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☆ Social Security's 'biggest myth' leads people to claim early, expert says. Even a slight delay can boost retirement income
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Nevertheless, 75% of adults ages 50 and up believe Social Security will run out in their lifetime, a 2023 Nationwide Retirement Institute survey found. When people claim Social SecurityMoreover, data shows retirees often don't wait until they are able to receive 100% of the benefits they've earned. The full retirement age is generally between 66 and 67, depending on an individual's birth date. For every year beneficiaries wait past their full retirement age up to age 70, they stand to get an 8% benefit increase. Every month increases your benefitsNevertheless, experts say it's still generally best to delay claiming retirement benefits.

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☆ Slouching isn’t bad for your spine but may impact your memory, research says
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Chris Mccarthy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The Conversation —Often a posture assigned to teenagers and disaffected youth, slouching is traditionally considered to be a “bad” posture — with some claiming it will damage your spine and cause pain. But while posture is heavily overlaid with psychological meaning, is it really that bad for our spines if we slouch? There’s also no clear evidence that slouching while sitting at your desk or while using your phone causes damage to the spine. Slouching has been linked to poorer information and memory recall, as well as worse mood when compared to sitting upright. But aside from that, the evidence overwhelmingly suggests there’s no single, ideal or good posture.

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☆ Election Updates: Rubio, a Trump V.P. Contender, won’t commit to certifying 2024 election results.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Mr. Trump addressed the group as he is on trial in Manhattan on criminal charges that he falsified business records related to a hush-money payment to a porn star. Gun safety groups hung up T-shirts with the names of people killed by gun violence in Dallas County. At the N.R.A.’s meeting, Mr. Trump, whose campaign fund-raising has lagged in Texas, urged gun owners to head to the polls to help deliver him the election. She also criticized Mr. Trump for saying, “We have to get over it” after a shooting in Iowa this year that killed a sixth grader. Mr. Trump “is catering to the gun lobby and threatening to make the crisis worse if re-elected,” Ms. Harris said.

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☆ 'Mad Max: Fury Road' director opens up about Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron's on-set feud
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewFilmmaker George Miller opened up about the on-set feud between "Mad Max: Fury Road" stars Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron in an interview with The Telegraph. AdvertisementThe 79-year-old Academy Award-winning director, who has returned to the franchise to direct the prequel, "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," added that he "saw their behavior as mirroring their characters, where they had to learn to co-operate to ensure mutual survival." Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy in "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015). Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron. "You have to be obsessive about safety – physical safety, as the shoot goes on and fatigue sets in, but also psychological safety," he said.

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☆ Senior Google engineer's top career tips include 'do it, then do it right, then do it better'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Alexandra Bacon | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewAddy Osmani, a senior Google engineer, recently celebrated his 12th anniversary at the search giant and used the occasion to share his top career tips in a blog post. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Related storiesOsmani also encourages people to start by sharing the manta: "First do it, then do it right, then do it better." One CEO previously told Business Insider that communication was the most important skill that employees lacked. It can have drastic consequences: one HR VP previously told BI that burnout got so bad that she ended up being taken out of the office on a stretcher.

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☆ The US is worried about an invasion, but China could take control of Taiwan without firing a shot, war experts warn
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Defense experts say that an aggressive Chinese coercion campaign, short of war but still threatening, is more likely than a full-scale invasion and the US needs to prepare for such an event. Economic and diplomatic pressure is notable, and Chinese misinformation operations and the potential to slowly set up a blockade of Taiwan are also concerns. Annabelle Chih/Getty ImagesThe report identifies four things key to resisting Chinese coercion. CM-11 tanks fire artillery during the 2-day live-fire drill, amid intensifying threats military from China, in Pingtung county, Taiwan, 7 September 2022.

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☆ 8 shades you should add to your wardrobe, according to an expert in color psychology
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Cheyenne Lentz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Wearing red may be able to boost your energy. Red is the color of action. "It's the psychological primary color of the body, so it can help us wake up, keep our attention, and even increase our heart rate," she told BI. "I like to wear this color when I'm really fatigued." Red can also be a great color to wear when you need to keep things highly energized, like when you're working out.

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☆ A Google executive shares the 5 things to avoid doing for a successful career
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Daniel Rizea | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

His reply was surprising, if not simple: Think of the things you will do that will make you fail and just avoid doing them. Thinking back to Charlie's advice, I came up with five things you should avoid doing in order to have a successful and meaningful career. Avoid pushing for a promotion when you're not ready yetGetting a promotion when you're not quite ready may negatively impact yourself and your career trajectory. A good way to see if you're ready is to think about how you would feel if you were promoted tomorrow. AdvertisementThe main problem is that most of us avoid doing those 20 hours for years, pushing the things we want in life even further away.

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☆ Texas Governor Pardons Man in Fatal Shooting of Protester in 2020
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( J. David Goodman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Greg Abbott of Texas on Thursday pardoned a man who was convicted of fatally shooting a protester during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in the summer of 2020, fulfilling a promise he made last year amid pressure from conservatives. The decision immediately followed a pardon recommendation from the state’s Board of Pardons and Paroles, whose members are appointed by the governor. Lawyers for the man, Daniel S. Perry, argued that he had acted in self-defense against the protester, who was carrying an AK-47-style rifle. Mr. Perry was sentenced to 25 years in prison in an emotional hearing last year in which prosecutors presented evidence of racist online comments he had made and said that psychological experts had found him to be “basically a loaded gun.” As the pardons board considered the case, lawyers with the Travis County district attorney, José Garza, met with the board to argue against a pardon. Under Texas law, a recommendation from the board is necessary before the governor can grant a pardon.

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☆ Opinion: Restricting and monitoring social media won’t protect kids — here’s what will
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Opinion Michal Luria | Aliya Bhatia | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

But the bills mentioned by policymakers at a congressional hearing last month to address the problem — specifically, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act — may do more harm than good. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will be considering the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act on Thursday. Both KOSA and the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act also propose parental monitoring tools to help guardians observe their children’s online activities. Join us on Twitter and FacebookBut that’s not enough — social media platforms should continue taking active steps toward more thoughtful designs for young people. A parent might talk to their child about what they are doing online or respond to something they post on social media.

Persons: Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, Aliya Bhatia Tim Hoagland, — Organizations: Center for Democracy & Technology, CNN, US, American Psychological Association, Pew Research Center, Social Media, Senate Commerce, Science, Transportation, Research, Global, American Privacy, APRA, Federal Trade Commission, Social, Twitter

☆ Peloton's demise is another in a long line of failed fitness fads
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Peloton isn't going under imminently, but let's be real here: No fitness fad lasts forever. While there was a lot that went wrong, the long and short of it is that Peloton failed to read the room on its pandemic popularity. "It's not that Peloton isn't a good business model; it's that it simply isn't a mass product but more of a niche, luxe one," she said. Investors have soured on the company, and Peloton's once $50 billion market cap has fallen to under $2 billion. It also has to contend with the gym, which has all sorts of classes and fitness equipment that let people mix things up, including, in many cases, Pelotons or other connected-fitness devices.

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☆ Google and Harvard unveil most detailed ever map of human brain
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Now, after the lab team’s decade of close collaboration with scientists at Google, that data has turned into the most detailed map of a human brain sample ever created. The result is an interactive 3D model of the brain tissue, and the largest dataset ever made at this resolution of a human brain structure. And of course, it would reveal many more problems, things we hadn’t expected.”What about mapping an entire human brain? “Much of what we think we understand about the human brain is extrapolated from animals, but research like this is critical for revealing what truly makes us human. “Each human brain is a vast network of billions of nerve cells,” said Sporns, distinguished professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University.

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☆ Alice Munro, a Literary Alchemist Who Made Great Fiction From Humble Lives
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Gregory Cowles | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The last story in her last book evoked her mother’s death. Does it seem reductive or limiting to derive a kind of artist’s statement from the title of that early book? Munro was hardly a doctrinaire feminist, but with implacable authority and command she demonstrated throughout her career that the lives of girls and women were as rich, as tumultuous, as dramatic and as important as the lives of men and boys. For a writer whose book titles gestured repeatedly at love (“The Progress of Love,” “The Love of a Good Woman,” “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage”), her narratives recoiled from sentimentality. You got the feeling that, if the GPS ever offered her a shorter route, she would decline.

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☆ MDMA therapy could be legalized by summer. Why are so many advocates sounding the alarm?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +52 min

Last summer, thousands of tie-dyed Burners and Patagonia-clad tech founders converged on the MAPS Psychedelic Science conference in Denver. The experience "broke the spell of this trauma, and she was able to rebuild her life," Doblin told The Guardian . The video team's job was to store recordings of every MDMA therapy session performed in the clinical trials. Grof believes in something called an "inner healing intelligence," an innate capacity for self-healing that psychedelic therapy helps unleash. Another time, a patient who had come to an MDMA therapy session later acknowledged they had been under the influence of LSD during treatment.

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☆ Your clothes might be making you sad. 'Dopamine dressing' could help you feel happier.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Amanda Krause | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Allyson BiasThe key to happiness: dopamine dressingBarnthouse didn't create the concept of dopamine dressing, but she lives by it. "Every day when I get ready, I'm really excited for my coffee, and I'm really excited to get dopamine dressed," she told BI. AdvertisementPut simply, the mom of two says dopamine dressing ultimately means you "dress better to feel better." In Barnthouse's case, dopamine dressing looks like tulle tops, platform heels, sparkling skirts, and countless jewel-toned gems across her hands, ears, and neck. "Dopamine dressing is really about dressing in a way that makes you feel good.

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☆ The US Army says it wants to recruit more psychological warfare 'nerds'
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-12 | by ( Cameron Manley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementIn late 2021, the Army Special Operations Command leaders and special forces recruiters had a problem: they needed more enlistees for their Psychological Operations groups. Experts in persuasion and influence, psychological warfare, or PsyOp, soldiers don't often fit the stereotypical mold of an Army recruit. US Army via GettyThe video aims to recruit future PsyOps soldiers and show applicants what their jobs will entail." The US Ghost Army deceived the Germans using inflatable tanks, radio deception, disguises, and impersonations. This photo provided by the Ghost Army Legacy Project shows inflatable tanks in March, 1945.

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☆ I've studied the science of happiness for 10 years—here are 10 sentences I try to use every day
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Stephanie Harrison | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Here are 10 sentences I try to use every single day to keep my relationships thriving and put what I've learned about happiness into practice. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Stephanie Harrison of The New Happy2. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Stephanie Harrison of The New HappyWe wildly underestimate the effects of a simple compliment. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Stephanie Harrison of The New Happy7. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Stephanie Harrison of The New Happy10.

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CNN spoke to three Israeli whistleblowers who worked at the Sde Teiman desert camp, which holds Palestinians detained during Israel’s invasion of Gaza. Reports of abuse at Sde Teiman have already surfaced in Israeli and Arab media after an outcry from Israeli and Palestinian rights groups over conditions there. CNN has requested permission from the Israeli military to access the Sde Teiman base. The account tallied with details of a letter authored by a doctor working at Sde Teiman published by Ha’aretz in April. The structure, which resembles an animal pen, is located in the central area of the Sde Teiman compound.

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James Lemons was carrying daughter Kensley on his shoulders at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade when he felt a bullet enter the back of his right thigh. In the chaos of being shot at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade, then hospitalized, Sarai Holguin lost her purse and cellphone. In the chaos of being shot at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade, then hospitalized, Sarai Holguin lost her purse and cellphone. A bullet went through the jaw of Mireya Nelson during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade on Feb. 14, 2024. Erika NelsonMireya Nelson, who was shot during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade on Feb. 14, 2024, undergoes her first physical therapy session while still in the hospital.

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The results of pure-breeding, on display starting this Saturday at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York, are profound. Erich Andres/United Archives, via Getty Images Modern shepherds have more pronounced slopes A German shepherd at the 2013 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Imagno/Getty Images Modern pugs have smushed, round faces A pug at the 2013 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Fox Photos/Getty Images Modern chows are slightly larger, with more fluffy fur A chow at the 2013 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Fox Photos/Getty Images Modern bull terriers have more football-shaped heads A bull terrier at the 2013 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

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☆ 'Baby Reindeer' viewers watched a stalking drama — then hunted down 'the real Martha Scott.' A psychologist explains why true crime turns us into armchair detectives.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

A psychologist told Business Insider why true crime turns viewers into armchair detectives. True crime blurs the line between real life and fictionRichard Gadd as Donny Dunn in "Baby Reindeer." AdvertisementThat's further complicated by some true crime audiences thinking they are helping to bring about justice by becoming armchair detectives. AdvertisementIn a piece published by The Guardian, titled "Why do women love true crime so much?" Ed Miller/NetflixThis raises the question of whether streaming services and TV networks are doing enough to protect those involved in true crime content.

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☆ For adults, autism diagnosis can unlock a new life
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Matt Villano | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Jesse Grant/Getty ImagesFor some, an adult autism diagnosis is an inflection point — the moment in which a clearer and more fulfilling existence starts anew. Whatever the perspective, an adult autism diagnosis is an identity builder, instantaneously minting new members of the growing autism community. How to get help Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. “This is why a diagnosis can be so important.”An autism diagnosis can be everythingAdults are seeking formal autism diagnoses in record numbers, according to providers and practitioners who specialize in autism. “Getting an autism diagnosis, becoming part of the autism community, has completely recontextualized my life,” said Sellergren, who was diagnosed in 2021 at age 44.

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☆ 'Griefbots' could use AI to haunt relatives from beyond the grave, ethicists warn
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Nascent 'griefbots' or 'deadbots' allow users to chat with the deceased. Safeguards should keep kids away from the bots and allow users to turn them off, a study suggested. AdvertisementAI could make your relatives haunt you from beyond the grave, researchers are warning. These bots use generative AI to allow people to have text and voice conversations with the deceased, using their past digital footprints to conjure a likeness. But AI ethicists at Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence warn that AI could one day push ads on grieving relatives or confuse children.

Persons: —, Tomasz Hollanek, Dr, Katarzyna Nowaczyk Organizations: Service, University of Cambridge, Cambridge's Leverhulme, Intelligence Locations: Cambridge, China, Cambridge's

☆ Russia is covering armored vehicles with elaborate anti-drone 'cope cages.' Video shows them getting hit anyway.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Footage shared by a Ukrainian battalion appears to show exploding drones striking Russian 'cope cages.' Both Russia and Ukraine have used the cages as makeshift missile defenses on vehicles. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementVideo released by a Ukrainian battalion appears to show drones getting through increasingly complex "cope cages" installed on Russian armored fighting vehicles, to devastating effect. In a video posted on Monday by the 8th Separate Mountain Assault Battalion — part of the famed "Edelweiss" brigade — heavily protected Russian vehicles are seen to be targeted and, it appears, destroyed by Ukrainian drones.

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☆ Veteran who admitted faking disability to obtain more than $660,000 in benefits gets prison time
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Fabiana Chaparro | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A US military veteran who admitted he faked being unable to walk for more than 20 years while claiming several hundred thousand dollars in disability benefits has been sentenced to prison time. Stultz had pleaded guilty to making false statements by faking the impairment that prevented him from walking to obtain veteran’s disability benefits, according to the US attorney’s office. In addition to his prison sentence, Stultz was ordered to pay $662,871.77 in restitution, which is the total amount he is said to have gained from veteran’s disability benefits. “The defendant lied to the VA for 20 years to obtain disability benefits he was not entitled to. According to court documents, Stultz has been in regular counseling since March 2020 along with physical therapy for several physical ailments.

Persons: Christopher Stultz, Stultz, ” Jane Young, “, ” Prosecutors, ”, Dorothy Graham Organizations: CNN, US Navy, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Prosecutors, ”, Disorders, ” CNN Locations: Antrim , New Hampshire, New Hampshire, “, Boston

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