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☆ One chart shows just how much women's college basketball ratings have soared while men's have dipped
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-17 | by ( Cork Gaines | Andy Kiersz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Viewership for the women's NCAA basketball championship surpassed the men's final for the first time. Over the next three years, the TV audience for the women's final grew by 23% to an average of 3.7 million. Women's basketball popularity goes beyond championship game ratingsWe have seen other evidence of women's college basketball's emerging dominance in the sports landscape. Meanwhile, merchandise sales related to women's college basketball are also soaring. JuJu Watkins celebrates with USC fans following a win during the 2024 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.

Persons: —, Nielsen, Caitlin Clark —, Angel Reese, Dawn Staley, Clark, University of Connecticut's Paige Bueckers, Juju Watkins, James, LeBron James, JuJu Watkins, Wally Skalij, Darren Rovell, Bruce B, Greenspoon Marder, you've, Siegal Organizations: NCAA, WNBA, Service, University of Iowa, University of South Carolina, Purdue University, University of Connecticut, Nielsen, Sports Media Watch, Louisiana State, University of South, Business, Nike, University of, University of Southern, USC, Indiana Fever, Impact, Vanderbilt University Locations: Louisiana, University of South Carolina, University of Southern California

☆ The largest map of the cosmos hints that dark energy is changing. It could prove Einstein wrong and upend a pillar of modern physics.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Jessica Orwig | Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

New data from the largest 3-D map of our universe suggests we may be wrong about dark energy. One of the driving forces behind that evolution is also one of our age's biggest mysteries in physics: dark energy. Einstein abandoned the idea as his "greatest blunder" in the 1930s, as astrophysicist Ethan Siegal explains, but a constant dark energy would have vindicated him. "If true, it would be the first real clue we have gotten about the nature of dark energy in 25 years," Adam Riess, a Nobel laureate for his co-discovery of dark energy, told Quanta Magazine. "The idea that dark energy is varying is very natural," Paul Steinhardt, a Princeton University cosmologist, told the magazine.

Persons: —, we're, Michael Levi, Levi, DESI, Marenfeld, Claire Lamman, Albert Einstein's, Einstein, Ethan Siegal, Albert Einstein, Ernst Haas, Adam Riess, Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University cosmologist, Riess, Vera C, Travis Lange, Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell, NASA's Nancy Grace, Arnaud de Mattia, Mattia Organizations: Service, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, American Physical Society, Princeton University, NASA, Rubin, Accelerator, Atomic Energy Commission Locations: Arizona, Princeton , New Jersey

☆ More startups are paying for ChatGPT as generative AI becomes a go-to tool for tech employees like engineers
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Samantha Stokes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

65% of startups on Kruze Consulting's platform are paying for OpenAI, up from just 3% when the chatbot launched in late 2022. Back then, OpenAI had an API service that one to three percent of his clients were using, Jones told Insider in an interview. At fintech unicorn CloudWalk, which is building a payments network, a few engineers started using ChatGPT Plus on their own and praising the application on company Slack channels. Indeed, the growing adoption of ChatGPT is creating demand for engineers who are especially savvy at using generative AI to get work done more quickly. "The feedback we got, which is indirectly related to our using AI, is that investors didn't understand how our team has so many clients and has built so much," Siegal said.

Persons: Healy Jones, OpenAI, Jones, Luis Silva, Carlyle, Lauder, ChatGPT, Silva, We're, CloudWalk, he's, Anthropic, GitHub Copilot, Jared Siegal, Siegal, Copilot, Axel Springer Organizations: Kruze Consulting, OpenAI's, Business, OpenAI, Kruze, ChatGPT, eBay, Slack, ChatGPT Enterprise, Lauder Companies Locations: Brazil, Kruze, GitHub

☆ Heirs Awarded Nazi-Looted Art Are Still Waiting, 17 Years Later
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Nina Siegal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a museum storage depot in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, a 17th-century painting by a Dutch old master is packed away, unseen and unappreciated. Once the property of an elderly British-Jewish couple living in France, it was seized by Nazi collaborators during World War II and sold to Hermann Göring, Hitler’s second in command. Because of an administrative error in the war’s aftermath, it ended up in the Netherlands, where it was displayed in a museum for decades. The collectors heirs sought its return in 2006, and the country investigated the case and recommended restitution the following year. But the family still doesn’t have the painting back, and they don’t know when that will ever happen.

Persons: Hermann Göring, ”, Alain Monteagle Locations: Amersfoort, Netherlands, British, France, Nazi

☆ 'Feud' season 2 concludes with Truman Capote's tragic early demise. Here's everything you need to know about the author's death and his unfinished book.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewAcross eight episodes, the second season of Ryan Murphy's "Feud: Capote vs. Truman Capote (Tom Hollander) and Joanne Carson (Molly Ringwald) in "Feud: Capote Vs. According to PBS, Capote's official death certificate attributed his death to "liver disease complicated by phlebitis and multiple drug intoxication." According to Plimpton, a search for what the key unlocked was carried out after Capote's death, but nothing was found. AdvertisementThe finale of "Feud: Capote vs.

Persons: —, Ryan Murphy's, Truman Capote, Tom Hollander, Capote, Ann Woodward, Laurence Leamer's, Jon Robin Baitz, Joanne Carson, Molly Ringwald, Johnny Carson, Jane Baxter, Carson, Truman, Stanley Siegal, Siegel, Katharine, Kay, Graham, Harry Benson, Gary Settle, George Plimpton's, Plimpton, Joseph M, Fox Organizations: Service, Business, Los Angeles Times, PBS, Random, La, Basque, New York Public Library, New York Times Co Locations: New York, Manhattan, Kansas, Palm Springs , California

☆ Surrealism Is 100. The World’s Still Surreal.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-28 | by ( Nina Siegal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It’s a fish in the shape of a piano, floating in a clear blue sky, seen through a keyhole. Surrealism, the art movement that gave us disembodied eyeballs, melting clocks and animals with mismatched parts, was born in 1924 when the French poet André Breton published a treatise decrying the vogue for realism and rationality. Breton argued instead for embracing the “omnipotence of dreams” and exploring the unconscious and all that was “marvelous” in life. “The mere word ‘freedom’ is the only one that still excites me,” Breton wrote in his “Surrealist Manifesto.”It was a literary idea that became an art movement and revolutionized nearly all forms of cultural production. It’s now commonplace to call pretty much any weird experience “surreal.”

Persons: André Breton, Breton, ” Breton Locations: French

☆ ‘We owe it to them’: Families of Israelis killed in war find new hope through sperm extraction
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“I’ve seen dozens of people killed in accidents or shootings, but this was the hardest thing I’ve done in my life,” Daphna-Tekoah told CNN by telephone. “I asked ‘Would you like me to find out about sperm preservation?’”Medical social worker Shir Daphna-Tekoah suggested the idea of sperm extraction to bereaved families on October 7. “The demand has been very high,” she told CNN in a video call, adding that dozens of families have accessed the service since October 7. It isn’t that they want a baby instead of their son - it’s the grandchild,” she told CNN by telephone. PSR can be the easy part, Rosenblum told CNN.

Persons: Shir Daphna, “ I’ve, ”, Tekoah, “, ‘, Noga Fuchs, Dr, Shimi Barda, Noga, Barda, Shaylee Atary, Atary, Fuchs, Irit Oren Gunders, Irit Rosenblum, Lawyer Irit Rosenblum, Irit Rosenblum Rosenblum, Rosenblum, “ We’ve, ” Rosenblum, “ I’m, ” Yulia, Vlad Poznianski, Baruch, Yulia, Shira, Liat Malka, Baruch Pozniansky, Yulia Pozniansky, she’s, Malka, She’s, won’t, isn’t, Soldiers, ” Israel ‘, Gil Siegal Organizations: CNN, Kaplan, of Health, PSR, Ichilov, Israel Defense Forces, Noga Fuchs, Noga, Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health, New, Center for Health Law, Kiryat Ono, Israel, University of Virginia Law School Locations: Tel, Kfar Aza, Gaza, Israel

☆ After 9 Years in Limbo, Treasures From Crimea Return to Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Nina Siegal | More About Nina Siegal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Hundreds of ancient artifacts from Crimea that were stored in a Dutch museum for nine years while Russia and Ukraine waged a legal battle over their ownership are now back in Ukraine, officials in Amsterdam said on Monday. The works arrived on Sunday at the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine in Kyiv, said officials at the Allard Pierson Museum, an archaeological museum at the University of Amsterdam, which borrowed around 400 works from four Crimean museums in 2014 for the exhibition “Crimea: Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea.” The artifacts included gold jewelry, gold plaques, precious gems, Greek and Roman stone ornaments and ceramics. A month into the show’s run, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula, and when it came time to send the objects back, a legal conflict emerged: Should they go back to the Crimean museums, now under Russian state control, or to Ukraine, which argued that the works were part of its national heritage? The nine-year struggle over the treasures became a kind of proxy war over national sovereignty and cultural property. Els van der Plas, the director of the Allard Pierson Museum, said in a statement that it was “a special case in which cultural heritage became a victim of geopolitical developments.”

Persons: Allard Pierson, Els van der Plas Organizations: Museum, Historical, Allard, Allard Pierson Museum, University of Amsterdam Locations: Crimea, Russia, Ukraine, Amsterdam, Kyiv, Crimean

☆ History shows the S&P 500 sees double-digit growth the year after the Fed is done hiking rates
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Aruni Soni | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

If that's the case, it could mean the S&P 500 can swing up by double-digits in the next year. The end of a rate hike cycle in January 1995 saw the S&P 500 jump 35.2% in the year after. Put those together, and the average growth in the S&P 500 after a rate top is 17.4%. AdvertisementAs for what happens to stocks after the central bank cuts interest rates, Rabe wrote that returns are "mixed" in the months that follow. "By contrast, rapid monetary and fiscal policy responses to the Pandemic Crisis helped US equities recover much quicker," Rabe wrote.

Persons: DataTrek, —, Jessica Rabe, Rabe, Jeremy Siegal Organizations: Service, Fed

☆ Erwin Olaf, Photographer With an Eye for the Theatrical, Dies at 64
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Nina Siegal | More About Nina Siegal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Erwin Olaf, a contemporary Dutch photographer known for the precision of his staged photographs of both countercultural figures and Dutch royalty, died on Wednesday in Groningen, the Netherlands. Shirley den Hartog, his business partner, said the death, in a hospital, was caused by complications of a recent lung transplant. Mr. Olaf had struggled for years with hereditary emphysema, she said. Mr. Olaf began his career as a photojournalist documenting the gay liberation movement in the 1980s before becoming one of the first photographers in the Netherlands to stage photos using theatrical costuming and sets. “He made explicit images or very suggestive images that became iconic,” said Taco Dibbits, director of the Rijksmuseum, which owns and displays Mr. Olaf’s work.

Persons: Erwin Olaf, Shirley den Hartog, Olaf, ”, Taco Dibbits, Olaf’s, “ Locations: Dutch, Groningen, Netherlands

☆ An Effort to Focus on Long Overlooked Roma Suffering in the Holocaust
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Nina Siegal | More About Nina Siegal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Before the Second World War, Helena Malíková grew up in Uherské Hradiště, a town in Czechoslovakia, where her family lived with other Roma in a settlement of old freight wagons lined up behind a sugar factory, near the Morava River. About 150 families lived in the converted train cars. Malíková and her family had the only brick house. Hundreds of thousands of Roma people, once derisively referred to with the slur Gypsies, were killed by the Nazis. It was recorded in May 1991 and is now featured in “Testimonies of Roma and Sinti,” a new database devoted to the Romani genocide of World War II.

Persons: Helena Malíková, Malíková, Roma Organizations: Roma Locations: Uherské Hradiště, Czechoslovakia, Hodonín, Auschwitz

☆ Overlooked No More: Dolores Alexander, Feminist Journalist and Activist
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Nina Siegal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Dolores Alexander had a few distinct careers throughout her life. She was executive director of the National Organization for Women, working alongside its president and co-founder, Betty Friedan. And she was a founder of the organization Women Against Pornography. This was a women’s club.

Persons: Dolores Alexander, Betty Friedan, Mother Courage, Jill Ward, ” Lucy Komisar, ” Organizations: The New York Times, Newsday, National Organization for Women Locations: Times, United States, Manhattan’s meatpacking

☆ This Little Amsterdam Improv Club Launched Big American Careers
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Nina Siegal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Seth Meyers had no idea what to expect when he got a job in 1997 performing at a fledgling comedy club in Amsterdam called Boom Chicago. He was in his early 20s, and had never traveled outside of the United States. He had to apply for a passport. “I knew not one thing about the Netherlands,” he said in a recent interview. “My first thought was to get some good hiking shoes, I guess because I thought I was going to Switzerland.

Persons: Seth Meyers, “, ”, ” Meyers didn’t Locations: Amsterdam, Boom Chicago, United States, Netherlands, Switzerland

☆ Trailing Michel Houellebecq From the Bedroom to the Courtroom
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Nina Siegal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a joint interview, Ruitenbeek and Sinha said they developed the concept for the Houellebecq film with the author and shot 600 hours of footage of him, with his contractual consent. Houellebecq only objected when they put together a two-minute trailer for the work in progress, according to Ruitenbeek and Sinha. (Houellebecq has a long history of making critical statements about Islam, and some readers have found Islamophobic sentiments in his books.) In a French court, Houellebecq argued that the trailer violated his privacy and damaged his image. After Houellebecq left the project, KIRAC filmed in and around the court proceedings, as well as shooting other moments, such as Saturday night’s cockroach show.

Persons: Ruitenbeek, Sinha, Houellebecq, “, ” Ruitenbeek, KIRAC, Jacqueline Schaap Locations: Morocco, Paris, Amsterdam

Weber , which went public in August 2021 and is trading at half its offering price, is the latest example of a recent IPO to attract a bid to go private. Recent IPOs ducking for the door First, to understand why we selected these criteria, let's look at the recent deals. Kennedy Lewis' $4 per share cash offer was an 83% premium to F45's closing price ahead of the deal announcement, even though it was far below the stock's $16 IPO price. Even with the lift from the deal news, shares are only trading at less than half its $14 IPO price. Private equity company AEA Investors had a 28.4% stake in the company, and CEO Jeremy Andrus owns an 11% stake, according to FactSet.

☆ Lululemon slashes price of Mirror by 50% as it nears launch of fitness studio membership
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Matthew Kish | Ann Gehan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Lululemon announced the price change as part of the upcoming launch of a new studio platform. On Wednesday, it offered new details about the platform, which it's calling Lululemon Studio, including an October 5 launch date. Membership requires the purchase of a Mirror device, and current Mirror owners will automatically become members of the program for 12 months. Lululemon will also launch a free membership program on October 5 that will offer shopping rewards, free access to select Lululemon Studio classes, and early access to product drops. At the April investor day, said Michael Aragon, Lululemon Digital Fitness CEO, said Mirror is a natural fit for the company's business plan.

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