Want to Get Your Company Funded? You'll Have to Convince Gen Z

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Want to Get Your Company Funded? You'll Have to Convince Gen Z     One investment firm's approach to vetting companies: run them past a Gen Z advisory board. Here's how that generation is shaping one firm's views and strategies in its health and wellbeing investments. Continued here

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Ray Dalio Says Living a Happy, Successful Life Comes Down to 3 Simple Things     The billionaire hedge fund manager and best-selling author on defining success, the value of money, and how establishing a few guiding principles can make all the difference. Continued here

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Want to Advance in Your Career? Build Your Own Board of Directors.     The pandemic has changed us in so many ways. Our new normal has given us a chance to re-evaluate what work means to us, how we spend our time, and what we value. If you’re reading this, chances are that you, like so many other early career professionals, are also rethinking your relationship with work. Is making an impact your top priority? Should you focus on finding work-life balance? What kind of career will fulfill your personal and professional needs? Continued here

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United Rolled Out a Remarkably Simple New App Feature That Solves the     You can now see alternative flight options and even access hotel and food vouchers in the app. Continued here

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Facebook's Median Pay Is Now $296,000. Here's What Other Big Companies Are Paying     Rising salaries and perks make it even harder for small businesses to compete for employees. Continued here

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Is the Company You're Interviewing with Actually Inclusive?     The questions you ask during the interview process are one of the only ways for you to get a sneak peek into the work environment of your potential future employer. What will your work-life balance be like? Will you get along with your boss? And most importantly, does the organization have an inclusive culture — does everyone feel seen, heard, and considered at the company? Continued here

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Black Holes Evaporate - Now Physicists Think Everything Else Does, Too     Physicists knew black holes eventually disappear particle by particle. Now they think everything else does, tooStars, planets, people and petunias: everything emits a special kind of radiation and will, if it sticks around long enough, evaporate into nothing. Continued here

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Should You Share Office Space With Another Business? This Startup Thinks So     San Francisco-based Tandem, formerly known as Project Pair, proposes co-tenancy as an affordable way for companies to return to the office--and it's tackling the logistics to make it easier. Continued here

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Potential Client Not Ready to Change Their Solution? Here's How to Counter     When a client is content with the status quo, they don't really see a need to review other products and services. Continued here

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How the Best Leadership Teams Navigate Uncertain Times     While we don’t know what the rest of the year will bring, it’s reasonable to assume that the headwinds we’re experiencing will continue. This is an environment that will demand — and reward — high-performing leadership teams. Based on his conversations with more than 100 clients across industries, PWC U.S. Chair and Senior Partner Tim Ryan has identified seven factors that set these teams apart: 1) They create a “company-first” culture; 2) They think and act across the enterprise; 3) They maintain a relentless focus on reinventing the business; 4) They free up the right people for the hard stuff; 5) They’re inclusive of different backgrounds and skills; 6) They encourage healthy debate, but avoid undermining fellow leaders; and 7) They strive to be humble and objective. Continued here

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The Heart Can Sway Our Perception of Time     First, it races away unstoppably—then it seems to stand still. Our perception of time is anything but constant. Two new studies suggest our heartbeat can cause passing moments to drag or fly.The experiments, led by separate research groups, have uncovered complementary findings. Together, their work confirms that the heart’s activity influences our perception of time as it passes. “It shows that you can’t look at [the experience of time] in isolation from the body,” says cognitive neuroscientist Irena Arslanova of Royal Holloway, University of London, who is lead author of one of the studies. Continued here

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This Astronomer Discovered What the Stars Were Made Of, and Few Believed Her Discovery     Nearly 100 years ago a young astronomer named Cecilia Payne changed the way we see the stars in the sky because she was able to look into their burning heart and see something no one else ever hadCecilia Payne was in her early 20s when she figured out what the stars are made of. Both she and her groundbreaking findings were ahead of their time. Continuing the legacy of women working at the Harvard College Observatory, Payne charted the way for a generation of female astronomers to come. Continued here

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To Find Life in the Universe, Find the Computation     The discovery that life on Earth looks a lot like information propagating itself offers new clues, and new directions, to the hunt for life elsewhereWhat if the search for life in the universe is really a search for how the cosmos computes? That’s the intriguing, and perhaps unsettling, possibility that we are exploring as a part of our quest to find out whether or not we are alone. Continued here

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3 Ways to Avoid Digital Distraction     The average adult's attention span is less than one minute. Continued here

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4 Kinds of Worker Misery You Must Eliminate Now     Spend time in workers' shoes to see how your company keeps them from serving customers well. Continued here

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Phone thieves in Brazil have an easy target: Gig workers     Talita Silva, an Uber driver in São Paulo, reckons she lost around 2,100 reais ($427) over the course of three days in May 2022. A phone she’d just paid the last installment for vanished before her eyes when a thief snatched it through the open window on the passenger’s side. Silva was unable to work, and left without an income for three days until she replaced the phone.Silva’s device was just one of the phones robbed, on average, every three minutes over the course of 2022 in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, according to an analysis of government data by the news site G1. But as an Uber driver, she suffered more than most, as losing her phone means losing access to her livelihood. With the streets as their workplace, gig workers delivering food or shuttling people on ride-hailing apps are particularly exposed to muggings and theft. The toll on their mental health has led many to work reduced hours and avoid areas they consider too risky — even if it means earning less. Continued here

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Guiding Your Business Website Through Its 4 Stages of Growth     These four crucial stages of website optimization that align with the typical phases of a business' growth. Continued here

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Start Your New Leadership Role with the End in Mind     To successfully step into a new role and set yourself up for long-term success, you must balance “now-forward” planning with “future-back” visioning. That is, you must start with the end in mind, envisioning what you want to accomplish during this era of your leadership and what needs to happen before for can take the next step. This mindset will empower you to make early decisions that will accelerate your transition, pave the way for long-term impact in the new role, and contribute to your continued career growth. Continued here

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What Roles Could Generative AI Play on Your Team?     The recent advances in ChatGPT are merely the first application of new AI technologies. As such, companies and leaders need to think about the various applications outlined here and use the framework described in the article to develop applications for your own company or organization. In the process, they will discover new types of GPTs. By classifying these different GPTs in terms of potential value to businesses and the cost of developing them, applications that begin with a single human initiating or participating in the interaction (GroupGPT, CoachGPT) will probably be the easiest to build and should generate substantial business value, making them the perfect initial candidates. In contrast, applications with interactions involving multiple entities or those initiated by machines (AutoGPT, BossGPT, and ImperialGPT) may be harder to implement, with trickier ethical and legal implications. Continued here

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3 Techniques to Foster Creativity in Your Team     Here's how to create an environment that nurtures creativity and inspires innovation. Continued here

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The promise and peril of Brazil's Fake News law     In the past five years, “fake news” laws have popped up everywhere. In Singapore, government ministers have used a new law to demand retractions from uncooperative newspapers. In France, the local fake news law unintentionally forced Twitter to sinkhole a government hashtag. The most alarming consequences of these new laws have come in Turkey and Russia, where fake news rules have been used to power a broader crackdown on opposition groups and dissenting speech. The laws vary widely in details, but they all capitalize on the public desire to rein in speech platforms like Facebook and YouTube, and use it to grant new powers to the government.Brazil hasn’t passed a fake news law yet — but there’s one facing the Parliament, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Introduced in April, the bill would place severe new restrictions on what social networks can promote online, including liability for platforms that spread “untrue facts.” The bill also has a new “must-carry” clause that obliges platforms to host public interest announcements. (Tech Policy Press has an excellent write-up on the provisions of the bill, highlighting how some of those restrictions may violate the right to free expression.) Crucially, the law isn’t just aimed at Facebook; it would also apply to messaging services like WhatsApp, which play an even larger role in spreading news than conventional social networks. Continued here

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Strange Giant Filaments Reveal a Mystery at the Milky Way's Heart     Astrophysicist Farhad Yusef-Zadeh has spent decades peering into the center of the Milky Way galaxy, discovering hundreds of enigmatic filaments in the processStrange things are afoot in the mysterious heart of the Milky Way. It’s a bustling, star-packed region that also harbors our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, which scientists call Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*. Amid the millions of young, hot stars zipping around galactic center, astronomers have also spied a tangle of curious filamentlike structures stretching out for light-years. What exactly are the filaments? How did they come to be? And what do they tell us about the Milky Way’s heart? As of yet, these are all open questions. Continued here

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The World Rallied to Find Missing Titan Sub but Ignored Shipwrecked Migrants     The massive search for a missing submersible was a stark contrast to the treatment of a ship packed with people fleeing conflictGlobal media have been obsessed with the search for the missing submersible Titan, four of whose five occupants spent $250,000 each to get close to the famous wreck of the Titanic. In Germany, where I live, the German Press Agency (dpa) described the underwater voyage as a “modern adventure” that became a “life-threatening nightmare.” At Spektrum der Wissenschaft, we wrote about a “race against time.” And our English-language sibling publication, Scientific American, covered the “perils of deep-sea exploration.” The U.S. Coast Guard has deployed a number of forces for the search, the British government has offered to help, and France has sent a special ship. Continued here

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The First Person to be Diagnosed with Autism Has Died at 89     A 1943 paper highlighted a “Donald T”—Case 1 of 11 children with “autistic disturbances of affective contact”Donald Triplett, who was the first person to be diagnosed with autism, died last week in his hometown of Forest, Mississippi, at age 89. The cause of death was cancer, according to The New York Times. Continued here

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Walmart and Amazon's Race to Rule Shopping     Nearly every one of us in the US and Canada has bought something from either Walmart or Amazon in our lifetimes. Not only are these two retailers ubiquitous, but they have forever altered the way we buy goods through their experiments with things like free shipping, competitive pricing, speedy delivery, membership services, and innovative brick-and-mortar experiences.Amazon and Walmart are obviously different in many ways, but the two companies are also surprisingly similar. This becomes particularly evident when you chart the history of their rivalry, as they race to compete for online shopping gains, or when they battle it out to acquire the same companies. Journalist and author Jason Del Ray writes about the dueling giants in his new book, Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart, and the Battle for Our Wallets, which traces the moves both companies have made in their decades-long slugfest. Continued here

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A Common Diabetes Drug May Prevent Long COVID in Some People     The drug metformin cut long COVID risk by 41 percent in both people who were overweight and those with obesity. But treatments remain elusiveMost people who contract COVID fully recover, but millions of others grapple with chronic symptoms that persist for months or years after the initial infection. Known as long COVID, this enigmatic syndrome is marked by a wide array of symptoms, including intense fatigue, chest pain, dizziness and cognitive issues such as brain fog—all of which often fluctuate in intensity and duration. There is also no universally accepted definition or test for long COVID, leaving most sufferers without a clear path to diagnosis or treatment. But a recent study found that a widely used, inexpensive diabetes drug reduced the risk of developing long COVID by 41 percent among people who are overweight and those with obesity. Continued here

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Titan sub: How do surveillance planes spot ocean submersibles?     Ever since the Titan submersible was confirmed lost in the Atlantic this week, planes have been combing the ocean to hunt for it beneath the waves.On Wednesday, the US coastguard announced that a Canadian P-3 aircraft had identified unexplained underwater noises, apparently banging at half-hour intervals. The signal continues to be investigated and analysed, say officials. Continued here

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Angus Hervey: Why are we so bad at reporting good news?     Why is good news so rare? In a special broadcast from the TED stage, journalist Angus Hervey sheds light on some of the incredible progress humanity has made across environmental protection, public health and more in the last year, making the case that if we want to change the story of humanity this century, we have to start changing the stories we tell ourselves. "When we only tell the stories of doom, we fail to see the stories of possibility," says Hervey. Continued here

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Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems     After more than a century of research, much of which has been highly controversial, psychologists still struggle to define intelligence, and many doubt the validity of tests designed to measure it. Nevertheless, one idea has emerged and persisted: that higher intelligence scores are associated with faster information processing, or “mental speed.” But a new study by researchers in Germany now suggests that even this may not be true. Published in the journal Nature Communications, the study shows that people with higher intelligence scores take longer to solve complex problems because they are less likely to jump to conclusions. The study also links problem-solving ability to differences in brain connectivity and synchrony between brain areas. Continued here

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Ford's bonkers new electric Supervan 4 is racing Pikes Peak this Sunday     When Ford let Ars drive its new electric E-Transit van in early 2022, I probably annoyed the heck out of the engineers and executives by repeatedly suggesting they make a Supervan version. While I don't think for a minute that my bugging them had any effect, the company did just that, building a souped-up version of its electric commercial vehicle with almost 2,000 hp (1,400 kW) and aerodynamic appendages that would not look out of place on a Fokker Triplane. And this weekend, it's sending Supervan 4 to one of the hardest races in the world—the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb. Continued here