Most Popular Editorials: Weight loss: the time of day you eat your biggest meal has little effect - new study

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Weight loss: the time of day you eat your biggest meal has little effect - new study Previous studies suggested it was better to consume the bulk of your calories early in the day. Continued here

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Starbucks and the perils of corporate succession The transfer of corporate power from battle-hardened builder to professional manager is always tough. Howard Schultz, who turned Starbucks from a handful of Seattle coffeeshops to a global behemoth, has pulled it off twice. At the turn of the millennium he passed on the chief executive’s mantle to an heir, only to return to shepherd the firm through the global financial crisis of 2007-09. He then abdicated once more in 2017. After stepping in as boss for a third time in April, he is now preparing to hand over the keys to the caffeinated kingdom yet again. Continued here

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How to Tell If a Prospective Employer Values Psychological Safety How can you assess whether a prospective employer offers psychological safety? In this article, the author outlines concrete strategies to help you screen for red flags: 1) Look and listen for inclusive vs. exclusive language. 2) Stay attuned to clarity in answers to your questions 3) Determine if the employer will meet your requirements 4) Ask open-ended questions about the culture during your interview. One example of a good question to ask: “Can you tell me about a time a person or team messed up? What happened?” This question gets to the heart of psychological safety. Organizations that allow mistakes and don’t penalize employees for failure provide the psychological security workers need to take risks. Continued here

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7 ways to get fitter without running or going to the gym I’m the fittest I’ve ever been. Maybe that’s what you’d expect from a fitness editor , but thanks to holidays, the cost of living crisis and the pandemic, I’m still struggling to return to the gym with the same regularity that I used to think necessary pre-pandemic. And yet here I am, feeling fitter and generally more healthy than ever. Continued here

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4 habits of great leaders, according to David Rubenstein in How to Lead For example, when former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi was working her way up at the company, she specialized in simplifying complex ideas and communicating them effectively. So when senior managers needed someone to pour through thousands of pages of competitive analysis and summarize it for them, they turned to Nooyi. Continued here

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How online dating impacts people with anxiety (and how to deal with it) Avoidance — coupled with a desire for more control over situations — is a bedrock of anxiety, particularly those who struggle with it in social contexts like dating. When those struggles get ported into the world of virtual courtship, the results are a surprising contradiction of pros and cons that can be difficult but ultimately rewarding when navigated properly. Continued here

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I Met All My Friends on a Dating App At the beginning of the pandemic, I relocated from Dallas to a small town in the California desert where I did not know anyone. At the time, the fact that I was single and had no friends nearby didn’t matter to me. The world was at a standstill. Or at least mine was. All the people I was close to were either a text message or video call away. Continued here

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When to apply for student loan forgiveness — 4 key dates to know President Joe Biden announced on Aug. 24 that most federal student loan borrowers will be eligible for some forgiveness: up to $10,000 if they didn't receive a Pell Grant, which is a type of aid available to low-income undergraduate students, and up to $20,000 if they did. (Unsure if you got one? We have tips to help you figure that out.) Continued here

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I Made a Huge Mistake With My Student Loans. I Never Imagined How It Would Come Back to Haunt Me. I never imagined the financial repercussions. Continued here

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28-year-old on track to earn $1 million this year shares the first step to start a successful side hustle When Simmons set up her own business account, she shopped around until she found a bank that made sense for her business in terms of minimum deposit requirements and fees. In her experience, there is no "best bank" for businesses, since everyone is at a different place with how much they can spend on fees and deposits.  Continued here

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The Best Note-Taking Apps for Back to School Being a notepad and pen replacement is just one of the roles that smartphones fill for us now—alongside being our go-to digital cameras, musical jukeboxes, address books, ever-expanding encyclopedias and so much more. Not all the note-taking apps for phones and tablets are created equal, though: Whatever the reason you need to take down notes, these are the best tools to do the job. Continued here

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Software engineers from big tech firms like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are paying at least $75,000 to get 3 inches taller, a leg-lengthening surgeon says "I joke that I could open a tech company," Debiparshad told GQ. "I got, like, 20 software engineers doing this procedure right now who are here in Vegas. There was a girl yesterday from PayPal. I've got patients from Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft. I've had multiple patients from Microsoft." Continued here

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How Nokia ringtones became the first viral earworms One of the internet's better-known ringtone archivists was barely alive to witness the golden age of his biggest hobby. The 20-year-old Scottish musician, who prefers to be known by his online handle Fusoxide, got hooked through an Alcatel flip phone he had as a kid. "I love the sound of old ringtones, partly due to nostalgia and partly because I think there's genuine underlooked gems," he says. Today, Fusoxide is behind the popular @ringtonebangers Twitter account. With others, like @OldPhonePreserv, he helps to maintain Andre Louis' phonetones directory — a repository of phone software, sound banks, ringtones, and audio ephemera from a bygone era.  Continued here

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Years after shuttle, NASA rediscovers the perils of liquid hydrogen As the space shuttle often was delayed due to technical problems, it therefore comes as scant surprise that the debut launch of NASA's Space Launch System rocket was scrubbed a few hours before its launch window opened. The showstopper was an 8-inch diameter line carrying liquid hydrogen into the rocket. It sprang a persistent leak at the inlet, known as a quick-disconnect, leading onboard the vehicle. Continued here

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Scientists Find a Simple Way to Produce Hydrogen From Water at Room Temperature Hydrogen fuel promises to be a clean and abundant source of energy in the future – as long as scientists can figure out ways to produce it practically and cheaply, and without fossil fuels. Continued here

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How Christianity Influenced the Development of Capitalism in Medieval Europe In many ways, the story of medieval economic thought begins with the life of the founder of the Franciscan Order, Saint Francis of Assisi. He was born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone in 1181 in Umbria, Italy, his father a silk merchant and his mother a noblewoman from Provence. The family was part of a new class of wealthy merchants who inhabited the Latin Mediterranean from Italy and southern France to Barcelona. It was a socioeconomic stratum that Francis would reject. Continued here

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The historical significance of lying-in-state and what it meant to the late Queen The Queen was only nine when, for the first time, she experienced the sombre magnificence of a royal lying-in-state in Westminster Hall. Her mother’s lady-in-waiting wrote that Elizabeth “adored” her gruff, plain-spoken grandfather, who had died at the age of 70: they shared a love of horses, stamp collecting and the Highlands. Continued here

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Eight NBA Players Looking to Secure the Bag This Season Which free agents are looking to cash in next summer? Here are eight of the most compelling Contract Year guys heading into 2022-23. Continued here

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Stars Make a Splash, but Continuity Is King in the NBA While several contenders are mulling a trade for Kevin Durant, it’s worth remembering that blockbuster deals have rarely led to Finals appearances over the years Continued here

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Poop and Flies: How New CGI Brought Reality to the Beasts in 'House of the Dragon' Given its title, it should come as no surprise that HBO’s new Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon, is going to have a lot of goddamn dragons. Seventeen, in fact. All owned, flown, and maintained by House Targaryen, and each with their own personality quirks, character design, and George R.R. Martin-created name. Continued here

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Buried treasure and brushes with the Queen: two sisters' lives inside Windsor Castle Some of the most abiding memories of our days living inside Windsor Castle are of the walks to school. We had moved there in 1967 from a rural parish in Essex, exchanging a bus ride through country lanes for a scramble on foot, past historic monuments, and through hordes of tourists. As we set off each morning, school bags slung across our shoulders, we could hear the changing of the guard on the parade ground and orders being shouted to the soldiers of the Coldstream Guards in their sentry boxes. Continued here

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Karen Chee Is Looking Forward to Her Morning Egg In the summer of 2020, Karen Chee’s grandmother got sick, so the Late Night With Seth Meyers writer packed a bag and flew to South Korea, assuming she’d stay for a month. One thing led to another, and “I just sort of kept on staying,” she says. “I realized at one point, Oh, I’ve just completely moved here.” But she missed standup, and ultimately, New York City called her back. “I’m genuinely really stoked to see my friends again and to be doing more comedy,” says Chee, who is also writing for the second season of Pachinko and working on a collection of comic short stories. Having returned, she cannot ignore the fact that the city has undergone some unsettling changes in her absence: “It really feels like all the rats took time during lockdown for self-care, and now they’re being really cocky out in the streets,” she marvels. “They’re really bold. They’re like white-man levels of confidence.” Continued here

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The history and diversity of picnic food in India, from the Mahabharata to the British Raj Eating outdoors has been a tradition for aeons. It’s only the menu that changes with time and geography. Continued here

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Learn Bad Coding Habits In This Beautiful Game About A Struggling Developer When I played One Dreamer‘s demo back in June, I figured this could be something special. It looked to be a game about a failing game developer, presented using a combination of point-and-click, and coding puzzles, but in an accessible way. And that’s what it is! Hooray! In fact, it’s far more lovely, engrossing, and superbly put together than it already seemed. Continued here

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What to Teach Young Kids About Gender “Resources and lesson plans for those who want to teach about gender identity are becoming much more common,” The Washington Post reported in June. “Seven states now require that curriculums include LGBTQ topics. The National Sex Education Standards, developed by experts and advocacy groups, name gender identity as one of seven essential topics, alongside puberty, consent, sexual orientation and other subjects. And the federal government recommends that schools include gender identity in their sex education programs.” Continued here

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My Husband Says if I Want Help Around the House, It's My Job to Hire Someone Is this a good hill to die on? Continued here

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The Realist's Weapon in the Fight for Democracy A tiny tropical paradise known as Contadora Island is a blip in the Gulf of Panama. Here, two disgraced dictators, brutal men who fled from certain death when their people turned against them, lived in exile. Reza Pahlavi, the last shah of Iran, and Raoul Cédras, the military dictator of Haiti, both once called Contadora home. Continued here

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In the Queue to Say Goodbye to the Queen At 6:52 A.M. on Thursday, the queue was two miles long. Under a dull pink sky, washed out with gray, the quiet column of subjects waiting to file past the Queen’s coffin stretched through an ornamental park, across Lambeth Bridge, over the River Thames, to Lambeth Palace, the London residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury for the past eight hundred years, then switched back onto the Albert Embankment, on the opposite side of the river, and continued, interminably, through the city. A woman in running gear asked a steward where the end of the line was. “You’ll see the river on your left,” he replied. “Just keep going down, and down, and down.” Continued here

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Canadians will find ultra cheap airfares this fall Some special offers have already come and gone. No-frills carriers Flair Airlines Ltd. and Swoop Inc., a subsidiary of WestJet Group of Companies, were offering discounts of 35 per cent and 30 per cent, respectively, on base fares for fall travel for bookings made during the week of Aug. 15. Continued here

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Bloomberg - Are you a robot? Continued here

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New study quantifies the impact of face-to-face interactions on innovation | MIT Sloan What’s missing when employees work from home? Face-to-face interactions that lead to knowledge spillovers — and new patent filings. Continued here

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What Happens to Innovation During an Economic Crisis? But Filippo Mezzanotti, an associate professor of finance at Kellogg, and his colleagues wondered if more nuanced dynamics were at play. For instance, crises might prompt workers and firms to reconsider their long-term objectives, think deeply about which projects are most valuable, or revamp their operations. Continued here

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6 qualities that will get you hired, no matter the job “If you read the job ads,” Forbes columnist Liz Ryan writes, “you’d think that employers are strictly looking for people with very specific types of experience.” But “once you get to a job interview, the whole picture changes. Employers are looking for qualities in their new hires that are never listed in the job ad.” Continued here

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Ian Mackay's going 8.5 mph in a wheelchair, on a road with no limits - Sports Illustrated Long into the year’s shortest night, muted light plays tricks on heavy eyes, and repetition can deceive a tired mind. Six times this group has completed the 12.29-mile counterclockwise loop: always south alongside the Willamette River, east past the pumpkin patch, north along the Columbia River before curling west near Sturgeon Lake and running south by the dairy farm and the cabbage patch, across the Gilbert River, and then, finally, back to base camp at the Sauvie Island Community Church parking lot. Continued here

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The Differences Between Anxiety and Depression (and When to Get Help) Even though we’ve made strides in the fight against mental health stigma, it can still be a struggle for people to get the help they need when it comes to depression and anxiety. Part of that is because of the lack of mental health literacy in the U.S. A 2021 study that analyzed this topic during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic found that mental health literacy among American adults is poor, and that individuals are not able to readily identify mental health symptoms and appropriate treatment options. Continued here

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How We Misunderstand Anxiety and Miss Out on Its Benefits - Neuroscience News What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience can involve research from many branches of science including those involving neurology, brain science, neurobiology, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, prosthetics, neuroimaging, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, pharmacology, electrophysiology, biology, robotics and technology. Continued here

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The Elusive Future of San Francisco's Fog Every summer, fog breathes life into the Bay Area. But people who pay attention to its finer points, from scientists to sailors, city residents to real estate agents, gardeners to bridge painters, debate whether there is less fog than there used to be, as both science and general sentiment suggest. Continued here

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How a High School Teacher Changed Early 20th-Century Insect Science On a crisp autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African American man strode back and forth among the pin oaks, magnolias, and silver maples of O’Fallon Park in St. Louis, Missouri. After placing a dozen dishes filled with strawberry jam atop several picnic tables, biologist Charles Henry Turner retreated to a nearby bench, notebook and pencil at the ready. Continued here

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How Many Errorrs Are in This Essay? - The Millions Technically known as “sorts,” the letters a print setter used were crafted from copper and stored like tiny inked seeds in a wooden case. Capitalized letters were kept in the top portion (hence “upper case”) and those that weren’t were stored in the bottom (thus “lower case”). Carefully fastened into an iron composing stick, the printer would spell out words and sentences which would be locked into a wood-frame galley and then organized into paragraphs and pages. Arranging sorts was laborious, and for smaller fonts, such as those used in a Bible, the pieces could be just a millimeter across. Long hours and fatigue, repetitive motion and sprained wrists, dim light and strained eyes—mistakes were inevitable. The King James Version of the Bible has exactly 783,137 words, but unfortunately for the London print shop of Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, official purveyors to King Charles I, their 1631 edition left out three crucial letters, one crucial word—”not.” As such, their version of Exodus 20:14 read, “Thou shalt commit adultery.” Their royal patron was not amused. This edition was later deemed the “Wicked Bible.” Continued here

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Found in Translation India has almost 800 different languages. Here’s how artificial intelligence is trying to bridge the communication gap — Paradigm Shift is a a multimedia series brought to you in partnership with Microsoft India. Continued here

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NFL Power Rankings: Who Is Hot Heading Into Week 1? The Ringer’s NFL Power Rankings are back, and for the inaugural list of the 2022 season, we’ve broken the league into tiers—from the teams on a championship course to those who should probably start planning for next year Continued here

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Roger Federer's Beautiful Game From its beginnings, on the close-trimmed greenswards of Victorian England, tennis was prized for its beauty, or, anyway, its potential for evincing it. Among English élites of the eighteen-seventies, when lawn tennis caught on, there was a fascination with the culture of ancient Greece: its sculpture, its plays and poems, its prizing of (male) youthfulness, its aestheticizing of the human body in motion. Lawn tennis—originally introduced, by its inventor, Major Walter Wingfield of His Majesty's Body Guard, as "sphairistike," ancient Greek for "skill in playing ball"—quickly supplanted croquet as the weekend game on estates and at private clubs such as Wimbledon's All England Croquet Club. With tennis, you moved. There were moments of gracefulness, even loveliness. With tennis, as Matthew Arnold declared of Hellenist gymnastics in his high-Victorian manifesto, "Culture and Anarchy," there was, as there was not with a croquet mallet in hand, the possibility of pursuing a sport with a "reference to some ideal of complete human perfection." Continued here

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The Number Ones: Madonna's "Music" Madonna is a survivor. That’s true in the most obvious and literal sense; she’s the only member of the Holy Trinity of ’80s pop who’s still alive today. It’s also true in every other way. When Madonna scored her 12th and final #1 hit in 2000, her former peers Michael Jackson and Prince had been absent from the chart’s upper reaches for years. That doesn’t make Madonna better than Michael Jackson or Prince; you would strain all bounds of credulity if you tried to argue that she’s somehow a superior musician to Prince. But that long string of chart-toppers is a true testament to Madonna’s drive, her hunger, and her ability to understand the moment. While Michael Jackson was disappearing into his self-created bubble and Prince was increasingly playing to his cult, Madonna was still trying to make hits. And she was succeeding. Continued here

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The Celebrity Profile, from Piaf to Kardashian One morning in 1957, Truman Capote arrived at the Miyako Hotel, in Kyoto, to interview Marlon Brando. The press-shy star was in Japan shooting “Sayonara” for Warner Bros. The film’s director, Joshua Logan, had got wind of Capote’s plans and, upon seeing the diminutive, piccolo-voiced writer at the front desk, picked him up like a disobedient poodle and plunked him outside. Capote returned later with a bottle of vodka and found Brando in his hotel room, surrounded by dirty socks and hangers-on and books about Buddhism. Left alone with Capote, Brando inhaled apple pie and cigarettes and talked—about his “inability to love,” about how he was doing “Sayonara” for the money, about his alcoholic mother—and Capote listened. He left at two in the morning. Continued here

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How to make Belgian waffles – recipe | Felicity Cloake's Masterclass An ancient festive food that still feels like a special occasion today, the Belgian waffle is all too often a mere spongy mattress for mountains of whipped cream and syrupy sauce, when it deserves to be the main attraction. It might not be Monday-morning fare, but at the weekends, or on holiday, a hot waffle is a tradition worth celebrating. Continued here

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Of meat and men: why the American barbecue is about friendship not food You can smell the contest long before you can see it. Acres of slowly smoking meat produce a savoury haze over south-west Tennessee. The 2022 Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest drew more than 200 teams from around the world to compete for a share of $145,000 in prize money. The event also attracted upwards of 30,000 spectators who were compelled to play Tantalus: they could see glistening whole hogs, smoked until they’re the colour of a desert sunset. They could smell burnished mahogany slabs of ribs and shoulders, blackened by smoke on the outside but juicy within. But they could not taste any of them. Health regulations prevent the public chowing down. That privilege is reserved for teams, their friends and judges. Continued here

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25 of Wirecutter's Favorite Board Games and Toys If you’re looking for a little family fun, it’s time to break out the board games and interactive toys. Whether you’re looking for games to play on date nights or toys to occupy your little ones, we’ve got picks for every kind of player. Scroll down for some of our favorite board games and toys. Continued here

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Help! My Husband Says It's Part of His Mom's "Culture" to Comment on My Weight. It's hard to stand up to her. Continued here

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Unboxing, bad baby and evil Santa: how YouTube got swamped with creepy content for kids Harry Jho worked out of a 10th-storey Wall Street office, in which one corner was stacked with treadmill desks and another was filled with racks of colourful costumes and a green screen for filming nursery rhymes. He worked as a securities lawyer. With his wife, Sona, Jho also ran Mother Goose Club, a YouTube media empire. Continued here

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American Democracy Was Never Designed to Be Democratic To look on the bright side for a moment, one effect of the Republican assault on elections—which takes the form, naturally, of the very thing Republicans accuse Democrats of doing: rigging the system—might be to open our eyes to how undemocratic our democracy is. Strictly speaking, American government has never been a government “by the people.” Continued here

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Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals In the summer of 2017, after just half a year in the White House, Donald Trump flew to Paris for Bastille Day celebrations thrown by Emmanuel Macron, the new French President. Macron staged a spectacular martial display to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the American entrance into the First World War. Vintage tanks rolled down the Champs-Élysées as fighter jets roared overhead. The event seemed to be calculated to appeal to Trump—his sense of showmanship and grandiosity—and he was visibly delighted. The French general in charge of the parade turned to one of his American counterparts and said, “You are going to be doing this next year.” Continued here

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Rail route of the month: the slow train from France to Spain Travellers in a rush to reach Spain head for the Gare TGV, which opened in 2001. It is a good way south of the city centre in Courtine, a new suburb that was once a watery wasteland between the Durance and Rhône rivers. From that rather sterile out-of-town station, a high-speed train leaving at 8.40am gets to the Spanish capital by mid-afternoon. Continued here

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A paradise for walkers: Germany is home to more than 150 long-distance hiking trails The morning sun is shimmering through the forest as my wife, Melanie, and I shuffle upward along the extremely rewarding Himmelsleiter (sky ladder) hiking route near Heidelberg Castle. Verdant rolling hills frame the refurbished brownstone ruins of the palace grounds. Our increasingly laboured breathing is the rhythmic bass drum to our march, with our fully packed rucksacks making us earn each step. Moses, our pint-sized rescue pup, runs up and down the mossy stones with enviable ease. Continued here

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Why economists are flocking to Silicon Valley For more than a decade Facebook, now known as Meta, has awarded fellowships to promising graduate students working on cutting-edge research. The prize, which this year comes with up to two years’ worth of university tuition and a $42,000 stipend, has gone to computer scientists, engineers, physicists and statisticians. Now it has gone to an economist. “I was not expecting it,” says Jaume Vives i Bastida, the lucky recipient working on a phd at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit). Continued here

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Union leaders frustrated by Bank of Canada's advice for companies not to adjust wages to inflation At an event hosted by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business in July, Mr. Macklem said that companies should not expect inflation to remain high. “Don’t build that into longer term contracts. Don’t build that into wage contracts. It is going to take some time, but you can be confident that inflation will come down.” Continued here