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What New Love Does to Your Brain
Roses are red, violets are blue. Romance can really mess with you.
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Opinion | In Medicine, the Morally Unthinkable Too Easily Comes to Seem Normal
Before you decide to speak out about wrongdoing, you have to recognize it for what it is.
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Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business - MIT Technology Review (No paywall)
People are seeking help from AI-generated avatars to process their grief after a family member passes away.
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For Success with AI, Bring Everyone On Board - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
AI is intimidating employees. As machines perform intellectually demanding tasks that were previously reserved for human workers, people feel more excluded and less necessary than ever. The problem is only getting worse. Eighty percent of organizations say their main technological goal is hyperautomation—or the complete end-to-end automation of as many business processes as possible. Executives often pursue that goal without feedback from employees—the people whose jobs, and lives, will feel the greatest impact from automation. In this article the author examines what keeps leaders from involving rank-and-file employees in AI projects, how they should model inclusive behavior, and what organizations must do to develop employee-inclusive AI practices. Those practices will make companies more likely to improve long-term performance—and to keep their employees happy, productive, and engaged.
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The Missing Link Between Strategy and Innovation - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
In too many companies, an innovation team is allowed to pursue its own agenda and imagine itself to be a separate island from the rest of the company. The results are always disappointing: a lot of creative ideas, but a failure to deliver meaningful growth. The root problem is the disconnect between strategy and innovation. To succeed, corporate innovation needs to be bounded by a clear set of strategic priorities that matter to the business. And it needs to play to the strengths of the firm — whether data, customer relationships, or supply chains — that will enable it to outcompete others attempting the same idea. The author offers five steps to help embed strategy into the innovation process.
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Where the World's Aluminum is Smelted, by Country
Approximately 25% of annually produced aluminum is utilized by the construction industry, while another 23% is allocated to vehicle frames, wires, wheels, and other components within the transportation sector. Aluminum foil, cans, and packaging constitute another significant end-use category, accounting for 17% of consumption.
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A lesser-known recession indicator with a perfect track record over the last 11 downturns just signaled that trouble is coming. Here's when a recession could arrive — and why stocks are still safe for the time being. - Business Insider (No paywall)
A recession could be on the doorstep of the US economy. But Michael Kantrowitz says stocks should rise in the near-term even if that's the case.
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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was Google’s first female engineer—only because she tried to delete a recruiter email and accidentally opened it instead - Fortune (No paywall)
Mayer's career can be boiled down to a single wrong keystroke.
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Measles is coming back. My sister Marcie isn't
At the end of February 1960, my healthy, precocious sister Marcie was halfway through the fourth grade when she contracted measles from a classmate who lived down the street. Their cases were among the nearly 500,000 that year, before the measles vaccination program began in the U.S. in 1963. For every 1,000 people who get measles, one develops measles encephalitis, which can cause permanent brain damage. Marcie was one.
I was only 6 years old at the time, but the gravity of my sister’s illness wasn’t lost on me (and today the very mention of the word measles resonates to my core). Marcie had been sick in bed with a high fever for a couple of days. House calls were common then, but something was different this time when the doctor arrived. Our house was quiet. Library quiet. As the pediatrician told my parents that my sister needed to be hospitalized, my fearless, happy-go-lucky mother fainted in front of us.
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Why the Met Gala still matters
Turns out the first Monday in May is the perfect venue for celebrity image-making.
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