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☆ Child-free spaces, dirty looks on planes and ‘breeders’: Why people seem so annoyed by kids in public
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —In some corners of society, there appears to be a shift in the way people talk about kids. Every so often, a provocative social media post sets off predictably polarizing discourse about the presence of children in daily life. The implication (joking or otherwise) is that children are a nuisance and adults shouldn’t have to endure them if they don’t want to. The people behind them aren’t part of some organized movement nor are they actually lobbying for the exclusion of children from public spaces. Rather, Berg understands online disdain for kids partly as a performative response to rhetoric from political and religious conservatives.

Persons: snarkily, ”, shouldn’t, Mariah Maddox, —, Elinor Burkett, Boon, “, Lisa Belkin, Jason Lancaster, Anastasia Berg, Rachel Wiseman, Berg, JD Vance’s, Pope Francis, aren’t, Jessica J, June Carbone, Carbone, ” Carbone, Yolanda Williams, glared, ” Williams, Lauren Kavan, She’s, Kavan, ‘, ’, Jessica Calarco Organizations: CNN, Friendly, New York Times Magazine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “, tote Locations: Ohio, Nebraska, Berg

☆ Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Collars, Captured by Camera
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( James Barron | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

In the soft stillness of a museum gallery, you could forget that the photographs on the walls around you were shot under time pressure. Six minutes each, the photographer Elinor Carucci told me. The photographs, on view at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, are haunting, almost three-dimensional images of collars and necklaces that belonged to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court.

Persons: Elinor Carucci, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Organizations: Jewish Museum Locations: Manhattan

☆ How Nobel economists spend their $1 million winnings
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Every year, researchers in economics are awarded the Nobel Prize, alongside a hefty sum in winnings. All you have to do is bag a Nobel Prize. Franco Modigliani, an MIT professor who nabbed the Nobel in economics in 1985 , got about $225,000 in winnings. But, ultimately, he wanted to spend his winnings according to his own research on people's saving and spending habits. So when he was asked how he'd spend what was, in 2017 dollars, around $1.1 million in winnings, Thaler told reporters : "I will try to spend it as irrationally as possible."

Persons: —, Alfred Nobel, Claudia Goldin, it's, Goldin, Lars Heikenstein, Franco Modigliani, Modigliani, I'm, Modigliani isn't, Elinor Ostrom, Oliver E, Williamson, Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Michael Kremer, Sir Angus Deaton, Richard Thaler, he'd, Thaler Organizations: Service, Sveriges, Economic Sciences, Guardian, Nobel Foundation, MIT, Washington Post, Indiana University, National Academy of Sciences, Fund for Research, Development, Harvard University, Boston Globe, University of Chicago Locations: Stockholm, United States of America

☆ ‘Madonna’ Review: The Material on the Girl
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( Tara Isabella Burton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Madonna in a downtown Manhattan loft, December 1982. Photo: Peter Noble/Redferns/Getty ImagesIn February 1927, the British novelist Elinor Glyn published a short story in Cosmopolitan magazine that would define the then-nascent culture of celebrity. Glyn’s story explored the concept of It: the mysterious, ineffable, possibly magical quality that stars and other screen luminaries have and ordinary people don’t. Sex appeal, personal charisma, beauty—all of these contribute to It, but It is much more. And so not only a star, but an ideology of stardom, was born.

Persons: Peter Noble, Elinor Glyn, Glyn, optioning, Clara Bow Organizations: Cosmopolitan, Paramount Locations: downtown Manhattan, British

STOCKHOLM, Oct 9 (Reuters) - American economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work examining wage inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. "This year's Laureate in the Economic Sciences, Claudia Goldin, provided the first comprehensive account of women's earnings and labour market participation through the centuries," the prize-giving body said in a statement. Goldin, who in 1990 became the first woman to be tenured at the Harvard economics department, is only the third woman to win the Nobel economics prize. "Claudia Goldin's discoveries have vast societal implications," said Randi Hjalmarsson, member of the Economic Prize committee. As with the other Nobel prizes, the vast majority of the economics awards have gone to men.

Persons: Claudia Goldin, Alfred Nobel, Goldin, Hans Ellegren, Claudia Goldin's, Randi Hjalmarsson, Jakob Svensson, Friedrich August von Hayek, Milton Friedman, Paul Krugman, Ben Bernanke, Elinor Ostrom, Esther Duflo, Simon Johnson, Mark John, Niklas Pollard, Johan Ahlander, Terje Solsvik, Catherine Evans Organizations: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Sveriges, Economic Sciences, Harvard, Pew Research, Commission, Social, Thomson Locations: STOCKHOLM, COVID, Norwegian, Iranian, United States, Europe, U.S

☆ Buy 'BAT' - CLSA gives three stocks to bet on China in the global AI race
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( Brian Evans | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

CLSA thinks China could emerge as the second-largest artificial intelligence market, and the firm is eyeing a tranche of stocks to play the growth. "While the USA is a strong leader, China is putting up a fight and we believe it will become the world's second-largest AI market with over 6% share of global US$1tn AI spending by 2026," the note said. For exposure to the future AI growth in China, Leung highlighted Baidu and Alibaba , while calling out Tencent as the premier play — a trio of stocks the firm dubbed "BAT." "We believe Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are the best positioned to lead China's AI innovation," Leung said. All three companies are the dominant developers of large language models in China, Leung added, and already have a tight grip over the necessary data and IT to grow further.

Persons: CLSA, Elinor Leung, Bard, Leung, Tencent, —, BABA, Michael Bloom Organizations: Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Baidu, BAT, ", HK Locations: China, The U.S, U.S, ChatGPT, USA, Hong Kong, Tencent

☆ Lavreysen reigns supreme in sprints, Britain top medals table
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Martyn Herman | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

GLASGOW, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Dutchman Harrie Lavreysen maintained his stranglehold on track cycling's sprint discipline as he made it five world titles in succession in the individual event on Monday. Having powered the Dutch to team sprint gold earlier in the meet and, with the keirin to come on Tuesday, he could leave Glasgow having matched the record 14 world titles of French sprint king Arnaud Tournant. Host nation Britain also enjoyed another impressive day at the Chris Hoy Velodrome to top the medals table. He has won five sprint titles in a row, five of the last six in team sprint and three of the last three in keirin. "My legs are still screaming," Barker said after adding the madison to the team pursuit gold she won last week.

Persons: Harrie Lavreysen, Tobago's Paul Nicholas, Arnaud Tournant, Chris Hoy, Elinor Barker, Neah Evans, Ethan Vernon, Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Lavreysen, Nicholas, Jason Kenny, I'm, Britain's, Barker, Evans, Martyn Herman, Ken Ferris Organizations: GLASGOW, Trinidad, UCI, Glasgow, Chris Hoy Velodrome, France, Paris Games, Reuters, MAN, Tokyo, Thomson Locations: Britain, Australia, keirin, British, France, madison

☆ The Art of Being a Flâneur
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-19 | by ( Stephanie Rosenbloom | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

I followed the river toward the Uffizi Gallery where I stopped, enchanted by the scene below. It’s “a search for the delectable, delicious, almost gustatory delights of the moment,” as they put it. Other times, an object or architectural detail that piques your interest — a gate, a gargoyle — provides a portal to another time. Stories of vanished ages can be triggered by a single stone, then explored back home through books and websites. Being in a big city among so many strangers can be at turns exhilarating and disturbing.

Persons: Arno, Fred B, Bryant, Joseph Veroff, Puccini’s, Robert K, Merton, Elinor Barber, bento, Amer, plumb, Edgar Allan Poe’s “, Marie Roget, ”, Walter Benjamin, “ Charles Baudelaire Organizations: Uffizi, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera House, Columbia University, Science, Metro, Poet Locations: Firenze, Florence, New York, Tokyo, Japan, Istanbul, Paris

☆ Ambitious genome project shows how humans fit with other mammals
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The findings in the ambitious Zoonomia Project identified parts of the genome functionally important in people and other mammals and showed how certain mutations can cause disease. The project revealed the genetics of uncommon mammalian traits like hibernation and showed how the sense of smell varies widely. The researchers said the findings on hibernation genetics could inform human therapeutics, critical care and long-distance space flight. The most primitive species was the venomous burrowing insect-eater Hispaniola solenodon, closely related to mammals alive during the dinosaur age. In terms of human differences from other mammals, the study pointed to regions associated with developmental and neurological genes.

☆ The Best Book Judy Blume Ever Got as a Gift? ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover.’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I’m about to start Rebecca Makkai’s “I Have Some Questions for You.” I just finished “Still Pictures,” by Janet Malcolm. Yesterday afternoon I read a graphic memoir, “Gender Queer,” by Maia Kobabe, the most banned book in the country right now. Books I’ve finished but still in the pile: “Ms. A train is good but how often am I on a train these days? So maybe the best place for reading is sitting on my balcony overlooking the ocean (I know, right?).

☆ Ex-Honduras president says current government impeding U.S. defense case
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NEW YORK, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A lawyer for Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former Honduran president who is facing U.S. drugs and weapons charges, on Tuesday accused the Central American country's current government of setting up obstacles to his defense. In a hearing on Hernandez's case in Manhattan federal court, defense lawyer Raymond Colon said individuals in Honduras he was hoping to speak with were "being intimidated," without providing evidence. Gerardo Torres, Honduras' deputy foreign minister, denied Colon's claims. "I don't know where that accusation against the government of Honduras comes from," Torres told Reuters. Honduran President Xiomara Castro, a leftist who replaced Hernandez last year after beating a candidate from his right-leaning National Party, has pledged to tackle corruption.

☆ Cum este să fii testat cu vaccinul rusesc Sputnik V — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-21 | by ( Diana Preașcă | Tatiana Beghiu | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +20 min

Primul om care a primit Premiul Nobel pentru Pace a fost fondatorul Crucii Roșii, elvețianul Henri Dunant în 1901. Din 1901, premiul a fost acordat unui număr total de 213 de cercetători, dintre care doar trei au fost femei. Mecanismul a fost numit Crispr/Cas9 și a fost supranumit „foarfecele genetic”. Este angajată a Institutului de Medicină Howard Hughes și membră Academiei de Științe și a Academiei de Medicină din SUA. Din 1901, premiul a fost acordat, în total, de 111 ori, iar 184 de oameni de știință au devenit laureați ai acestuia.

Persons: Nobel, Pace, Antonio, PAM, SUA Dwight D . Eisenhower, Henri Dunant, Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, german Willie Brandt, SUA Henry Kissinger, Teresa, SUA Barack Obama, Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez, Max Planck, . Penrose, Albert Einstein, Sir Roger Penrose, Stephen Hawking, Wilhelm, Nielson Bohr, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, Antoine Henri Becquerel, franceze Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Medicină Howard Hughes, Jacobus, van’t, Maria, Curie, Harvey J ., Michael Houghton, Charles M . Rice, virusologul Harvey J ., Chiron, Houghton, american Charles M . Rice, Louis, Emil Adolf von Bering, Ronald Ross, Robert Koch, Ivan Pavlov, Frederick Banting, John McLeod, Alexander Fleming, Ernest Chain, Howard Florey, Louise Glück, Glück, Anders Ohlsson, Sarah Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling, Doris Lessing, Bob Dylan ., Svetlana Aleksievici, Paul R ., Robert B . Wilson, Stanford . Robert B . Wilson, Paul R . Milgrom, Milgrom, Wilson, Alfred Nobel, Jan Tinbergen, Ragnar Frisch Organizations: Universitatea din, Națiunilor Unite, ONU, Organizația, Organizația ONU, Crucii Roșii, Regale, franceze, Science, Academiei, Științe, Academiei Naționale, Medicină, Academiei de Științe, Academiei de Medicină, maimuțelor, Universitatea St, Organizației Mondiale a Sănătății, Academia Suedeză, Nobel, Academia suedeză, Universității Columbia ., Academiei Americane, Academiei Poeților, Universitatea Yale ., Universitatea Stanford, Stanford ., Universității Harvard, Stanford Business School, Banca Centrală, Academiei Regale Locations: Stockholm, Universitatea din Oslo, Roma, ONU, Republica Democrată Congo, Nigeriei, Sudanul de Sud, Siria, Yemen, german, SUA, Universitatea din Oxford, Germania, Universitatea din California, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Regatului Unit, Franța, Olanda, Universitatea din Alberta, Canada, american, Washington, americană, New York, maghiară, Yale, Boston, Iowa, engleză

☆ Cine sunt laureații Premiului Nobel 2020 și ce știm despre ei — Moldova.org
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-13 | by ( Diana Preașcă | Tatiana Beghiu | ) www.moldova.org time to read: +20 min

La Stockholm, ceremonia de premiere pentru câștigătorii Premiului Nobel și banchetul de gală de la primărie au fost anulate. Emmanuelle Charpentier (51 ani) și Jennifer Doudna (56 de ani) sunt a șasea și respectiv a șaptea câștigătoare ale Premiului Nobel pentru Chimie din istorie. Mecanismul a fost numit Crispr/Cas9 și a fost supranumit „foarfecele genetic”. Este angajată a Institutului de Medicină Howard Hughes și membră Academiei de Științe și a Academiei de Medicină din SUA. Premiul Nobel pentru MedicinăPremiul Nobel pentru Medicină le-a revenit în 2020 cercetătorilor Harvey J.

☆ Here's how to stop an argument with a narcissist from spinning out of control
▼ + stars: | 2018-02-11 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

For many people, the best thing to do is to leave a narcissist and cut them out of their life. If this isn't possible there are some tactics you can use to stop the argument escalating. If the narcissist is physically abusive, the tiniest inconvenience can cause them to throw things or even strike their partner. According to Greenberg, a narcissist will not be comfortable with the idea that they started an argument over something trivial, so it's best to just move on. Remember to put yourself firstMost experts believe being in a romantic relationship with a narcissist is an emotionally draining, damaging process.

Sezonul de toamnă: 11 cele mai cu înlocuiri întrebări de la prima etapă de Ce? Pentru a vă testa cunoștințele, echipa #diez a selectat 11 cele mai interesante întrebări de la prima etapă. Atenție, în întrebare a fost omis un cuvânt. Cel de-al șaselea, spre deosebire de cele cinci inițiale, nu a fost fondat în baza testamentului și a apărut tocmai peste 68 de ani. Iar întreg pachetul de 50 de întrebări îl puteți vedea aici: Prima etapă din sezonul de toamnă.

Persons: Tommy Edison, Stanley Kubrik, Alan Turing, Mihai Eminescu, Frodo, Aldoux Huxley, Adolf Hitler, Peter Pan, EVA, ADAM, Jupiter, Zeus, Leda, Elinor, Matt Herzau, Floyd, Matt, îşi, Otto Lindberg, Rand Organizations: NASA, Callisto, Științe Economice, Fast Locations: Egipt, România, orașelul, Chișinău, SUA, Europa, Themisto, Himalia, Lysithea, Elara, Dia, Euanthe, Harpalyke, Thyone, Ananke, Aitne, Taygete, Chaldene, Erinome, Kalyke, Carme, Callirrhoe, Eurydome, Isonoe, Autonoe, Hollywood, Furious, Țara Galilor, Rusia, Coasta de Fildeș, Anglia

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