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How to Tackle 'Quiet Firing' at Work The concept of “quiet quitting” has been spreading virally on social media, but another, equally passive aggressive workplace practice is also generating discourse. While quiet quitting refers to workers doing the bare minimum expected of them at work, the internet has coined a new term for what managers could end up doing in response—“quiet firing.” Continued here

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The mango that moved the world Mango vendors had higher revenues while riders queued up for hours in front of their favourite mango sticky rice shops. A similar experience occurred after Blackpink singer Lisa said she wanted to buy the famed deep-fried meatballs from her home province of Buri Ram as soon as she returned home. The local delicacy suddenly became sought after across the country, with sales skyrocketing among vendors in the northeastern province. Continued here

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Humans are aggressive, sometimes too much - could 'moral enhancement' technologies offer a solution? Some might argue ‘moral enhancement’ medicine already exists — such as when we take medicine that alters our brain chemistry. Where do we draw a line? Continued here

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The questions you should ask yourself to figure out what you really want Berrak Sarikaya always knew she wanted to be a lawyer. In high school, she threw herself into mock trial and debate. The oldest child of Turkish immigrant parents, Sarikaya understood the gravity of getting into a good college and the necessity of scholarships to fund that schooling. “One of the biggest reasons that we came to the US was for me and my brother to get a good education and have better opportunities,” Sarikaya, 37, says. “So there was definitely that pressure of if I don’t go to college, then all of it will have been a waste.” Continued here

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When You Feel Jealous, Think About Cultivating "Compersion" This expectation is a central feature of mononormativity—the cultural norm that frames monogamy (or, at least, serial monogamy) as the only respectable way to form and maintain intimate bonds. This norm rests on the very assumption that jealousy is the only valid reaction to a romantic partner developing an intimate relationship with someone outside the couple. Continued here

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How to Use DuckDuckGo's Privacy-First Email Service As well as forwarding your incoming messages to your main email address, DuckDuckGo Email Protection strips them of the tracking technologies so often embedded in the emails that inform the senders of when and where you're viewing your messages, and even which links you're clicking through. Continued here

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Virtual medicine and the ethics of presence and absence | Aeon Essays For over a century telemedicine has promised healthcare for all. But will it ever replace seeing a human being in person? Continued here

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The Great Lakes are Higher Than They've Ever Been, and We're Not Sure What Will Happen Next A single road near Lake Superior connects Michigan's Keweenaw Bay Indian Community to the rest of the state. During major rains, rocks and wood litter the route and cut off travel in and out. Over the summer, drivers have to take a 30-minute detour; in the winter, the trip can take more than two hours. Work crews eventually clear the path with plow-like machines, freeing the tribe's movement. Continued here

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How Vietnam's Ancient Whale Temples Are Helping Science The strong afternoon sun bears down on the coastal town of Can Thanh in southern Vietnam, but inside Lăng Ông Thủy Tướng—a single-story, pale-yellow building on the town’s shoreline—it is cool. Diffused sunlight illuminates the main hall, and the air is laden with the woody aroma of burning incense. A lone man, most likely a fisherman, enters the hall, walks toward a 20-meter baleen whale skeleton displayed in a glass case, and folds his hands in deep reverence. Continued here

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The Problem With Kindergarten When Ojeya Cruz Banks moved to Ohio from New Zealand several years ago, she was overwhelmed by the logistics of uprooting her life. But Cruz Banks, a Denison University professor and a single mom, who is also my neighbor and friend, was relieved to find a house next to a public elementary school. She assumed that she would be able to walk to pick up her daughter—a needed convenience given that she didn’t yet have a car. Unfortunately, when she went to register her daughter for kindergarten, she was met with an unpleasant surprise: The only available option was a half-day program that would bus students to a day-care center on the outskirts of town for the afternoon. The district did offer a limited number of full-day slots, but those had all been claimed in a lottery earlier that spring and came with a tuition cost. “I was like, ‘Cost me? What? Public school costs money here?’” she told me. Continued here

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The 5 Best Apps for Free Online Courses With the right apps and courses, you can learn online from the comfort of your home and progress your career without paying a penny. Continued here

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Five Takeaways From Russell Wilson's Disappointing Return to Seattle Wilson’s first game as a Bronco came with sloppy penalties, questionable decisions from his head coach, and an opponent in the Seahawks who looked better than advertised Continued here

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With Josh Allen, the NFL's ultimate weapon, 'your mind's blown at all the possibilities' The fifth-year signal caller enters 2022 as an MVP frontrunner on a Super Bowl favorite, but could he become an all-time great? Continued here

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These Korean Films Show That Where There is a Wheel, There is a Way How many of you have a thing for road trips? Do you like hitting the road without deciding on the destination? Simply taking in the journey, the experiences, and the unexpectedness that each milestone, and every nook and corner unfolds? Well, I do. But taking a detour, whether with or without people, is more my thing — not to avoid something, but to deliberately deviate from a direct course. Believe me, those are the most beautiful roads, the vistas of discovery. Continued here

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How Pop Culture Explains The World For those of you who don’t know me (or what my job is), I’m Luce and I run a media company with my two best mates called Shi*t You Should Care About. Our job is to explain the news to people in our daily newsletter, on our two podcasts The Sh*t Show and Culture Vulture, and over on our Instagram. Continued here

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Nancy Meyers's '80s Rom-Com 'Baby Boom' Predicted the Artisan Food Boom of the Aughts Co-written by Nancy Meyers with her then-husband Charles Shyer (who also directed the movie), Baby Boom provided a blueprint for every subsequent Nancy Meyers heroine (flustered but unsinkable white woman) and Nancy Meyers kitchen (huge). It was one of my favorite movies as a kid (honestly, it still is), and as such I interacted with it purely as a romantic comedy: I loved watching Keaton strut around in fabulous camel-hair coats and belted Donna Karan power suits, I loved watching her move to a 62-acre Vermont estate, and I loved watching her fall for a large-animal veterinarian played by Sam Shepard. Continued here

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Ice cream with dried fish and scotch bonnet chiles? Don't knock it 'til you try it, says Cape Town creamery At Tapi Tapi, molecular biologist Tapiwa Guzha is creating ice cream flavors like no one else. Continued here

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My Chances of Being a Mom Were Fading. Then Two Beautiful Lambs Came into My Life. People say farmers aren’t supposed to get emotionally attached to livestock. Uh-huh. When fate sent our writer two newborn sheep with life-threatening birth defects, that kind of thinking was banished from the barn. Continued here

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The Mental Load of Being a Sandwich Generation Caregiver Nearly a quarter of parents find themselves struggling as part of the sandwich generation, caught in a squeeze and an embrace as they tackle caring for both their own parents and their kids. Continued here

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Why Does the British Monarchy Exist? Why does Britain have a monarchy? A lot of people would probably say it isn't really the time to ask this question. In fact, that's exactly what Republic, the “official” UK campaign to replace the Windsors with an elected head of state, have said — declaring when news of the Queen's death was announced that “there will be plenty of time to debate the monarchy's future” later, when people are done grieving. Continued here

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Scandinavian social democracy In elections held in Sweden recently, while the Social Democrats returned as the single largest party according to preliminary results, a fractured mandate left it with only 107 of the 349-seat strong Riksdag (Swedish legislature) and 30.33% of the vote share. This meant that the coalition that the Social Democrats were part of, which included the Centre Party, the Left Party and the Green Party, were left with 173 seats, as opposed to the right-wing coalition led by the Moderate Party, which bagged 176 seats. The Moderate Party itself won only 68 seats, two lower than its previous tally in 2018, but the major gains among the Right was made by the far-right Sweden Democrats who won 73 seats and 20.54% of the votes, according to preliminary tallies. Continued here

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Google Flights just busted a popular myth about saving money on flights Booking mid-week — and especially Tuesdays around midnight — is often cited as the best time to purchase flights. But in the past five years, U.S. airfares purchased on Tuesdays, Wednesday or Thursdays have been only 1.9% cheaper on average than airfares purchased during the weekend, according to Google Flights. Continued here

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23 of the world's best hiking trails From multiday treks tracing the routes of a Japanese poet to classic climbs in Argentina's Lake District, here are the 23 best hiking trails in the world. Continued here

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Johnson & Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection God gives you only one body, Deane Berg always said, so you’d better take care of the one you’ve got. A physician assistant at the veterans’ hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, she knew that spotting between periods wasn’t unusual for a forty-nine-year-old woman, but she went to the doctor anyway. Her two daughters had already lost their father to lung cancer, so Berg wanted to stick around. Continued here

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Here's the salary breakdown for Harvard's most recent MBA class across industries, including signing bonuses Despite questions about whether the US economy will slide into a recession, these MBA scholars are entering the workforce with six-figure job offers. Harvard reports the median salary for 2021 graduates was $150,500, with an expected bonus of $30,000. The school estimates students will pay $112,764 for one year of tuition — plus expenses — for the 2022-23 academic year.  Continued here

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Everybody feels overextended at work When I reached out to Paige to talk about a post she’d written online about feeling stretched at work, she first had a question for me: Was I her boss secretly trying to trick her? She was a “little paranoid” about it, and rightly so — the Oregon receptionist has not exactly had the warmest feelings about her place of work lately. Continued here

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A fitness expert shares a game plan for living without back pain | CNN Join Dana Santas for a four-part series to learn how you can recover from and prevent low back pain. Santas, known as the "Mobility Maker," is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and mind-body coach in professional sports, and is the author of "Practical Solutions for Back Pain Relief." Here's Part IV. Continued here

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Six Exercises to Reduce Back Pain and Maintain a Flexible Spine In today’s screen-driven society, most people start to slump their shoulders forward, resulting in a flexed thoracic spine and possible neck pain. A stiff midback also can lead to aches and limit day-to-day functions such as reaching for a box of cereal on a top shelf or storing overhead luggage on a plane.  Continued here

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Eight Superfoods That Could Future-Proof Our Diet These climate-resilient crops could find more prominent placement on our plates in the next few decades Continued here

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My Husband and Stepson Bond in a Very Unusual Way I don’t think it’s healthy. Continued here

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Emerson on How to Trust Yourself and What Solitude Really Means Each month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) going. For fifteen years, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If this labor has made your own life more livable in the past year (or the past decade), please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes all the difference. Continued here

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Walking Has Saved Me More Times Than I Can Count I remember the day I discovered the impact a simple walk could have on my mood. It was almost 40 years ago and I was in high school. I walked through my front door in a mood—I don’t recall if it was a bad grade, a mean girl, or a cute boy, it was high school, so it could have been any of those things. Or it could have been nothing. My dad, a coach with a deep understanding of people, took one look at me and said, “Go for a walk and then we’ll talk.” I took his advice, dropped my backpack on the couch, and walked back out the front door. I returned home 30 minutes and two miles later. Even though the specifics of what upset me escape me now, I've never forgotten the way that walk transformed my mood. It put whatever it was in perspective, so that when my dad asked, “Do you want to talk?” I replied, “Nope, I’m fine.” He took one look at me and knew it was true. Continued here

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Roth Conversions Play Key Role in Defusing a Retirement Tax Bomb | Kiplinger Instead, this is a good strategy to consider in low-income years, especially for people who retire early in their 50s and early 60s who may have several years to do conversions before Medicare means testing surcharges, Social Security income and RMDs kick in. Many of my clients do several years of annual Roth conversions starting early in retirement.  Continued here

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What we keep getting wrong about inflation Inflation needs a monetary response, whereas the energy crunch should be met with support for struggling households Continued here

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Don't Trash Your Old Phone--Give It a Second Life Sure, the first one I owned, which I purchased in 2017, had only 16GB of storage. And yes, I was forced to stop using it after a terrifying incident in which it refused to update to the latest iOS, even after I deleted nearly everything on it, which prevented me from installing the Ticketmaster app that I needed to enter a Harry Styles concert that I had flown to California by myself to attend. (Would you believe someone at the arena simply agreed to print the ticket out? I was crying.) After that, I bought a refurbished iPhone SE with 64GB of storage for $165. I eventually stopped using this one, because the camera was so bad that it was upsetting my friends. Also, a small part of the screen stopped working—right in the spot I had to press to switch the keyboard from letters to numbers, which meant I had no access to punctuation and came off, via text, as very cold. And I couldn’t log in to my bank account. Continued here

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Flooded with AI-generated images, some art communities ban them completely Baio, who has been following AI art ethics closely on his blog, first noticed the bans and reported about them on Friday. So far, major art communities DeviantArt and ArtStation have not made any AI-related policy changes, but some vocal artists on social media have complained about how much AI art they regularly see on those platforms as well. Continued here

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Why rethinking time in quantum mechanics could help us unite physics Inspired by experiments showing entanglement over time, not just space, physicist Vlatko Vedral is reconsidering the way we think of time in quantum mechanics. The new approach treats space and time as part of one entity and could help us unravel black holes and make quantum time travel possible Continued here

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Astronauts' blood shows signs of DNA mutations due to spaceflight The researchers stored astronaut blood for 20 years to see how short space shuttle flights affected spaceflyer health. Continued here

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To build sustainable cities, involve those who live in them Cities are crucial to addressing climate change. To meet emission reduction targets, cities need to involve their residents in environmental action at the local level. Continued here

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Killing Eve's Sandra Oh: Why was she at the Queen's funeral? The actress was at Westminster Abbey along with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Sir Patrick Vallance. Continued here

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Scott Frost Was Hired To Fix Nebraska Football. Instead, He Helped It Reach New Lows. | FiveThirtyEight Scott Frost could not restore the Huskers to their former glory. Continued here

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How Will We Remember Roger Federer? Roger Federer has played more than 1,500 matches in 24 years, and has never quit in the middle of one for injury, illness, exhaustion, burnout, or apathy. His most formidable on-court opponents, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, who have surpassed him in Grand Slam count and are still battling it out for statistical GOAT status, cannot say the same. Nadal has retired (ended play) mid-match nine times, Djokovic thirteen. Federer’s joints––the ones that bore the stress of his game, birthed the transcendent nature of his movement––are the same ones finally forcing him to relent. His body simply can’t take it anymore, and there is nothing he can do to stop it. His legacy may be immortal; his physical condition is not. Continued here

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“Nope” Is One of the Great Movies About Moviemaking The essence of the cinema is the symbol—the filming of action that stands for something else, that gets its identity from what's offscreen. There's plenty of action in Jordan Peele's new film, "Nope," and it's imaginative and exciting if viewed purely as the genre mashup that it is—a science-fiction movie that's also a modern-day Western. But even that premise bears an enormous, intrinsic symbolic power, one that was already apparent in a much slighter precursor, Jon Favreau's 2011 film, "Cowboys & Aliens." Like "Nope," Favreau's film involves the arrival of creatures from outer space in the American West; there, it was already apparent that what the genres share is the unwelcome arrival of outsiders from afar (aliens are to Earth as white people are to this continent). Peele takes the concept many ingenious steps further. Continued here

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Purring Is a Love Language No Human Can Speak For veteran members of Club Purr, the reasons are clear. A purr is warm tea, a roaring fire, and fresh-out-of-the-oven cookies, all rolled into a fleece-lined hug; it is the auditory salve of a babbling brook; it is coffee brewing at dawn. It is emotional gratification incarnate—a sign that “we’ve made our pets happy,” which just feels darn good, says Wailani Sung, a veterinary behaviorist at the San Francisco SPCA. Continued here

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A Golden-Brown Blind Taste Test of 7 Frozen French Fry Brands The average American eats 29 pounds of french fries each year, and a third of potatoes grown in this country are destined to be hacked to bits and frozen. Compared to homemade, frozen fries are exceedingly easy. And delicious. And it's fun to stick a couple under your top lip and pretend to be a potato-toothed walrus. Continued here

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My Narcissistic Mom Treats My Son Terribly Parenting advice on grandparents, beauty standards, and pronouns. Continued here

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How to Support Your Burnt-Out Teenager Being a teenager (and a young adult) can be incredibly stressful. In a recent survey, the American Institute of Stress found that 64% of people between ages 15-29 are experiencing high levels of stress. Meanwhile, 61% of middle schoolers reporting feeling a high level of pressure to get good grades. Continued here

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The World Putin Wants Distortions about the past feed delusions about the future. Continued here

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Newly obtained surveillance video shows fake Trump elector escorted operatives into Georgia county's elections office before voting machine breach | CNN Politics In the surveillance video, which was obtained by CNN, Cathy Latham, a former GOP chairwoman of Coffee County who is under criminal investigation for posing as a fake elector in 2020, escorts a team of pro-Trump operatives to the county's elections office on January 7, 2021, the same day a voting system there is known to have been breached. Continued here

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Design-conscious co-working spaces around the world The newly launched No 6 Babmaes Street in London is ’a new concept in social and flexible workspace,’ explain its creators. This modern co-working space was designed by Fathom Architects for The Crown Estate, retrofitting a disused 1970s building in the upmarket St James area. An architectural, raw concrete shell unfolds into warm decor, rich planting and a range of facilities for its users. Offerings include from a wellness studio (doubling as space for exhibitions or pop-up events), to banquette booths, meeting rooms, dining spaces, lounge areas and a roof terrace. Working alone or as part of a group, this space caters for everything. Photography: James Balston Continued here

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Island Swap: how well do you know society's seven favourite UK islands? Longing for the reassuring cocktail of cliché that is an island getaway? Sand between your toes, hair flowing in the breeze, the gentle sting of salt-water lips. Because it’s glamorous to not just get away but get far away. Disconnecting from the real world is much easier when you are surrounded by glistening waters.  Continued here

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How to Use 'Monk Mode' to Change Your Life in Just a Week We tend to think of January as the month for new beginnings, but science disagrees. According to many experts, September is actually the best month to kick off new habits or start reimagining your life. Thanks to at least a decade of training as kids, most of us still have a gut sense that the back-to-school month is a time for fresh starts. Plus September lacks the winter gloom, holiday comedown, and credit card bills of January.  Continued here

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How to Speak Up When It Matters When you notice something ethically questionable, encounter offensive speech, or disagree with consensus opinion, speaking up can be hard to do. Most people tend to not act, and then rationalize their inaction. But you’re not really doing your job — as a diligent employee, compassionate colleague, or thoughtful leader — if you don’t lend your voice to the conversation. So what can you do? First, realize how just how psychologically difficult but worthwhile speaking up can be.  Second, work to lessen the social threat that it creates, making it clear that you’re not out to get anyone. Third, make an if-then plan: if I see this, then I will do that. Continued here

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I Just Sold My Business for a Boatload of Money, but My Family Still Thinks I'm a Lazy Leech Should I pour wine on them to escape the conversation? Continued here

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Ready to Move Faster in Your Career? Here's How. Telling people to “pay their dues” to move up the career ladder is no longer useful advice. We’re in a time where companies want to see immediate impact. Performing tedious or unchallenging busy work for years isn’t going to show that, and worse, it could burn you out in the process. So, how can you sidestep this outdated adage and get to where you want to go? Continued here