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 S22Federal officials and physician groups express outrage over revelations of recent coercive sterilizations - STAT (No paywall)  Some said they knew of other contemporary instances of tubal ligations with questionable consent — in people with severe disabilities, for instance, or situations in which patients didn’t understand that the procedure should be considered permanent — and said STAT’s reporting uncovered a new dimension of this troubling pattern. For many, it also showed the need for improvements in access to care, reproductive counseling, education for physicians and patients, and federal sterilization policy.“For far too long, racial inequities and underrepresentation in our health system have contributed to adverse health outcomes for Black women in the United States. Before making major life decisions, every woman deserves to be fully informed about her reproductive health options — anything less is unacceptable,” said U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust.
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S1When Being Responsive is a Responsibility This was the experience of Kenvue at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, when demand for much of its range of self-care and essential health products spiked. Over the years, the consumer health company has had to manage demand spikes resulting from not just the pandemic, but also paediatric illness outbreaks. For producers of critical supplies, meeting consumer needs is not only about maximising profits, but also a matter of social responsibility. In the case of Kenvue, any misstep along the chain can impact people who depend on its products for everyday healthcare or jeopardise illness treatment. Kenvue, therefore, has been working to mitigate the risks and enhance the resilience of its supply chain by deploying critical end-to-end initiatives as a hedge against future bottlenecks – much like how one would attempt to reduce risk with an insurance policy. We believe that this approach can set an example for other providers of critical supplies, from pharmaceuticals to food, energy and water.
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S3Charted: EU Emigrants by Country Here’s a full list of 27 EU member states and their emigration numbers in 2022, both as number of people and as a percentage of the population. Data for Switzerland, Norway, and Liechtenstein has also been included for context, but is not part of the visualization, nor contributes to the overall EU number.
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S4Why avocados are driving another sort of green economy in Kenya - The Economist (No paywall) Look beyond the lions and elephants. Resist the cups of coffee and tea. Hail instead Kenya’s latest success story: the firm but luscious avocado pear, now climbing up the list of Kenya’s exports. Already the biggest African avo-exporter, well ahead of South Africa, Kenya has been expanding its sales to Europe and is trying to push into the mass markets of India and China. “We are number five [in the world] in avocado exports and can easily get to number one,” says Simon Chelugui, Kenya’s minister for co-operatives.Mr Chelugui may be behind the times. According to the latest estimate of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Kenya reached number three in exports last year. It is still far behind Mexico, the unchallenged giant, and Peru, the runner-up. But the volume of Kenya’s exports shot up last year by 24%, the steepest climb of any big producer.
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S5Top Colleges For Billionaires - Forbes (No paywall) “Iowe Columbia a lot,” says Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots, who announced in April he would stop donating to his alma mater amid the student protests spreading across college campuses. “Columbia gave me a full scholarship when I really needed it, and I’m loyal. But the [protesters] are not held accountable for their words or actions, and the university is letting them get away with it.”Columbia might lose millions from Kraft’s decision, considering he has given at least $8 million to the university over his lifetime. Luckily, the New York City school has plenty of other deep-pocketed alumni, including cable magnate Rocco Commisso, who tells Forbes he doesn’t plan to sit on his wallet. “I think now is the time to give more, not less,” says Commisso. “As alumni and wealthy people, we should commit ourselves to help Columbia grow. This is a school that gave me money and opportunity.”
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S6How Will Trump's Conviction Affect His Ability To Get Loans? - Forbes (No paywall) "I think a bank would say, 'Is this noise I need?'" explains John Petrovski, a veteran of the commercial real estate industry who once helped underwrite a Trump loan in Chicago. "You've got a guy who's controversial. You've got a guy who's convicted of a felony conviction. Whether you fall on the side that it's fake news or you fall on the side that it's a real issue, either way, it's noise. And banks don't need noise." Would Petrovski loan to Trump again? "It would be a nonstarter," he says.Convictions aren't the only issue. Several Trump companies have declared bankruptcy in the past, and the former president still has a cloud of legal issues swirling around him. Most of his net worth is tied up in shares of a social media company with shaky financials, and much of the rest sits in illiquid real estate holdings. Past lending documents required Trump to certify that he was not a felon or under investigation.
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S7Apple is poised to unveil embedded AI at its 'most important event... in over a decade' - Fortune (No paywall) And Apple’s next generation of software is expected to be packed with an array of AI features likely to make its often-bumbling virtual assistant Siri smarter, and make photos, music, texting — and possibly even creating emojis on the fly — a more productive and entertaining experience.AI mania is the main reason that Nvidia, the dominant maker of the chips underlying the technology, has seen its market value rocket from about $300 billion at the end of 2022 to about $3 trillion. The meteoric ride allowed Nvidia to briefly surpass Apple last week as the second most valuable company in the U.S. Microsoft earlier this year also eclipsed the iPhone maker on the strength of its so-far successful push into AI.
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S8S9S10The Business of Building a Better Future - Inc.com (No paywall) This isn't a conclusion based on my personal experience (though I am a coffee shop regular). It comes from the 2023 Gensler Global Workplace Survey, which asked 14,000 workers in nine countries about the workplace experiences they like best. Having an office modeled after a coffee shop was among the top three choices in every nation and came out first in several, including the U.S.
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S11Many LGBTQ+ Job Seekers See an Unsupportive Job Climate - Inc.com (No paywall) For Pride month, the jobs site Indeed looked at how LGBTQ+ workers and job seekers "face unique barriers" when looking for new employment. The company's new survey highlights exactly how tricky finding work can be for LGBTQ+ applicants, and offers some pointers for successful recruiting practices. Doing so opens up a talent pool that represents about 15 million people, roughly 5 percent of the population. Other data show that LGBTQ+ workers can actually benefit a company's bottom line.The biggest takeaway from Indeed's survey is that the LGBTQ+ community is "increasingly selective" about choosing where they work, and they are "prioritizing companies that demonstrate clear and unwavering support for their rights." In fact 3 in 10 LGBQ+ staff have chosen to not apply for a job because of a "perceived or actual lack of support for the LGBTQ+ community." That figure rises to 50 percent among transgender applicants. And if a particular company has no LGBTQ+ representation, 1 in 4 LGBTQ+ workers said they wouldn't consider applying for a role there.
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S12GenAI Is Leveling the Playing Field for Smaller Businesses - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) Typically, small to medium enterprises (SMEs) don’t have the resources to hunker down at an annual strategy retreat or to stop everything they’re doing to respond to unexpected emergencies or events that threaten the bottom line. This puts them at a disadvantage compared to their larger competitors. This article shows how AI is proving to be a transformative force for small and medium enterprises. The authors describe three crisis scenarios in which AI-driven brainstorming and scenario generation enabled SMEs to break free from their built-in limitations to produce innovative strategies.
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S13AI Is Making Economists Rethink the Story of Automation - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) Will artificial intelligence take our jobs? As AI raises new fears about a jobless future, it’s helpful to consider how economists’ understanding of technology and labor has evolved. For decades, economists were relatively optimistic, and pointed out that previous waves of technology had not led to mass unemployment. But as income inequality rose in much of the world, they began to revise their theories. Newer models of technology’s affects on the labor market account for the fact that it absolutely can displace workers and lower wages. In the long run, technology does tend to raise living standards. But how soon and how broadly? That depends on two factors: Whether technologies create new jobs for people to do and whether workers have a voice in technology’s deployment.
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S14S15A Rare Take on Young Love - The Atlantic (No paywall) Rina has wide-ranging cultural tastes. She calls Laurie Colwin’s The Lone Pilgrim “a revelation”; Chris Whitley’s “Dust Radio” a “sweat-soaked, apocalyptic track”; and the television series Mr. & Mrs. Smith a “sharp and honest” meditation on marriage. Then there’s Steven Millhauser, a writer whom Rina recently came across: “My goodness. Why don’t people talk about him more?”A quiet song that I love, and a loud song that I love: I feel about Chris Whitley the way some people feel about Princess Diana; taken by lung cancer at age 45, he left behind more than a dozen strange, beautiful albums, each with something fresh and vital to say about the blues. His 1991 debut, Living With the Law, hit me like a train the first time I encountered it, and it still does, 10 years and 1,000 listens later. It’s easy to get swept up by the sheer gorgeousness of “Big Sky Country,” but don’t sleep on “Dust Radio,” a sweat-soaked, apocalyptic track that starts off spare and opens up into something seismic.
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S16Why Russia Is Happy at War - The Atlantic (No paywall) On June 12, Russia celebrates its Independence Day. The commemoration was instituted by President Boris Yeltsin in 1992 to a collective shrug—“Who did Russia declare independence from?” people asked. But in the early 2000s, President Vladimir Putin elevated the day to a major national celebration, accompanied by a cornucopia of flag-waving. For the past two years, “Russia Day,” as it is popularly known, has gone beyond reenactments of historic military victories to celebrate the country’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine—complete with charity auctions and motor rallies in support of the troops, and flash mobs to show national unity branded with a hashtag that translates as #WeAreRussiaWeAreTogether.Propaganda aside, Russia does seem surprisingly unified. Despite the war’s heavy human toll, estimated by the United Kingdom’s Defence Intelligence to be as high as 500,000, and near-total isolation from the West, Russian society has not unraveled. On the contrary, it appears to be functioning better than before the war and shows clear signs of once-elusive social cohesion. One explanation for this paradox—national thriving amid unfolding calamity—is that, unlike Western states, which are designed to advance the interests of their citizens, Russian society operates with one purpose in mind: to serve the interests of its belligerent state.
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S17Are We Doomed? Here's How to Think About It - The New Yorker (No paywall) In January, the computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton gave a lecture to Are We Doomed?, a course at the University of Chicago. He spoke via Zoom about whether artificial intelligence poses an existential threat. He was cheerful and expansive and apparently certain that everything was going to go terribly wrong, and soon. "I timed my life perfectly," Hinton, who is seventy-six, told the class. "I was born just after the end of the Second World War. I was a teen-ager before there was AIDS. And now I'm going to die before the end."I was getting a sense of how Hinton processed existential threat: like the Fool in "King Lear." And I knew how I processed it: in a Morse code of anxiety and calm, but with less intensity than I think about my pets or about Anna's Swedish ginger thins. But how did these young people take in, or not take in, all the chatter about A.I. menaces, dying oceans, and nuclear arsenals, in addition to the generally pretty convincing end-times mood over all? I often hear people say that the youth give them hope for the future. This obscures the question of whether young people themselves have hope, or even think in such terms.
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S18S19S20S21S23At BIO, signs Congress' tough stance on China is chilling biotech relationships - STAT (No paywall) SAN DIEGO — U.S. legislation that seeks to restrict American biotechs from working with certain Chinese firms and suppliers is for now just that — a proposal, not a law. But the looming bill’s impact was clearly visible at this year’s meeting of the industry’s largest trade group.A number of biotech companies in attendance at the meeting of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization told STAT they’re actively looking to strike deals with U.S.-based drug manufacturers rather than companies named in the legislation, even though doing so will be more costly. An executive at a U.S.-based contract development and manufacturing organization, or CDMO, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that “month to month, new business has gone through the roof.”
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S24The Influencer Chef Dividing Syria's Diaspora - Foreign Policy (No paywall) ISTANBUL—In March, days before the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a line stretched for a block in Aksaray, a neighborhood that has been dubbed “Little Syria” for its large immigrant community. Hungry customers not-so-patiently waited to eat at a recently opened restaurant called Chef Omar’s, which has been hailed as the city’s best shawarma spot. The eponymously named eatery is the latest venture of Damascus-born social media chef Omar Abu Lebda, who has exploded in popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic.ISTANBUL—In March, days before the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a line stretched for a block in Aksaray, a neighborhood that has been dubbed “Little Syria” for its large immigrant community. Hungry customers not-so-patiently waited to eat at a recently opened restaurant called Chef Omar’s, which has been hailed as the city’s best shawarma spot. The eponymously named eatery is the latest venture of Damascus-born social media chef Omar Abu Lebda, who has exploded in popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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S25Are We Really Toiling in Amazon's Fields? - Foreign Policy (No paywall) This is the core contention in Yanis Varoufakis’s new book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. Varoufakis insists that the digital platforms have become so powerful, so ubiquitous, so fundamental to the working of the global economy that they have effectively replaced capitalism as it has long been understood.The “cloudalists,” as he calls them, have more in common with feudal lords than captains of industry. Their businesses focus on rent capture, rather than competition for profits. Their interests run counter to the digital proletariat (tech workers) and digital serfs (platform users). With this book, he attempts to activate the class consciousness of those of us toiling in the Facebook and Twitter fields, providing free content from which the cloudalists capture rent.
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S26Israel's Forever War - Foreign Affairs (No paywall) To Israelis, October 7, 2023, is the worst day in their country’s 75-year history. Never before have so many of them been massacred and taken hostage on a single day. Thousands of heavily armed Hamas fighters managed to break through the Gaza Strip’s fortified border and into Israel, rampaging unimpeded for hours, destroying several villages, and committing gruesome acts of brutality before Israeli forces could regain control. Israelis have compared the attack to the Holocaust; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described Hamas as “the new Nazis.” In response, the Israel Defense Forces have pursued an open-ended military campaign in Gaza driven by rage and the desire for revenge. Netanyahu promises that the IDF will fight Hamas until it achieves “total victory,” although even his own military has been hard put to define what this means. He has offered no clear idea of what should happen when the fighting stops, other than to assert that Israel must maintain security control of all of Gaza and the West Bank.For Palestinians, the Gaza war is the worst event they have experienced in 75 years. Never have so many of them been killed and uprooted since the nakba, the catastrophe that befell them during Israel’s war of independence in 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced to give up their homes and became refugees. Like the Israelis, they also point to terrible acts of violence: by late March, Israel’s military campaign had taken the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians, among them thousands of children, and rendered well over a million homeless. As the Palestinians see it, the Israeli offensive is part of a larger plan to incorporate all Palestinian lands into the Jewish state and get them to abandon Gaza entirely—an idea that has in fact been raised by some members of Netanyahu’s government. The Palestinians also hold on to the illusion of return, the principle that they will one day be able to reclaim their historic homes in Israel itself—a kind of Palestinian Zionism that, like Israel’s maximalist aspirations, can never come true.
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S27India's Perilous Border Standoff With China - Foreign Affairs (No paywall) High up in the mostly uninhabitable stretches of the Himalaya Mountains, the world’s two largest armies are facing off. The tensions at the disputed Chinese-Indian border, where around 100,000 troops are garrisoned at remote outposts, rarely makes international headlines. But it is one of the world’s most dangerous flash points. In 2020, clashes at the border left over 20 soldiers dead, marking the most significant fighting between China and India since the two countries fought a war in 1962.Tensions at the roof of the world have persisted ever since. In the last four years, both sides have sought to build up infrastructure and position yet more troops along the border. Just as China spars with many of its neighbors over competing territorial claims, the unresolved boundary dispute with India is a great source of volatility. The annual threat assessment released in March by the U.S. director of national intelligence warned that sporadic encounters between Indian and Chinese troops “risk miscalculation and escalation into armed conflict.”
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S28If Neanderthals Were Able to Speak, They May Have Had High-Pitched Voices - Discover Magazine (No paywall) Neanderthals stopped roaming Earth around 40,000 years ago. Yet as time passes, new technologies are helping scientists learn more about Homo neanderthalensis, how they might have lived, and what similarities they may have shared with Homo sapiens. There’s even a debate about what Neanderthals sounded like. In the 1980s, scientists discovered the skeleton of a Neanderthal male in Kebara Cave, Israel. Known as Kebara 2, the skeleton was well intact and allowed scientists to examine the neck bones. In particular, they found that the hyoid bone was similar to humans, which prompted researchers to think that Neanderthals were capable of speech.
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S29The Atlantic Ocean is Primed to Deliver "High-Octane Jet Fuel for Hurricanes" - Discover Magazine (No paywall) As University of Miami tropical cyclone expert Brian McNoldy posted to social media the other day, "It's June 1, the first day of Atlantic #HurricaneSeason, and the ocean heat content averaged in the Main Development Region is as high as it normally would be on August 17. And incredibly, it's even higher than what 2023 was on this date." Record high oceanic heat also is an issue in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the tropical Atlantic as a whole. Mcnoldy finds this quite concerning. "First, it's a curiosity without a great explanation," he told me in an email. "But second, it's high-octane jet fuel for hurricanes. It raises the bar for their peak intensity and increases the odds of rapid intensification."
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S30S31S32The ingenious wines birthed from black volcanic craters In Spain's Lanzarote Island, conical hollows built into layers of volcanic ash yield wines that have been created from generations of ingenuity and hard work.When viewed from a distance, the vineyards of Spain's Lanzarote island show few signs of life. The sweeping jet-black terrain is pitted with a series of conical hollows, like the thumbprints of a mythical giant pressed into the dark earth. But get a little closer, and each crater reveals a vine at its heart.
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S33A Korean feast that honours Buddha's birth Every year, millions of people celebrate the founder of Buddhism's birth by enjoying free meals at temples.After the cherry blossom petals fall, strings of paper lanterns begin to appear across South Korea, dangling from trees and lacing the streets to announce the arrival of Buddha's birthday. Temple visitors are greeted with a kaleidoscope of colour on the day of the celebration – which has been recognised as a national holiday for nearly 50 years in South Korea, where 16% of the population is Buddhist – and can often enjoy a free bowl of sachal bibimbap (temple bibimbap) packed with seasonal vegetables representing ohbangsaek, the five colours of the Universe (after braving the long lines, that is).
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S34 Three Things to Know About Prompting LLMs There seems to be no escaping large language models (LLMs) nowadays, and you certainly won’t find reprieve in this publication. But if you’re having trouble getting LLMs to give you the responses you’re looking for, you might want to consider changing how you prompt them. The way that a prompt is structured has a significant impact on the quality of the response provided. Here are three research-based tips to help you improve your prompting strategies and get more out of LLMs.
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S35 Keeping Innovation Alive at a Legacy Organization Kevin Nolan, an engineer by training and a 28-year veteran of GE, is the president and CEO of GE Appliances. He became the company’s CTO in 2006, 10 years before its acquisition by China-based multinational Haier Group. MIT Sloan Management Review spoke with Nolan about the evolution of the company and the sector, and what it takes to be an innovative company today. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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S36 The Long Tail of Social Media Influence The top social media influencers command top dollar for their endorsements: Italian super-influencer Chiara Ferragni was said to have been paid 1 million euros ($1.07 million) to promote a holiday cake to her followers.
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S3750 Hidden Gems Under $30 on Amazon That Make Your Home 10x Better Home is where the heart is — but it’s also where you keep the brilliant inventions that make your life significantly easier. And thanks to Amazon, you don’t even need to leave home in order to find them. Whether you’re looking for genius kitchen tools, convenient gadgets, or functional decor, these hidden gems make your home 10 times better, all while costing less than $30. Before you toss your old knives, give this two-stage knife sharpener a shot. Its fine carbide blade aims to refurbish dull, damaged knives while its ceramic rod is ideal for polishing. The result, according to reviewers? “About 10 swipes (less than a minute) on each side, a quick rinse, and the knife is like new again. Can't believe the price for the results,” one wrote.
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S38Why Apple's AI Debut Is Doomed to Disappoint After a few teases and years of reserved implementations of machine learning, Apple is expected to make WWDC 2024 all about AI. But based on reports published ahead of the event, what the company has in store won’t be as revolutionary an approach as many are hoping for.When Siri launched on the iPhone 4S in 2011, Apple was ahead of the game. Voice-driven AI assistants had been demoed (Siri was technically an acquisition), but Apple was the first tech company to ship one in a mass-consumer product. In the Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa-filled years that followed, Apple’s updates have been more modest. Machine learning and natural language processing are all over iOS, and Siri runs on-device, but flashy displays of AI haven’t materialized. With natural-sounding, increasingly capable-seeming chatbots like ChatGPT now an option everyone is aware of and can access, Apple has fallen behind.
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S39Hands Down, the 60 Weirdest, Most Clever Things With Near-Perfect Amazon Reviews Often, when you come across something clever and weird on Amazon, there’s a glaring problem with it that has reviewers clamoring to tell you “stop!” — but not so with the gems below. Each product has hundreds or even thousands of five-star reviews attesting to its quality and usefulness. There are kitchen tools that will make you smile every time you use them, car accessories so that your ride is as well-equipped as your home, and more. Plus, nothing’s more than $40.This finger massager can help relieve discomfort in your hands by increasing circulation and massaging sore muscles. One end has a single roller to target specific points while the other can roll both sides of your hand. If you don’t know where to start, use the included exercise guide for some pointers. One reviewer wrote, “This is a life saver; it is easy to use and the best part it takes away that tension that's built up all day.”
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S40The Promise -- And Perils -- Of 5-MeO-DMT Found naturally in the Sonoran Desert toad, 5-MeO-DMT stands out for its quick, potent, and potentially life-altering psychedelic effects.When Johannes Reckweg arrived in the Netherlands in 2016 to work on his master’s program in neuropsychology, he didn’t expect to learn about a psychedelic compound commonly found in a toad that lives half a world away. But his research on stimulants led him to another substance that quickly piqued his interest: 5-MeO-DMT.
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S4130 Years Ago, Keanu Reeves Made a Preposterous Action Thriller -- And Perfected a New Genre The release of Die Hard was an earth-shattering moment for Hollywood’s blockbuster industrial complex. Bruce Willis, a TV star, had fronted a major action movie with a remarkably straightforward premise and turned it into a smash hit. And, just a year after Predator, John McTiernan cemented himself as one of the best action filmmakers to ever pick up a camera. Even though few have succeeded in making Die Hard happen again (including Willis), it’s easy to understand why so many have tried.The decade after Die Hard was rife with movies that tried to mimic its simple formula — a man gets trapped somewhere with a bunch of hostages, and has to save them. Cliffhanger, Under Siege, Sudden Death, Air Force One, and Skyscraper, among many others, all used elements of that formula to try replicating Die Hard’s tremendous success. Among all of the knock-offs, it was Speed that cracked the code. The movie, infamously described as Die Hard on a bus, proved it was possible to make Die Hard again in a way that mostly worked.
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S4225 Years Ago, the Most Surprising Mario Game Unleashed the Full Power of Nintendo's Mascot For a mascot who’s one home pregnancy test away from a merchandising empire that rivals Krusty the Clown’s, Mario has been a remarkable model of consistency. Not every party he throws and trip to the Olympic Games he takes is an innovative masterpiece, but it’s safe to assume you’ll have a decent time if you fork over 60 bucks for a game with Mario’s smiling face on the box.Twenty-five years ago, that axiom was tested with the Nintendo 64’s Mario Golf. Mario had already karted, partied, and smashed by 1999, but he was still a platforming star, not a sports icon. He hadn’t picked up a golf club since 1991, and his latest flirtation with tennis had been a thin Virtual Boy headache. By making a good 3D golf game, Nintendo proved the Mario brand could be used for anything, and it wasn’t long after its release that Mario’s closet began to burst with sporting equipment.
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S439 Years Later, the Scariest Post-Apocalypse Villain of the Century Makes a Surprising Return Furiosa actor Lachy Hulme goes deep on becoming the ruler of the Citadel and what it takes to make a Mad Max movie.When the acclaimed director behind the Mad Max movies (and Happy Feet) set out to make Furiosa, there was just one problem: Hugh Keays-Byrne, the actor who brought the iconic villain to life in 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road (and played a character named Toecutter in the original Mad Max), had passed away in 2020. Miller’s initial plan was to cast a silent look-alike for the prequel movie and figure out a way to replicate the voice later. Then, Lachy Hulme threw his shiny chrome hat into the ring.
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S44S45Trek to a remote Himalayan village where artisans craft teapots fit for kings | Aeon Videos Ishey Namgail has dedicated his entire life to an art form that’s been in his family for generations. Working out of his centuries-old workshop in India’s mountainous Ladakh region, the 83-year-old Namgail crafts ornate metalworks using the same techniques as his ancestors – right down to his goatskin bellow. More than just a master of his trade, he’s one of the last artisans of his kind on the planet. For his short film The Teapot Maker, the UK director Duncan Parker travelled to Namgail’s remote village of Chilling to capture his intricate process, as well as its exquisite results. This includes the creation of a copper teapot with a dragon-shaped handle traditionally used to serve kings or high-ranking monks. And, as Parker documents, even though Namgail’s craft is very much endangered, its flame will likely burn for at least two more generations, as his son and grandson have taken up the family trade.
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S46S47What will a robot make of your r The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has begun, spreading to almost every facet of people’s professional and personal lives – including job recruitment. While artists fear copyright breaches or simply being replaced, business and management are becoming increasingly aware to the possibilities of greater efficiencies in areas as diverse as supply chain management, customer service, product development and human resources (HR) management.
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S48Labor slumps in Newspoll to a tie with Coalition, with Albanese also down Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A national Newspoll, conducted June 3–7 from a sample of 1,232, had Labor and the Coalition tied at 50–50, a two-point gain for the Coalition since the post-budget Newspoll, three weeks ago. This is Labor’s worst position in Newspoll since last November, following the fallout from the defeat of the Voice referendum.
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S49Costello goes, but the cultural problems at Nine Entertainment remain In 2005 he dined with three journalists from the Canberra press gallery, during which he told them the Coalition government led by John Howard, and of which he was treasurer, could not win the election due in 2007 with Howard as leader.Next morning, a member of his staff induced the three journalists to treat the conversation as off the record – that is, in confidence.
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S50Patently insufficient: a new intellectual property treaty does little to protect Maori traditional knowledge The problem of “biopiracy” – the misappropriation and patenting for profit of Indigenous knowledge – has been on the rise for some time. So a global treaty aimed at protecting traditional knowledge and genetic resources should be a welcome development.In late May, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) adopted the Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge. It is the first international agreement on intellectual property that includes provisions on Indigenous peoples’ knowledge.
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