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☆ Whales swimming behind fishing vessels catch an easy feast of escaped fish, but experts warn this 'free meal' is risky, potentially lethal behavior
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Rupendra Brahambhatt | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Sperm and bottlenose whales are known to pursue fishing boats to catch fish that escape the nets. Hal Whitehead, a sperm whale expert and biology professor at Dalhousie University, told Insider. What's even more interesting is that it's not only whales that have learned to catch fish escaping the fishermen's nets. Usua Oyarbide"As time goes on we hear more and more reports of everything from sperm whales to dolphins doing this. "I've known about sperm whales being engaged with different fisheries but I wasn't aware northern Bottlenose whales show similar behavior, so I've learned something new."

Persons: It's, Whales, Usua, Usua Oyarbide, Oyarbide, Hal Whitehead, wasn't, Andrew Trites, Vince Streano, Whitehead, Trites, I've Organizations: Service, Greenland, Dalhousie University, Marine Mammal Research, University of British, International Whaling Commission, National Oceanic, Atmospheric Administration Locations: Wall, Silicon, Newfoundland, Greenland, University of British Columbia, Canada, Africa, China, Australia

☆ Alleged Russian crime boss sanctioned by Ukraine owns a major stake in US biotech firm
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Buried in corporate filings is another relationship that is central to Humacyte: Russian billionaire Gavril Yushvaev is the company’s second-largest individual shareholder. Humacyte: Russian billionaire has no ‘control’ over firmYushvaev has not been sanctioned by the US government. “There are patients walking today on their own limbs who would not be doing so without access to the HAV to repair their damaged arteries,” a Humacyte spokesperson said. ‘It shows poor judgment’Yushvaev was brought in as an accredited private investor by Credit Suisse’s capital markets advisory group, a Humacyte spokesperson told CNN. Dougan does not personally know Yushvaev, a Humacyte spokesperson told CNN.

Persons: — Weeks, Kathleen Sebelius, Gavril Yushvaev, Yushvaev –, ”, Yushvaev, ” Forbes, Dann, Charles Whitehead, That’s, Steven Tian, Putin, Vladimir Putin, Trump, Sebelius, Humacyte, Obama, ” Yushvaev, Yale’s Tian, Whitehead, “, ” It’s, Brady Dougan, Dougan, Laura Niklason, ’ Yushvaev, Jeff Sonnenfeld, Sonnenfeld, ” Humacyte, Lawrence Ward, Ward, Eleanor Bloxham, ” Bloxham, ’, Lyft, Mother Jones Organizations: New York CNN, Pentagon, Nasdaq, US Department of Defense, CNN, Securities and Exchange Commission, Ukraine, Pepsico, Cornell Law School, BlackRock, Vanguard, Yale School of Management’s, Institute, Treasury Department, Kremlin, Credit, Ayabudge, Credit Suisse, Humacyte, PTC, Yale, Yushvaev, SEC, “, Soviet, US Treasury, Dorsey, Whitney’s, Value Alliance, The Department of Defense, DOD, Cornell, Russia Locations: Ukraine, North Carolina, Humacyte, Russian, Russia, Crimea, Cypriot, Yale, Bloxham, Lyft

☆ Colson Whitehead on ‘Crook Manifesto’ and Harlem in the ’70s
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Gilbert Cruz is joined by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead, who talks about his novel “Crook Manifesto,” which picks up the tale of furniture salesman and sometime crook Ray Carney, and what it was like to write about Harlem in the ’70s. He also reflects on his famous post-9/11 essay about New York City. … I felt better writing it, and I was articulating so much about the city I’d never tried to articulate before. And then when it came out, it meant so much to other people. You can send them to books@nytimes.com.

Persons: Gilbert Cruz, Colson Whitehead, Ray Carney, ” Whitehead, ”, …, I’d Organizations: Harlem, New, New York Times Magazine Locations: New York City, “, New York, ”

☆ The Setting of Colson Whitehead’s ‘Crook Manifesto,’ in Archives
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Erica Ackerberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Two men across the street from rehabilitated five-story tenement buildings on 114th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, not far from the Canaan Baptist Church, where a movie scene is filmed in the novel. Credit... Tyrone Dukes/The New York Times

Persons: Tyrone Dukes Organizations: Eighth, Canaan Baptist Church, The New York Locations: Canaan

☆ Philadelphia is starting to crack down on unlicensed Airbnbs and Vrbos, which is bad news for 85% of units in the city
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The city estimates nearly 1,700 short-term rentals are at risk of being removed from the platforms. By the city's own estimate, the crackdown could shut down 85% of all short-term rentals in the city — or nearly 1,700 units. Scottsdale Councilmember Solange Whitehead told Insider that issues over short-term rentals had reached a boiling point. In Bozeman, Montana, where short-term rentals nearly doubled during the pandemic, some locals have called for a permanent ban. Host Michael Rutkowksi told Insider that the town should start with enforcing the licensing requirements already on the books.

Persons: Jim Kenney, that's, Mark Squilla, WHYY, Airbnb, We've, Solange Whitehead, Michael Rutkowksi Organizations: Philadelphia, Service, city's Department, Licenses, City, Scottsdale Locations: Philadelphia, Wall, Silicon, Phoenix, Scottsdale , Arizona, Bozeman , Montana

☆ Colson Whitehead Returns to Harlem, and His Hero Returns to Crime
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Walter Mosley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Carney is resigned and observant, a participant and a hostage, as he embarks on a nightmarish shotgun ride across New York City. The more the cop talks, the more Carney tries to figure a way out, an exit. “Out of step even then, lost among the tall buildings.”Whitehead’s men struggle with connections, they carry their heartaches and lost loves close to the chest. They have names, and nicknames gained from what can only be called traumatic past experiences: Zippo, Corky. Caught up in their specialties, they run the rackets like the corrupt corporations that run America.

Persons: Carney, “ Don Quixote ”, Whitehead, brutalities, Corky Locations: New York City, Harlem, Hell’s, “, America

☆ Opinion | What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

There are the novels the literary world acclaims and there are the novels people actually read. With rare exceptions, these books are written by women, for women. And for the past few years, these books have been written by Colleen Hoover. In 2022 alone, Hoover’s novels sold 14.3 million copies and in total, more than 24 million copies to date. As Hoover herself explained her popularity in an interview in The Times: “It’s not me.

Persons: Colson Whitehead, Margaret Atwood, James, Stephanie Meyer’s, Meyer, Anne Rice, Danielle Steel, Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Jackie Collins, Tom Clancy, Colleen Hoover, Hoover, ”, “ Organizations: The Times Locations: Ocean, Rice’s, TikTok

☆ Opinion: Trump’s enthusiasm for bringing back Michael Flynn is a revealing sign
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Opinion Peter Bergen | Erik German | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Which raises the question: Who would Trump bring back into his orbit should there be a second Trump term? Flynn was handsomely repaid by Trump when he won the 2016 presidential election, gaining the critical position of national security adviser. That is, they agree or strongly agree with statements such as “the federal government should declare the US a ‘Christian nation….’”The “ReAwaken America Tour”The ReAwaken America crowd looks to be a highly energized vanguard within this population. For an Audible podcast that we produced about Flynn and his role in ReAwaken America, Clark told us he considers Flynn “to be kind of like a father figure to [him],” and he hopes that Flynn will be Trump’s vice-presidential candidate. On tour, Flynn is dubbed, without irony, “America’s general,” and, at the event we attended in May, America’s general was the unquestionable star of the show.

Persons: Peter Bergen, Peter Bergen ”, Erik German, “, Donald Trump, can’t, Trump, Michael Flynn, Flynn, We’re, Flynn wouldn’t, Mike Pence, Joe Biden, ”, Andrew Whitehead, Samuel Perry, Paul Djupe, Jacob Dennen, Donald, ’, Clay Clark, Clark, Flynn “, America’s, …, Klaus Schwab, Schwab, I’m, ” Flynn, he’s Organizations: New, Arizona State University, Apple, Spotify, CNN, White House, Trump, Peter Bergen CNN, Trump National Doral Hotel, Republican, FBI, White, Denison University, Economic, America, Twitter, Facebook, Miami Locations: New America, Miami, Afghanistan, Iraq, Russian, America, Oklahoma, ReAwaken America, Davos, Switzerland

☆ One Black Family, One Affirmative Action Ruling, and Lots of Thoughts
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Audra D. S. Burch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For the Whiteheads, an African American family living in the city of Baltimore, race is discussed at the dinner table. In the car on the way to work and school and games. In the backyard while the sons practice sports. So when the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions at colleges and universities, effectively ending the practice known as affirmative action, the family began talking about it earnestly, echoing the range of emotions felt by people across the country who are invested in the ruling. He is hopeful that it is no longer needed, but fears it is.

Persons: Karsonya Wise Whitehead, ”, Johnnie Whitehead Locations: African, Baltimore

☆ Some of the Books That Hernan Diaz Owns Surprise Even Him
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Scott, Deborah Eisenberg, Paul Yoon, Ottessa Moshfegh, Michael Ondaatje, Louise Erdrich, Colson Whitehead, Sigrid Nunez, Jean Strouse, Lorrie Moore. The novel contains four different books, written by different fictional authors in disparate genres and styles. “Trust” closes with a personal diary that is also a sort of a prose poem and a love letter to modernism. While writing this, I read and revisited authors as different as Jean Rhys, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Dawn Powell, Theodor Adorno and Gertrude Stein. Wodehouse section of my library and can report that I’ve read 29 of his books.

☆ Meet Kim Posnett, the powerful Goldman Sachs dealmaker who was just named head of the investment bank's TMT unit
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Reed Alexander | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Kim Posnett was just named head of Goldman's all-important TMT investment banking group. Posnett, 43, has long been one of the most senior figures at Goldman's investment bank. Posnett was previously the head of Goldman's investment-banking services unit, which acts as a salesforce for the global IB division. The former co-head of Goldman's TMT franchise will become co-chairman of the unit. The former would result in the IB services group, which functions, in effect, as a sales force.

☆ Churches are building tiny homes across the US to help house the homeless
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Churches are working with homeless charities to build micro homes across the US, The AP reported. The homes can be built on spare church land and use existing water and electricity supplies. Tiny homes are becoming an increasingly popular solution to help tackle the homelessness crisis. APWashington-based social purpose company Pallet has seen rising interest in its tiny homes that cost $5,500 and can be set up in less than an hour. Donald Whitehead, director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, told The AP he welcomed the churches' moves and regarded tiny homes as a "great emergency option".

☆ Snoop Dogg, his ape and a question of celebrity hype
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Elle Reeve | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

The Bored Apes became some of the most famous NFTs after a series of celebrities said they got one. The Bored Ape crazeSnoop Dogg performs with his Bored Ape character, Dr. Bombay, in February 2023. He sold his versions as RR/BAYC with an accompanying website that detailed claims the Bored Apes contained references to racist memes on 4chan, a troll website. In March 2022, Snoop invested in Yuga Labs, and the month after, he invested in MoonPay. In the VMAs video, Eminem turns into a white ape wearing “hip hop clothes,” while Snoop becomes a cheetah-fur ape wearing a “pimp coat,” according to Yuga Labs’ description.

☆ The 'Airbnbust' proves the Wild West days of online vacation rentals are over
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( James Rodriguez | Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

"We started panicking and started connecting with other folks who we know have short-term rentals," Sullivan told Insider. Given the sharp rise of short-term rentals there, some local lawmakers have recently called for amending the law. But short-term rentals are often essential to a healthy tourism economy, particularly in vacation destinations. Investors jumped in to capitalize on the boom, and the market soon became saturated with short-term rentals. There's one thing pretty much everyone can agree on: Short-term rentals are here to stay.

☆ The battle over Airbnb has hit a breaking point
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( James Rodriguez | Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

"We started panicking and started connecting with other folks who we know have short-term rentals," Sullivan told Insider. Rather than a collapse of the industry, the increasingly bifurcated state of the market — a bust for some, a boom for others — is a clear sign that we have hit a turning point in the long-running battle over short-term rentals. Given the sharp rise of short-term rentals there, some local lawmakers have recently called for amending the law. Investors jumped in to capitalize on the boom, and the market soon became saturated with short-term rentals. There's one thing pretty much everyone can agree on: Short-term rentals are here to stay.

☆ Mindy Kaling, Bruce Springsteen, Colson Whitehead Are Among Recipients of National Arts Awards
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Jennifer Calfas | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Colson Whitehead and Mindy Kaling will both be honored this week. President Biden will honor actors, artists, authors, musicians and scholars Tuesday with the federal government’s highest awards for contributions to the arts and humanities. Recipients of the National Medal of Arts will include comedians and actors Mindy Kaling and Julia Louis-Dreyfus , legendary singers Gladys Knight and Bruce Springsteen , and fashion designer Vera Wang . Authors including Bryan Stevenson , Amy Tan and Colson Whitehead , and academics including Henrietta Mann are among those who will receive the National Humanities Medal.

☆ Biden honors Springsteen, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Mindy Kaling
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Steve Holland | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueWASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden made an observation when conferring the National Medal of Arts on rocker Bruce Springsteen on Tuesday: "Bruce, some people are just born to run, man." Springsteen and a host of actors, authors, singers and other artists joined Biden in the White House East Room where they received either a National Medal of Arts or National Humanities Medal for their contributions to American society. Comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus, whose "Veep" show made light of the vice presidency - an office Biden once held - was also honored. Actress Mindy Kaling, a main character on the long-running television show, "The Office," set in Biden's hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, received a medal as well. "I'm trying to go back to back myself," said Biden, who has said he intends to run for re-election in 2024.

☆ Rep. Lauren Boebert suggested God used her to stand up to to 'demons' including 'a speaker of the House'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. Lauren Boebert told a crowd God may use them to stand in front of "demons," or a "speaker of the House." Boebert, though she was coy about what House speaker she referred to, tried to block McCarthy's bid. Boebert has previously invoked religion and politics, saying "the church is supposed to control the government." After negotiations within the party and 15 rounds of voting, McCarthy was finally elected speaker last month, kicking off the new Congress. Andrew Whitehead, a sociologist at IUPUI and co-author of "Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States," told Insider at the time her comments touched on Christian nationalist imagery that's linked to violence.

☆ Ukraine's battlefield success surprised Russia, but US troops who trained Ukrainians saw it coming, National Guard chief says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Christopher Woody | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Army National Guard Sgt. Anthony JonesUS National Guard units began rotating through Ukraine in 2015 to conduct training as part of the Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine. Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Ukrainian NCOs "were able to lead from the front at the lowest level of supervision. That's where our NCOs really are effective because the things that our commanders empower them to do," Whitehead added.

☆ A popular Phoenix suburb is cracking down on Airbnbs ahead of the Super Bowl, with one critic saying its 5,000 short-term rentals are 'destroying neighborhoods'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

There are about 5,000 short-term rentals in Scottsdale, Arizona, a local CBS affiliate reported. Some locals say short-term rentals have had a detrimental effect on neighborhoods. The regulation is a warning to the industry that has flourished under a 2016 Arizona law that banned local caps on short-term rentals. Scottsdale is joining the dozens of cities across America attempting to control their number of short-term rentals, which reached a record high in US supply last year. The expansion of vacation pads has been a 'slow-cooked lobster'Indeed, the explosion of short-term rentals in Scottsdale is "out of control," Whitehead, the councilwoman, said.

☆ Two researchers aim to better understand L.A.’s homelessness crisis with smartphone surveys
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Jake Traylor | Jake Traylor Is An Associate Producer For Msnbc. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Two California researchers aim to get a real-time understanding of homelessness using a perhaps unexpected resource found among unhoused people: smartphones. Larry Posey works in MacArthur Park to share information about the PATHS study. Amy Stein / USC/UCLAOnce a month, a growing number of PATHS participants in Los Angeles County are texted a link to a 15-minute survey. Recruiters for the PATHS study share information with participants via postcard and directly into a web-based interface. The PATHS study found that 90% of participants would be interested in some type of interim or permanent housing.

☆ Extreme cold weather stretches U.S. homeless shelters' capacity
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Gabriella Borter | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/4] A man stands outside of his tent during a period of cold weather in Denver, Colorado, U.S. December 22, 2022. Officials prepared the indoor arena to house 225 people but increased its capacity to 359 on Wednesday night. The report found that homelessness among people in shelters declined by 1.6%, while unsheltered homelessness increased by 3.4%, compared to 2020. "Severe weather exacerbates the cruel reality of homelessness in America," said Donald Whitehead, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless. Nearly 1,000 migrants were staying at Denver city shelters or partner shelters as of Thursday, according to a city statement.

☆ N.Y. bishop robbed during livestreamed service is arrested on fraud and extortion charges
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Mirna-Alsharif-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Mirna Alsharif | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

The New York City bishop who was robbed of around $1 million in jewelry during a livestreamed service in July was arrested Monday morning and is facing fraud and extortion charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. "His campaign of fraud and deceit stops now.”If convicted, Whitehead faces a minimum of 20 years in prison, court documents say. “Bishop Lamor Whitehead is not guilty of these charges. “You wanna come preach?” he’s heard saying toward the end of the livestreamed service. Whitehead wasn’t arrested, according to police, but the bishop disagreed and said he was put in a holding cell.

☆ Why Tom Brady, David Ortiz, Jimmy Fallon and other celebrities are getting sued over crypto
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Tom Brady, Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow and baseball Hall-of-Famer David Ortiz are just some of the big names facing lawsuits from investors as the crypto world crumbles in the wake of FTX’s fall from grace. The backlash started earlier this month, when a class-action suit was filed against celebrities, including Jimmy Fallon, Justin Bieber and Serena Williams for promoting Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs. None of the celebrities named in the lawsuits immediately responded to requests from CNN for comment. Investors in FTX are not expected to be able to recover their money, the company’s CEO testified on Capitol Hill Tuesday. And after the crypto market bust and a round of lawsuits, celebrities may think twice about what they endorse in the future, too.

☆ Trump, Kanye West, and Nick Fuentes pushing antisemitism to the forefront of the GOP could pull the Christian nationalist movement apart
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

But they also exposed a darker side of Christian nationalism that was always there, experts say. Americans who support Christian nationalist ideas may not identify as Christian nationalists. Andrew Whitehead, a sociologist at IUPUI and co-author of "Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States," has found similar connections between Christian nationalism and antisemitism. Additional research has also found close connections between Christian nationalism, antisemitism, QAnon followers, and supporters of Trump. Greene has said the GOP should be the party of Christian nationalism and even sells merch adorned with the term.

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