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☆ African leaders say elephants need to die for food. Critics says it’s cruel and won’t work
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-12 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August, Namibia announced it had embarked on a cull of 723 animals, including 83 elephants, 30 hippos and 300 zebras. Crops have failed, livestock has died and nearly 70 million people are desperately in need of food. They say it’s the opposite: reducing numbers will help protect remaining animals as the drought shrinks food and water resources. Both Namibia and Zimbabwe say professional hunters will ensure entire groups are killed to prevent this.

Persons: —, Badru Katumba, El Niño, ”, Elizabeth Mrema, Mrema, Chris Brown, ” Brown, It’s, Romeo Muyunda, ” Muyunda, Brown, Izak Smit, Zinyange Auntony, Farai Maguwu, ” Maguwu, Elisabeth Valerio, Maguwu, Megan Carr, Keith Lindsay, Muyunda, “ Organizations: CNN, Getty, United Nations Environment, “, Namibian Chamber, Environment, Namibia’s Ministry of Environment, Forestry, Tourism, Desert Lions Human Relations, for Natural Resource, cullings, EMS Foundation, Martin Locations: Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Europe, Murchison, Uganda, AFP, Damaraland, Kaokoland, slaughterhouses, Namibian, Dete, Hwange, Hwange Park, African, Halali, Etosha

☆ I love being a middle manager. Amazon's decision to cut middle managers saddens me — this role is misunderstood.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Elle Hardy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I landed my current role in PR middle management through a Facebook mentoring groupThe CEO, Tiffany Joy Murchison, led a session I joined and asked the class what we wanted to discuss. In middle management, there's an adjustment phase where you adapt to established procedures. AdvertisementI think many middle managers feel undervalued because it's not a lane many want to be in. Amazon's recent announcement that they're cutting down on middle managers saddens me. Middle managers are crucial in bridging communication between executives and staff, ensuring operations run smoothly.

Persons: —, Michelle Busch, I've, Tiffany Joy Murchison, We'll, we're, Lauryn Haas Organizations: Service, Business, TJM, Media, lhaas Locations: Washington ,, Brooklyn , New York, New York

☆ Opinion | The Republican Alternatives to Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Ms. Anderson mentions the former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley as a viable alternative to Mr. Trump. But in terms of good fiscal governance and foreign policy, I believe that Ms. Haley is even more misguided than Mr. Trump. It is strategically savvy of them not to level any direct harsh criticism at Mr. Trump. Perhaps the reason they have not yet done so convincingly is that they are not running “against” Mr. Trump. Several of them are likely running for vice president, and that would preclude discussing their differences.

Persons: Kristen Soltis Anderson, Anderson, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Trump, Haley, “, Eric Murchison Vienna, Ron DeSantis, William Sherman Huntington, ” Mr, Carolyn Bross Bloomingdale Organizations: Republicans, South, Republican, Trump, ” Locations: South Carolina, Mexico, Va, N.Y, N.J

☆ A strange signal from deep space has been detected every 22 minutes for more than 30 years. Scientists have no idea what is causing it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A mysterious object spotted in the cosmos is beaming radio waves toward Earth every 22 minutes. At the end of their life, stars can collapse into neutron stars, superdense objects that pack billions of tons of matter into tiny little spaces, per NASA. Some neutron stars shoot brilliant beams of light and energy from their magnetic poles. This star is crossing the death lineScientists expect pulsating neutron stars to slow down until they reach a "death line." This wasn't the first time a super slow object like this one had been spotted.

Persons: Natasha Hurley, Walker, Hurley, Dr Hurley, Pete Wheeler, ICRAR Organizations: Service, Curtin University, NASA Locations: Wall, Silicon, Australia, Western Australia

☆ Unusual type of stellar object discovered beaming out radio waves
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

In those moments, it became the brightest source of radio waves viewable from Earth through radio telescopes, acting like a celestial lighthouse. The object, dubbed GPM J1839−10, released radio waves every 22 minutes. “The object we’ve discovered is spinning way too slowly to produce radio waves — it’s below the death line,” Hurley-Walker said. “Assuming it’s a magnetar, it shouldn’t be possible for this object to produce radio waves. The intense, millisecond-long bursts of radio waves have unknown origins, but magnetars have been pinpointed as a potential cause.

Persons: Tyrone O’Doherty, ”, Natasha Hurley, Walker, Hurley, ” Hurley, it’s Organizations: CNN —, Curtin University, Curtin, International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Giant Locations: Australia, Western Australia, South Africa, India, USA

☆ Uganda, Other African Nations Push for Fossil-Fuel Projects
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Nicholas Bariyo | Photographs Badru Katumba For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

MURCHISON FALLS NATIONAL PARK, Uganda—A herd of elephants stomped through savannah grasslands to the throbbing sounds of bulldozers preparing oil wells that will soon start feeding a 900-mile pipeline from this wildlife and nature reserve. The $10 billion project has become a flashpoint in the global battle against climate change, as some African governments with unexplored natural resources seek to resist a global push to limit investment in new fossil-fuel projects.

☆ Companies Tap Tech Behind ChatGPT to Make Customer-Service Chatbots Smarter
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Katie Deighton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +7 min

Businesses hope the artificial-intelligence technology behind ChatGPT can turn ordinary chatbots into impressive fonts of information, potentially transforming customer service. But customer-experience executives said overreliance on such AI models could lead to companies dishing out incorrect information to customers online without knowing they are doing so. Some executives hope the technology that drives ChatGPT might also improve customer-service chatbots. But companies should exercise care when dealing with the new AI, Mr. Truog said. Nice is also working on building OpenAI’s language models into chatbots, Mr. Willcutts said, adding that the company plans to run more tests and fine-tune more models before selling its own take on ChatGPT to clients.

☆ Protesters target BNP in Paris over loan to oil company
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Sarah MeyssonnierPARIS, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Protesters from ecological movement Extinction Rebellion rallied outside a BNP Paribas (BNPP.PA) building in Paris on Friday to oppose the French bank's loan to an oil major leading in an East African oil pipeline project. EACOP is the acronym for the $3.5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline, a project run by France's TotalEnergies (TTEF.PA) whose construction licence was approved by Ugandan authorities on Thursday. BNP Paribas decided not to finance the EACOP project in 2021, but last year participated in a one-year liquidity loan of $8 billion to TotalEnergies as one of a dozen banks. One protester, referring to the loan, said "this blank check allows TotalEnergies to finance absolutely anything it wants, so yes BNP Paribas may not directly underwrite the project but it still remains the second-largest financial partner." The bank has a goal to finance 30 billion euros ($32.5 billion) of renewable energy projects by 2025.

☆ Record înregistrat de un telescop din Australia: Trei milioane de galaxii cartografiate în doar 300 de ore
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-01 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +2 min

"Este într-adevăr revoluţionar", a declarat astronomul David McConnell, care a condus studiul realizat de Organizaţia pentru Cercetare Ştiinţifică şi Industrială a Commonwealth (CSIRO) asupra cerului austral la Observatorul de Radioastronomie Murchison din Australia de Vest. "Este mai sensibil decât cercetările anterioare similare care au presupus acoperirea întregului cer, aşa că putem observa mai multe obiecte decât în trecut", a declarat McConnell pentru Reuters. "Comparativ cu imaginile anterioare, am identificat deja câteva obiecte neobişnuite", a precizat McConnell adăugând că printre acestea se numără unele stele neobişnuite, cu erupţii violente. David McConnell a declarat că datele colectate în cadrul acestei cercetări le vor permite astronomilor să cunoască mai multe despre formarea stelelor şi evoluţia galaxiilor şi a găurilor negre, bazate pe analize statistice. Rezultatele preliminare ale cercetării au fost publicate marţi în Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.

Persons: David McConnell, Reuters Organizations: Reuters, Australian, Commonwealth Locations: Australia de Vest, Australia

(foto) Un telescop a cartografiat trei milioane de galaxii în doar 12 zile. Telescopul radio de 188 de milioane de dolari australieni (138 de milioane de dolari americani), supranumit Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), a reușit să cartografieze aproximativ trei milioane de galaxii într-un interval de doar 300 de ore. Cercetări similare desfășurate anterior au durat până la 10 ani. Telescopul nu a avut de captat decât 903 imagini pentru a cartografia cerul, în comparație cu acțiuni similare din trecut care presupuneau realizarea a zeci de mii de imagini. „Este mai sensibil decât cercetările anterioare similare care au presupus acoperirea întregului cer, așa că putem observa mai multe obiecte decât în trecut”, a declarat McConnell. David McConnell a declarat că datele colectate în cadrul acestei cercetări le vor permite astronomilor să cunoască mai multe despre formarea stelelor și evoluția galaxiilor și a găurilor negre, bazate pe analize statistice.

Persons: David McConnell Organizations: Australian, Organizația, Industrială, Commonwealth Locations: Australia, Australia de Vest

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