How Emotionally Intelligent People Use the Crossing Guard Rule to Improve Happiness, Backed By Decades of Research

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How Emotionally Intelligent People Use the Crossing Guard Rule to Improve Happiness, Backed By Decades of Research     I realized I get as much out of this as he does. Continued here

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3 Main Reasons Why American Workers Are Still Quitting     Many companies are looking in the wrong place as they search for options to retain workers. Continued here

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Everything We Know About Ichiban's Return In 'Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth'     The adventures of Ichiban Kasuga (and friends) will continue in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, the next entry in the beloved Yakuza series. The 8th mainline installment drops the Yakuza title completely in favor of its Japanese naming convention and will borrow many familiar mechanics from its acclaimed predecessor, Like a Dragon (aka Yakuza 7). Now that Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio have officially announced Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, there’s plenty to be excited about. But what do we know about the upcoming installment?Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth will launch in early 2024. Sega announced two other games in the series including Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name and Like a Dragon: Ishin!, both of which are launching in 2023. This means you’ll have plenty to hold you over until Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth comes out. Continued here

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Conspirituality: How New Age conspiracy theories threaten public health     Excerpted from Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat by Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, and Julian Walker. Copyright © 2023. Available from PublicAffairs an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc.In her mammoth 2010 work, The Shock Doctrine, Canadian journalist Naomi Klein coined the framework of “disaster capitalism.” Her book describes the agility with which multinational corporations have exploited natural disasters, civil wars, and terrorist threats to encourage deregulation, and to appropriate public assets and utilities. Continued here

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The Best Weighted Blankets and Robes for Calm and Comfort     If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIREDI am nothing if not anxious. Whether it's something in particular or just a general, constant feeling of panic, I'm always looking for products and tactics to help bring me back to Earth. Sleeping is hard too, sometimes because of that anxiety and sometimes because the sheets are touching me in the wrong way, making me itchy and uncomfortable. For both things, being smushed under a 20-pound weighted blanket or compressed into a body-sized sock (more on that later) seems to help. Continued here

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Found: Giant Freshwater Deposits Hiding under the Sea     Researchers are discovering freshwater reservoirs below the coastal seafloor that might someday save dry regions from droughtOn a clear September day in 2015, after 10 years of working to get funding, my colleague Kerry Key and I stepped aboard the R/V Langseth, a research ship docked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. We were about to lead a 10-day expedition to map a deposit of fresh water, size unknown, hidden 100 meters (about 330 feet) under the rocky seafloor. Continued here

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The US will send depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine - a health physicist explains their military, health and environmental effects     The Biden administration has agreed to provide Ukraine with depleted uranium shells to equip M1A1 Abrams tanks that the U.S. is sending there. Britain has already delivered tanks to Ukraine equipped with depleted-uranium shells.DU munitions, developed in the 1970s, are not nuclear weapons and do not produce a nuclear explosion. But soldiers or civilians can be exposed to the uranium, either in combat or afterward. Health physicist Kathryn Higley explains what depleted uranium is and what’s known about potential health and environmental risks. Continued here

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Pebbles from an Asteroid Are about to Be Delivered to Earth, and It's Totally Awesome     The OSIRIS-REx mission will return samples from the asteroid Bennu that could rewrite our solar system’s historyWhat would it be like to hold a piece of outer space in your hand? Some lucky scientists will find out soon when NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft (shorthand for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) returns from its seven-year mission. The probe will drop off a canister holding about a cup of pebbles and dust from the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. “Bennu is a time capsule of the early solar system, and we're cracking it open,” says Amy Hofmann, an isotope geochemist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who is a co-investigator on the mission. “We get to be the first people to see what's in there. I'm getting goose bumps talking about this.” Continued here

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Listen: Why preserving Indigenous languages is so critical to culture     Language, if we are not thinking about it, can be just a way to get from place A to B, a way to order lunch or a way to pass an exam. But language is much more than a way to communicate with words. This is especially true if you have had your language forcibly removed from you, like the thousands of Indigenous children who survived Canada’s colonial assimilation project. Continued here

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Are You Ready for 'Extreme' Water Recycling?     This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In downtown San Francisco, in a cavernous garage that was once a Honda dealership, a gleaming white-and-blue appliance about the size of a commercial refrigerator is being prepared for transport to a hotel in Los Angeles. Continued here

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When the Apocalypse Hits, This Is the Emergency Battery You Want     The way things are going with our planet — New Yorkers were in for a Blade Runner reality last week — you’re going to be glad you have something like the Anker 548 Power Bank to keep all of your devices charged up.Battery experts, Anker, have been prepping for the apocalypse for a while. Its PowerHouse 535 (and 521 and 555 if you’re looking for something with less or more capacity) is considered by many preppers to be a must-have for emergencies. But say you want something smaller and lighter — Anker now has the 548 Power Bank. Continued here

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George Soros hands control over his family's philanthropy to son Alex, after giving away billions and enduring years of antisemitic attacks and conspiracy theories     The author knows individuals and organizations that receive(d) financial support from the Open Society Foundations.Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros is handing control of his US$25 billion holdings, including his Open Society Foundations, to one of his sons, Alexander Soros. Continued here

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The secret of Novak Djokovic's record-breaking tennis success is his mental resilience - expert explains     It comes as no surprise to anyone who follows tennis that Novak Djokovic won his 23rd Grand Slam at the French Open this month, making him the most successful men’s tennis player in history. The Serbian player is consistently hard to beat, even when he is playing poorly. But what is it that sets him apart?There are a few answers. Djokovic has superb technical skills and has been called the best “returner” in the sport’s history. He has worked on his diet and fitness to ensure he is consistently in optimal health. And his tactical understanding and execution of tennis are second to none. Continued here

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How Guy Fawkes got caught     In the sleek, modern headquarters of the National Archives in London lies a threadbare grey leather pouch with faded lettering. Though it doesn’t look like much, this little bag holds the keys to one of history’s most daring conspiracies: the Gunpowder Plot. In 1605, Catholic sympathizer Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill the Protestant King James I and his council. The contents of this unassuming sack reveal the whole traitorous scheme—changing the course of English history forever.Known as a Bag of Secrets, or Baga De Secretis, the first mention of these small pouches was made in 1344, and 91 Bags of Secrets were eventually used in England. Despite their name, the earliest bags didn’t hold sensitive files. Instead, they contained important documents relating to everyday cases of the King’s Bench, the country’s most senior criminal court. But that all changed in the 16th century during the reign of King Henry VIII. Continued here

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Climate-Friendly Cocktail Recipes Go Light on Ice     It takes a lot of water and energy to make negronis, manhattans and margaritas. Could we do with less ice?In the early 19th century, more than 100 years before electric refrigeration, an entrepreneurial Bostonian named Frederic Tudor landed on an idea: He'd cut blocks of ice from his Massachusetts lake and sell it to places where temperatures were too warm for ice to form naturally. Potential financiers thought this plan was too absurd to work. How would he ship the ice without it melting, they wondered, and who would buy it when it could be harvested for free? Continued here

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Hubble Just Captured One of the Universe's Most Puzzling Galaxies     A glittering smudge appears front and center in a new NASA image published on Friday. It may come as a surprise that this hazy region, located 44 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Pegasus, is actually a galaxy.The new image is from the Hubble Space Telescope, now in its 33rd year. Periodically, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) publish dazzling views that Hubble has snapped of the universe. Galaxies are a popular target for the heritage space mission, though the one featured in Friday’s image, called NGC 7292, is unusual. Continued here

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The Flash review: Michael Keaton's Batman is the real star of this DC multiverse mashup     The Flash is one of DC’s most versatile superheroes. First popularised in the 1940s, the speedster’s mantle has been worn by multiple characters in the comics – most famously Barry Allen and Wally West, but also the female Flash, Chinese American Avery Ho. These Flashes have appeared not just in their own comics, but across the DC comics universe from Teen Titans to the Justice League.Director Andy Muschietti’s new film, The Flash, is Warner-DC’s attempt to wrap up DC Extended Universe of films (DCEU) directed by Zac Snyder, which started with Man of Steel in 2013. At the same time, it is launching James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new DC Universe of film and TV as they take over as the heads of DC Studios. Continued here

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The Global South is forging a new foreign policy in the face of war in Ukraine, China-US tensions: Active nonalignment     Interim Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University Yet, in his first six months in office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – now in his third nonconsecutive term – has expended much effort trying to bring peace to the conflict in Eastern Europe. This has included conversations with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington, Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing and in a teleconference call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It has also seen “shuttle diplomacy” by Lula’s chief foreign policy adviser – and former foreign minister – Celso Amorim, who has visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and welcomed his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, in Brasília. Continued here

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How to eat if you want to age slowly     Dr. Morgan Levine, author of True Age, explains how the impact of diet on aging and longevity is determined by three factors: quantity, quality, and timing of food intake. First, caloric restriction — typically a 20% reduction in overall calorie intake — has been linked to increased lifespan in several animal models. However, the positive effects may stem from avoiding overeating rather than restriction per se. Second, a plant-based diet, with less animal products and refined sugars and more fruits, veggies, and whole foods, seems beneficial for aging and longevity. Third, fasting, or limiting eating to specific time windows, might mimic the benefits of caloric restriction by causing “hormesis,” an adaptive response to mild stressors that boost resilience to aging-related changes.  Continued here

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A Master Class in How Not to Act at Work     Watercooler talk, polite jokes, grumbles about a demanding project: These are the mundane exchanges that grease the social wheels of a traditional 9-to-5 job. At best, they lend a pleasant sheen to the workday; at worst, they act as a mind-numbing refrain. But I Think You Should Leave, the hit Netflix sketch show whose third season recently debuted, regularly distorts this supposedly familiar environment, revealing an underside that is both strange and hilarious.The series is the brainchild of Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, who first met while writing for Saturday Night Live. Yet ITYSL doesn’t feel like an outgrowth of that sketch-comedy institution. It has little interest in releasing the awkward tension of any jokes; instead, they get escalated until they veer into the surreal. More often than not, premises focus on someone’s mounting anxiety—specifically the kind that stems from misunderstanding banal situations, such as a first date or a party—and the extremes they’ll pursue to escape that humiliation. There tends to be a lot of yelling. Continued here

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'Persona 5 Tactica' Release Date, Trailer, Platforms, and Gameplay for the Revolutionary RPG     It’s an incredible time to be a Persona fan. From the release of Persona 5 to the ports of Persona 4 Golden and Persona 3 Portable to modern platforms, there’s never been a greater time to jump into the series. And now, Atlus is making it even more appealing with its new project, Persona 5 Tactica. This is a turn-based tactical RPG that will borrow from the themes introduced in Persona 5 but with a new twist. Here, we’ll highlight everything you’ll need to know about Persona 5 Tactica.Persona 5 Tactica is gearing up to launch worldwide on November 17, 2023. This was confirmed during its reveal as part of the Xbox Games Showcase. Continued here

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Killer Whales Are Not Our Friends     In recent months, orcas in the waters off the Iberian Peninsula have taken to ramming boats. The animals have already sunk three this year and damaged several more. After one of the latest incidents, in which a catamaran lost both of its rudders, the boat’s captain suggested that the assailants have grown stealthier and more efficient: “Looks like they knew exactly what they are doing,” he said. Scientists have documented hundreds of orca-boat incidents off the Spanish-Portuguese coast since 2020, but news coverage of these attacks is blowing up right now, thanks in part to a creative new theory about why they’re happening: cetacean vengeance. Now that’s a story!“The orcas are doing this on purpose,” Alfredo López Fernandez, a biologist at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, told LiveScience last month. “Of course, we don’t know the origin or the motivation, but defensive behavior based on trauma, as the origin of all this, gains more strength for us every day.” López Fernandez, who co-authored a 2022 paper on human-orca interactions in the Strait of Gibraltar, speculates that a specific female, known to scientists as White Gladis, may have suffered a “critical moment of agony” at the hands of humans, attacked a boat in retaliation, and then taught other whales to do the same. Continued here

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Boris Johnson Q&A: why report into misleading parliament still matters, even after he resigned as an MP     The House of Commons Committee of Privileges has released a damning report on former prime minister Boris Johnson, ruling that he deliberately misled parliament over the partygate affair and recommending that he be denied a pass giving him access to parliament as a former member. The committee concluded that were he still an MP, he should be suspended for 90 days. But since Johnson resigned upon seeing a draft of the report, he will not serve the suspension. The report is nevertheless still highly significant. Here’s why.The House of Commons Committee of Privileges is composed of MPs from the three largest parties in parliament. Its role is to uphold ethical conduct in the House of Commons alongside the Committee on Standards. Continued here

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Neanderthal adhesives were made through a complex synthesis process     As Homo sapiens, we often consider ourselves to be the most intelligent hominins. But that doesn’t mean our species was the first to discover everything; it appears that Neanderthals found a way to manufacture synthetics long before we ever did. Continued here

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For years, the media ignored the Wright brothers' breakthrough flight. Why?     On December 17th, 1903, the Wright brothers did it. After more than four years of their own efforts and decades of travails by other ambitious tinkerers, Orville and Wilbur achieved the first powered flight, successfully piloting their Wright Flyer for a total of 59 seconds over a distance of 800 feet in Dare County, North Carolina. What was one comparatively short hop for the two siblings from Dayton, Ohio would end up being a giant leap for humankind. More than a century later, airplanes allow us to traverse the globe, physically connecting the world as no other invention has.Today, history rightfully looks back on the Wright brothers’ first powered flight as a momentous breakthrough, but for years, it was met with a collective shrug. The Wrights’ attempts to alert the press were ignored. Not even their hometown newspaper, the Dayton Journal, reported their accomplishment, saying the flight was too short to be important. Continued here

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Starts With A Bang Podcast #94 - Dark energy and cosmic growth     We have a pretty good idea of both what’s in our Universe and how it grew up. But it’s only because we have several different, completely independent lines of evidence that point to the same consensus picture that we actually believe that our Universe is 13.8 billion years old and composed of a mix of normal matter and radiation, but is dominated by dark matter and dark energy on the largest of cosmic scales.In particular, we form large, cosmically bound structures on the scales of galaxies and galaxy clusters, but on larger scales, dark energy and the expanding Universe dominate, working to drive everything apart. The story of how we’ve come to know this information about the Universe and how we’re using both old and new techniques to push the our understanding further is the subject of this edition of our podcast. Continued here

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What My Father and My Relationship With Him Taught Me About Being a Leader     Tips for entrepreneurs on being resilient, passionate, and living in the moment. Continued here

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Everything Is Already There: Javier Mar     Each month, I spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars keeping The Marginalian going. For seventeen years, it has remained free and ad-free and alive thanks to patronage from readers. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. If this labor has made your own life more livable in the past year (or the past decade), please consider aiding its sustenance with a one-time or loyal donation. Your support makes all the difference.It starts with a tremble in the stomach, a palpitation in the chest. You may call it intuition, premonition, foreboding. You may press it down with the firm fist of rationalism. And yet it persists, this flutter of feeling — this haunting sense that the future is not about to happen to you, but is already happening in you.For all the marvels and flaws of our intuition, we expend immense cerebral and emotional energy on repressing these emissaries of our secret knowledge — these deep truths we perceive about ourselves and others, which we would rather not see and not heed in order to keep the surface of our lives unruffled. It is only in hindsight that we recognize their sharp validity, so blunted in the moment by our compulsive rationalizations, our comforting denials, and our willful blindness. Continued here

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When a Show About the Future Is Stuck in Place     Joan is an ordinary woman with ordinary complaints. She wishes the coffee at her office tasted better. She thinks her new hairstyle might be a bit much. She loves her fiancé, but worries their sex life isn’t as exciting as it should be. “I feel like I’m not the main character in my own life story,” she explains at a therapy session. When her therapist asks her if she would like that to change, she nods.Because Joan (played by Annie Murphy) is a protagonist on the newest season of Black Mirror, the Netflix anthology series about the tenuous relationship between humans and technology, she gets her wish—and then some. She becomes the unwitting lead character of Joan Is Awful, a TV series on a Netflix-like streaming platform called Streamberry, in which the actress Salma Hayek (playing herself) plays Joan. But while this premise may sound like the type of meta, kooky concept that Black Mirror once had delicious fun with, the resulting story is inert. “Joan Is Awful”—the Black Mirror episode, not the Streamberry show—is a mess of thinly drawn characters, with a plot that ultimately amounts to a lazy parody of Netflix. The story quickly spirals into a litany of exposition dumps about how Streamberry can exploit Joan so easily, culminating with a bunch of tired jokes about how people should read their terms-and-conditions documents more carefully. Continued here

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3 Signs You Are The Jerk At Work     You publicly embarrass people; you ignore others' requests; and you fail to acknowledge their feedback. Continued here