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How the Mahindra Group Embraces Change A conversation with Anand Mahindra, non-executive chairman of the Mumbai-based conglomerate. Continued here

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How can health data be used for public benefit? 3 uses that people agree on Public Engagement Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland Health data can include information about health-care services, health status and behaviours, medications and genetic data, in addition to demographic information like age, education and neighbourhood. Continued here

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Supermassive black holes may be bigger and more powerful than we previously knew Active galactic nuclei — the bright, noisy cores of galaxies where supermassive black holes accrete huge quantities of matter — are the most luminous stable objects in the sky. But they may be far brighter and more energetic than astronomers have realized, a new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues. Based on observations of one of the most closely analyzed active galactic nuclei, NGC 5548, the team behind the study find that the region around the nucleus is much dustier than astronomers have previously estimated – and that means active galactic nuclei may be putting out a dozen times more energy than anyone suspected. Continued here

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Astronomers find a surprise layer of volcanic rock in Mars' massive canyon Plagioclase feldspar doesn’t often turn up in volcanic rocks on Mars — but scientists just found a huge deposit in the walls of Mars’ largest canyon. One of the largest canyons in our Solar System carved its way through several layers of ancient volcanic eruption debris, a recent study reports. Continued here

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'The Last of Us' Episode 2 trailer teases a big reveal After a harrowing start, HBO’s The Last of Us has audiences hooked and ready for what’s next. With new stakes on the line and a perilous landscape to cross, Episode 2 promises plenty of post-apocalyptic action to unfold. Drawing 4.7 million viewers, The Last of Us is officially the second-most-watched premiere in HBO history. And even after the revealing events of the video game turned live-action TV series intro, there is much more to learn about the state of the world and the show’s protagonists, including how the deadly contagion got out and why exactly Ellie is so special. Audiences will soon see just how real the dangers are that await the characters in the outside world, with zombie-like humanoids lurking in the shadows of the abandoned city ahead of Joel, Tess, and Ellie. Continued here

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How to Help High Achievers Overcome Imposter Syndrome Recently, we met a woman who told us the story of how she grew up on a Native American reservation and had to drop out of high school to care for her younger siblings. In her early 20s, she went back to school, where she excelled. Eventually, she went to dental school and earned four postsecondary degrees. “Coming from my very challenging childhood, it felt like I wasn’t supposed to be there — like someone had made a mistake in admitting me to dental school, because I didn’t feel as smart as those around me,” she told us. Yet, while completing her degree, one of her professors encouraged her to pursue a specialty — a lucrative opportunity that was well within her capabilities — but she felt it was beyond her reach. Instead, she practiced as a general dentist, working for a government agency that provided care in rural communities (also a respected role, but not her initial career aspiration). Although it took a decade, she eventually overcame her initial self-doubt, developed a specialization in pediatric dentistry, and became an esteemed clinical professor in her field. Today, she helps students achieve their full potential — especially those who, like her younger self, doubt their capabilities and potential despite indications otherwise. Many high-achieving people we know describe similar feelings of self-doubt. They’re plagued by a nagging sense that, despite their objective successes, they aren’t as capable as others believe. They have trouble attributing their high performance to their competence, and instead credit luck, tokenism, accident, or the help of others. In her book Lean In, former Meta chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg described the feeling this way: “Every time I didn’t embarrass myself — or even excelled — I believed that I had fooled everyone yet again. One day soon, the jig would be up.” Continued here

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Why Richard Branson Takes a Notebook Everywhere Capture great ideas before they get away. Continued here

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ChatGPT could be a game-changer for marketers, but it won't replace humans any time soon The recent release of the ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022 has generated significant public interest. In essence, ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot allowing users to simulate human-like conversations with an AI. GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, a language processing model developed by the American artificial intelligence company OpenAI. The GPT language model uses deep learning to produce human-like responses. Deep learning is a branch of machine learning that involves training artificial neural networks to mimic the complexity of the human brain, to produce human-like responses. Continued here

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D&D rolls back controversial new game license -- but is it too late? Once you lose somebody’s trust, it can sometimes be incredibly hard to win it back. That’s the narrative playing out right now in the tabletop role-playing game community due to ongoing concerns about updates to how Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast licenses the game to third-party creators. While the company has taken big steps toward addressing the community’s feedback and will continue to do so, the TTRPG scene may never be the same. What Happened — A controversial early draft of D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast’s updated Open Gaming License (OGL) — dubbed the OGL 1.1 — drew the ire of players after it leaked in December. The new license would deauthorize the previous one, levy taxes on some of the biggest third-party publishers, and give Wizards ownership over anything published with the license. Not only would the company technically be able to repurpose anything published under the OGL 1.1, but it could force some creators to pay 25 percent of all revenue (not profit) back to Wizards. Continued here

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7 Lessons to Learn Before Success Comes in an Alternate Business Lifestyle New business owners wrongly tend to fall in love with their solution, rather than the problem it solves. Continued here

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I Saw Thousands of Bank Account Details At 16 While Working as a Teller. It Taught a Vital Lesson The million-dollar life lesson that matters in business. Continued here

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A call for peace: Why Canada should tone down demands for Russian regime change Arnd Jurgensen is affiliated with Science for Peace at the University of Toronto where he is the chair of the Nuclear Weapons Working Group In late 2022, a frightening escalation occurred in the war in Ukraine. During a large Russian bombardment operation, a missile struck the Polish city of Prezewodów, six kilometres from the Ukrainian border, killing two civilians. Continued here

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Can reading help heal us and process our emotions - or is that just a story we tell ourselves? The oldest known library, dating back to the second millennium BC, in Thebes, Egypt, reportedly bore a sign above its portals in Greek: Psyches Iatreion, translated as “healing place of the soul”. Of course, this doesn’t apply to reading about how to put up the tent, or tidy our piles of household stuff. When we talk about books that might offer a balm for the soul, we mean fiction, poetry and narrative non-fiction (including memoir). Continued here

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3 Tips for Turning a Passion Into a Business Learn how you can work to transform what you love into a reputable and profitable business in the new year. Continued here

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If You're Not Already Doing These 10 Productivity Hacks in ChatGPT, You're Definitely Missing Out You can start right away. Continued here

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Exploding carp numbers are 'like a house of horrors' for our rivers. Is it time to unleash carp herpes? With widespread La Niña flooding in the Murray-Darling Basin, common carp (Cyprinus carpio) populations are having a boom year. Videos of writhing masses of both adult and young fish illustrate that all is not well in our rivers. Carp now account for up to 90% of live fish mass in some rivers. Concerned communities are wondering whether it is, at last, time for Australia to unleash the carp herpes virus to control populations – but the conversation among scientists, conservationists, communities and government bodies is only just beginning. Continued here

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Has Ontario's housing 'plan' been built on a foundation of evidentiary sand? In late 2022, the Ontario government adopted Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act. The legislation made sweeping changes to the province’s land use planning system. The province also passed Bill 39 — Better Municipal Governance Act, 2022 — which allows the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa to pass bylaws related to provincial “priorities” like housing with only a third of the support of their councils. Continued here

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How to earn 'Persona 4 Golden's most challenging trophy With the launch of Persona 4 Golden on modern platforms, players will get to dive into one of the greatest JRPGs of all time. While the game is no doubt a timeless classic, delivering hours upon hours of enjoyment, the same cannot be said about its trophies/achievements. One trophy, Hardcore Risette Fan, has been a thorn in the sides of many, ever since the PS Vita version launched in 2012. This is likely the last achievement you’ll earn if you’re looking to get 100 percent completion. Here’s what you need to know about the Hardcore Risette Fan trophy/achievement in Persona 4 Golden. To earn it, you need to hear 250 unique navigation lines from Rise in a single playthrough. These are lines said by Rise during combat, which are tied to events that occur within the battle. For instance, if the main character defeats an enemy, Rise will say “Go senpai! You Rock!” Or if Yosuke gets knocked to below 50 percent health, Rise will say “eek, Yosuke-senpai! Someone heal him!” Continued here

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When it comes to finding Australia's future leaders, both the Liberals and Labor have a women problem: new study The Liberal Party’s recently published review of the 2022 federal election defeat does not mince words: the party has a problem with women. The party has struggled to connect with women voters in recent elections, especially from the 18-34 age group. Moreover, just nine of the party’s 42 MPs in the House of Representatives and ten of its 26 senators are women. There have not been so few Liberal women elected to parliament since 1993. Continued here

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How the Mahindra Group Embraces Change A conversation with Anand Mahindra, non-executive chairman of the Mumbai-based conglomerate.Continued here S19 My teen's vaping. What should I say? 3 expert tips on how to approach 'the talk' You’ve dropped your daughter off at her friend’s house and while cleaning the car, you find what looks like a USB drive on the passenger seat. It’s a disposable vape. You’ve seen the news. Vapes or e-cigarettes are harmful yet increasingly popular with people her age. Continued here S7 These 3 Social Commerce Strategies Are Ramping Up Sales Social commerce, which entails selling products directly on social media platforms, is a growing e-commerce channel. Here's how to use it the right way. Continued here S9 Why middle managers are often cast as villains Matthew has been in a middle-management role at an online education centre for seven years. Having awkward conversations is an everyday part of his job. “I often have to end up begging or sweet-talking teachers to cancel their plans or time off, so we have cover: ‘I know tomorrow is your day off, but we’re really short-staffed’,” he explains. “I can be put in a really difficult spot, especially towards the end of the month when we’re approaching sales targets.” Continued here S11 LPG versus dirty fuel use in Ghana: bring gas supplies closer to people and more of them will use it Hundreds of millions of people living in sub-Saharan Africa still use polluting cooking fuels. A recent survey across 33 countries in the region found that over 90% of households were found to use firewood, charcoal, or other heavily polluting fuel as their primary cooking fuel. Ghana is no exception. The latest statistics from the Ghana Statistical Service show that over 50% of the country’s households rely on firewood and charcoal for cooking. More than 60% in 11 of the 16 administrative regions use firewood or charcoal as their primary cooking fuel. Continued here S39 You need to play the best 'Tetris' knockoff on Nintendo Switch ASAP Games in the 1980s created successful templates that reverberated for years, if not decades, afterward. There’s Double Dragon and Mario, but one of the most successful templates in gaming history has to be Tetris. Once the game moved beyond the borders of the Soviet Union, the excitable forces of capitalism moved quickly to make Tetris a global phenomenon. And then Alexey Pajitnov got to experience another form of capitalism: the knock-off. The Tetris knock-offs came fast and furious in the wake of Tetris, but that’s not all bad. Some of them, like Sega’s 1990 game Columns, are pretty fun in their own right. The game, which is available right now if you’ve subscribed to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, has an unusual history and clever twists on the Tetris model. Continued here S10 Why cop show Homicide: Life on the Street was revolutionary When the first episode of Homicide: Life on the Street aired on US network NBC on 31st January 1993, the crime drama looked like very little on TV at the time.  More like this: – Why The Wire is the 21st Century's greatest TV show – What is the future of the cop drama? – The best TV shows to watch in January Continued here S20 We can still see these 5 traces of ancestor species in all human bodies today Many of us are returning to work or school after spending time with relatives over the summer period. Sometimes we can be left wondering how on earth we are related to some of these people with whom we seemingly have nothing in common (especially with a particularly annoying relative). However, in evolutionary terms, we all share ancestors if we go far enough back in time. This means many features in our bodies stretch back thousands or even millions of years in our great family tree of life. Continued here S38 Cyclic breathing: Why experts say just 5 minutes a day can reduce stress New research suggests a daily, five-minute breathing practice can effectively help manage your stress. It’s called cyclic breathing, a breathwork practice that’s also known as the physiological sigh. In a study published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, cyclic breathing proved to be more effective at improving mood than mindfulness meditation and other breathwork techniques. It was also the best way to slow down the number of breaths the participants took per minute, which had a calming effect. Continued here S32 You need to watch Keanu Reeves' most action-packed franchise on HBO Max ASAP The best way to define a character is through their actions. Most good movies let their characters’ deeds speak for themselves; if our hero intervenes to stop a robbery, they don’t need to turn to the camera and call themselves a heroic risktaker. There are, however, other ways to establish who a character is within their fictional world, like letting other characters react to their presence. No film pulls off that trick as well as John Wick. The 2014 action film reaches the end of its first act when Viggo Tarasov (Michael Nyqvist), the former boss of Keanu Reeves’ Wick, discovers that his son has recklessly made an enemy of the former assassin. Rather than brushing the news off, Nyqvist’s Tarasov tells his son that he’s already dead. In the film’s remaining minutes, viewers come to realize just how right he is. Continued here S24 Australia's iconic black swans have a worrying immune system deficiency, new genome study finds For years, scientists have known bird flu kills every black swan it infects. This means if the disease made it to the Australian continent, it would be an existential threat to this iconic Aussie species. A new study published today in Genome Biology finally reveals the gene contributions that make black swans particularly prone to falling victim to infectious diseases. Continued here S22 Don't kill the curl grubs in your garden - they could be native beetle babies Have you ever been in the garden and found a large, white, C-shaped grub with a distinctive brown head and six legs clustered near the head? If so, you’ve had an encounter with the larva of a scarab beetle (family: Scarabaeidae) also known as a “curl grub”. Continued here S21 If you haven't joined a union, it's time you paid to benefit from union deals A long overdue public debate has started in Australia about “free riding” in industrial relations – when non-union members benefit from collective agreements negotiated by union members without contributing (through membership dues or other payments) to their negotiation and administration. Several union leaders want rules to stop free riding. Without this, they argue, union membership will keep falling, imperilling collective bargaining. Continued here S23 Want your child to eat more veggies? Talk to them about 'eating the rainbow' Parents of young children today were raised during some of the most damaging periods of diet culture. From diet and “lite” foods and drinks, to expensive “superfoods”, one constant across these changing trends has been the moralisation of food as “good” or “bad”. These diet movements have led to many of us having difficult relationships with food, eating and dieting. If this sounds familiar, you might be wondering how to use the fun features of healthy foods to encourage kids to eat more of them. Continued here S31 Federal Labor MP warns Alice Springs crime crisis is impeding Voice debate The debate over enshrining an Indigenous Voice in the Constitution is being impeded by the Alice Springs crime crisis, according to the Indigenous Labor member for the Northern Territory seat of Lingiari, Marion Scrymgour. Scrymgour, a strong supporter of the Voice, warned on Monday that until what was happening in Alice Springs and elsewhere in the NT could be fixed, people weren’t going to be interested in having a discussion about the Voice. Continued here S29 Fukushima to release contaminated water - an expert explains why this could be the best option Over ten years ago, a tsunami triggered a disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on Japan’s east coast. After the accident, large amounts of radioactivity contaminated the ocean leading to the imposition of a marine exclusion zone and huge reputational damage to the regional fishing industry. Huge volumes of contaminated water have accumulated on the site since. Water was needed to cool the damaged reactors and groundwater that became contaminated as it infiltrated the site had to be pumped out and stored. Over 1,000 tanks have been built on site to store over a million tonnes of radioactive water. Continued here S30 Copper transformed way the world works before: it's about to do so again Copper is all around us. The metal is both ever-present and invisible in our world. Copper makes reading the words on this screen possible. And the global spread of artificial light, electric power and telecommunications all required ever-increasing quantities of copper. Where does all of this copper come from? How was it produced, distributed, controlled, and sold on an ever-increasing scale? These are some of the questions addressed in a recenty published book, Born with a Copper Spoon: A Global History of Copper. Continued here S27 Two months before NSW election, a new poll gives Labor a big lead Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A new poll has given Labor a sizeable 56% to 44% two-party preferred lead over the Coalition, two months ahead of the New South Wales state election on March 25. Continued here S28 School uniforms are meant to foster a sense of belonging and raise achievement - but it's not clear that they do In France, MPs have recently considered whether to reintroduce compulsory school uniform, with first lady Brigitte Macron adding her support to the idea. “It erases differences, it saves time,” she said. These perceptions of the benefits of uniform are widely held – but do they hold up? French MPs voted against the idea, but uniform is the norm in the UK and has a long history – one which predates universal primary education. This tradition is reinforced in popular media representations of school in the UK, such as the St Trinian’s and Harry Potter films. Uniform requirements may cover what is worn to and from school as well as what is worn in the classroom, and also for physical education. Continued here S25 My favourite fictional character: I'll never forget these half-wild, 'too much' heroines - Philip Pullman's Lyra and Elena Ferrante's Lila Reading Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights to my children around 2007, I met its heroine, Lyra Belacqua. My children barely remember her. I will never forget her – nor Pantalaimon, her daemon; her soul in protean animal form. Lyra was the first fictional girl to feel familiar to me. Before her, there’d only been men: Achilles, Julien Sorel, Prince Lev Myshkin, Pierre Bezukhov. Continued here S26 An imaginative unfolding of a life, a new play asks: would Sidney Nolan have become the artist he became if not for Sunday Reed? Sunday is a glimpse into the private world of the philanthropist and art patron Sunday Reed. Sunday, born into the privileged Baillieu family, was a mobilising force in the revolutionary literary and art movement that became the Angry Penguins. Continued here Contributors Dharmendra Kumar Priya Ranjan Powered by Blogger.