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Digital Distractions: How to Stop Technology from Stealing Your Time - StartUp Mindset You have a ton of things to do but for some reason, you are fascinated by what people are posting on instagram, where your friends are eating dinner, and the latest rant from @KimKardasian on Twitter. Continued here

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4 Tactics that Backfire When Dealing with a Difficult Colleague When you’re at your wit’s end with a challenging colleague and it feels like you’ve tried everything, well-meaning friends and coworkers may tell you to “just ignore it” or to “suck it up” and move on with your life. But suppressing our emotions rarely helps. In this piece, the author outlines four tactics that are tempting to try — but often backfire — when dealing with a difficult colleague. Another one to avoid: waiting to see if your difficult colleague will just leave on their own. Your dream that they’ll walk out the door may come true, but there’s no guarantee that the culture will shift or that you’ll get along with their replacement. Ultimately you’re better off trying to create a workable situation with your colleague now. And remember: even small improvements can make a big difference. Continued here

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Advice from the CEO of an All-Remote Company Most organizations have now accepted that the days of all their knowledge workers coming into the office full time are over. So what’s next?  Sid Sijbrandij, CEO and cofounder of Gitlab, thinks all-remote can be the answer. His open-source software development company took that approach from the start not because of the pandemic but because its founding team was dispersed and early employees were more productive at home. Now with more than 1,300 people spread across more than 60 countries, GitLab is said to be the world’s largest all-remote company. He shares the lessons he’s learned about the best way to manage a distributed workforce. Continued here

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4 Steps to Start Monetizing Your Company’s Data As artificial intelligence becomes ubiquitous in business, non-tech companies need to learn how to use their data to gain a competitive edge. Companies that are trying to decide where and how to use AI should take four steps: 1) survey the data they have and how other companies are generating and using data, 2) look for data- and AI-focused companies, such as startups, that can help jumpstart your data strategy, 3) buy, don’t build, and 4) start building a data moat. Continued here

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Bertrand Russell on the Two Types of Knowledge and What Makes a Fulfilling Life "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life," the Nobel-winning English polymath Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872.February 2, 1970) wrote in his memoir at the end of a long and intellectually invigorating life - a life the echoes of which reverberate through some of the most defining ideas of our time. Continued here

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Burnout Is About Your Workplace, Not Your People We often think of burnout as an individual problem, solvable with simple-fix techniques like “learning to say no”, more yoga, better breathing, practicing resilience. Yet, evidence is mounting that personal, band-aid solutions are not enough to combat an epic and rapidly evolving workplace phenomenon. In fact, they might be harming, not helping the battle. With “burnout” now officially recognized by the World Health Organization, the responsibility for managing it has shifted away from employees and toward employers. Burnout is preventable. It requires good organizational hygiene, better data, asking more timely and relevant questions, smarter budgeting (more micro-budgeting), and ensuring that wellness offerings are included as part of your well-being strategy Continued here

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Is Your Board Inclusive — or Just Diverse? In recent years, many boards have made substantial progress when it comes to increasing diversity. But the authors’ research suggests that simply increasing representation of women or ethnic minorities isn’t necessarily enough to achieve true inclusion in the boardroom. Through an analysis of director diversity and financial performance of the FTSE 350 as well as a series of in-depth interviews with global board members, the authors identify common benefits and challenges associated with moving beyond representation on the board. They then offer several research-backed strategies to help boards become not just diverse but truly inclusive, including adopting an intersectional approach, challenging assumptions around status and experience, and proactively investing in board culture. Continued here

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How to give feedback September 11, 2022“If you approach [a difficult] conversation with a mindset that you’re bringing them a new perspective, you’re giving them a new view on the world ... it really can be something that is a gift to another person, and it is going to help them become a more effective manager or leader,” says Liz Hilton Segel, McKinsey’s global leader of industry practices. Feedback is crucial to employee development and growth, but delivering—and receiving—it isn’t always easy. As performance review season approaches, check out these insights on enhancing team dynamics, navigating difficult conversations, and unleashing employees’ full potential. Continued here

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Games People Play: The Revolutionary 1964 Model of Human Relationships That Changed How We (Mis)Understand Ourselves and Each Other The hardest thing in life isn't getting what we want but knowing what we want, for it requires the whole blooming buzzing confusion of knowing who and what we are - the great question we are always answering with our lives for as long as we live. Most of our psychological suffering and most of the pain we inflict on others stem from our confusion about what we want and all the consequent clumsiness with which we go after it, like a child fumbling with a toy before she has learned how to operate her own body or what the toy does. Continued here

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A century ago, wind power was a farming norm. What happened? An excerpt from the forthcoming book THE BIG FIX: 7 Practical Steps to Save Our Planet by Hal Harvey and Justin Gillis. Continued here

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The questions you should ask yourself to figure out what you really want Berrak Sarikaya always knew she wanted to be a lawyer. In high school, she threw herself into mock trial and debate. The oldest child of Turkish immigrant parents, Sarikaya understood the gravity of getting into a good college and the necessity of scholarships to fund that schooling. “One of the biggest reasons that we came to the US was for me and my brother to get a good education and have better opportunities,” Sarikaya, 37, says. “So there was definitely that pressure of if I don’t go to college, then all of it will have been a waste.” Continued here

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Why Is the Pound Falling and What Does That Mean for Me? Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng – some guy most of us had never heard of until a couple of months ago when he tried and failed to become prime minister – is now in charge of the entire UK money pot to do with as he pleases, and unfortunately his interests are not aligned with those of the majority of the UK population. His mini-budget on Friday sunk the sterling to a historic low against the dollar. It is currently now slumping as much as 1 percent to around $1.06.  Continued here

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How India runs on WhatsApp WhatsApp’s simple design helped make it a hit internationally, especially in countries where most people don’t have iPhones to use iMessage or affordable cell phone plans to send SMS messages. When Meta bought WhatsApp eight years ago in a record $19 billion cash and stock deal, it was considered a risky bet. Today, even though it doesn’t contribute much to Meta’s bottom line, WhatsApp is arguably the company’s most essential international product. Continued here

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Quantum Physics Could Finally Explain Consciousness, Scientists Say During the 20th century, researchers pushed the frontiers of science further than ever before with great strides made in two very distinct fields. While physicists discovered the strange counter-intuitive rules that govern the subatomic world, our understanding of how the mind works burgeoned.Yet, in the newly-created fields of quantum physics and cognitive science, difficult and troubling mysteries still linger, and occasionally entwine. Why do quantum states suddenly resolve when they're measured, making it at least superficially appear that observation by a conscious mind has the capacity to change the physical world? What does that tell us about consciousness? Continued here

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An ex-NBA exec and gambling maestro wants to take on Real Madrid and Barcelona. Will his latest bet lift an underdog Spanish soccer team? CASTELLON DE LA PLANA, Spain -- On a sweltering August afternoon in a small Spanish city just a few miles inland from the Mediterranean coast, the mayor opens the door to her conference room and invites in her last meeting of the day. The guest of honor -- a Canadian who has been the talk of her town for the last two weeks. Continued here

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Why Do So Many Recipes Call for So Little Garlic? As the memes go, the proper way to measure garlic is with your heart. One clove is not enough for any recipe, unless it’s a recipe for “how to cook one clove of garlic,” in which case you should still use two. More extreme: When the recipe calls for one clove, use at least a head. Why? Because there is no such thing as too much garlic. Continued here

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The delicious story of how Milkmaid became the byword for condensed milk in India Colonialism brought condensed milk to India. And it was colonialism, with capitalism, that made Milkmaid a pantry staple in urban kitchens. Continued here

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The future of tabletop games is digital The year is 2032, and the tabletop landscape is composed far more of ones and zeroes than cardboard and plastic. With the advancements in VR technology and virtual tabletop services, digital versions of games have officially overtaken physical games as the predominant method of play. Commercial AR and VR displays have become cheap enough to be a common site in many homes. It has become expected to release digital versions of all physical games, with the occasional release going so far as to include a digital redemption code in a physical box. More and more games are being released thanks to the reduced costs of creating digital games, allowing for small studios to find success. All of this is due in no small part to practices and events over a decade in the making. Continued here

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Why Quitting Is Underrated Siobhan O’Keeffe, one of tens of thousands of runners in the 2019 London Marathon, noticed that her ankle started hurting four miles into the race. According to a news report at the time, she kept running despite the worsening pain. Another four miles later, her fibula bone snapped. Medics bandaged her leg and advised her to quit, but O’Keeffe refused. She actually finished the marathon, running the last 18 miles in nearly unbearable pain and risking permanent injury. Continued here

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The housing market slowdown, explained in 7 charts That’s good news for buyers who can afford to stay in the market. But many prospective buyers are being priced out as high mortgage rates and steep prices make it unaffordable for some to purchase a new home. At the same time, new home construction has decreased as builders become warier of falling demand — and rent prices have continued to increase. Continued here

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The heartbreak and cost of losing a baby in America Bennett Markow looks to his big brother, Eli (right), during a family visit at UC Davis Children's Hospital in Sacramento. Bennett was born four months early, in November 2020. Crissa Markow hide caption Continued here

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What makes a good laptop? One of the things about this job is that everyone in your life — from friends to relatives to distant acquaintances and strangers on the internet — asks you questions about laptops all the time. A very common one I hear is also one of the harder ones to answer: “What makes a good laptop?” Continued here

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NVIDIA's new AI model quickly generates objects and characters for virtual worlds | Engadget NVIDIA is looking to take the sting out of creating virtual 3D worlds with a new artificial intelligence model. GET3D can generate characters, buildings, vehicles and other types of 3D objects, NVIDIA says. The model should be able to whip up shapes quickly too. The company notes that GET3D can generate around 20 objects per second using a single GPU. Continued here

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With Josh Allen, the NFL's ultimate weapon, 'your mind's blown at all the possibilities' The fifth-year signal caller enters 2022 as an MVP frontrunner on a Super Bowl favorite, but could he become an all-time great? Continued here

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True stories of Dusty Baker: 'I'm the second-most-interesting man in the world' "And the thing is, most of the stories are true," says one former player. "It’s the Legend of Dusty." Continued here

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Life As Lisa Simpson For decades, Yeardley Smith has given voice to the precocious, impassioned second-grader of ‘The Simpsons.’ But heading into the show’s 34th season, she’s only recently fully embraced her animated counterpart. Continued here

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The cheating scandal roiling the chess world has a new wrinkle Magnus Carlsen (left) and Hans Niemann face off at the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis on Sept. 4. The two had a rematch on Monday, but Carlsen only played one move before resigning from the game. Crystal Fuller/Grand Chess Tour hide caption Continued here

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How Twitch lost the battle for its soul The reaction to the news that Twitch intends to change how it splits revenue with partnered streamers has been, on the whole, completely and utterly negative. Streamers at every level of growth, from the big-time partners to the smallest affiliates, were displeased to learn that the 70 / 30 revenue sharing split that had been long asked for — and is the standard or better elsewhere — was not only being rejected but being slowly phased out completely. To quote the Fallout 4 meme: “everyone disliked that.”  Continued here

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The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader The popular media is full of examples of bad leaders in government, academia, and business. But the most common kind of incompetent leader isn’t the ranting, narcissistic sociopath that might immediately come to mind. Rather, it’s the “absentee leader” — those in leadership roles who are psychologically absent from them. These people were promoted into management, and enjoy the privileges and rewards of a leadership role, but avoid meaningful involvement with their teams. Absentee leaders kill engagement and productivity. Research shows that being ignored by one’s boss is more alienating than being treated poorly, and that the impact of absentee leadership on job satisfaction outlasts the impact of both constructive and more overtly destructive forms of leadership. The chances are good, however, that your organization is unaware of its absentee leaders, because they specialize in flying under the radar by not doing anything that attracts attention. Nonetheless, the adhesiveness of their negative impact may be slowly and silently killing your organization. Continued here

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4 Tactics that Backfire When Dealing with a Difficult Colleague When you’re at your wit’s end with a challenging colleague and it feels like you’ve tried everything, well-meaning friends and coworkers may tell you to “just ignore it” or to “suck it up” and move on with your life. But suppressing our emotions rarely helps. In this piece, the author outlines four tactics that are tempting to try — but often backfire — when dealing with a difficult colleague. Another one to avoid: waiting to see if your difficult colleague will just leave on their own. Your dream that they’ll walk out the door may come true, but there’s no guarantee that the culture will shift or that you’ll get along with their replacement. Ultimately you’re better off trying to create a workable situation with your colleague now. And remember: even small improvements can make a big difference. Continued here

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Moving a Family Business Beyond the Founder’s Vision To sustain a long-term family enterprise, it’s clear that having a founder who builds a great business is only the first step. As the legacy business and the entrepreneurial leadership of the founding generation gives way to the next generation, the business enters a transition to a new era where there are several related family owners, who often need to create a path to reconsider what business they are in, which goals to develop, and how they will do that. They must redefine the business and develop new opportunities for a new era. This transition requires members of the second and third generation to become entrepreneurs and pioneers in their own right. Their leadership is often less visible than that of the founder, but no less important. Continued here

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The Best Managers Are Leaders — and Vice Versa Most of the long-running debate over “leaders” vs. “managers” focuses on nouns when it should focus on verbs. Everyone needs both “leading” and “managing” in their work, and the best executives balance the two. Over the last 15 years, the author asked a thousand executives about the difference between leading and managing, recording their responses. The distinction remains interesting and important, but it’s healthier as a balance that every individual tries to strike instead of as two distinct skillsets or roles within an organization. Continued here

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India's high-stakes bid to join the global semiconductor race The factories outside Chennai, in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, are home to an array of global corporate names that lend credibility to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Make in India" campaign, which aims to turn Asia's third-largest economy into a workshop to the world.The state's industrial parks host international investors such as Renault-Nissan and Hyundai, which have large car factories; Dell makes computers there and Samsung produces TVs, washing machines and fridges. There are enough suppliers to Apple (including Taiwan's Foxconn and Pegatron, and the Finnish contract manufacturer Salcomp) that people in Tamil Nadu's business community commonly refer to the American tech group, which does not discuss its suppliers, as "the fruit company".Now India wants to take a step up the manufacturing value chain, with a high-stakes bid to begin making semiconductors. The Modi government has put $10bn of incentives on the table to tempt manufacturers to set up new "fabs" (semiconductor fabrication plants) and encourage investment in related sectors such as display glass. One plant is being planned in Tamil Nadu.India's ambition to enter the chipmaking business comes at a time of growing trade and geopolitical tension as western economies have pushed to decouple their supply chains from China, which has invested heavily to become a leader in the semiconductor industry. Continued here

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These 3-D Printing Drones Could Alter the Future of Construction Future construction sites could look vastly different due to new, flying 3-D printing technology. As opposed to plots of land packed with workers in neon-colored vests and goggles, these developments might one day be loaded with drones that are 3-D printing new buildings. Continued here

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How I Learned Confidence From Online Posers As a 42-year-old, newly single mom, I was a little insecure when I joined Match to meet a nice guy. I described myself as a feminist law professor, interested in liberal intellectuals within five years, plus or minus, of my age. The people who contacted me only eroded my confidence, however. I got cryptic messages from much older and more conservative high school grads, pictured on their motorcycles. These suitors and I ostensibly had nothing in common. When they liked, winked, or waved, they seemed not to have even skimmed my profile. Continued here

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"Special" Muscle Can Promote Glucose and Fat Burning to Fuel Metabolism for Hours While Sitting - Neuroscience News From the same mind whose research propelled the notion that .sitting too much is not the same as exercising too little,. comes a groundbreaking discovery set to turn a sedentary lifestyle on its ear: The soleus muscle in the calf, though only 1% of your body weight, can do big things to improve the metabolic health in the rest of your body if activated correctly. Continued here

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Oh wow! How getting more awe can improve your life -- and even make you a nicer person A few years ago I went on a solo walking holiday to Lanzarote. On day one, I walked up a coastal hill path and came across a view I still see in my dreams. Huge ochre mountains pierced the sky. Craters of black sand and eerie green lagoons dotted the landscape. It was like Mars. My skin rippled with goosebumps. I was briefly, deliciously, insignificant. Continued here

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Supplements That Should Not Be Mixed There are some vitamins, minerals, and other supplements that should not be taken together. Find out which combinations might have adverse effects. Continued here

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Can science prevent a pandemic? For contagious disease scientists, 2022 started off with a bang — and it wasn’t just the fresh wave of Omicron infections. It was a preliminary study on another coronavirus found in bats, called NeoCoV. This virus is related to the lethal but rare Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which has killed more than a third of everyone infected. Continued here

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How often do I need to stretch to really see results? Experts recommend stretching at least 2-3 times a week to increase flexibility and reduce pain. Continued here

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15 of NASA's Coolest Inventions That Regular People Use The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s does more than create ambitious telescopes that can see the beginning of time and send people to the moon and back. It’s also responsible for Michael Phelps’ swimsuit, LASIK surgery, and the selfie. The everyday products listed below are only 15 of the more than 2,000 consumer products NASA considers “spinoff technology” from the space program. They are all based on technology and discoveries either developed directly by NASA, in partnership with NASA, or through funding from NASA. Continued here

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The Exiled Dissident Fuelling the Hijab Protests in Iran Women from across Iran are pulling off their hijabs and lighting them on fire, flouting the country’s gray-bearded theocrats in dramatic scenes of a population struggling to set itself free. Of all the astonishments pouring forth from the Islamic Republic, perhaps the most remarkable is the fact that Iran was brought to this point, at least in part, by an unpaid forty-six-year-old mother working from an F.B.I. safehouse in New York City. Continued here

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Don’t Trash Your Old Phone—Give It a Second Life Sure, the first one I owned, which I purchased in 2017, had only 16GB of storage. And yes, I was forced to stop using it after a terrifying incident in which it refused to update to the latest iOS, even after I deleted nearly everything on it, which prevented me from installing the Ticketmaster app that I needed to enter a Harry Styles concert that I had flown to California by myself to attend. (Would you believe someone at the arena simply agreed to print the ticket out? I was crying.) After that, I bought a refurbished iPhone SE with 64GB of storage for $165. I eventually stopped using this one, because the camera was so bad that it was upsetting my friends. Also, a small part of the screen stopped working—right in the spot I had to press to switch the keyboard from letters to numbers, which meant I had no access to punctuation and came off, via text, as very cold. And I couldn’t log in to my bank account. Continued here

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Why south India outperforms the north Data shows that southern Indian states continue to outperform the rest of the country in health, education and economic opportunities. But what are the consequences of this phenomenon? Nilakantan R, a data scientist, finds out. Continued here

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Six recent discoveries that have changed how we think about human origins You may have heard science has reconsidered its view of Neanderthals but did you know human hybrid species played a key role in our evolution? Continued here

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Americans keep moving to where the water isn't Even with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act — which, name aside, is the most ambitious piece of climate-related legislation ever passed by Congress — the US is locked into decades of rising temperatures and more extreme weather. Just how warm it will get will depend on how quickly we can reduce carbon emissions and how sensitive the climate proves to be, but average global temperature increases of between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial norms seem most likely, with some regions experiencing much worse extremes. Continued here

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Brand new iPhone features that Android already has But we live in a competitive society, and so the one company that produces iOS-based phones and the myriad brands that make Android-based phones always feel that they need to explain why their product is more spectacular, more flexible, more secure, more fun, and more whatever than the ones powered by the other OS. As a result, whenever a company introduces a feature that’s new to its OS, it proclaims it as innovative, wonderful, and never seen before. Anyone who has attended or watched a product introduction — from Apple, Google, or Samsung — knows what I’m talking about. Continued here

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Facebook Engineers Admit They Don't Know What They Do With Your Data Earlier this year, Motherboard reported about an internal Facebook document that said the company has no idea where users’ data goes, and what the company is doing with it. During a previously sealed court hearing in March, two veteran Facebook engineers confirmed what the leaked document revealed. Continued here

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Surprise! Protons Contain a Subatomic Particle That's Heavier Than the Proton Itself Protons are particles that exist in the nucleus of all atoms, with their number defining the elements themselves. Protons, however, are not fundamental particles. Rather, they are composite particles made up of smaller subatomic particles, namely two “up quarks” and one “down quark” bound together by force-carrying particles  (bosons ) called “gluons.” Continued here

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Celtics suspend coach Udoka for 2022-23 season The Celtics have suspended coach Ime Udoka for the entirety of the 2022-23 season for violations of team policies, the franchise announced Thursday. The team added in a statement that “a decision about his future with the Celtics beyond this season will be made at a later date.”The second-year... Continued here

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The NBA Is Running From Responsibility With Its Robert Sarver Decision Adam Silver’s explanation for the punishment meted out to the Suns governor was just as lacking as the punishment itself. With training camps set to open, the league is hoping this mess will all go away. But will it? Continued here

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Why is Wine Country tourism so slow? 'You're out a few thousand dollars before you walk into a winery' Many Napa and Sonoma County business owners have described a slowdown, attributing it to a number of factors, including the surge in international travel and inflation. The costs of gas, airfare and lodging are all on the rise. Wine tasting fees have also gotten more expensive in Napa and Sonoma counties.  Continued here

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Job Insecurity Harms Both Employees and Employers Despite the well-documented negative effects of job insecurity on workers’ well-being, many employers continue to intentionally stoke fears of job loss among their workforce, under the assumption that this can motivate workers and reduce costs. But is this approach actually effective? The authors conducted a series of surveys with more than 600 American employees and found that while job insecure workers may indeed be motivated to try to improve their performance and adhere more closely to company policies, the stress, frustration, resentment, and exhaustion associated with this insecurity create a cognitive load that counteracts any positive effect on performance or rule-following. Job insecure workers are also more likely to focus on making their contributions visible rather than on actually doing valuable work, and some even hide information or intentionally sabotage their coworkers to make themselves look better in comparison. Worse yet, many of these behaviors spark vicious cycles that further reduce perceptions of job security. As such, the authors argue that fostering a sense of job insecurity isn’t just cruel — it’s often counterproductive. Continued here

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How to Develop a Strong Work Ethic In our early career years, it can be challenging to figure out what behaviors are and are not acceptable in different professional environments. Employers are now expecting more of entry-level workers and they want to see that you have good work ethic. So what is work ethic? Continued here

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Everybody feels overextended at work When I reached out to Paige to talk about a post she’d written online about feeling stretched at work, she first had a question for me: Was I her boss secretly trying to trick her? She was a “little paranoid” about it, and rightly so — the Oregon receptionist has not exactly had the warmest feelings about her place of work lately. Continued here