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 S2620 Years Ago, a Cult Classic Sci-Fi Franchise Learned its Most Important Lesson  Vin Diesel may fuel the multi-billion dollar Fast and the Furious franchise, and he may have had a notable death in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning Saving Private Ryan, but Pitch Black is the greatest Vin Diesel showcase. David Twohy’s 2000 space-bound creature feature is a monster movie classic, pitting an animalistic Richard Riddick (Vin Diesel) against a planet full of flying critters who have destroyed everything on the surface. The film launched a multimedia franchise, but its immediate sequel, The Chronicles of Riddick, pivoted to space opera and was a critically-maligned box office disappointment. There are promising elements, but Chronicles’ fundamental flaw is simple: Riddick is simply a far better protagonist for monster movies.Pitch Black begins with a damaged spaceship being forced to land. Its unfortunate occupants crash on a planet experiencing a rare eclipse of its three suns, which releases a horde of carnivorous, flying beasts. The survivors’ only hope lies in Riddick, a dangerous criminal who can see in the dark.
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S1Thandai: An ancient cannabis drink for celebrating Holi Through many centuries in India, the Festival of Colours has been celebrated with thandai, a cooling milk drink packed with dry nuts, fragrant spices and oftentimes, cannabis.Colours, water guns and much merriment accompany Holi (25 March), the Hindu Festival of Colours that celebrates the end of winter and the arrival of spring, symbolic of new life.
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S2Matzah ball soup: a new take on a Jewish classic To embrace her Jewish heritage and Mexican upbringing, Fany Gerson adds spicy chillies, avocado, coriander and lime to her matzah ball soup – a perfect twist for a Passover Seder.Matzah ball soup is a dish with elements that trace back to the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew bible. Biblical Israelites carried matzah – unleavened bread that resembles a large, thin cracker – out with them from Pharaoh's Egypt during the Exodus, when the Jewish people were liberated from slavery. Jews, under instructions from God, have eaten matzah ever since during the Passover Seder (held this year on 22 April through 30 April), a symbolic, ritual feast that includes a retelling of the biblical story.
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S3 Avoid ML Failures by Asking the Right Questions In our collective decades of experience building, leading, and studying companies’ machine learning (ML) deployments, we have repeatedly seen projects fail because talented and well-resourced data science teams missed or misunderstood a deceptively simple piece of the business context. Those gaps create obstacles to correctly understanding the data, its context, and the intended end users — ultimately jeopardizing the positive impact ML models can make in practice.We have discovered that small mistakes and misunderstandings are much less likely to cascade into failed projects when development teams engage with colleagues on the business side and ask enough questions to deeply understand the process and the problem at hand. Asking questions might seem like a simple step, but that might not be part of a company’s, team’s, or an industry’s culture. Appearing to be in command of all the information needed may be one of the ways employees signal competence in the organization. And while data scientists might possess technical mastery, they can lack the soft skills to reach a deep, accurate mutual understanding with business partners.At the same time, business partners often hesitate to ask questions themselves and don’t necessarily know what information or context would be helpful to share with a data science team. It’s hard work on both sides to have the kinds of interactions that allow everyone to surface and question assumptions, and identify the most important elements of business context.
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S4 How Generative AI Can Support Advanced Analytics Practice The glare of attention on generative AI threatens to overshadow advanced analytics. Companies pouring resources into much-hyped large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT risk neglecting advanced analytics and their proven value for improving business decisions and processes, such as predicting the next best offer for each customer or optimizing supply chains.The consequences for resource allocation and value creation are significant. Data and analytics teams that our team works with are reporting that generative AI initiatives, often pushed by senior leaders afraid of missing out on the next big thing, are siphoning funds from their budgets. This reallocation could undermine projects aimed at delivering value across the organization, even as most enterprises are still seeking convincing business cases for the use of LLMs.However, advanced analytics and LLMs have vastly different capabilities, and leaders should not think in terms of choosing one over the other. These technologies can work in concert, combining, for example, the reliable predictive power of machine learning-based advanced analytics with the natural language capabilities of LLMs.
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S5 Managing Data Privacy Risk in Advanced Analytics “How can we protect the privacy of our customers’ personal data while leveraging that data via AI and analytics?” This question reflects a growing internal dilemma as companies pursue advanced analytics and artificial intelligence.The troves of data that customers’ ever-more-digitalized lives produce can be a rich source of insight for organizations using advanced analytics tools. At the same time, this data is a deep source of concern to IT staffs committed to meeting both regulatory agencies’ and consumers’ expectations around data privacy. Both are important objectives — but meeting them simultaneously requires confronting an inherent conflict. Increasing data privacy in the context of analytics and AI involves using techniques that can reduce the utility of the data, depending on the task and the privacy preservation technique chosen.The issue is one that an increasing number of organizations will face as the fields of analytics and AI continue to quickly evolve and lead to the widespread availability of an array of tools and techniques (including turnkey and cloud-based services) that enable organizations to put data to work more easily than ever. Meanwhile, customers have increasing expectations that companies will take all necessary precautions to protect the privacy of their personal data, especially in light of reports of large-scale data breaches covered by mainstream media outlets. Those expectations are backed by regulations on personal data and AI across the globe that make it critical for companies to keep personal data protection practices in compliance.
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S6 Our Guide to the Summer 2024 Issue Top Takeaways: As business uses of artificial intelligence, LLMs, and other algorithmic applications expand, so, too, does the possibility of unintended negative consequences for users and other stakeholders. The authors introduce two auditing frameworks — Ethical Matrix and Explainable Fairness — that can help organizations identify these potential risks and address critical questions about who could be harmed by algorithmic systems and how. They also discuss applying red teaming and benchmarking to difficult-to-audit LLMs, before applying all four of the approaches to a real-life example to demonstrate how an algorithmic audit could have prevented a very public chatbot failure.Top Takeaways: A significant reason why machine learning projects fail to deliver business value is data scientists’ failure to adequately understand the business context. Development teams can avoid mistakes when they put aside any reticence to ask basic questions and engage with colleagues on the business side. The authors advise gaining input from all involved stakeholders and suggest some specific types of queries that might help machine learning developers get to the heart of the problem at hand.Top Takeaways: Advanced analytics, such as predictive and prescriptive models to support business decisions, remain the primary drivers of data science value in the enterprise. How might the flashy, fluent, but not entirely reliable generative AI LLMs contribute to traditional analytics practice? The authors describe some experimental prompts that show potential for labeling data and explaining model predictions, and share guidance on monitoring and verifying that output.
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S7Know Your Own Strength | Elizabeth Heichler We all love a good “what went wrong” story. Analyses of corporate failures are a staple of the management genre, alerting leaders to hidden dangers and unexamined vulnerabilities. But studying our weaknesses and mitigating them only goes so far; it doesn’t actually tell us how to succeed. Establishing a lasting advantage requires a deep understanding of our strengths and how to wield them.That understanding is essential to achieving a fair return on the value that a company creates with its products and services, as Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg, and Todd Snelgrove explain. Their new framework for value-based sales requires companies to go beyond simply quantifying their strengths (in terms of product benefits) to justify pricing — an approach that typically fizzles out over time. Instead, companies must gain insight into their strengths in context: Which of their strengths are meaningful to a specific customer? What are those strengths worth to that customer, in terms of productivity, uptime, additional revenue, brand reputation, and other benefits? In this context, knowing your strengths is the basis of building long-term customer relationships where value is cocreated between seller and buyer. Gaining clarity about your organization’s core strengths is also the starting point to gaining the strategic agility needed to quickly capitalize on new opportunities, according to Mark J. Greeven, Howard Yu, and Jialu Shan. They’ve noted a commonality among high-performing companies that they’ve tracked since 2021: These businesses have identified core capabilities, modularized them, and offered them to customers and partners, who in turn have built on those capabilities and penetrated new markets on behalf of the company. Achieving this does require a commitment to establishing a digital architecture that enables modularity, with a particular focus on developing and maintaining a suite of APIs through which partners can connect. But once accomplished, this approach offers a hedge against uncertainty, as it positions companies to respond rapidly to new customer demands and changing business conditions.
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S89 Years Later, 'Life is Strange' Finally Gives Fans What They Want -- But Is It Too Late? Life is Strange is getting another entry, this time helmed by the series’ first protagonist, Max Caulfield. Fans of the episodic adventure franchise are already excited about this change of pace, especially after two underwhelming follow-ups to the 2015 original. Here’s what we know so far about Life is Strange: Double Exposure.Nine years ago, Max’s time-bending powers and the game’s well-crafted emotional narrative captivated players. When it first released, Life is Strange felt like it was on the cutting-edge of what video games could be, pushing the envelope on the medium. Much of gaming has changed in the meantime, but based on a new game trailer that dropped on Sunday, it looks like Double Exposure is keeping a couple of things that made Life is Strange resonate.
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S9Microsoft Might Have Ditched a Huge Xbox Series X Redesign for This Mild Refresh That big Xbox Series X refresh we’ve been waiting for might not be as exciting as we first thought.Microsoft revealed three updated versions of its consoles during the Xbox Games Showcase, showing off an all-digital Xbox Series X in all-white, a limited-edition Xbox Series X that goes up to 2TB of storage, and a new Xbox Series S that’s also in white. Microsoft said these three refreshed consoles will be available for this year’s holiday season.
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S10'Black Ops 6's' Wildest New Feature Will Change Call Of Duty, Forever Xbox’s decision to follow up its impressive showcase with a spotlight on the next Call Of Duty was risky. There are few series as reliably safe and consistent in content as Call of Duty, and setting aside 30 minutes to show off Black Ops 6 seemed like an unnecessary overindulgence from a company excited to have gaming’s biggest franchise join their already bountiful portfolio.But when the time came to show the world what developer Treyarch has been cooking up, giving the new Call Of Duty the same treatment Starfield got during 2023’s Summer Games Fest makes a lot of sense. Black Ops 6 is set to be a landmark game in the franchise thanks to a new feature called omni-movement — a drastic, meaningful change to how Call Of Duty plays.
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S11Cozy Games Are Finally Getting the Dark Twist They Desperately Need While Stardew Valley didn’t start the cozy game genre, the success of the 2016 farming sim kicked off a wave of imitations and homages as developers realized the potential of games with a more chill vibe. In the eight years since that explosion of coziness, many of the resulting cozy games stay frustratingly close to the mechanics and limitations of Stardew Valley, but two games featured at this weekend’s Summer Game Fest point toward a new kind of subversion that the genre desperately needs.Grave Seasons and Wanderstop both appeared at this year’s showcase, and both seem — at least momentarily — like familiar cozy games. Grave Seasons is a farming sim in the vein of Stardew Valley, while Wanderstop is about running a tea shop with a cute witchy aesthetic. But in both, that cozy exterior hides something much darker, which may actually help them avoid some of the more problematic pitfalls of the cozy games movement.
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S12Scientists Have Spotted Frost On the Peak of Mars' Highest Mountaintop, Study Reveals Rain will probably never fall on Mars’ giant volcano, Olympus Mons (our condolences to the MMC). But a glittering swath of frost covers the Martian mountaintop on chilly mornings, according to new research, suggesting that the planet has an active, if sparse, water cycle.A team of scientists recently discovered frozen water in an unlikely place on Mars: 13.5 miles above the surface, nestled near the peak of our Solar System’s largest mountain, Olympus Mons (which is also a volcano, though its last eruption was 25 million years ago.) For a few hours each morning during the colder Martian seasons, huge patches of frost settle in the ancient calderas of Mars’s Tharsis Mountain range, which includes Olympus Mons. The recent study is the first time scientists have seen frost anywhere near the planet’s equator, and it could suggest new places to look for water and potential signs of life on Mars.
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S13Your Mouthwash Might Actually Be Wreaking Havoc on Your Health Researchers found there was a significant difference in the oral microbiome between those who used an alcohol-based mouthwash and a normal mouthwash. Mouthwash is a part of many people’s hygiene routine. The rinse is supposed to reduce the potentially dangerous microbes in the mouth. But according to a recent study, it’s possible that certain mouthwashes, specifically those that contain alcohol, could lead to even more health problems.
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S14'Indiana Jones and the Great Circle' Could be the Best Indy Adventure in 35 Years What do you think of when you hear the words Indiana Jones adventure? For roughly 35 years — ever since the release of the 1989 instant classic The Last Crusade — trying to pinpoint what makes an Indy adventure feel authentic has been a somewhat contentious question. While 2008’s Kingdom of the Crystal Skull moved the franchise toward a pulpy 1950s vibe, 2023’s The Dial of Destiny split the timeline difference, giving us an extended flashback in 1944 while primarily being a character study set in 1969.But for the most ideal Indy results, perhaps it’s still best if the entire adventure happens in the 1930s or 1940s, with Dr. Jones looking and sounding like he’s in between the events of the first three movies. And with the release of a new trailer for the upcoming Bethesda game Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, it seems the franchise is getting back to its roots in an unexpected medium.
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S15'Star Wars Outlaws' Could Be A Welcome Sci-Fi Take on the Classic Open-World Formula Star Wars fans have plenty to look forward to this summer. Early in June, The Acolyte TV series premiered on Disney Plus to largely positive reviews, and it’s being followed up by one of the most anticipated games of the year set in a galaxy far, far away.Today, in a new livestream, Ubisoft showed off a new mission in Star Wars Outlaws as well as some of the locations new heroine Kay Vess will visit — including Mos Eisley from the original trilogy. To get started, she first needs to seek out an expert with information on her target. But once she boards her spaceship, she runs into a freighter being attacked by pirates. Players can choose whether or not to intervene in encounters like this, bringing some of the feeling of Ubisoft’s other open-world games into the more refreshing avenue of space travel.
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S1620 years Later, Hideo Kojima's Best Metal Gear Game Is Getting A Worthy Remake Since the reveal of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater in 2022, Metal Gear Solid fans have had plenty of reason to be skeptical about the next big entry in the series. The remake of the 2004 PS2 classic will be the first traditional Metal Gear game made by Konami since series creator Hideo Kojima left the company in 2015. Konami confirmed last year that Kojima Productions is not involved in the remake.Over Summer Games Fest weekend, a new two-minute trailer finally gave players their first extended look at Metal Gear Solid Delta, and it looks to be a faithful remake of the original game with some new additions that feel like an appropriate extension of the series’ legacy.
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S176 Exciting New visionOS 2 Features That Might Make Apple's Headset a Better Buy A year ago, Apple announced the Vision Pro as its first step toward a spatial computing future. At WWDC 2024, Apple used its annual developer conference to showcase what’s coming next for the platform with visionOS 2 — from new gestures to a version of Travel Mode that works on trains.By the time visionOS 2 arrives as a free software update later this year, the Apple Vision Pro will have launched in more countries, expanding its reach to more customers globally. China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore will get the Vision Pro on June 28. The headset lands in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom on July 12.
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S18S19Netflix is About to Take a Huge Risk With Star Trek's Most Overlooked Show Ever since Star Trek began in 1966, the adventures of each starship and space station have been spooled out over time. Shows like The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise all debuted new episodes weekly, and so, like most TV shows, waiting for future installments was part of the format. Until now. Unlike any Star Trek series before it, the entirety of Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 will hit Netflix at once on July 1, 2024. Will this help the fledging spin-off series, or will the binge model hurt Prodigy’s ability to make a comeback?
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S2014 Years Later, Apple Is Finally Releasing the One App Everyone's Been Demanding Amidst all the Apple Intelligence / AI, Vision Pro, Mac, and iPhone announcements at WWDC 2024, one feature literally got a “yay” from Apple itself: the calculator app for iPad.In case you haven’t been counting, it’s taken Apple 14 — yes, fourteen — years to finally make an official calculator app for the iPad. In typical Apple fashion, the iPad Calculator app is more than just an app for basic calculations.
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S216 macOS Sequoia Features Every Mac Owner Needs to Know If you own a Mac, these new macOS features, coming as part of a free software update this fall, could change how you use your computer.The iPhone isn’t having all the fun in Apple’s first big foray into AI. At WWDC 2024, Apple announced macOS Sequoia with loads of new features that should materially change the experience for Mac users everywhere.
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S2211 AI Features Coming In iOS 18 That Could Change How You Use Your iPhone Apple showed off its major AI upgrade at WWDC 2024 and didn’t hold back on new features. We knew that Apple’s developer conference would be heavy on AI thanks to early rumors, but the number of updates coming to iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia still took us by surprise.These Apple Intelligence-powered changes will be available cross-platform, with a few exceptions, like Image Wand. However, most people will first interact with these features through their iPhone 15 Pro models.
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S23'The Acolyte' is About to Reveal the Answer to its First Big Mystery A new Star Wars era is officially underway. Lucasfilm’s latest series, The Acolyte, is the first Disney+ show set in the Age of the High Republic. After years of exploring a post-Empire galaxy with very few Jedi around, we finally get to see the Jedi Order at the peak of its strength. But it’s not all sunshine and rainbows: The Acolyte is still focused on a dark chapter of Star Wars history, as the Sith rise for the first time in millennia. With plenty of mystery and murder, Star Wars is embracing the noir genre for the first time.The Acolyte hit the ground running with a two-episode premiere, and now Episode 3 is around the corner. Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming installment, from its release date and time to its most important developments.
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S24The Most Exciting Sci-Fi Show of the Decade Just Got an Intriguing Update Apple TV+ has become an unlikely home for innovative and experimental science-fiction series. Over the past few years, it’s covered everything from alternate history to kaiju stories, but by far the most successful of these experiments has been Severance, the modern-day parable that takes work-life balance to the next level. We’re finally getting a second season two years after Season 1 wrapped up, and we now have our first glimpse of what’s coming up — and it’s exactly as unsettling as you expect.
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S25MDMA's Future As A Treatment For PTSD Is In Question While this will slow MDMA’s pharmaceutical arrival to the U.S., the rejection isn’t necessarily permanent.On Tuesday, an expert panel advising the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the use of MDMA, or ecstasy, in combination with talk therapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder rejected the treatment. The group voted 9 to 2 on its effectiveness and 10 to 1 on whether its benefits outweigh its risks. While the FDA will still vote separately on MDMA, it generally follows the recommendation of its advisors, so its unlikely the novel treatment will gain approval.
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S27S28S29Election rumours invite reflections on Doug Ford's record in Ontario Even with the Ontario legislature rising for an extended summer break, the province’s politics have been rife with rumours of an early election call by Conservative Premier Doug Ford. Past experience suggests that this could be a high-risk strategy, especially only two years into a June 2022 majority mandate that ultimately rested on the ballots of less than 18 per cent of eligible Ontario voters.
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S30Northern Ireland: the three electoral threats keeping the DUP awake at night “Get Brexit done” was the slogan that carried then prime minister Boris Johnson to an 80-seat majority in the 2019 general election. And sure enough, his government did indeed go on to secure the UK’s exit from the European Union. The “B” word has scarcely surfaced during the 2024 campaign so far, at least in England and Wales. In Northern Ireland, however, it continues to shape political debate. That’s because Johnson’s promise in 2019 that “"there will be no checks on goods going from GB to NI, or NI to GB”, simply did not align with reality.
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S31Levelling up has been a total failure - here's the evidence In the UK’s 2019 general election, regional inequality took centre stage. Conservative candidate Boris Johnson harnessed the widespread pro-Brexit sentiment and capitalised on how the Labour Party had been weakened under Jeremy Corbyn to storm to victory. Johnson owed his win as much to turning to northern, traditionally Labour seats (in what has now become known as the “red wall”) as to the Conservatives’ tradiitonal southern heartlands. Bolstered by this newfound political strength in northern England, Johnson dubbed his flagship policy “levelling up”.
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S32Deepfakes threaten upcoming elections, but 'responsible AI' could help filter them out before they reach us Earlier this year, thousands of Democrat voters in New Hampshire received a telephone call ahead of the state primary, urging them to stay home rather than vote.The call supposedly came from none other than President Joe Biden. But the message was a “deepfake”. This term covers videos, pictures, or audio made with artificial intelligence (AI) to appear real, when they are not. The fake Biden call is one of the most high profile examples to date of the critical threat that deepfakes could pose to the democratic process during the current UK election and the upcoming US election.
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S33S34'I feel more like a professional gambler': British farmers reveal their twin struggles with climate change and mental health Winter 2023 was one of the wettest on record. The results were clear for all to see during the first half of 2024: soil washed of its nutrients, crops bogged down in waterlogged fields, and livestock sick with waterborne illnesses. The adverse conditions meant farmers had to delay planting and harvesting. Production of the most common British crops – wheat (bread), barley (malt for brewing), oats and oilseed rape (vegetable oil) – is set to be 21% lower in 2024 than the 2015-2023 average. To meet demand, food and drink manufacturers will import from overseas and pass their additional costs to consumers. Extreme weather is estimated to have already added £361 to the average UK food bill in the last two years.
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S35Do unemployment benefits stifle entrepreneurship? It's complicated Unemployment in the UK rose to 4.3% at the end of March 2024. While this is by no means a worrying level of joblessness for an economy, it is the highest since September 2021, in the second year of the COVID pandemic, when it reached 4.4%. Higher interest rates, aimed at discouraging spending and encouraging saving, mean that unemployment could be set to rise. This is because borrowing money from banks is more expensive and so some businesses may not be able to finance investment or production as easily. As a result, they may look to cut costs by laying off workers.
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S36Kidneys, ribs and even testicles: the extra body parts you might not know you have Thanks to millions of years of evolution, the human body has become well versed in its developmental processes. Most of the time, it gives us the correct number of organs and structures that we need to function. But sometimes, hiccups in this process mean people end up with extras.Up to 1% of the population are born with extra fingers or toes, while around 1% of people are born with additional teeth. Both of these phenomena are more common in men – particularly extra digits, which are twice as common in males.
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S37The Singapore Stone's carvings have been undeciphered for centuries - now we're trying to crack the puzzle If you pay a visit to the Singapore Stone, displayed at the National Museum of Singapore, you might be disappointed. That’s because the inscription – carrying an unknown writing system transcribing an unknown language – is fading. But if you love puzzles, this won’t put you off. The stone is a fragment of a bigger slab, once welcoming visitors at the mouth of the Singapore River. The British blew it up in 1843, to build a fort. Discovered in 1819, the stone was almost entirely lost. Scottish military officer Lieutenant-Colonel James Low, amid general indifference, was able to save three fragments. He sent them to the Royal Asiatic Society’s Museum in Calcutta to be studied.
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S38Water frost on Mars: on the top of immense volcanoes, a briefly icy landscape The formation of water frost is common on Earth, especially in winter when atmospheric water vapour condenses and freezes on the surface. On Mars, the atmosphere is about 100 times less dense than on Earth, but it too contains water vapour. The atmosphere on Mars contains 10,000 times less water vapour than on our planet, however, so icing is less likely.The exchange of water between the surface and atmosphere of Mars is currently not well understood. The formation of frost would not only be an important clue for helping us understand the water cycle, but also for identifying key resources for potential future human exploration. Water is a necessary for life and could also be used as rocket fuel.
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S39Can the US give cricket a lasting embrace - or will it always be dogged by comparisons with baseball? Within a congested sporting summer, we might have already witnessed the most unexpected sporting moment of 2024. In what has been dubbed “one of the biggest shocks in cricket history”, the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup co-hosts USA beat Pakistan in a pulsating game on June 6. With seven runs needed off the last ball of a “super over” tiebreaker, Pakistan could only manage a single. Few saw this coming. Pakistan has significant cricketing pedigree, including winning this tournament in 2009 and finishing runners-up in 2022. Cricket is also hardly a mainstream sport in the US. Indeed, the New York Times suggested that many Americans were “oblivious to the magnitude” of the victory.
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S40Ready for the next step in your career? Here's how to get ready for your first leadership position At the age of 20, Leda, one of the authors of this story, was terrified when asked to supervise a team of older and more experienced colleagues. The first few months weren’t easy, but the experience eventually became a turning point in her life.Leadership roles present exciting opportunities for career advancement, personal growth and fulfilment. Beyond the appeal of higher salaries, the positions offer the chance to drive change, mentor others and enhance your interpersonal skills.
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S41S42Public notifications make it challenging for prisoners to reintegrate after release In Canada when someone is about to complete serving their prison sentence, they are typically assessed for risk of violence by the prison. If they are deemed to pose a significant threat to the community, a package is prepared and shared with the police, who are notified about the release. Police may then apply to the courts for a judicial order and the individual is told they must enter an agreement to be supervised. These orders might include conditions that forbid drinking or staying out past a curfew, for example. Courts can also require community notifications.
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S43EU elections: far-right parties surge, but less than had been expected The results of the 2024 European elections have confirmed the surge of far-right parties in EU member states. However, while many recorded significant scores, the wave was not a groundswell, and the shifts vary from country to country.In 2019, far-right groups had a total of 165 elected members, or just over 20% of the total – taking into account the 29 seats of the Brexit Party in the United Kingdom. In 2024, taking all groups together, they could now win around 170 of the 720 seats in Parliament – approximately 24%.
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S44Murky details: Why the federal government must divulge which MPs conspired with foreign powers Democracy rests, above all, on trust. We trust our leaders to act in our interests. We trust our democratic institutions to hold them to account when they fail to do so. We trust our media to report on those activities, and we trust our fellow citizens to speak and act in good faith. In short, trust is the fundamental coin of the realm in democracies, and Canadians are experiencing a worsening crisis of it. Left unchecked, such mistrust will undermine the legitimacy of Canada’s democratic institutions.
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S45S46Prodigy's personal mythology: Remembering the 'fallen angel' of Mobb Deep In June 2017, Albert “Prodigy” Johnson passed away due to sickle cell anemia. He was one half of Mobb Deep, a New York City hip-hop duo whose 1995 song, “Shook Ones, Pt. II” drew some attention from the 2002 film 8 Mile.Approaching the seventh anniversary of Prodigy’s death, I hope to convey my own interpretation of his lived experience through a retelling of the myth by which he lived.
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S47In 1614, a mother of eight put on a play about her cheating neighbour. The scandalous story changes what we know about women in theatre On September 4, in 1614, a woman named Alice Mustian put on a play in the English city of Salisbury. Erecting a stage in her own backyard, Mustian assembled a group of local children, including her ten-year-old son Phillip, to perform a play based on local gossip: that Mary Roberts, the wife of a joiner, had had an affair with a baker named Robert Humphries.Nothing except eyewitness accounts of Mustian’s play has survived to the modern day. This is the case for most plays written and performed in early modern England. The vast majority have been lost, and are known only by sparse and fragmentary evidence, if at all.
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S48What's the difference between Alzheimer's and dementia? What’s the difference? is a new editorial product that explains the similarities and differences between commonly confused health and medical terms, and why they matter.Changes in thinking and memory as we age can occur for a variety of reasons. These changes are not always cause for concern. But when they begin to disrupt daily life, it could indicate the first signs of dementia.
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S49S50Not quite an introvert or an extrovert? Maybe you're an ambivert Our personalities are generally thought to consists of five primary factors: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism, with each of us ranking low to high for each.Those who rank high in extroversion, known as extroverts, typically focus on their external world. They tend to be more optimistic, recharge by socialising and enjoy social interaction.
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