâwhich
wrapped up this week with the reelection of Prime Minister Narendra
Modiâwas a logistical nightmare, as it always is. To set up polling
booths in even the most rural of areas, Indian election officials
hiked mountains, crossed rivers, and huddled into helicopters (or
sometimes all three). More than 600 million voters cast ballots over
the course of six weeks.
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The Shyamalan Secret to Scariness
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Ishana Night Shyamalan's debut film, The Watchers, finds a careful
balance between the freaky and the mundane.In 2006, the director M.
Night Shyamalan attempted to swerve away from the tense thrillers he'd
become known for. His new movie was an ambitious, expansive fairy tale
called Lady in the Waterâan original conceit based on bedtime stories
he'd concocted for his young children. That film, a dizzy mix of
whimsy and horror about a mermaid-like creature who appears in an
apartment building's swimming pool, was largely jeered at the time.
But I couldn't help thinking about it after seeing The Watchers, the
filmmaking debut of Ishana Night Shyamalan, one of M. Night's
daughters and a very commendable protégé.
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EVs Could Last Nearly Forever--If Car Companies Let Them
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In April, a group of people in a red Tesla driving through the
Moroccan desert were glued to the odometer on the car's giant touch
screen. "Two million, Hans! Two million," exclaimed the front-seat
passenger to the owner and driver, Hansjörg von Gemmingen-Hornberg.
His 2014 Model S had become likely the first electric vehicle to drive
2 million kilometers, or more than 1.2 million miles. The car could
have traveled from the Earth to the moon and back, twice, then circled
the equator 11 times.The journey wasn't entirely seamless. The car has
had its share of repairs, including several battery and motor
replacements. A handful of gas-powered cars have driven farther, most
of all a 1966 Volvo that racked up some 3 million miles over five
decades. But such fantastic mileages are becoming far easier to
accomplish for ordinary commuters with electric cars. On a
technological level, it's possible that we're not far from a time when
nobody would flinch at an EV with as much mileage as von
Gemmingen-Hornberg'sâthat is, unless car companies themselves get in
the way.
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What to Read When You Have Only Half an Hour
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A short story has velocity and verve, and the best ones create an
immediate, instinctual bond between the reader and the characters.For
many years, I assumed that the appeal of a short story was that it
was, well, short. Instead of slowly reading a novel over weeks, the
reader of these bite-size plots can experience character development,
crisis, and conclusion in just a few thousand words. But intentionally
reading more short stories made me realize that I'd underestimated the
form. These works aren't just compressed novels: They offer an
entirely different experience. The writer Joy Williams, who has
published both novels and short stories to great praise, once
observed: "A novel wants to befriend you, a short story almost never."
Many short stories can be aloof and enigmatic. They pose difficult
questions about life and love, and rarely provide answers.
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How to Decide What to Leave Behind
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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our
editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill
you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.In pop
culture, questions of inheritance take on dramatic, often nasty
proportions. Watching Succession, you'd be forgiven for thinking that
in all wealthy families, the specter of death elicits insults,
infighting, and betrayal. For some familiesâeven those without the
wealth that the Roys are arguing overâthat may well be true. But for
others, deciding what to leave behind is a way to take inventory of a
life well lived. It can also be an opportunity to codify our
connections with the ones we love, whether or not they fall under the
traditional definition of family.
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Archaeologists Discover Clues to Ancient Migration Route That Brought
Humans to Australia
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New research offers evidence that humans did not inhabit the island of
Timor until around 44,000 years ago, suggesting it was not part of the
original migration route from Southeast Asia to
AustraliaArchaeologists on the Southeast Asian island of Timor have
unearthed new evidence that helps pinpoint how Homo sapiens may have
first migrated to arrive in modern-day Australia.
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