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- Bio-based plastic won’t solve the plastic problem
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 11:00 PMThe Biden administration wants to replace 90% of plastic with bioplastic, but there are a lot of issues with that goal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Here’s what our crazy radio spectrum looks like, in all its hidden beauty
Tuesday - 03/28/2023 - 12:00 AMThis gorgeous chart illustrates the intricacies of managing one of our nation’s most crucial—and invisible—national assets: the radio spectrum.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 4 habits of leaders people actually want, and even yearn, to follow
Tuesday - 03/28/2023 - 12:30 AMMost leaders can afford to do more than the bare minimum.
People often leave companies because of the failings of their bosses. As a result, many organizations are intentional about investing in leader development.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Believe it or not, Elon Musk is about to make Twitter even worse
Tuesday - 03/28/2023 - 04:55 AMTwitter’s owner continues to bestow benefits upon subscribers who pay to use the platform, while making it less useful for everyone else.
Elon Musk has announced plans to make Twitter into an even more insufferable platform for users who refuse to pay for it—this time, by limiting who can have their voices heard.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two big reasons YouTube TV is still great after the price hike
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 08:05 PMOnce again, YouTube’s TV streaming service is getting pricier. But it’s still a compelling alternative to cable and even other streaming options.
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When I signed up for YouTube TV in 2017, its $35 monthly price tag felt too good to be true.Read Full Story - The lost flextime of COVID-19: what working parents lost when the world reopened
Sunday - 03/26/2023 - 11:37 PMAs restrictions relaxed, we thought it would be a relief to return to more normal schedules. Except, for many of us, that hasn’t exactly happened.
The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way we spend time.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Despite its troubles, the Human Brain Project was a success for neuroscience collaboration
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 12:00 AMWhile the Human Brain Project experienced major changes in its structure and goals, it was able to promote collaboration through its online forum.
Recent years have seen both impressive advances in computational technologies and neuroscience and increasing prevalence of mental disorders.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Loop vs. Notion: Microsoft’s new document app is a promising mess
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 02:00 AMMicrosoft’s Notion clone has a few smart ideas and plenty of quirks.
Back in November 2021, Microsoft announced its most ambitious addition to the Office suite in years, though it’s taken until now to publicly launch the thing.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What’s happening in Israel? Historic street protests, strikes, and judicial reforms, explained
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 04:50 AMIt’s estimated that as much as 6.5% of the country is protesting, causing everything from banks to McDonald’s to shut their doors.
Israel is facing the largest wave of protests in its history.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A seafood company has designed the world’s first octopus farm: Here’s why that’s horrifying
Sunday - 03/26/2023 - 11:00 PMA seafood company has announced plans for a new octopus farm, just as our understanding of the sea creature’s mental capacity has started to blur the line between human and animal.
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- Craft breweries are starting recycling co-ops to slash their waste
Tuesday - 03/28/2023 - 12:00 AMBreweries like Sierra Nevada and Allagash have launched recycling hubs for local businesses in their areas.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Here’s the biggest mistake I made as a first-time manager—and how you can avoid it yourself
Tuesday - 03/28/2023 - 12:00 AMYour job is not to micromanage people. Your job is to step up to coach and lead.
I remember being so excited for one of my first promotions. It was my very first time becoming a manager, overseeing a team, and finally evolving from doing all of the work to directing some of it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Self-help—and self-blame—won’t fix the tech addiction crisis
Tuesday - 03/28/2023 - 02:00 AMResolving to reduce your screen time isn’t enough. Collective action is necessary, writes this law professor in an excerpt from her new book.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tired of the office? These jobs have the happiest remote workers right now
Tuesday - 03/28/2023 - 05:01 AMA new survey from Glassdoor suggests WFH isn’t going away, but some professions seemed better suited to accommodate remote work than others.
It’s no surprise that working from home has been popular for many workers, but it hasn’t been a win for every profession across the board.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Lyft’s CEO and president are stepping down; the company names David Risher as new CEO
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 01:13 PMThe company has faced a wave of trouble in the past few years, as the COVID-19 pandemic hampered travel.
Lyft cofounders Logan Green and John Zimmer are stepping back from day-to-day responsibilities as CEO and president, respectively, the company announced Monday.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - This polar art installation is a stunning ode to Ukraine
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 12:00 AMOn Antarctica, Ukraine’s researchers get a much-needed vision of home.
A delicate outline of a house has materialized in the icy darkness of Antarctica.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fashion is finally designing for women over 40
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 12:30 AMAs millennial women enter their forties, will the fashion industry finally start meeting their needs?
The fashion industry is notoriously obsessed with youth.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What is a human’s place in the AI future of work?
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 03:15 AMOn the latest episode of The New Way We Work Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic explains what skills AI can’t replicate in knowledge work.
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - These ‘supertrees’ grow a climate-friendly alternative to palm oil
Sunday - 03/26/2023 - 11:00 PMPonova is made from the pongamia tree, which is unusually resilient.
On a former sugarcane plantation in Oahu that was abandoned for decades, rows of trees now grow in the degraded soil.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Being positive all the time is impossible and toxic—here’s how to deal with difficult emotions at work
Sunday - 03/26/2023 - 12:30 AMBeing forced to suppress negative emotions in the workplace doesn’t make them go away.
Many organizations now understand the importance of developing a healthy workplace culture and have spent a great deal of time, finances, and effort to create one.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How Japan used poster design to reshape its culture
Tuesday - 03/28/2023 - 12:00 AMA new exhibition from Poster House tells the story of modern Japan.
We tend to think of physical posters as ephemeral objects that get pasted up and discarded a few weeks or months after their usefulness.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Chipotle closed a store to stop a union drive—now it has to pay
Tuesday - 03/28/2023 - 12:00 AMAfter closing a store in Augusta, Maine, in response to employee organizing, the restaurant company agreed to pay a fine to cover workers’ lost wages.
Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to pay $240,000 to former employees as part of a settlement stemming from a complaint that the company violated federal law by closing a restaurant where workers wanted to unionize.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - There’s a trust gap between business leaders, employees, and consumers. This is why
Tuesday - 03/28/2023 - 01:35 AMAccording to a report from PwC, ‘trust’ means something different to executives and their workers.
Inflation is at an all-time high, and inequality has been steadily climbing since the 1980s and doesn’t look like it’s going to come back down anytime soon.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump’s return to social media is not what we expected
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 08:00 PMBig tech’s big decision to let former President Trump back on their platforms didn’t initially amount to much. At least with Facebook, that’s beginning to change.
When Elon Musk restored Donald Trump’s Twitter account, a lot of people assumed the former president and one-time superuser would pick up right where he left off.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How watermarks can help protect against fraud with generative AI like ChatGPT
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 09:00 AMAs society stares down the barrel of what is almost certainly just the beginning of these advances in generative AI, there are reasonable and technologically feasible interventions that can be used to help mitigate these abuses.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ben of Ben & Jerry trades ice cream for cannabis
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 12:00 AMBen Cohen’s new nonprofit cannabis brand will make you crave that chunky monkey.
Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s is telling me a story about smoking pot. We’re on Zoom, and he says: “The idea came about when I was on a camping trip with a friend of mine, sitting around a fire, smoking a joint.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- At this grocery store of the future, 1 tablespoon of clean water costs $198
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 12:00 AMThe Drop Store shows just how bad things could get if our water crisis worsens.
On the Drop Store’s website, pizza comes in pill form for $163. A bag of rice contains just 5 grains but costs $89.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- How Mem uses AI to make organizing your notes easier
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 04:00 AMTry Mem if you’re looking for a modern alternative to Evernote for organizing your notes.
Try Mem if you’re looking for a modern alternative to Evernote for organizing your notes. It’s promising, though not without flaws.Read Full Story
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Monarch Collective unveils $100 million fund to bring equity to women’s sports
Monday - 03/27/2023 - 05:00 AMVenture capitalists Kara Nortman and Jasmine Robinson are launching a fund to invest in women’s teams and leagues.
Companies founded by women received less than 2% of venture capital funding in 2022—a decline from the year before.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- This generative AI tool actually teaches kids how to write
Sunday - 03/26/2023 - 01:00 AMWith the help of a renown tech matriarch and a growing cohort of public school teachers, Pressto offers a new outline for writing education.
Esther Wojcicki isn’t scared of ChatGPT. As a former teacher and the founder of one of the largest high school journalism programs in the country, she knows a thing or two about teaching the art of the written word, and instead of worrying that AI is going to turn students into cheaters, she thinks it can turn them into engaged writers.Read Full Story
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