New Evidence Shows When Saturn's Rings Will Disappear

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New Evidence Shows When Saturn's Rings Will Disappear   Saturn’s rings are one of the jewels of the Solar System, but it seems that their time is short and their existence fleeting.A new study suggests the rings are between 400 million and 100 million years old – a fraction of the age of the Solar System. This means we are just lucky to be living in an age when the giant planet has its magnificent rings. Research also reveals that they could be gone in another 100 million years. Continued here

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Keeping Your Marketing Personalized but Automated - StartUp Mindset   If your business is your baby, you may spend a lot of time personalizing your marketing. Alternatively, if you are hustling with a business idea, you may focus on automation. Both are necessary, and when you can balance the two, you can get the best of both worlds. People are going to notice personalized marketing. […] Continued here

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The Zone of Interest review from Cannes: Five stars for Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust 'masterpiece'   Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) is showing her mother around her garden in the sunshine. Three years earlier, it was just a field, but now it has neat lawns, paved paths, a pool, a greenhouse, and thriving flower beds. "It's a paradise garden," marvels her proud mother. But, of course, the family wouldn't have their enviable home if it weren't for the hard work of Hedwig's husband Rudolf (Christian Friedel). "He's under pressure like you wouldn't believe," she says.The women's quiet, middle-class chit-chat could hardly be more ordinary, but it's rendered dizzyingly surreal and deeply horrific by certain details that they don't seem to notice: the grey, barbed wire-topped wall on one side of the garden; the barracks and the belching chimney just beyond it; and the constant background noise of industrial rumbling, steam trains chuffing, some intermittent shouting, and the occasional echoing gunshot. Slowly and steadily, without any big, sudden reveal, we learn that Rudolf is Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, and that he, his wife, and their young children have a contented, healthy, if slightly boring life while thousands of people are killed daily just a few feet away. Continued here

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13 Great Deals on Air Fryers, Sound Machines, and More   summer is quickly approaching. And while it's a season meant for rest, relaxation, and soaking up the rays, it can also become extremely hectic. Most of us are attempting to squeeze in as many backyard barbecues, trips, and other activities before fall rolls around. Below, we've gathered a variety of deals on gadgets to prepare you for what might be a busy few months ahead—including air fryers for whipping up quick and delicious meals, sound machines for a restful night's sleep after a supercharged day, AC units to get you through the heat waves, and more. Looking for more discounts on summer-friendly gear? Check out our roundup of Best Memorial Day Outdoor Deals. Continued here

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You Only Have a Few Days to Get Hideo Kojima's Most Prophetic Game For Free   Prophets don’t get a lot of respect. Predicting the future is a dicey proposition, often containing some hard truths about powerful forces. Cassandra, the tragic Greek heroine cursed to always know the truth, but never be believed, was axed to death in a bathtub. Jesus, famously, had a rough go of it. Hideo Kojima lost the Metal Gear franchise, but gained the freedom to give us a game about an isolating cataclysm — just months before one actually happened.Death Stranding began its Nostradamian life as Kojima's first project of his post-Konami career. Set in a dystopian near-future America (on a map shared by players) it takes us to a world ravaged by invisible dangers where the most essential heroes are the dudes who deliver our stuff. Everyone is lonely and most are bad tippers. Sound familiar? Continued here

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mRNA Vaccines Could Revolutionize Agriculture, But They Need To Overcome One Big Hurdle   Fear and misinformation about their supposed dangers are limiting the use of these highly effective vaccines. While effective vaccines for Covid-19 should have heralded the benefits of mRNA vaccines, fear and misinformation about their supposed dangers circulated at the same time. These misconceptions about mRNA vaccines have recently spilled over into worries about whether their use in agricultural animals could expose people to components of the vaccine within animal products such as meat or milk. Continued here

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The Great Resignation Didn't Start with the Pandemic   Covid-19 spurred on the Great Resignation of 2021, during which record numbers of employees voluntarily quit their jobs. But what we are living through is not just short-term turbulence provoked by the pandemic. Instead, it’s the continuation of a trend of rising quit rates that began more than a decade ago. Five main factors are at play in this trend: retirement, relocation, reconsideration, reshuffling, and reluctance. All of these factors, the authors argue, are here to stay. They explore each in turn and encourage leaders to examine which of them are contributing most to turnover in their organizations, so that they can adapt appropriately as they move into the future. Continued here

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How Brand Building and Performance Marketing Can Work Together   To achieve performance- accountable brand building and brand-accountable performance marketing, firms must create metrics that measure the effects of both types of investments on a single North Star metric: brand equity. That is then linked to specific financial outcomes—such as revenue, shareholder value, and return on investment—and deployed as a key performance indicator for both brand building and performance marketing. Continued here

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Diversity and Inclusion Efforts That Really Work   A Stanford and Harvard professor convened a symposium on what’s actually working to improve diversity and inclusion in organizational life. In this article, David Pedulla summarizes the main findings. First, organizations should set goals, collect data, and hold people accountable for improving diversity within the organization. Second, organizations should abandon traditional discrimination and harassment reporting systems—these often lead to retaliation. Employee Assistance Plans (EAPs), ombuds offices, and transformative dispute resolution systems can not only play a critical role in reducing retaliation but also provide fuel for organizational change. Third, organizations should check to ensure that technologies used to assist in hiring and promotion aren’t inherently biased. Fourth, companies must avoid tokenism. Finally, organizations should get managers and other leaders involved in diversity programs from the start. This will increase buy-in and lead to smooth implementation. Continued here

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Only Martin Sounded Like Martin Amis   Martin Amis was the son of three fathers—one actual parent and two literary forebears—Kingsley Amis, Vladimir Nabokov, and Saul Bellow.From Kingsley, he inherited comedy. (Often this was low comedy. Kingsley used to tell a joke about encountering a dog whose bark sounded like the words “Fuck off.” In Martin’s novel “Lionel Asbo,” there are two dangerous dogs who bark in exactly that way, only doubled: “Fuckoff! Fuckoff!”) Continued here

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Our Tech May Be Letting Aliens Map Us from Light Years Away   Are we alone in the universe? It’s a question that fascinates scientists and the public alike.Are we alone in the universe? It’s a question that fascinates scientists and the public alike. In science, the focus tends to be on our search for life elsewhere. The idea that we might be watched by a distant alien civilization, however, is usually confined to the realm of science fiction. Continued here

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At a G7 summit high on ambition, nuclear disarmament takes a backseat to Zelensky's diplomatic appeals   Hiroshima, the site of this year’s G7 summit, is one of just a handful of places in the world that provides a stark reminder of the horrors of war. The A-bomb Dome in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, for example, is one of few structures left standing in the neighbourhoods that were flattened by the atomic blast in August 1945. Around the city, there are also “survivor trees” from the blast and burn marks on temple stoneware and statues – reminders of how far and wide it radiated. Continued here

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Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility   A top down approach to building company culture no longer works for several reasons. For one, Covid-19 has upended how leaders interact with employees and how coworkers connect with each other. Next, company culture has grown in importance, thanks to recent high-profile crises at big name companies. A new culture-building approach is already in place at some organizations, one in which everyone in the organization is responsible for it. Importantly, this model doesn’t relegate culture-building to an amorphous concept that everyone influences but no one leads or is accountable for. And it weaves in perspectives from employees to customers, from middle managers to the CEO. Continued here

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Unionized bodies in topless bar! Strippers join servers and baristas in new labor movement   Dancers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in Los Angeles have voted to become the only unionized strippers in the U.S. – joining a growing trend of young employees seeking workplace protection though labor mobilization.On May 18, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board announced that balloted employees at the topless bar had voted 17-0 in favor of joining the Actors’ Equity Association. Continued here

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NASA Releases Stunning Images of Jupiter's Fiery Moon Io   This week, when NASA sailed its Juno spacecraft near Jupiter’s moon Io, the space agency got its closest look yet at the most volcanic celestial body in the Solar System — and sent back some stunning photos. Juno’s trip near Io was also perilous. Io is one of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons. In its close orbit around the titan, Io is at the mercy of a mighty gravitational influence, and is baked by the planet’s radiation. On Tuesday, the spacecraft made its closest approach to the moon. Continued here

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5 Years Ago, Marvel's Raunchiest Hero Took a Surprisingly Deep Turn   Josh Brolin had a hell of a 2018, didn’t he? In late April, he starred in Avengers: Infinity War, a billion-dollar blockbuster that kicked off the summer season on a dour note by killing half of Marvel’s superheroes. In the shadow of that release came another Marvel movie, again with Brolin, that was willing to laugh and cry about all of it: Deadpool 2.Not content to do more of what we saw in 2016’s Deadpool, the 2018 sequel expanded the personal growth of Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds). While Wade himself would joke that we’re talking about his regenerative junk, Deadpool 2 is smarter and more heartfelt than its R-rated wisecracks and Gen-X pop culture references imply. It’s a surprisingly touching story about grief and the bonds you forge in times of distress, even if a mid-credits sequence undoes that moving journey for the sake of a laugh. Continued here

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Title 42 Is Gone, But What Are Asylum Seekers Supposed to Do Now?   For the past two years, the White House has had one key question for the Department of Homeland Security, a former D.H.S. official recently told me: “What can you do to keep the border out of the news?” The answer, until last Thursday, was the continuance of Title 42, part of a decades-old public-health measure that the Trump Administration had activated to allow it to immediately expel hundreds of thousands of migrants at the southern border. In the past, by the strictures of U.S. law, authorities were required to give anyone who arrived the opportunity to seek asylum. Under Title 42, there were some exceptions, but essentially the government could just turn people away, with next to no questions asked. The pretext for implementing the policy, in March, 2020, had been COVID-19, but public-health experts in and outside the federal government were never convinced by the scientific rationale. The disease was already widespread in the U.S., and there was no evidence that migrants were spreading it. For the Trump Administration, which had been systematically dismantling the immigration system even before the pandemic, Title 42 was a way to halt the asylum process. For President Biden, who left the policy in place after taking office, it was a matter of avoiding the chaos of lifting it. After a period of prolonged ambivalence, including a few moments when the Biden Administration planned to end Title 42, then delayed doing so (first of its own accord, and later owing to a court injunction orchestrated by Republican attorneys general), May 11th was announced as the final deadline. Three years after the pandemic began, the President declared the public-health emergency over. Title 42 could no longer apply.There was no obvious way to avoid an overwhelming sense of both opportunity and panic in the weeks leading up to that end date. Press coverage was intense and unceasing. Tens of thousands of migrants from around the world, who were already en route to the United States, began congregating in northern Mexico. American border cities—El Paso, Laredo, and Brownsville—declared states of emergency, as did New York, where state and local officials had already been dealing with large numbers of migrants being bused in from Texas and Arizona. (“The circumstances on the ground are expected to change significantly,” Kathy Hochul, New York’s governor, said last week.) Forty-eight hours before Title 42 expired, Border Patrol said that it had arrested around ten thousand people trying to enter the country in a single day, more than double the daily total from March. On May 10th, a former Venezuelan police officer, who had fled his home and was stuck in Ciudad Juárez, told the Associated Press, “I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. . . . We don’t have any money left, we don’t have food, we don’t have a place to stay, the cartel is pursuing us.” He went on, “What are we going to do, wait until they kill us?” Continued here

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The 50 Cheapest, Easiest Home Upgrades That'll Save You So Much Money   Don’t run away when you see the word upgrade because this list is completely free of pricey home decor pieces or way-too-expensive flooring. Instead, these super easy-to-use pieces prove that you can add a few budget-friendly upgrades around your home, and they’ll actually save you a ton of money.Because sometimes, not having to buy a new sofa or spend way too much money on your power bill feels like the best home upgrade ever — especially when they’re so easy to install or work into your routine. Continued here

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Folk Art Can Be a Powerful Tool for Explaining Biodiversity   To demonstrate our university’s biodiversity, we created maps using Indian folk art, and they have been a resounding successOn the edge of the city of Delhi stands the sprawling 286-acre campus of Shiv Nadar University, one of India’s Institutions of Eminence. The university offers courses on many topics, including natural science and engineering. Our campus is surrounded on three sides by agricultural lands and a thriving lake, perhaps surprising to some who may think of India’s capital as a concrete metropolis. Continued here

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25 Years Ago, A Massive Sci-Fi Flop Missed a Big Opportunity   The most famous movie to open on earnest-looking iguanas is easily 1998’s Godzilla, although infamous might be more accurate. This iteration of the iconic Japanese monster is best remembered for having almost nothing to do with his Japanese origins. Instead, it’s an effective disaster movie that answered a question no one had ever asked: what if Matthew Broderick was an action hero? 25 years after its release, the real question we should ask is, “Wouldn’t this Godzilla have been way better if Sarah Jessica Paker had been in it, too?”For fans of the Godzilla franchise, little in this film feels familiar. For starters, the origin story is bizarrely altered: instead of saying Godzilla is an ancient prehistoric creature awakened by nuclear testing, the big G is a giant mutated iguana. Over two decades later, this still feels like a typo. It’s like director Roland Emmerich was taking cues from a Rampage cabinet rather than Toho Studios. Continued here

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Grand infrastructure projects aren't a magic bullet for industrial development - insights from Ghana and Kenya   The African Union’s flagship Agenda 2063 initiative prioritises large-scale infrastructure development and promises to “link the continent by rail, road, sea and air”. This is being undertaken in parallel with efforts to improve economic integration. In 2021, the 54 countries on the continent made history when they began trading within the African Continental Free Trade Area. It is the largest free trade area in the world. Continued here