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☆ From Australia to the UK: Where pro-Palestinian university protests are happening around the world
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-03 | by ( Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Here’s a look at some of the pro-Palestinian campus protests around the world. AustraliaOver the past few weeks, pro-Palestinian protest camps have appeared in at least seven universities across Australia. FranceIn Paris, pro-Palestinian protests erupted at the Sciences Po university and the Sorbonne university in late April. At McGill University in downtown Montreal, pro-Palestinian student protesters have set up an encampment on the front lawn. On May 2, a Quebec Superior Court judge rejected an injunction request that would have forced the pro-Palestinian protesters to leave their encampment.

Persons: Hilary Whiteman, ”, Owen Humphreys, Miguel Medina, Emmanuel Macron, ” Louise, ” Samuel Lejoyeaux, “ I’ll, “, India Eric Garcetti, Christinne, Oliver Marsden, ” Ali Organizations: CNN, New York’s Columbia University, Portland State, UCLA, United Nations, The University of Queensland, Students for Palestine, Palestine, University of Sydney, Sydney, United, United Kingdom Pro, Newcastle University, Newcastle University’s, ”, Sciences Po, Sorbonne, . Riot, Sorbonne University, Getty Images Sciences, Columbia University, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, UNC, Vanderbilt, “, Union of Jewish Students of France, Le Monde, CRS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Milia Islamia University, BJP, Bharatiya Janata Party, Communist Party, ’ Federation of India, At McGill University, Palestinian, Israel . Mounted, McGill University's, University of Toronto’s, University of British, CBC News, Reuters, American University of Beirut, American University of, Getty Locations: Gaza, United States, Europe, Asia, Israel, Gaza’s Rafah, Australia, Brisbane, United Kingdom, Newcastle, England, Leeds, Bristol, Warwick, Britain, France, Paris, Palestine, AFP, de, India, New Delhi, Columbia, Jamia, Canada, Montreal, Quebec, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Lebanon, American University of Beirut, Beirut

☆ Opinion: A Black man’s view on what Biden should do for the White working class
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Opinion Keith Magee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Could President Biden, who claims to have labor-friendly policies, be the one to turn the tide by appealing to the White working class and giving his party a much-needed electoral boost in the process? After all, issues affecting poor White voters, such as health care, higher education and increased access to childcare have long been traditional Democratic priorities. That gaffe echoed Obama’s off-the-cuff remark in 2008 that “bitter” low-income voters “cling to guns or religion” — comments that didn’t endear him to the White working class, either. Some White voters of modest means perceive Democrats as being determined to secure equality for minority groups at their expense. And working-class White Americans tended for some reason not to perceive Obamacare — the president’s signature social policy achievement — as immediately benefiting them.

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☆ Israeli forces fired on food convoy in Gaza, UN documents and satellite analysis reveals
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Katie Polglase | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

“A convoy that had food on it, heading to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip. In the wake of the strike on February 5, UNRWA decided to stop sending convoys to northern Gaza. The UN estimates that 300,000 people are still living in northern Gaza, with very little assistance. “Because of the level of desperation in Gaza, people would see an aid convoy, they would come to the aid convoy, take the stuff from the aid convoy,” Touma told CNN. “By the time we get the approval, the aid convoy is empty.”Other routes are impassable due to debris and craters, satellite imagery reviewed by CNN shows.

Persons: ” Juliette Touma, CNN’s, Al Rashid, ” Touma, Thomas White, Tom White, “, ” Janina Dill, it’s, ”, Philippa Greer, COGAT, Abed Zagout, Israel “, Craig Jones, ” Jones, ” Gianluca Mezzofiore, Jennifer Hansler Organizations: UN, CNN CNN, United Nations, CNN, UNRWA, Israel Defense Forces, IDF, Ministry of Health, Al, X, Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics, Law, US State Department, “, Government, Planet Labs, Food, Getty, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Health Organization, International Court of Justice, Newcastle University Locations: Gaza, Israel, Wadi Gaza, Palestinian, “ Israel, Al, Gaza City, Rafah, Egypt, Anadolu, French, Palestine, United Kingdom

☆ AI isn't energy efficient right now. This ex-Arm VP has joined a new startup to try change that.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"We're the first company to launch off the back of what is a Tsetlin machine," Hurley told Business Insider. "We are looking at processes which are 10,000 times more efficient than neural networks when we add hardware acceleration," he said. Literal Labs' technology is developed from Yakovlev and Shafik's patents. While this process requires less energy than neural networks, the wider market has yet to catch up with alternatives. And everyone is just so sucked into neural networks that nobody has been thinking about some of the other techniques."

Persons: Noel Hurley, Hurley, Mignon, it's, Alex Yakovlev, Rishad Organizations: Cambridge, Labs, Newcastle University, Business, Yakovlev, Literal Labs

☆ The story of Neuralink: Elon Musk's AI brain-chip company that has implanted its first chip into a human patient
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Isobel Asher Hamilton | Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

In 2020, Neuralink showed off one of its chips embedded in a pig named Gertrude. The Neuralink device in Gertrude's brain transmitted live data during the demo as she snuffled around. Musk said the pig had been living with the chip embedded in her skull for two months. "This is solid engineering, but mediocre neuroscience," he said. Jackson told Insider following the 2020 presentation that the wireless relay from the Neuralink chip could potentially have a big impact on the welfare of animal test subjects in science, as most neural interfaces currently in use on test animals involve wires poking out through the skin.

Persons: Neuralink, Gertrude, Musk, Andrew Jackson, Jackson Organizations: Newcastle University

☆ How to reduce your risk of cancer: 7 lifestyle recommendations from scientists
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

People who most closely followed seven recommendations appeared to have a lower cancer risk. The study's authors acknowledge that their study is observational, and so doesn't prove following the recommendations lower the risk of cancer. More research is needed to investigate the specific impacts of each of lifestyle factor on cancer risk. They also recommend not smoking and avoiding excess sun to reduce cancer risk. AdvertisementMalcomson said: "People should aim to follow as many of the Cancer Prevention Recommendations as they can to reduce their risk of cancer and other non-communicable diseases.

Persons: —, Fiona Malcomson, Malcomson Organizations: Service, BMC Medicine, World Cancer Research Fund, American Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University, UK, BMI, Nutrition Research, Cancer Locations: England, Wales, Scotland, Newcastle

☆ Ancient landscape formed by rivers revealed deep under Antarctic ice
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Researchers said on Tuesday they have detected buried under the continent's ice sheet a vast ancient landscape, replete with valleys and ridges, apparently shaped by rivers before being engulfed by glaciation long ago. Ancient palm tree pollen has been discovered from Antarctica, not far around the coast from our study site," Jamieson added. Some previous studies similarly have revealed ancient landscapes beneath Antarctica's ice including mountains and highlands, though the landscape discovered in the new study was the first of its type. Right before 34 million years ago, Antarctica's landscape and flora likely resembled today's cold temperate rainforests of Tasmania, New Zealand and South America's Patagonia region, Ross added. When that ice growth occurred, the conditions between the base of the ice and the landscape changed to become very cold - and in this way it was no longer able to erode our landscape.

Persons: Stewart Jamieson, Antarctica's, Jamieson, Neil Ross, Ross, Will Dunham, Daniel Wallis Organizations: Durham University, Handout, REUTERS, Rights, Antarctica, Nature Communications, Newcastle University, Thomson Locations: Belgium, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, Antarctica, East Antarctica's Wilkes Land, ., Maryland, England, Patagonia, Greenland, Tasmania , New Zealand, South, Africa, South America, Australia

Grace Dean is a Senior Business Reporter at Insider's London office. She covers retail, transport, tech, and other breaking business news. She particularly enjoys writing about the restaurant industry, fast-food giants, retail trends, and the labor market. Grace joined the team in August 2020 after studying German & Business at Newcastle University and spending a year as the Editor-in-Chief of its student newspaper the Courier. She spent a semester at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg in Germany and also speaks conversational Dutch.

Persons: Grace Dean, Grace, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Organizations: Business, Newcastle University, Courier, Sky News, BBC Locations: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany

☆ Opinion: The myth of a colorblind France
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Opinion Keith Magee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Accusations of institutional or systemic racism fall on deaf ears. In reality, the myth of the colorblind French Republic amounts to the state-level gaslighting of ethnic minorities, and the nation’s victims of systemic racism know it. In reality, the myth of the colorblind French Republic amounts to the state-level gaslighting of ethnic minorities, and the nation’s victims of systemic racism know it. To see those values undermined by a failure to investigate and address systemic racism, leaving so many of its citizens feeling unprotected, alienated, and unseen by the state is not only sad, it’s inexcusable. We may never know for certain whether Nahel’s race was a factor in his killing.

Persons: Keith Magee, Keith Magee Arron, Emmanuel Macron, inexcusable, Nahel, Verts, Geen Party –, “ White, Rokhaya Diallo, BFMTV, George Floyd, Sabrina Sebaihi Organizations: Newcastle University, University College London Institute for Innovation, CNN, Sud Radio, Geen Party, French National Consultative, Human Rights, Reuters, Twitter Locations: Black Britain, Paris, France, Europe, Africa, Caribbean, Asia, United States, United Kingdom, French Republic, Nanterre, Republic –, Sebaihi

☆ 3 reasons why the Titanic will never be raised
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Titanic sank in 1912, and ever since people have wanted to salvage it. Its lack of structural integrity is just one of three main reasons why the Titanic is destined to remain sunk forever. The Titanic wreck site is a gravesiteApproximately 1,500 people lost their lives in the sinking of the Titanic. "NOAA recognizes the Titanic wreck site as a maritime memorial and supports Article 4(1) of the 'Agreement Concerning the Shipwrecked Vessel R.M.S. "Captain's bathtub is a favorite image among the Titanic enthusiasts, and that's now gone," Titanic historian Parks Stephenson said in a statement in 2019.

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☆ The most effective and cheap ways to cool your body during a heat wave, according to scientists
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Insider asked two scientists for simple, effective, and cheap ways to cool down. Put your hands or feet in cold waterIn extreme heat, the body opens up the blood vessels that are close to the skin. Blood carries heat from inside the body to the surface, where it can benefit from the cooling effect of sweat evaporating. Use an electric fan, but be careful in very hot weatherA fan helps cool you down by helping sweat evaporate faster. In dry heat, sweat is already evaporating at maximum efficiency.

Persons: George Havenith, Serge Haouzi, Owen Jeffries, Jeffries, Havenith, Coke, Ricardo Rubio, you've Organizations: Service, Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration, Environmental, Loughborough University, Getty, Newcastle University, World Health Organization, China News Service, Europa Press Locations: Pacific, Asia, Nice, France, Xinhua, Chongqing, China, Madrid, Spain

☆ We're losing the battle against bird loss. Scientists estimate North America's bird population is down 3 billion and dropping fast in other countries worldwide.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Emily Sohn | Knowable Magazine | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

In North America, more than half of 529 bird species have declined, according to one study. Another study of 378 European bird species estimates numbers fell by as much as 19% from 1980-2017. There are birds on mountains, birds in cities, birds in deserts, birds in oceans, birds on farm fields and birds in parking lots. Bird numbers are falling across a broad range of habitats, as these graphs from Europe and North America show. A recovery program has boosted the species' numbers to more than 500, with several hundred living once more in the wild.

Persons: —, Peter Marra, It's, Alexander Lees, Lees, Christopher Michel, Marra, we're, Lees et, Philip McGowan, Glenn Simmons, McGowan Organizations: Service, Penguins, Earth Commons, Manchester Metropolitan University, Cornell, of Ornithology, National Audubon Society, Survey, US Geological Survey, Environment Canada, European Union, International Union for Conservation, Environment, Resources, Newcastle University, IUCN, California condor, Recovery Initiative Locations: North America, Antarctica, ptarmigan, Everest, Georgetown, England, Canada, United Kingdom, Gould Bay, eBird, United States, Science, Costa, India, Europe, California, Arizona, Brazil

☆ Opinion: Why I won’t take my young Black son to a European soccer game
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Opinion Keith Magee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —My little boy, who is not quite 9, would like to go to a professional football game here in Britain where we live. A 2021 survey found a third of ethnic minority football fans had experienced racism at stadiums, and in England and Wales, race-related hate crimes at matches are on the rise. Clubs whose fans or players commit hate crimes should have points deducted, impacting their position in their league. For national teams, racist behavior by fans or players should result in a tournament ban. While diversity among football players is high, representation off the pitch is shockingly poor at every level.

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☆ Southern Europe braces for climate change-fuelled summer of drought
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Kate Abnett | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

As climate change makes the region hotter and drier, years of consecutive drought have depleted groundwater reserves. CLIMATE CHANGE TRENDSouthern Europe is not alone in suffering severe water shortages this year. The Horn of Africa is enduring its worst drought in decades, while a historic drought in Argentina has hammered soy and corn crops. "In terms of the climate change signal, it very much fits with what we're expecting," said Hayley Fowler, Professor of Climate Change Impacts at Newcastle University. Some 90% of the mainland is suffering from drought, with severe drought affecting one-fifth of the country - nearly five times the area reported a year earlier.

☆ Glacial lake floods threaten communities in Asia, South America
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Gloria Dickie | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The risk comes when a lake overfills, bursting through its natural barrier and sending a torrent of water rushing down mountain valleys. In the high mountains of Asia, some 9 million people live near more than 2,000 glacial lakes. "The impacts are already visible as the glacier is thinning and retreating," said Farooq Azam, a glaciologist at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore who monitors Chhota Shigri. During the same time period, Himalayan glacial lakes increased by about 9% in number, and 14% in area. More than 200 lakes now pose a very high hazard to Himalayan communities, according to 2022 research.

Grace Dean is a Business Reporter at Insider's London office. She covers retail, transport, tech, healthcare, politics, and other breaking business news, but specializes in the restaurant industry and the labor market. She joined the team in August 2020 after working as the Editor-in-Chief of Newcastle University's student newspaper the Courier. You can email her at gdean@insider.com. Read moreRead less

☆ Abandoned Greek airport to be transformed into a 600-acre coastal park
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Nell Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Tegel Projekt GmbH/Atelier Loidl Kai Tak International Airport, Hong Kong -- With a runway that protruded into the sea, Kai Tak International Airport in Hong Kong once had one of the most arresting approaches in the world. PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/AFP via Getty Images Hellinikon International Airport, Athens, Greece -- Hellinikon was once the only international airport in Athens, Greece, before Hellinikon was once the only international airport in Athens, Greece, before closing down in 2001 . Developer LAMDA is looking to complete the first phase of construction in 2025 courtesy LAMDA Development Stapleton International Airport, Denver, Colorado -- A photo of Stapleton International Airport from 1963. The grounds of the old airport became the 125-hectare (309-acre) Quito replaced its main airport with another bearing the same name. RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP/AFP via Getty Images Downsview Airport, Toronto -- Downsview Airport in north Toronto was once a Canadian Air Force base.

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☆ Wilko Johnson, 'Game of Thrones' actor and Dr. Feelgood guitarist, dies at 75
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

LONDON — Wilko Johnson, the guitarist with British blues-rock band Dr. Feelgood who had an unexpected career renaissance after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, has died. Born John Wilkinson in 1947, Johnson was raised on Canvey Island, a marshy, industrial oil town in England’s River Thames estuary. He studied Anglo-Saxon literature at Newcastle University and worked as a schoolteacher before forming Dr. Feelgood with other local friends. Johnson later said that if the band had been able to follow its managers’ instructions to behave, “I’m pretty sure we’d be multimillionaires. He released another album, “Blow Your Mind,” in 2018, and played gigs with his Wilko Johnson Band until last month.

☆ Time-off policies are more generous than ever. So why does everyone feel more burned out than ever?
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Molly Lipson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Nearly a fifth of respondents said they avoided taking vacation time for fear of being seen as not committed enough to their jobs. Many companies don't adjust their expectations based on their new leave policies and simply expect workers to cram in the same amount of work. When it was time to return to work, Paraskeva found herself unable to go in. The hypocrisy of time-off policies makes it clear that they seem to benefit the employer much more than workers themselves. By forcing people to pile on work before they leave and scramble once they return, companies are undercutting their supposedly generous time-off policies and making the workplace worse for everyone.

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