Eating Fast Is Bad for You--Right?

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Eating Fast Is Bad for You--Right?   Why do so many people feel alone in a world with endless opportunities for connection? Listen to the first episode of "How to Talk to People."For as long as I have been feeding myself—which, for the record, is several decades now—I have been feeding myself fast. I bite big, in rapid succession; my chews are hasty and few. In the time it takes others to get through a third of their meal, mine is already gone. You could reasonably call my approach to eating pneumatic, reminiscent of a suction-feeding fish or a Roomba run amok. Continued here

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How Gen Z are disrupting the definition of 'prestigious' jobs   Even before Molly Johnson-Jones graduated from Oxford University in 2015, she felt professional pressure to land a ‘prestigious’ job in a high-powered industry. She says she and her university friends felt there were sectors that carried cachet – particularly the rigorous fields of finance, consulting, medicine and law. That’s why Johnson-Jones ended up in investment banking for two years once she graduated, even though didn’t feel like quite the right fit.These kinds of “very traditional industries” have indeed carried prestige, says Jonah Stillman, co-founder of GenGuru, a consulting firm that focuses on different generations in the workplace. Stillman, a Gen Zer, says this sentiment is present in higher-education settings, but he adds many people across generations have felt pressure well before university to pursue these paths, including from family members or high-school counsellors.  Continued here

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The real cost of your chocolate habit: new research reveals the bittersweet truth of cocoa farming in Africa's forests   Chocolate sales have boomed in recent months. As the cost-of-living crisis bites, consumers are increasingly reaching for chocolate as a simple and affordable pleasure. The most important ingredient in chocolate is cocoa beans, which come from plants grown in the tropics. About 70% of the world’s cocoa comes from West Africa. The countries of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) and Ghana are two of the biggest producers. Continued here

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Generative AI Will Change Your Business. Here's How to Adapt.   Generative AI can “generate” text, speech, images, music, video, and especially, code. When that capability is joined with a feed of someone’s own information, used to tailor the when, what, and how of an interaction, then the ease by which someone can get things done, and the broadening accessibility of software, goes up dramatically. The simple input question box that stands at the center of Google and now, of most Generative AI systems, such as in ChatGPT and Dall-e, will power more systems. Continued here

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Catch-22: Canada's attempts to phase out fossil fuel might result in it paying the polluters   US$20 billion: That’s how much American investors think Canadian taxpayers should fork over to compensate them for their failed bid to develop a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Québec.Ruby River Capital LLC, the U.S.-based owner of GNL Québec Inc., filed a claim against Canada under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) after its Énergie Saguenay project failed to pass a federal environmental impact assessment. Continued here

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With Haiti in chaos, Canada buries its head in the sand   So said Jean-Martin Bauer, the Haiti director of the United Nations World Food Program, in December 2022.He was correct. The situation in Haiti has been deteriorating badly over the past few months. Hundreds of people have been killed across metropolitan Port-au-Prince by armed gangs seeking to assert their authority, while half of the Haitian population — approximately 4.7 million people — faces acute hunger. Continued here

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Where the Wild Things Are: The greatest children's book ever   Accepting the coveted Caldecott medal in 1964, an annual award honouring the "most distinguished American picture book for children", the author Maurice Sendak addressed the rumbles of disapproval his winning book had received from some quarters about it being too frightening by wryly commenting, "Where the Wild Things Are was not meant to please everybody – only children."Of course, far from only appealing to children, after initially sending shockwaves around the literary establishment, over the decades the book has beguiled almost everyone who has encountered it, young and old, from world leaders to film directors. It has inspired films, songs, books, an opera and even a spoof on The Simpsons. For this poll, children's authors and experts from Singapore and Iceland to Portugal and Peru voted for it in their droves, with one respondent, Pam Dix, chair of the UK section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), calling it "a perfect, multi-layered picture book that reveals new dimensions on each reading". Most importantly though, it has indeed captivated generations of children thirsty for mischief, mastery and a cracking wild rumpus. Continued here

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Stan Grant's treatment is a failure of ABC's leadership, mass media, and debate in this country   The treatment of Stan Grant that has driven him off the ABC is a case study in how content on the professional mass media can fuel social media toxicity, especially on issues such as race.It does not require the professional mass media to be overtly racist to accomplish this, but to send signals of intense disapproval that trolls then use as the basis for their racist attacks. Continued here

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Thousands of people in the UK are out of work due to long COVID   Daniel Ayoubkhani works for the UK Office for National Statistics and was not involved in writing the section of this article titled 'What could help?'; the views expressed in this section are those of NA, and do not necessarily represent those of DA or the Office for National Statistics.Almost 2 million people in the UK are estimated to be living with long COVID – after-effects of COVID that can persist for months or even years after the initial infection. Continued here

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Pillars of Resilient Digital Transformation - SPONSORED CONTENT FROM Red Hat   The acceleration of digital transformation because of the pandemic recast the position of the chief information officer (CIO) to that of a big-picture strategist. From ensuring ongoing alignment of IT and business demands to leading the transition to full digital enablement, the CIO role requires expert proficiency in a broad range of both technology and management skills. Continued here

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Simple homemade gravlax   Lox (Yiddish for salmon) is a ubiquitous Jewish staple in New York City, often paired with a schmear of cream cheese on a bagel. The thinly sliced lox is salty and buttery with a subtle hint of smokiness that pairs beautifully with the soft tanginess of the cream cheese. Delicately prepared on top of a bagel – and sometimes topped with capers or red onion – it's a wonderfully satisfying breakfast that's hard to beat.But it's not the only way to get your salmon fix in the city. Another popular preparation for salmon is gravlax – salmon cured in salt and sugar – which author June Hersh features in her latest book, Iconic New York Jewish Food: A History and Guide with Recipes. Continued here

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The Challenge of Closeness: Alain de Botton on Love, Vulnerability, and the Paradox of Avoidance   Each month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going. For seventeen years, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If this labor has made your own life more livable in the past year (or the past decade), please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes all the difference.The hardest thing in life isn’t getting what we want, isn’t even knowing what we want, but knowing what to want. We think we want connection, but as soon as contact reaches deeper than the skin of being, we recoil with the terror of vulnerability. There is no place more difficult to show up than where marrow meets marrow. And yet that is the only place where two people earn the right to use the word “love.”Our avoidance of that terrifying, transcendent place holds up a mirror to our most fundamental beliefs about life and love, about what we deserve and what we are capable of, about reality and the landscape of the possible. That is what Alain de Botton explores in this animated essay probing the psychological machinery of avoidance in intimate relationships — where it comes from, how to live with it, and where it can go if handled with enough conscientiousness and compassion. Continued here

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The 20 greatest children's books ever - what the voters say   With its perfect symbiosis of words and pictures, the classic Where the Wild Things Are topped our poll of 100 greatest children's books. First published in 1963, and still loved all over the world, Maurice Sendak's powerful, stunningly illustrated book tells the tale of Max as he goes on a journey of discovery, encountering the "wild things". It is a fable that is both dark and ultimately uplifting. "If I was leaving for a desert island and there was only one book to take away, it would be this one," says Marie Wabbes of the Belgian Francophone section of the International Board On Books for Young People (IBBY). "It understands childhood, the angry child, the attraction of power and the immensity of maternal love." Quek Hong Shin, the Singapore-based children's author and illustrator, describes it as, "a great children's book about anger, self-discovery, and a mother's love for a child". While Rose Green, a US editor, says: "No childhood is complete without a Wild Rumpus! The quintessential story of losing your cool, taming your monsters, and coming back home to find your supper is still hot." Ireland-based author Clara Kumagai recalls how, reading the story as a child, the monsters scared her. "But I still loved them," she writes, describing the book as "an epic that manages to combine fear, courage, love, and loneliness in less than 350 words and 40 pages. It's lyrical and unexpected, and each page does exactly what a picture book should – it surprises and delights."   The surreal world of Alice in Wonderland as portrayed by illustrator John Tenniel (Credit: Getty Images) Continued here

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Is exercise really good for the brain? Here's what the science says   Boris Cheval is supported by an Ambizione grant (PZ00P1_180040) from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). Yet, a recent study based on data published over the past 30 years challenges the famous adage Mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body) and questions the importance of exercise for both brain health and cognition. Continued here

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Killers of the Flower Moon review: Scorsese's handsome Western is 'too slow'   Martin Scorsese's Killers of The Flower Moon boasts the double act that the legendary director's fans have been waiting for: his two favourite leading men, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, are together at last. And it's a thrill to see them sharing scenes. Perhaps it wasn't wise of DiCaprio to jut out his jaw and yank up his lower lip, like a comedian doing a De Niro impression, but De Niro himself is the most compelling he has been in years, and the pair's last dialogue scene is one to file alongside the diner confrontation in Heat. By this point, however, you might well feel that the two great actors shouldn't have had so much screen time, after all.Co-written by Scorsese and Eric Roth, Killers of The Flower Moon tells the horrific true story of the so-called Osage Indian murders that took place in Oklahoma in the 1920s. The Osage Native Americans were the richest people per capita in the world at the time, because they had been shunted to a reservation that turned out, ironically, to be brimming with oil: there is a sparkling early sequence in which the Osage people stroll around the town of Fairfax, in the finest suits and dresses, while the white newcomers literally beg them for work. But as many as 60 people died in mysterious circumstances, and their oil fortunes flowed towards the white men who married their way into their families. The man responsible was a rancher named William Hale. Continued here

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AI is changing how Americans find jobs, get promoted and succeed at work   I work as a consultant in corporate settings and use/have used various HCMs and Microsoft tools referenced here in that work.Whether we realize it or not, advancements in artificial intelligence are increasingly influencing the paths of our careers. Continued here

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Kendall Roy's playlist: why hip hop is the perfect counterpoint for Succession's entitled plutocrats   From the very first minutes of HBO’s hit drama series, Succession, hip hop is used to underpin, juxtapose and comment on the story of corporate intrigue, capitalist entitlement and white privilege.Just as a hip hop beat underscores the classical piano lines to the show’s theme song by composer Nicholas Britell, hip hop’s swaggering braggadocio acts as a counterpoint to the Roy family’s rarefied worlds of high finance and plutocratic untouchability. Continued here

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What is Bluesky and how's it different to Twitter?   Amid management changes at Twitter, discontented users are exploring an alternative social media platform called Bluesky. According to media reports, downloads of the Bluesky app surged more than 600% in April.Initially conceived by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey in 2019 as a complementary project aimed to improve Twitter user experience, Bluesky transitioned into a standalone project in early 2022, and its iOS app was released in February this year followed by an Android version in April. Continued here