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Looking For a Successful Partner Relationship? This is the Key Ingredient   Go inward to see what matters most. Continued here

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Warren Buffett Just Explained in 1 Sentence Why Apple Is the Most Successful Company In the World   He thinks iPhone users will never give up their devices, not even for $10,000. Continued here

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Delta Air Lines Is Making an Eye-Opening Change, and It's Really Good News for Passengers   We'll see what happens. Continued here

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If You Answer Yes to These 3 Questions, Your Leadership Skills Are Probably Off the Charts   The leadership journey requires some hard, look-in-the-mirror questions to make sure you have what it takes. Continued here

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Argument With a Child   If you don’t do this thing you can’t do the next thing and I know you want to do the next thing.Can you say wisteria. You don’t want to say wisteria. You’d rather die is the look on your face. Continued here

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Here's the Salary You Need to Live Comfortably in America's 10 Most Expensive Cities   It costs about 30 percent more on average than a year ago. Continued here

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Emotionally Intelligent People Use 3 Simple Phrases to Cope With Emotions, Communicate Effectively, and Improve Their Relationships   Emotional moments can cause you to say or do something you later regret. These three phrases can help. Continued here

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Security Roundup: Leak of Top-Secret US Intel Risks a New Wave of Mass Surveillance   If you had “leaking classified US military documents for the lulz” on your 2023 Bingo card, congratulations. The fast-paced drama surrounding the online disclosure of top-secret material ripped through this week’s news. We’ll dive into the details below, but there’s one key takeaway: This bizarre kind of leak may be only the beginning.Anyone worried about chaos agents of a different variety now have a new way to protect their online identities. LinkedIn this week began to roll out new tools that allow you to verify your identity and your job. And for iOS users who want a built-in way to protect their security, we detailed how to use Apple’s all-in-one password manager. Continued here

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Each of our bodies is proof of Einstein's equation   Science has confirmed that matter is indeed made of energy fields. That means you are an energy field — but not the “chakras” or “auras” kind. We’re not talking about the stuff you find in the alternative medicine section of the indie bookstore.So, what are we talking about? We all know that matter is made of molecules and atoms. In turn, atoms are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons and neutrons (which we can lump together and rebrand as “nucleons”) are made of smaller particles still called quarks. Thus, electrons and quarks are the building blocks of matter. Continued here

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Setting expectations on the eve of Starship's historic launch   SpaceX completed final preparations to its Starship and Super Heavy vehicles on Saturday, re-stacking the them with a flight termination system that will be engaged if the rocket flies off course. Continued here

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The Best Baby Monitors for Peace of Mind   If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDNew parents, here's a tip: You might not even need a baby monitor. A healthy, hungry baby can shriek in tones piercing enough to bend metal, let alone your poor eardrums. Nevertheless, baby monitors can provide high-quality audio and crystal-clear videostreams from the camera directly to a separate parent unit, your smartphone, tablet, or all three. This means you can move freely around the house while keeping a close eye on the baby as they sleep or play contentedly in their crib. Here we take a look at the most intuitive baby monitors available online and rate them on design, features, picture, and audio quality to highlight just how well they work at keeping a watchful eye on your bundle of joy. Continued here

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The Wildest Sci-Fi Thriller on Amazon Prime Reveals a Strange Aerial Phenomenon   Two siblings spot an alien spaceship hiding behind the clouds and decide to capture it on camera for posterity — and a chance at a whole lot of money. Throughout the runtime of Nope, we see a UFO hiding behind a lens-shaped cloud, peeking out only periodically to rain down havoc on “OJ” and “Em” Haywood — two Black siblings managing their late father’s horse ranch in the mountainous desert outside of LA. Continued here

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The grand paradox at the heart of Stephen Hawking's cosmology   Excerpted from On the Origin Of Time. Copyright © 2023 by Thomas Hertog. Published by Bantam, an imprint of Penguin Random House.Physicists say the multiverse saddles us with a paradox. Multiverse cosmology builds on cosmic inflation, the idea that the universe underwent a short burst of rapid expansion in its earliest stages. Inflationary theory has had a wealth of observational support for some time but has the inconvenient tendency to generate not one but a great many universes. And because it doesn’t say which one we should be in — it lacks this information — the theory loses much of its ability to predict what we should see. This is a paradox. On the one hand, our best theory of the early universe suggests we live in a multiverse. At the same time, the multiverse destroys much of the predictive power of this theory.  Continued here

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‘Succession’ Unlocks a New Stage of Grief   For the Roy kids, mourning can’t happen without a little manipulation. On Succession, being part of such a rich and powerful family means receiving sympathy served with a side of business-speak. Their father has died, but to everyone else, Logan represented the market—an economic unit, as Logan once described himself, standing “a hundred feet tall,” whose empire is now up for grabs. Sorry for your loss, the Roy siblings are told, again and again, by friends and foes alike in tonight’s episode. But anyway, here’s a sales pitch.Shiv (played by Sarah Snook) puts it best. “For some of us, it’s a sad day,” she observes. “For others, it's a coronation demolition derby.” As it turns out, most of Succession’s characters fall into the latter category, including Shiv herself. Set the day after Logan’s death, “Honeymoon States” may be the bleakest installment of the HBO drama yet. Rather than grieving, Logan’s heirs and advisers gather to determine who will become Waystar Royco’s interim CEO. By the end of the hour, Kendall (Jeremy Strong) and Roman (Kieran Culkin) have triumphed, but their victory clarifies a disconcerting truth: Despite everything they’ve done to free themselves from their father, Ken, Roman, and Shiv have inherited his cruel, desperate need for power at any cost. Behind closed doors, the ensemble fights to the point of bickering over a pencil mark on a piece of paper Logan left behind. Up until Logan’s death, the mystery driving the plot had been who he would choose as his successor. Now a new question has emerged: Who, if anyone, will ever escape his influence? Continued here

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A Movie to Watch—And Weep Over—Alone   This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Good morning, and welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Continued here

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Keep Forgetting Things? Neuroscience Says These 3 Simple Habits Boost Your Brain and Improve Memory   I like it when things are simple. Continued here

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Spain's ingenious fairy-tale houses   Deep in Spain's north-western corner, the windswept Ancares mountains are dotted with centuries-old houses that look straight out of a fairy tale – or the Asterix and Obelix comic-book series – but that are cleverly suited to the harsh realities of this remote region.Known as pallozas, the round huts are made of stone and topped with a teardrop-shaped roof of rye straw. There are more than 200 scattered among Galicia's and Castile-León's rural villages, including Piornedo, Balouta, O Cebreiro and Balboa. Many of these homes were built 250 years ago, though their architectural roots stretch back millennia – some historians contend that pallozas are pre-Roman, an evolution of Celtic and Iron Age constructions. Continued here

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How to Stop Programs From Loading When macOS Starts Up   The last thing I need when starting up my Mac is half of the applications deciding they need to open before I can do anything else. It's not that I don't want any application to start when my Mac does, but way too many do this by default, which means I have to wait longer before I can use my machine to do important things, like watching YouTube videos.It's a drag, but you can take control. Note that we also wrote about how to stop programs from loading when Windows boots up, so check that out if you're a PC user. Continued here

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'SNL' Has Struck Gold With ‘Lisa From Temecula’   When the Saturday Night Live sketch “Lisa From Temecula” first aired in February, it spawned not just a major viral moment for the show but also a slew of digital Valentine’s Day cards that helped solidify catchphrases for the cantankerous titular character (played by Ego Nwodim). Against a bright-pink background dotted with purple hearts, the cards proclaimed “Cook My Meat!” and “You Tryna Get Some Butt Tonite?” among other bits of dialogue. Beyond circulating the internet at a dizzying pace, viral sketches can spawn a level of adoration that generates near-instant fandom. And in Lisa’s case, viewers appeared to connect with her disdainful side-eye and vociferous meat cutting right away.Last night, SNL gave her a second run. The sketch felt particularly rare in a season absent the sorts of characters that were once a show staple, and that the recent cast member and heavyweight Kate McKinnon was so adept at inhabiting. When McKinnon, along with a slew of her long-standing peers, departed SNL last May, the show seemed more invested in getting its now relatively green cast to gel rather than develop recurring characters that could pop—but also pull the spotlight away from the ensemble. It couldn’t be seen, in the derisive words Lisa once launched at a man she thought was hitting on her, as “doing the most.” Continued here

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Sarcasm, Self-Deprecation, and Inside Jokes: A User's Guide to Humor at Work   A few years ago, we conducted a research study in which we asked people to help us create an ad campaign for a travel service called VisitSwitzerland.ch (which we’d made up). We put the participants into small groups and showed them a photo—a Swiss landscape of a lake, a mountain, and the country’s distinctive flag with its white plus sign against a red background—accompanied by the question: “What made you fall in love with Switzerland?” We gave participants three minutes to come up with a memorable answer and then had them share their ideas with their groups. Continued here

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The Day ‘Stop the Bleed’ Entered Civilian Life   In a crisis, the best measure of how well a community reacts isn’t the number of lives lost. It’s the number of people who survive. When two homemade bombs went off at the Boston Marathon finish line a decade ago this month, three people died on the scene. But the number of spectators and runners who were treated at local hospitals for injuries, some of them quite severe, was much larger: 278. Improbably, every single one of them survived. The success of any disaster response always hinges on advance preparations—yet those measures can take a wide variety of forms.The 2013 bombing was a turning point for civilian adoption of a military-inspired technique known as “stop the bleed”—the use of a tourniquet, or a shirt, towel, or some other improvisation, to halt excessive blood flow and buy time until professional medical care is available. More than two dozen of the most seriously injured patients received life-saving field tourniquets on the scene in Boston before being transported to the hospital. Continued here

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Our expectations can create fake short-term memories   About 90 years ago, the British psychologist Frederic Bartlett published a landmark study that permanently changed how we think about memory. Taking inspiration from Chinese whispers (a.k.a. the children’s game “telephone”), he asked his participants to read a Native American story called “War of the Ghosts” and tell it to others, each of whom was then asked to retell it to somebody else. Bartlett noticed that the story changed with each retelling. The story was unfamiliar to the participants, and so they adapted and embellished it in line with their own cultural knowledge. Bartlett therefore concluded that memory is “reconstructive,” and that people actively alter the information they remember, according to their existing biases and expectations. Continued here

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Here's a 3-Word Secret   The 3-word phrase? 'As you know.' Here's how it works. Continued here

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Can positive thinking prolong your life? Science says yes   After my father died, my mother joined a community center with a pool and started swimming laps several times a week. Dorothy was nearly 80. She met people, learned about local programs and services for older folks, and discovered a senior center that remains her hangout 18 years later. It serves hot lunch for a dollar. A dee jay comes in and she dances. She has made friends, including a group of women who meet for lunch every Saturday in a restaurant that serves huge portions and free coffee refills. I often say, only half-jokingly, she has a better social life than I do.Scientists have known for quite a while that people with strong ties to friends and family tend to live long. A team from Brigham Young University looked at results from 148 studies dating back to 1900 that investigated whether solid relationships are a lifesaver. All told, the studies included 308,849 participants and followed subjects for an average 7.5 years. At the end of that time, people with strong social connections were 50 percent more likely to be alive than those who were isolated and lonely. Continued here

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Ghana's fishing industry has a 'golden seaweed' problem - how citizen science can help   Sargassum is a genus of brown seaweed. Over 300 species are distributed across the world in both temperate and tropical climates. The species fluitans and natans are unique because they spend their life cycle floating on the ocean, never attaching to the sea floor. Other seaweed species reproduce and begin life on the ocean floor .Pelagic (open sea) sargassum has been described as the “golden rainforest of the ocean” because of the floating ecosystem it supports in the Sargasso Sea, in the western Atlantic Ocean. Pelagic sargassum also occurs naturally in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Continued here

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These Are the Best Dyson Vacuums You Can Buy   If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDShopping for a Dyson vacuum can feel like you've been sucked into one. There's a dizzying array of models on sale at any given time, and every new model tries to outdo the last one by packing in more and more features. Now that the newest machines feature things like lasers and LCD screens, it's hard to figure out what you'd actually benefit from. Continued here

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It Takes Versatility to Lead in a Volatile World   Data collected since the first year of the pandemic has shown that versatility is an even stronger component of effective leadership now than it was before. The correlations between versatility and a variety of leadership outcomes — employee engagement, team agility, business unit productivity, and overall effectiveness — have only gotten stronger. Using a 360 tool called the Leadership Versatility Index, the authors have studied versatile leadership for 26 years. The most effective leaders not only operate to their strengths, but deftly toggle between opposing, yet complementary behaviors. They note that versatility is therefore not just another leadership competency, but a meta-competency; it reflects a balanced and well-rounded pattern of competencies that suggests an underlying capacity to master specific skills and behaviors and enable the continual learning of new ones. In this article, the authors outline their research, and illustrate what truly versatile leadership looks like and how it’s developed. Continued here

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We Need Imagination Now More Than Ever   Pandemics, wars, and other social crises often create new attitudes, needs, and behaviors, which we need to anticipate. Imagination — the capacity to create, evolve and exploit mental models of things or situations that don’t yet exist — is the crucial factor in seizing and creating new opportunities, and finding new paths to growth.While imagination may seem like a frivolous luxury in a crisis, it is actually a necessity for building future success. The authors offer seven ways companies can develop their organization’s capacity for imagination: 1) Carve out time for reflection; 2) Ask active, open questions; 3) Allow yourself to be playful; 4) Set up a system for sharing ideas; 5) Seek out the anomalous and unexpected;  6) Encourage experimentation; and 7) Stay hopeful. Continued here

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The Biggest Microbiome Study Sheds New Light on Shared Health Risks   Our bodies consist of about 30 trillion human cells, but they also host about 39 trillion microbial cells. These teeming communities of bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi in our guts, in our mouths, on our skin, and elsewhere—collectively called the human microbiome—don’t only consist of freeloaders and lurking pathogens. Instead, as scientists increasingly appreciate, these microbes form ecosystems essential to our health. A growing body of research aims to understand how disruptions of these delicate systems can rob us of nutrients we need, interfere with the digestion of our food, and possibly trigger afflictions of our bodies and minds.Original story reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine, an editorially independent publication of the Simons Foundation whose mission is to enhance public understanding of science by covering research develop­ments and trends in mathe­matics and the physical and life sciences. Continued here

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From advertising blackmail to physical threats, Kenya's journalists are under attack - but they must also regain public trust   In recent months, Kenyan journalists have been harassed, intimidated and attacked by government officials, politicians and members of the public. George Ogola, a professor of media industries, explains the impact of these attacks on media freedom in Kenya. Kenya’s media face threats from both state and non-state actors as repressive practices of the past reemerge. Government and opposition politicians are actively undermining media freedom in the country. This isn’t entirely new. But the threats have taken a new dimension as they are publicly defended – even boldly justified – by some of the perpetrators. These threats are economic, political and physical. Continued here

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Overselling Sustainability Reporting   For two decades progressive thinkers have argued that a more sustainable form of capitalism would arise if companies regularly measured and reported on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. But although such reporting has become widespread, and some firms are deriving benefits from it, environmental damage and social inequality are still growing. Continued here

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29 Years Later, Star Trek Just Solved A Massive Starship Mystery    Of all the versions of the Starship Enterprise, the one that has appeared the most times in Star Trek canon, is, by far, the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D. After 178 episodes of The Next Generation, half of the ship got blown up in the 1994 film Generations. The other half crashed into the planet Veridian III, but what happened to it after that? In Star Trek: Picard Season 3, we finally have a (very shocking) answer. And within that answer is perhaps the biggest nostalgia play for any science fiction franchise in recent memory. Continued here

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Schmilka: The progressive German town stuck in the past   The half-timbered houses, the isolated location deep in eastern Germany's forested hinterlands, the eerie rock pinnacles bounding the town on one side and the tempestuous Elbe River on the other – throw in an evil witch and Schmilka would be straight out of a 19th-Century Brothers Grimm fairy tale. Or, at least, of that age: the buildings go back around two centuries, the food and beer are prepared using techniques just as old, and I had to run up and down the town's one street (cobblestoned, of course) to find a wi-fi signal. Talk about a time warp."Schmilka used to be a holiday village 200 years ago," said Andrea Bigge, a local art historian. It is again, she added, but it still feels like it exists in that era.  Continued here

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Juvenile offenders in Ghana aren't prepared for rejoining society - how the system is failing them   Globally, about one million children are held in police custody annually; 410,000 of them are held in detention and remand centres. On any day, it is estimated, remand homes around the world hold about 160,000 to 250,000 children. Time in prison can have lasting impacts on the lives of young offenders. It can affect social, emotional and other areas of development. Continued here

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Leslie Marmon Silko Saw It Coming   The author of “Ceremony” and “Almanac of the Dead” is thinking about different ways to write her next book.When I called the Laguna Pueblo writer Leslie Marmon Silko, in January, to arrange an interview, her son answered the phone. His mother was tending to a bird emergency, he explained. The next day, Silko told me, digressively and with relish, what had happened. She has a number of macaws, and she’d been nervous that one of them had suffered a stroke and was going to die. She brought the bird inside and propped him up on her bed, with the aim of giving him a dignified death. But the bird was not dying, and proceeded to drag himself around Silko’s house, while another, an African gray, was flying loose in the home, which is why she couldn’t come to the phone when I called. Continued here

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Singapore Wrestles With the Death Penalty   The city-state has traditionally executed people for drug offenses, but cracks in the national consensus are appearing.Notice that Pannir Selvam Pranthaman would be killed by the Singaporean government arrived at his sister’s home via DHL. The red-and-yellow envelope, delivered to Sangkari Pranthaman’s apartment in Kuala Lumpur on May 17, 2019, contained two letters: One stated that the president of Singapore had rejected Pannir’s clemency plea; the other informed Sangkari that her younger brother would shortly be hanged for bringing four small packets of heroin across the border into Singapore from Malaysia five years earlier. Last year, Singapore hanged 11 people, all for drug offenses. The country is only one of four known to still execute people for drug-related crimes, according to Amnesty International. Continued here

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Fantasy Street Food at Balkan StrEAT   William Djuric, the chef and co-owner of the West Village’s new fast-casual restaurant Balkan StrEAT, grew up—on the Upper East Side—with the food of the Balkans. His father, a Serbian artist, cooked goulash at home; in the summers the two of them travelled to Belgrade, and they would eat their way through the region. Later in life, Djuric attended the Institute of Culinary Education and worked at Bouchon Bakery, Gramercy Tavern, and Momofuku Ssäm Bar, all the while dreaming of opening his own ćevapi place. Ćevapi—kebabs served alone or on a bun, with ajvar, a spread of roasted red pepper—are the ultimate Serbian street food. “I knew that eventually, when I did my own thing, hopefully one day, it would be Balkan food,” Djuric told me. “You can get it in Manhattan, but I always thought something was missing—a place that represented the street food, the vibe that I experienced.”Djuric later married a woman who is half Croatian and half Serbian, but it was the pandemic that spurred him into action. He and Jason Correa—a friend since middle school, and a former director for the Tao Group—decided to go for it: after a year of planning, they opened Balkan StrEAT in January. Continued here

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Anti-mifepristone court decisions rely on medical misinformation about abortion and questionable legal reasoning   An early April 2023 decision by a U.S. district judge in Texas to reverse 23 years of approval of the abortion pill mifepristone has sparked explosive debate. Mifepristone is a medicine that blocks the receptors for the hormone progesterone, which is needed for fetal development. It is part of a two-step medication abortion regimen along with misoprostol, a drug used to prevent stomach ulcers that also causes uterine contractions. Medication abortion with this two-step approach or a slightly less effective misoprostol-only regimen is now used in more than half of all abortions in the U.S. Continued here

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Should You Store Nuts in the Freezer? Chemistry Offers a Surprising Answer   Bread, apples, and even butter (to a certain degree): These are just a few of the foods that sit at the center of the “refrigerate or leave on the counter” debate. But what about nuts? Do you leave them on the counter, place them in the fridge, or throw them in the freezer? We all have that extra bag of pecans in the back of the pantry in case we ever want to bake. Surely these fat and protein bombs are safe sitting there long term, right? It turns out, though, that based on how nuts break down over time, there’s one storage method that stands above the rest. Continued here

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The Ambidextrous Organization   This mental balancing act is one of the toughest of all managerial challenges—it requires executives to explore new opportunities even as they work diligently to exploit existing capabilities—and it’s no surprise that few companies do it well. But as every businessperson knows, there are companies that do. What’s their secret? Continued here

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The Himalayas' ancient earthquake-defying design   In 1905, a deadly earthquake rocked the landscape of Himachal Pradesh, an Indian state in the western Himalayas. Sturdy-looking concrete constructions toppled like houses of cards. The only surviving structures were in towns where the residents had used an ancient, traditional Himalayan building technique known as kath kuni.On a warm Tuesday afternoon, I was headed towards one of them: Naggar Castle, which was built more than 500 years ago as the seat of the region's powerful Kullu kings, and which remained standing, unscathed, after that calamity.  Continued here

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How to Make Great Decisions, Quickly   As a new leader, learning to make good decisions without hesitation and procrastination is a capability that can set you apart from your peers. While others vacillate on tricky choices, your team could be hitting deadlines and producing the type of results that deliver true value. That’s something that will get you — and them — noticed. Here are a few of a great decision: Continued here

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Military violence in Myanmar is worsening amid fierce resistance and international ambivalence   In the early days of a brutal 2021 military crackdown on anti-coup protesters in Myanmar, members of the nascent resistance movement began asking “how many dead bodies” it would take for the world community to act.More than two years on from a coup that installed military rule in the Southeast Asian country, pro-democracy protesters say they have yet to receive an adequate answer. Continued here

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40 Years Ago, a Legendary Director Made a Low-Budget Zombie Masterpiece -- And Changed Hollywood Forever   In 2023, the words "indie horror" conjure up a very specific image for most people: a slow, foreboding atmosphere encroaching on a narrative drama that eventually gives way to a horrific allegory for some societal or existential ill. More often than not, there's a neat A24 logo somewhere in the credits. Even though many films in that vein are exceptional, the connotation of indie horror has shifted: it feels like it's become more of an aesthetic than anything else.But in the ‘70s and ‘80s, before studios truly understood what a versatile and lucrative genre horror really was, filmmakers were pushing the medium forward with scrappy, no-budget masterpieces. Perhaps the greatest success story of that kind is Sam Raimi. Long before the days of Doctor Strange or even Spider-Man, he was a 20-year-old with a few connections to his name and an idea that was finally getting the chance to grow into something more. Trapped in a cabin with only a camera and a dream, Sam Raimi and his crew carved their names into the Black Book of Horror and summoned forth the humble cinematic classic The Evil Dead. Continued here

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Aboriginal Researchers Reveal An Untold Story of Australia's "Fairy Circles"   First Peoples’ knowledge of this phenomenon is crucial to understanding the history of the region. What are “fairy circles”? They are polka dots of bare earth, regularly scattered across arid grasslands. Scientists first described fairy circles in Namibia in the 1970s, which sparked a global debate in the scientific community about the causes of the phenomenon. Continued here

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Barbara Corcoran Says You Should Always Fire This Type of Employee. Here's Why She's Right   But she's wrong about firing on Fridays. Continued here

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15 Years Ago, the Jankiest Mario Kart Game Changed Nintendo Forever   It doesn’t matter if you’ve never owned a console or are an industry veteran — pretty much everyone has played Mario Kart at some point.And most likely it was Mario Kart Wii, a game fondly remembered for its unique motion controls and innovative mechanics — and less fondly remembered for its many glitches, broken maps, and overpowered characters. Still, the innovations of Mario Kart Wii gave its more successful sequel, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the polish and drive to become the top-selling game in the franchise. Continued here

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Under Extreme Conditions, Gravity Could Exhibit This Truly Bizarre Behavior   Waves of gravity may have shaken space-time so hard that they spontaneously created radiation.Researchers have discovered that in the exotic conditions of the early Universe, waves of gravity may have shaken space-time so hard that they spontaneously created radiation. Continued here

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2.29 Billion Years Ago, This Cataclysmic Event Transformed the Makeup of Earth's Crust   Meteorite impacts can be cataclysmic events in the history of a planet, melting rock, changing atmospheric chemistry, and wreaking general havoc.However, impacts may also have created Earth’s continents, supported ecological niches that kick-started life, and even developed metal ores. Continued here

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Starbucks' Big Bet on Its Newest Drink Has a Problem. It All Comes Down to Science   Some customers are experiencing unintended consequences. Continued here

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You Need to Play the Decade's Most Underrated Arcade Fighter on Xbox Game Pass ASAP   Skill is everything. Whether we’re talking about music, engineering, or competitive eating, human beings are capable of demonstrating ludicrous amounts of skill. The problem with skill is that you can’t always acquire it from training alone. Yes, some people are born with talent/aptitude for something, but even prodigies must practice their skills. Video games are no different; Skill is everything. And the “git gud” mentality is especially prevalent in our most competitive games. But nothing is more competitive, or more skill-based, than a fighting game. And a real banger just dropped on Xbox Game Pass.Guilty Gear Strive from Arc System Works is the seventh installment in a franchise that is absolutely cramjam with lore and characters. What makes Strive different from other entries in the series is its emphasis on teaching skill instead of simply celebrating it. Alongside some breathtaking animation and truly over-the-top story, Guilty Gear Strive offers the best chance for seasoned pros and n00bs alike to dive in and start swinging. Continued here

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If Earth Gets Too Close to the Sun, Extreme Heat Is the Least of Our Problems   The massive Kepler survey found a treasure trove of exoplanets. But in all that wealth, they found three anomalies: what appeared to be rings of dust surrounding stars where planets should be. They were rocky planets in the process of being obliterated. And a team of astronomers found a way to use these gory sites to understand some of the most mysterious and hard-to-detect planets in the universe.We currently know of about 5,000 exoplanets in the galaxy. This represents only a small fraction of the estimated 1 trillion worlds within the Milky Way. But even though we’ve made great strides, we have exceptional difficulty finding one particular class of exoplanet: the small, rocky ones. Our techniques rely on transits. When an exoplanet crosses in front of the face of the star, it causes a small dip in brightness from our point of view. But if the planet is too small, the change in brightness isn’t large enough for us to detect, and so the small planets, roughly the size of the Earth and smaller, remain hidden from us. Continued here

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3 Hollywood-style storytelling tactics that Jeff Bezos uses to keep audiences engaged   A great founding story is irresistible. Continued here

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Making Jokes During a Presentation Helps Men But Hurts Women   A common piece of advice for presentations and winning over audiences is to be funny. After all, research shows that leaders who use humor are able to increase their employees’ performance and job satisfaction. And hearing something funny or being amused can reduce stress, improve social relations, generate a positive mood, and increase motivation. But new research shows that these outcomes may only apply to men. After watching videotaped presentations by both male and female actors, the man was given higher ratings when he used humor, while the woman who did was given lower ratings. One participant noted that the humorous woman showed “poor judgment in jokes” and another noted that she tried “to cover up her lack of real business acumen by making little jokes.” In contrast, participants who saw the humorous male presentation commented that “he is witty and likes to use humor to not seem like a stern speaker” and another said that “he adds a touch of humor to break up the monotony of his presentation.” These findings don’t mean that women should stop being funny, however; it does mean that organizations and managers should instead increase awareness of this prejudice. Continued here

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How Political Opinions Change   Our political opinions and attitudes are an important part of who we are and how we construct our identities. Hence, if I ask your opinion on health care, you will not only share it with me, but you will likely resist any of my attempts to persuade you of another point of view. Likewise, it would be odd for me to ask if you are sure that what you said actually was your opinion. If anything seems certain to us, it is our own attitudes. But what if this weren’t necessarily the case?In a recent experiment, we showed it is possible to trick people into changing their political views. In fact, we could get some people to adopt opinions that were directly opposite of their original ones. Our findings imply that we should rethink some of the ways we think about our own attitudes, and how they relate to the currently polarized political climate. When it comes to the actual political attitudes we hold, we are considerably more flexible than we think. Continued here

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45 genius solutions to your stupid problems around the house   I'm a science fiction fan, and we’re living in the 21st century. I was always led to expect that by now there would be robots or androids available to handle all the stupid problems around the house, so we humans could focus on picking out space suits, mastering techno-babble, and learning to pilot our flying cars. But here we are, still struggling with issues like mosquitoes in the bedroom, drafts underneath the door, rotting produce, and sock drawers in chaos. It's all good, though. I don't think I want to live in a universe where there is no shopping — and shopping is what makes it possible to solve all of those conflicts. So, after boldly going where no AI can, I found 45 solutions to different household issues — and they're all on Amazon. Continued here

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What Separates Successful People From Everyone Else Really Comes Down to 1 Short Phrase   If you don't love what you do, is it worth it? Continued here

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This Bizzare Practice is Transforming the American Lawn As We Know It   That is the question that many homeowners are facing as their dreams for perfect turf are battered — whether it’s from inflation pushing pricier lawn care options out of reach or droughts leading to water shortages.Increasingly, many are turning in the spreader for the paint can, opting, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, for shades of green with names like “Fairway” and “Perennial Rye.” Continued here

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Innovating in Uncertain Times: Lessons from 2022   Too many leaders succumb to fear of missing out (FOMO) when new tech trends emerge and demand that something — anything — using the new tech be implemented immediately. This leads to wasted investment, missed opportunity and disillusionment about the new landscape. Emerging technologies are critical and demand attention and investment, but managers must exercise patience and avoid falling victim to the hype. Responsible exploration is key. Continued here

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Sorry, ChatGPT Probably Can't Make You Better at Gambling   Large language models can write poems and pass medical exams — but they still can’t think like people do.The past few years have seen an explosion of progress in large language model artificial intelligence systems that can write poetry, conduct humanlike conversations, and pass medical school exams. This progress has yielded models like ChatGPT that could have major social and economic ramifications ranging from job displacements and increased misinformation to massive productivity boosts. Continued here

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My Job Candidate Wants a Reference - From Us. Here's What You Need to Know About the 'Reverse Reference'   Candidates have more power than ever before. Continued here

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Six Components of a Great Corporate Culture   The benefits of a strong corporate culture are both intuitive and supported by social science. According to James L. Heskett, culture “can account for 20-30% of the differential in corporate performance when compared with ‘culturally unremarkable’ competitors.” And HBR writers have offered advice on navigating different geographic cultures, selecting jobs based on culture, changing cultures, and offering feedback across cultures, among other topics. Continued here

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Why You Need an Untouchable Day Every Week   When you’re doing deep creative work, meetings can disrupt your flow and decrease your productivity. That’s why you need to schedule one “Untouchable Day” per week, where nothing can interrupt you — no texts, no e-mails, no phone calls, and absolutely no meetings. But what happens when you get an incredible speaking invitation or somebody much more important has this one day to get together? Stick to this simple rule: Untouchable Days may never be deleted, but they can move between the bowling-lane bumpers of the weekends. They can’t jump weeks, though. If they need to move from a Wednesday to a Thursday or a Friday, that’s fine — even if you have to move four meetings to make room. The beauty of this approach is that when you plant the Untouchable Day flag on your calendar, it really does feel permanent in your mind. You start feeling the creative high you’ll get from such deep output as soon as you start booking them in. Continued here

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What to Do When You're Passed Over for an Internal Position   Job rejection is always difficult. But things get even more complicated when it’s an internal role. Unless you decide to leave — which takes some time — you have to figure out how to work within the same organization, and maybe even with the same people that rejected you. Here’s how to move on and carry yourself with strength. Continued here

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Why Nicolas Cage Rules, According to the Writer of One of His Best Movies   Aaron Stewart-Ahn was there to witness Nicolas Cage’s big comeback. The place? The 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The movie? Mandy.“I was there at Sundance when he saw it for the first time,” Stewart-Ahn, who co-wrote Mandy with director Panos Cosmatos, tells Inverse. “I think he was surprised by it a little bit.” Continued here

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6 Years Ago, Damon Lindelof's Best Sci-Fi Show Started to Answer Its Biggest Mystery   “The Book of Kevin” kicked off The Leftovers’ third and final season with a crisis of faith.The first episode of the third and final season of The Leftovers, “The Book of Kevin,” begins with a prologue about shaken faith. In 1844, a woman clad in white follows a prophet who foretells the end of times. She chooses to follow his words over staying with her family. After his predictions fail three times, the woman’s unwavering faith crumbles. Continued here

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40 Awesome Products on Amazon That Are 50% Cheaper Than Competitors & Work Just as Well   When on the hunt for the latest and greatest products without the inflated price tags, you don’t want your budget-friendly alternatives to skimp on quality. Luckily, below you’ll find plenty of items that offer many of the same key features, ingredients, and materials you’re looking for at a fraction of the price. Best of all, since they’re all on Amazon, it’s easy to get them on your doorstep in no time. With all of the rave reviews these products have racked up, you can feel confident adding these wallet-friendly options from home goods to electronics and skin care to your cart.This cult-favorite moisturizing cream costs less than $15 and the tin contains nearly 14 ounces of deeply nourishing, vitamin B5-enriched product to soothe even the driest skin. “I did the math and the fancy brands I bought were up to 30x more expensive per ounce, yes 30x! [...] I'm a huge Nivea fan now [...] and I plan on buying this product forever,” wrote one reviewer. Continued here