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"Heavy rain is expected to continue through at least this afternoon, so please continue to stay weather aware,” Mississippi Gov. Jeff Landry was touring the hardest-hit areas across his state, while officials in New Orleans urged residents to conserve drinking water. The aftermath of a deluge from Hurricane Francine in Metairie, La., in Jefferson Parish, last night. The low-lying city was quickly deluged, with 7.33 inches of rain reported at New Orleans International Airport. In Lafourche Parish in southern Louisiana, 26 people trapped by rising floodwaters were rescued, local officials said.

Persons: Hurricane Francine, Tate Reeves, Jeff Landry, Miles Crawford, Crawford, Jonah Gilmore, “, ” Crawford, Francine, Matthew Hinton, Cynthia Lee Sheng Organizations: National Hurricane Center, Louisiana Gov, NBC, University Medical Center, Associated Press, New Orleans International Locations: Florida, New Orleans, Memphis , Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Jackson , Mississippi, Birmingham , Alabama, Memphis, Atlanta, Mississippi, WDSU, Terrebonne Parish, Metairie, La, Jefferson Parish, Kenner, Jefferson, Lafourche Parish

☆ I grew up in Paris. Here are the 12 biggest mistakes I see tourists make when they visit.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Kyra Alessandrini | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Check the major tourist spots off your bucket list, but venture to Paris' quieter neighborhoods too. The Eiffel Tower is one of the most-visited landmarks in the world. Many people dream of snapping photos of the Eiffel Tower, wandering through the Louvre, and strolling down the Champs Elysées. Walk along Canal Saint-Martin and check out the surrounding area's art stores, trendy restaurants, and local shops. The quaint streets are quiet and peaceful during the day, but they become more lively at night as locals grab drinks and mingle.

Persons: Martin Organizations: Getty, Eiffel Locations: Paris, Saint

☆ The two-day or less shipping Americans have come to expect faces a climate change threat
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Michelle Castillo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

Customers have come to expect when they order something online, it arrives in two days or less. Many logistics companies have warned about shipping delays due to extreme weather. Freight solutions company Breakthrough, which focuses on sustainable transportation, conducted a survey of 500 shippers and carriers this year that revealed extreme weather was cited as the top transportation challenge. And rather than rely on large warehouses, it uses its stores as hubs, which helps it change delivery fulfillment quickly. In addition to closing warehouses in cases of extreme weather, Amazon is using algorithms to plan delivery worker routes.

Persons: Jenny Zanden, Donner, Parvez Musani, Musani Organizations: Sparks, Walmart, Amazon, Daily Locations: Panama, U.S, Sparks , Nevada, Sierra, Nevada , California, Oregon, New Jersey, California

Ricaurte Vásquez Morales is a man obsessed with water. An app on his phone displays the fluctuating level of Lake Gatún, the artificial reservoir that is the centerpiece of the Panama Canal system. Mr. Vásquez Morales is the administrator of the Panama Canal, which is both the economic heart of his isthmus nation and a central artery for global trade. Last year, a drought dropped the lake to critical levels, prompting canal authorities to limit traffic. At the worst point, in December, only 22 ships a day were allowed to pass through the canal, down from the usual 36 to 38.

Persons: Ricaurte Vásquez Morales, ”, Vásquez Morales Organizations: Atlantic Locations: Gatún, Panama, Asia, East Coast, United, Central American

☆ The Olympics brought rare unity to France. Now back to the political games.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Alex-Smith-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Alexander Smith | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

PARIS — It’s 1:00 a.m. on the banks of the Canal de Saint-Denis and the 2024 Paris Olympics closing ceremony finished an hour ago. But the political and social turmoil France faced before a ghostly metal horse galloped down the Seine has not gone away. French President Emmanuel Macron at the Paris Olympic Games. The French president could easily have been giving his view on France’s immediate political future when discussing the rain-drenched opening ceremony with NBC News. Optimism aside, analysts believe the country faces years of deadlock that could end with a far-right president in 2027.

Persons: Denis, Sara Zinger, Mary Mathurin, France's Leon Marchand, Dar Yasin, Emmanuel Macron, Pascal Le Segretain, Macron, Macron’s, Rainbow Murray, they’ve, Murray, Le Pen, Lady Gaga —, Le, Maxime Jourdan, Marine Le Pen, Charles Platiau, who’s, it’s, Rene Nijhuis, Paris Mayor Anne, Marie Hidalgo, France’s Le, Alain Jocard, Hector Gore Organizations: PARIS, Stade de France, Marine, Paris Olympic, NBC, Queen Mary University of London, Rally, Olympics, Olympic, BSR Agency, Getty, Eiffel, Concorde, triathletes, Paris Mayor, France’s Le Figaro, Metro, Paris Games, French, Square, Games Locations: Saint, Parisian, hipsters, France, Paris, Europe, Seine, Montmartre, AFP

☆ Barcelona is banning Airbnbs. Other European cities have cracked down already — with some success.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Eliza Relman | Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Many experts say short-term rentals, including Airbnbs, are part of the problem, restricting local housing supply and driving up prices. We took a look at three European hubs — Lisbon, Florence, and Amsterdam — that have imposed relatively strict regulations on short-term rentals. Cities have been worried about the impact of short-term rentals on housing costs for years. Instead of a blanket ban, Amsterdam caps the number of nights hosts can rent out their homes at 30 a year. In an increasingly tight housing market, the dominance of short-term rentals acts as an "amplifier," he said.

Persons: —, Airbnb, Lisbon's, João Pereira dos Santos, Pereira dos Santos, Gregory W, Fuller, Florence, Florence's, Dario Nardella, Antonello Romano, Romano Organizations: Service, Business, New York, School of Economics, Finance, Queen Mary University of London, University of Groningen, Wall Street, University of Pisa Locations: Barcelona, Barcelona's, Spanish, New York, Tokyo, Vancouver, London, Paris, — Lisbon, Florence, Amsterdam, Lisbon, New York City, EU, Portugal, Netherlands, Venice

☆ 9 dead after SUV crashes into canal in Florida
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Mike Gagliardi | Mike Gagliardi Is A Researcher With The Nbc News Network Desk. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

Nine people are dead after a driver crashed into a canal Monday night in western Palm Beach County, officials said. According to a crash report from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, the driver failed to negotiate a left curve, resulting in the 2023 Ford Explorer veering onto the grass shoulder and hitting the guardrail before finally overturning into the canal. Palm Beach County police officers on the scene of the crash on Monday night. WPTV“We have one survivor for a total of 10 victims,” the sheriff’s office said. NBC Affiliate WPTV of West Palm Beach is reporting that babies were among the victims.

Persons: WPTV Organizations: Office, Belle Glade , Florida . Police, St, NBC, Police Locations: Palm Beach County, Beach, Belle Glade , Florida, Palm Beach, Mary’s, West Palm

☆ 9 Killed After S.U.V. Flips Into South Florida Canal, Authorities Say
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Johnny Diaz | More About Johnny Diaz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Nine people were killed and one person was seriously injured after the sport utility vehicle they were traveling in veered off the road and overturned into a South Florida canal on Monday evening, the authorities said. The crash took place just before 7:30 p.m. in the 5800 block of Hatton Highway, a two-lane road that runs through an agricultural area of Belle Glade, a city of more than 16,000 residents in the western part of Palm Beach County in South Florida, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. The authorities said that 10 people — including five children — were traveling westbound in a 2023 Ford Explorer when it approached a 90-degree curve in the road. “For undetermined reasons,” the sheriff’s office said in a crash report, the vehicle “failed to properly negotiate the left curve of the roadway.”

Persons: — Organizations: Office, Ford Locations: South Florida, Hatton, Belle Glade, Palm Beach County, Beach

☆ Missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels hits container ship in first attack in 2 weeks
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Ap-Live-Blog-Byline-Image.Png | The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck a Liberian-flagged container ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden, authorities said Sunday, the first assault by the group since Israeli airstrikes targeted them. Gen. Yahya Saree, a Houthi military spokesman, claimed the attack in a prerecorded statement Sunday afternoon. The rebels have targeted more than 70 vessels with missiles and drones in a campaign that has killed four sailors. Meanwhile Saturday, the U.S. military’s Central Command said its forces destroyed a Houthi missile and launcher in Yemen. Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which killed 1,200 people and saw 250 others taken hostage, sparked the war.

Persons: Yemen’s Houthi, Ismail Haniyeh, Yahya Saree, JMIC, ”, Saree, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt Organizations: United Arab Emirates, Liberian, Maritime Information, U.S . Navy, United, U.S MQ, U.S . Defense Department, U.S ., CIA, U.S, U.S . military’s, Command, West Bank Locations: DUBAI, United Arab, Aden, Gaza, Iran, Gulf, Groton, ”, United Arab Emirates, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, U.S, Israel, United States, Britain, Tel Aviv, Hodeida, Asia, East, Europe, Suez, Sanaa, Haniyeh, Tehran, Gulf of Oman, Yemen, Hamas

☆ Has the Long Friendship of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Reached Its Final Act?
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Anupreeta Das | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the summer of 1991, Mary Gates, the mother of the Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, convinced her workaholic 35-year-old son to spend the July 4 holiday at Hood Canal, a scenic, outdoorsy location about two hours from Seattle that had long been the family getaway. The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, was among the guests. When Mrs. Gates tried to introduce her son to Mr. Buffett, however, he brushed her off, saying that he didn’t want to meet a “stockbroker.”But the two men hit it off immediately. Mr. Gates was surprised by the penetrating questions Mr. Buffett directed at him about the software business, and found himself warming to the avuncular Midwestern billionaire. Once, recounting the story of their meeting to students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mr. Gates called it an “unbelievable friendship.” Mr. Buffett quipped, “The moral of that is, listen to your mother.”

Persons: Mary Gates, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Gates, Buffett, —, ” Mr, ” Organizations: Microsoft, University of Nebraska Locations: Hood, Seattle, Omaha, Lincoln

☆ 2 Officers Shot on Lower East Side in Street Chase of Robbery Suspect
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Christopher Maag | Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A gunman shot two police sergeants who were trying to arrest him minutes after an armed robbery in a mahjong parlor on the Lower East Side in Manhattan on Thursday, Police Department officials said. Both were in stable condition, said Chief Kenny, who was joined at the news conference by Mayor Eric Adams. The sergeant who was grazed will be released from the hospital on Thursday night, and the sergeant who was shot in the groin will be held overnight for observation. A man, Joshua Dorsett, 22, was taken into custody at the scene, Chief Kenny said. Around 4:15 p.m., the police responded to a 911 call regarding a man on the second floor of a building on Canal Street near Eldridge Street, Chief Kenny said.

Persons: Joseph Kenny, Kenny, Eric Adams, Joshua Dorsett, Dorsett Organizations: Police, Bellevue Hospital Locations: Side, Manhattan, Eldridge

☆ ‘A point of no return:’ Why Europe has become an epicenter for anti-tourism protests this summer
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Billy Stockwell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Anti-tourism protests have been sweeping across Europe this summer, with demonstrations taking place in the Netherlands, Greece, and of course, Spain. When anti-tourism protesters started to fire water pistols at visitors in the Barcelona city center on July 6, a moment that gained international attention, Ramirez said he could “feel the resentment” in the air. Frankly, I think it worked,” Ramirez said, reflecting on the ability of the protests to dissuade tourists from visiting the city. Jaime Reina/AFP/Getty ImagesIt’s not just housing issues that have generated a backlash against tourists, Ramirez said, adding that the disrespectful behavior of some has also played a part. Bad tourist behavior has been a problem across other parts of Europe too, including Barcelona, Mallorca, Magaluf and Benidorm, Ramirez said.

Persons: Carlos Ramirez, Ramirez, ”, It’s, Jaume Collboni, Andrey Rudakov, ” Ramirez, Antje Martins, Eduardo Santander, Martins, “, € 2.4million, Marco Bertorello, Luigi Brugnaro, Susanna Polloni, ” Polloni, Collboni, ‘, ’, Jaime Reina, Bacchus, ” Sebastian Zenker, Zenker Organizations: CNN, Primavera Sound, skyrocketing, ”, Bloomberg, Barcelona’s City, University of Queensland, “, European Travel Commission, Getty, Solidarity Network for Housing, Palma de Mallorca, AFP, Copenhagen Business School Locations: Europe, Netherlands, Greece, Spain, Spanish, Barcelona, Mallorca, Southern Europe, Canary, Magaluf, Barcelona’s, Antje, “ Barcelona, €, AFP, Venice, “, Sagrada Familia, Palma de, Florence, Italy, Benidorm

☆ Major players in U.S. supply chain seek new approach to shipping legislation
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Lori Ann Larocco | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Labor unions, maritime shipping interests and other supply chain businesses have formed a new trade group to push for more domestic infrastructure investment to safeguard the supply chain. "We are bringing the links of the supply chain together," said Josh Wood, CEO of the Supply Chain Council. "We will be championing legislation to strengthen supply chain resiliency and jobs." Wood said that before Covid, supply chain segments were most often viewed independently, and the need to focus on interconnectedness of freight segments has continued to increased with the supply chain experiencing major headwinds. One of the contentious aspects of a strong supply chain is the introduction of automation.

Persons: Johnson, Josh Wood, Wood, There's, Steven Hussain, Hussain, Josh LaFarga, LaFarga, It's, Harold J, Daggett Organizations: Labor, Chain Council, Johnson Controls, Northern Rail Company, SSA Marine, International Union of, Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, Prologis, Community Relations, CNBC, Southern, Workers, Longshoremen's Association, Gulf Ports, United States Maritime Alliance Locations: Prologis, International Union of North America, Panama, Southern California, East Coast, Gulf, United States

☆ The luxury handbags most likely to be faked, according to an expert from The RealReal
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-21 | by ( Madeline Berg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The secondhand market has become an increasingly important part of the luxury market, rising to $50 billion last year, according to Bain & Company. But there are dangers to buying on the secondhand market: counterfeit products, which the rise in "dupe culture" has only helped to escalate. Business Insider spoke to Hunter Thompson, the director of authentication and brand compliance at secondhand luxury retailer The RealReal, about the proliferation of increasingly convincing fakes. Advertisement"In 2024, if it can be faked, it's faked," Thompson said. Here are the bags that Thompson said are most commonly faked —and some tell-tale red flags to look out for.

Persons: —, Hunter Thompson, it's, Thompson, Birkin, zippers Organizations: Service, Bain & Company, Business

“This outage is historic in scale,” Mikko Hypponen, a research specialist at the software company WithSecure and a cybercrime adviser to Europol, told DealBook. It issued a software update that is causing Microsoft systems, including its Azure cloud service, to crash or not function properly. Long queues of airline passengers could be seen at airports around the world, with some resorting to manual check-in. In France, the television networks TF1 and Canal+ told the public on X that they could not go on the air on Friday morning. The incident points to how reliant the global economy is on a handful of major tech companies to run vital infrastructure.

Persons: ” Mikko Hypponen, Europol, DealBook, George Kurtz, CrowdStrike, ” Organizations: Microsoft, United, Delta, Airlines, Air France, KLM, Japan Airlines, TF1, Sky Locations: Europe, Asia, France

☆ Italian officials slam tourist who ‘mimicked sex acts’ on a statue of Bacchus in Florence
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-17 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Rome CNN —Italian officials are trying to identify a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the god of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend. His original Bacchus is kept in the Bargello Museum in the center of Florence. The act has sparked a wide range of reaction on social media platform X – from outrage to ironic amusement. In 2023, a group of young tourists posing for pictures to post on social media were accused of toppling a valuable statue at a villa in northern Italy. Back in Florence in the same year, a tourist was detained, accused of damaging a statue in the 16th-century Fountain of Neptune in the Piazza della Signoria.

Persons: Rome, Bacchus, ”, Giambologna, Michelangelo, Maserati, Neptune, CNN’s Forrest Brown Organizations: Rome CNN, Florence, Florence City Hall, Bargello Museum Locations: Florence, inebriation, Spanish, Italy

Protests in Spain will spread if European officials fail to address mass tourism's negative effect on the lives of residents, UNESCO's Peter Debrine told "Squawk Box Asia" on Monday. He cited the banning of large cruise ships in Venice, Italy, in 2021 as an example. "Cruise ships are no longer going through the Grand Canal." Cruise ships now dock farther from Venice, which helps the structural and environmental integrity of the city. But travelers also play a role in curbing mass tourism, said Debrine.

Persons: UNESCO's Peter Debrine, Debrine, it's Organizations: Adriatic, Port Authority, Council, CNBC, Barcelona Locations: Spain, Venice, Italy, Barcelona, Debrine, Amsterdam

☆ An Insider’s Guide to the Most Mouthwatering Bakeries in Paris
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-15 | by ( Anya Von Bremzen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

With more than 1,300 boulangeries and a profound baking culture, Paris has always been an awesome place for your morning pain au chocolat or baguette. But the lovable boulangerie de quartier might rely on additives and premixes. “The new-concept bakeries have a short range of products, a disruptive approach and strong personalities,” said Christophe Vasseur, whose bakery, Du Pain et des Idées, by the Canal St.-Martin, helped kick-start the artisanal bread movement more than two decades ago. Now, tattooed bakers are “rock stars,” as the newspaper Le Figaro called them. A baguette de tradition at the following bakeries costs just over 1 euro, and a loaf of bread is usually priced at €10 to €15, or $11 to $16, per kilo (just over two pounds).

Persons: ”, Christophe Vasseur, Pain, Martin, Le Figaro, Apollonia Poilâne Organizations: Olympics Locations: Paris, London

☆ Anne Frank monument defaced with ‘Gaza’ graffiti in Amsterdam
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Benjamin Brown | Teele Rebane | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —A statue of Anne Frank in Amsterdam was vandalized with “Gaza” graffiti, drawing criticism from the city’s mayor. “Officers went to the statue, saw the graffiti and started an investigation,” the spokesperson said. Anne Frank’s diary is often many young people’s first introduction to the horrors of the Holocaust. In 1944, the famous diarist and seven other Jewish people hiding in the Amsterdam secret annex were detained. They had hid for nearly two years in a secret annex above a canal-side warehouse in Amsterdam, before they were deported and Anne died in the Bergen Belsen camp at age 15.

Persons: Anne Frank, Frank, Femke Halsema, “, ”, ” Halsema, Anne Frank’s, people’s, Anne Organizations: CNN, CNN Wednesday, “ Locations: Amsterdam, Gaza, Bergen

☆ ‘Eat until you’re bankrupt’: Why Osaka is called the ‘kitchen of Japan’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Richard Quest | Joe Minihane | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Osaka, Japan CNN —Let’s be honest. Food is practically a religion in Osaka, which is now anticipating the global spotlight as it gears up to host Expo 2025. It is known as the kitchen of Japan, and, for foodies, any tour of its myriad culinary delights must start in Dotonbori. Like so many parts of Japan, Osaka is obsessed with baseball. The club began life in 1936 and briefly played as the Osaka Tigers, before reverting to Hanshin, the city 20 minutes west, where it plays at Koshien Stadium.

Persons: Japan CNN —, Osaka hasn’t, Craig Ferguson, Junko Ogura, “, Junko, Osakans, who’ve, Metin, ’ ”, Long, ”, Sanders, Takada, ” Takada Organizations: Japan CNN, Osaka, CNN, Getty, Hanshin Tigers, Osaka Tigers, Koshien, Tigers, Japan, Hardcore, “ Hanshin Tigers Locations: Osaka, Japan, Kyoto, Dotonbori, Nipponbashi, Namba, Tokyo, Kobe, Anadolu, Hanshin, men’s, Finland, Estonia, ” Tokyo

☆ This soccer star who came from nothing has been funding universal basic income in his hometown for years
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewYouTube star Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson recently donated $200,000 toward a universal basic income program in the Ugandan village of Karamoja. A top soccer player who grew up desperately poor has funded a similar initiative in his African hometown for years. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people in a very poor region of Senegal which contributes to their family economy. AdvertisementAl Nassr didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

Persons: —, Jimmy, MrBeast, Donaldson, Sadio Mané, Al Nassr, Mané, Sadio, Visionhaus, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Ferraris, He's, Al Nassr didn't Organizations: Service, Liverpool, Bayern Munich, Business, Saudi, Africa, Afrique, barefooted Locations: Ugandan, Karamoja, Saudi, Senegal, Bambali

☆ Gautam Adani wants to transform India’s biggest slum
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Jessie Yeung | Noemi Cassanelli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

Noemi Cassanelli/CNNA man works at Shaikh’s workshop in Dharavi slum on April 14. “All slum redevelopment is quite fraught,” Kamath said. Noemi Cassanelli/CNNWomen chatting in Dharavi on April 14 Noemi Cassanelli/CNNA woman carrying fabric walks along a narrow alley in Dharavi on April 14. He is India’s largest airport operator and owns India’s biggest private port operator and private thermal power operator. The state and Adani deny any wrongdoing, but that hasn’t stopped many residents from viewing Adani and his government ties with suspicion.

Persons: Noemi Cassanelli, Masoom Ali Shaikh, ”, “, Gautam Adani, Jeff Bezos, ” Adani, ” Shaikh, ” Lofty, Dharavi, they’re, Lalitha Kamath, ” Kamath, aren’t, Dilip Gabekar, Narendra Modi, Adani, ’, Gabekar, Shaikh, They’re, Baburao Mane, Mane, CNN Neeta Jadhav, Neeta Jadhav, Jadhav, Dhanshuk Purshottamwala, He’s, Kamath, Prasant, hasn’t, Modi, ferociously, Reshma Prasant Organizations: CNN, India CNN, Adani, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Reuters, Adani Enterprises, Bharatiya Janata Party, Private, Manohar Joshi, NDTV Locations: Mumbai, India, CNN Mumbai, Dharavi, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, “, Adani, Maharashtra, It’s, India’s

☆ Ancient bone shows how Neanderthals cared for the vulnerable, study says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

The find suggested that members of the community cared for and looked after the vulnerable child, who lived at least 146,000 years ago. The research is at odds with the image of Neanderthals, ancient human relatives who went extinct around 40,000 years ago, as brutish cavemen. The study did not include precise dating of the bone, which would require extraction of ancient DNA, but Neanderthals occupied the site 146,000 to 273,000 years ago. Study of the fossil revealed abnormalities in the ear bone. “For decades, it has been known that Neanderthals cared for and looked after their vulnerable companions,” Conde-Valverde said.

Persons: ”, paleoanthropologist Mercedes Conde, Valverde, “, Conde, ” Conde, Mercedes Conde, Julia Diez, Chapelle, Penny Spikins, Spikins, wasn’t Organizations: CNN, University of Alcalá, Syndrome, Valero, University of York Locations: Spain, Spain’s Valencia, Conde, United States, what’s, Iraq, France, United Kingdom

☆ ‘It’s All Happening Again.’ The Supply Chain Is Under Strain.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Peter S. Goodman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Stephanie Loomis had hoped that the chaos besieging the global supply chain was subsiding. The multiplying costs of moving freight. Over the last few months, she has watched cargo prices soar as a series of disturbances have roiled the seas. That prompted ships to avoid the waterway, instead moving the long way around Africa, lengthening their journeys by as much as two weeks. Then, a severe drought in Central America dropped water levels in the Panama Canal, forcing authorities to limit the number of ships passing through that crucial conduit for international trade.

Persons: Stephanie Loomis, Loomis, Houthi Organizations: Americas, Rhenus Logistics Locations: Germany, Yemen, Suez, Asia, Europe, East Coast, United States, Africa, Central America, Panama

☆ Flipping a famous fossil around reveals our earliest vertebrate ancestor, scientists say
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Mindy Weisberger | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Scientists recently identified the animal’s nerve cord by using a topsy-turvy twist. In 2012, after decades of studying Pikaia fossils, researchers described its fossilized internal structures in great detail. However, recent analysis of Pikaia fossils by another team of scientists, published June 11 in the journal Current Biology, has upended this view and all other earlier studies about Pikaia. The presumed blood vessel was a nerve cord, a feature associated with the animal group known as chordates, in the phylum Chordata. While there are no living analogues for Pikaia, the fossil arthropod data gave the scientists a more detailed frame of reference for Pikaia’s nerve cord.

Persons: Charles Doolittle Wolcott, Giovanni Mussini, Pikaia, ”, Jon Mallatt, Mallatt, “ Pikaia’s, Jakob Vinther, Mussini, ” Mussini, we’ve, ” Mallatt, ” Mindy Weisberger Organizations: CNN, Smithsonian National Museum of, Royal Ontario Museum, University of Idaho, University of Bristol, University of Cambridge, Scientific Locations: Burgess, British Columbia, macroevolution, United Kingdom, mudskippers, chordates

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