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� � � � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � A Nobel Prize Might Lower a Scientist's Impact - The New York Times -     A team of researchers at Stanford find that older scientists are less productive after winning major awards like the Nobel and the MacArthur Fellowship. Winning a Nobel Prize can be a life-changing event. The winners are thrust onto a world stage, and for many scientists the recognition represents the pinnacle of their careers. John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist at Stanford University, wants to find out. Awards like the Nobel Prize are “a major reputational tool,” he said, but he questions “whether they really help scientists become more productive and more impactful.” Continued here Why 2030 World Cup is split across six countries - and all roads lead to Saudi Arabia 2034 - The Athletic    Six World Cup hosts, six guaranteed qualification slots, six and a bit years for everyone else to get their heads around it. You wait months and months for a decision on who is going to host a major football tournament and then you get 13 hosts announced in one day. Confused? We think that may be the point. While we look forward to the 2028 Euros in England, the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, start saving for the 2030 World Cup in Argentina, Morocco, Paraguay, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay, and wonder how Italy and Turkey are going to share out the 2032 Euros, while Saudi Arabia can enjoy a clear run at staging another winter World Cup in 2034. Continued here Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium The sure-fire way to save America's cities? Do what Tokyo does. -     Cities across the US are flailing under a worsening housing affordability crisis. Superstar metropolises from Los Angeles to Miami are becoming playgrounds for the elite. Americans fleeing New York and San Francisco for more affordable lives in the Sunbelt are experiencing sticker shock. The median home price in the US has jumped 52% just since January 2020. But affordability isn't an issue in the world's biggest city, Tokyo. Despite facing many of the same pressures of scarce land and a growing population, the city of 14 million builds much more housing — and much more quickly — than US cities do. Since the 1960s, Tokyo has tripled its housing supply, while New York's has grown by only about a third. And because housing is far more abundant in Japan's capital, it's also cheaper. The median Japanese tenant spends about 20% of their disposable income on rent (in America it's 30%). Rent for a studio or one-bedroom apartment in Tokyo, which Americans are fawning over as "the new Paris," is a quarter of what it is in New York. In September, when New York City Mayor Eric Adams unveiled his plan to build 100,000 new homes, he pointed enviously to Tokyo's ability to keep "housing costs down by increasing the supply of housing." "How are we allowing Tokyo to do things better than us?" he asked. Continued here A Russian woman lived with an inch-long needle in her brain for 80 years, likely because her parents tried to kill her as an infant, doctors say - Insider    An inch-long needle was discovered in the brain of an 80-year-old woman in Russia, said local health officials on Monday. The Ministry of Health in the Sakhalin region wrote in a Telegram post that local radiologists had found the three-centimeter needle during an x-ray scan. Officials said the needle has been in her brain since the time of her birth, and doctors believe her parents tried to kill her when she was an infant. Continued here

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