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America's Energy Divide: How Democrats and Republicans Feel on Energy Energy and climate issues have long been a point of division in American politics, with Democrats generally believing in investing in renewable energy sources while Republicans are more supportive of expanding energy production more broadly, including the use of fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
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WorkThe Speech of Kamala Harris's Lifetime - The New Yorker (No paywall)The Chicks sang the national anthem. The actor Kerry Washington, who, like many of the women in Chicago's packed United Center, looked earnestly political in a suffragette-white outfit, guided Kamala Harris's pint-size grandnieces in a brilliant troll of Republicans who have refused to pronounce the Vice-President's name correctly. "Kama-la," they instructed, their tiny voices amplified by the roar of thousands. In the days and hours leading up to the speech of Harris's life, the Democrats featured John Legend, Stevie Wonder, even Oprah Winfrey. The singer-songwriter Pink sang her bittersweet hit ballad "What About Us." Eva Longoria, introduced as "actress, director, and philanthropist," extolled the nominee as a friend and led a chant: "She se puede!" Was there any crueller way to taunt the celebrity-obsessed former President than to emphasize the embarrassing glitz gap between the two parties in this most consequential of election years? The entertainers headlining Donald Trump's final night at the Republican Convention were Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan. WorkThe Kremlin is close to crushing Pokrovsk, a vital Ukrainian town - The Economist (No paywall)This is not Nina Uvarova’s first evacuation. The first time, she fled the advancing Wehrmacht as a two-and-a-half-year-old. Now, aged 84, she is running from Vladimir Putin’s army. The retired teacher has packed her most valuable belongings into five bags, which her son lifts onto the 14.10 evacuation train to Lviv. The emotions of the day bring back memories of her first escape. “The explosions, the shooting, the hiding in basements, I still remember it all.” The decision to leave agonised her, but Russian artillery landing in Pokrovsk’s southern district left no choice.
WorkWorkQ&A: To Protect the Natural World, We Need to Put a Price on It - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)Sarah Kapnick, chief scientist at NOAA, tells HBR how the agency is developing scientific standards and low-cost technologies to measure and value natural ecosystems. Kapnick highlights the critical role of accurate environmental measurement in aiding businesses to understand their impacts, create new financial instruments, and enhance risk management. She discusses NOAA’s efforts to bridge the gap between scientific research and practical applications, the importance of international cooperation, and the growing involvement of the private sector in environmental monitoring. WorkWorkUkraine to receive $125 million in US military aid: reportOn Thursday, an official within President Joe Biden's administration told the Associated Press (AP) that a new $125 million military aid package will include an array of defense systems including air defense missiles, ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), anti-armor missiles, counter-drone technology and Javelins. WorkHow a Beyonc
Work WorkAustralian court rules in case that asked 'what is a woman'?The Federal Court found that although Roxanne Tickle had not been directly discriminated against, she was a victim of indirect discrimination - which refers to when a decision disadvantages a person with a particular attribute - and ordered the app to pay her A$10,000 ($6,700; £5,100) plus costs. WorkThe trial of Lucy Letby has shocked British statisticians - The Economist (No paywall)It was “feeble”. It was “very unsatisfactory”. It was, in short, “terrible”. If you wish to annoy a statistician, ask them about the trial of Lucy Letby, a British nurse. Statisticians will, typically, take no view whatsoever on the guilt or otherwise of Ms Letby, who in August 2023 was found guilty of murdering seven very young babies in a hospital near Liverpool between 2015 and 2016, and given 15 life sentences without the chance of parole. WorkConfessions of a Theoretical PhysicistI remember the day when, at the age of 7, I realized that I wanted to figure out how reality worked. My mother and father had just taken us shopping at a market in Calcutta. On the way back home, we passed through a dimly lit arcade where a sidewalk bookseller was displaying his collection of slim volumes. I spotted an enigmatic cover with a man looking through a microscope; the words “Famous Scientists” were emblazoned on it, and when I asked my parents to get it for me, they agreed. As I read the chapters, I learned about discoveries by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek of the world of microscopic life, by Marie Curie about radioactivity, by Albert Einstein about relativity, and I thought, “My God, I could do this, too!” By the time I was 8, I was convinced that everything could be explained, and that I, personally, was going to do it. WorkWhat's Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal ModelsIt’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine learning. Yes, from an engineering point of view, an immense amount has been figured out about how to build neural nets that do all kinds of impressive and sometimes almost magical things. But at a fundamental level we still don’t really know why neural nets “work”—and we don’t have any kind of “scientific big picture” of what’s going on inside them. WorkWorkFast food has a Gen Z problem - Business Insider (No paywall)Gen Z diners surveyed by Morning Consult were less likely to say that they thought fast-food chains were a good value than all the older generations. Morning Consult collected the data in monthly polls over the course of this year and broke results down for other generations, including millennials, Gen X, and baby boomers. TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives |
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