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The Mississippi state auditor said Favre never gave the speeches and demanded the money back, with interest. In an interview with the website Mississippi Today, Bryant said he never knew the grants came from welfare money. The former head of the state welfare agency, John Davis, has pleaded not guilty to state charges of bribery and conspiracy, and law enforcement officials say the investigations continue. Favre defended himself in a series of tweets last year against allegations from White, the state auditor, that he accepted state money for speeches he never intended to give. Marcus Dupree, a former college football star, also received $370,000 in welfare funds, which prosecutors say partly went to fund his horse ranch.

☆ These startups are beating Elon Musk in the race to let you mind meld with your computer
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-17 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

That's when I started reporting on them, and like any good nerd I was compelled by what scientists could learn with these "brain computer interfaces." The race for implantable brain chips has been a long, deliberate marathon. Graham Felstead, who has severe paralysis, was the first person to have a BCI inserted via the blood vessels. Brain chips will enable them to perform simple actions on their own and reduce the need for round-the-clock care. "When we started in 2015 and I was pitching venture capitalists on brain computer interfaces, no one knew what a brain computer interface was," says Matt Angle, the CEO of Paradromics.

☆ 1,000 year-old Native American carvings of mysterious giant humanoids discovered on the ceiling of an Alabama cave
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-08 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A study found large humanoid figures carved on the ceiling of an Alabama cave more than 1000 years ago. Hi-tech technology was needed to see them in the low ceiling cave. It was still a grueling, month-long task to capture more than 16,000 pictures that very slightly overlap to map out the entire cave ceiling. Anthropomorph in regalia (6.8 ft tall) from 19th Unnamed Cave, Alabama. SimekThe style of the drawings in the Alabama cave is reminiscent of figures seen in the midwest and the western US.

☆ Whoop CFO Tricia Gugler shares how the booming health-tech company uses capital to innovate
▼ + stars: | 2021-12-09 | by ( Lily Katzman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

CFO Tricia Gugler told Insider about how it's staying disciplined when deploying capital. Whoop said the influx of capital elevated it to one of the most successful stand-alone human-performance companies in the world. The company recently announced the creation of a Women's Performance Collective which supports product development and research around women's performance. Preparing for a future capital structureWhile Whoop isn't publicly traded, Gugler said Whoop would be ready if it chose to go public. "We are very happy being a private company, but do believe WHOOP can be a successful company in the public markets," Gugler said.

☆ How Zoom's chief people officer handled unprecedented growth during the pandemic
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-11 | by ( Aman Kidwai | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Oldham brought in a new chief diversity officer who helped reshape the company's equity efforts. Over the past year, Zoom added new leadership in cybersecurity, engineering and product, and a chief diversity officer. These workers were tasked with handling the initial bursts of demand, as well as a sharp shift to remote work. YouTubeFor newer employees, Oldham put a heavy emphasis on their digital onboarding program. Zoom announced the hiring of chief diversity officer Damien Hooper-Campbell in late May 2020.

That doesn’t mean you’re doomed to wake up in a daze because you’re prone to mouth breathing when you sleep. “Even if you don’t have sleep apnea, or you have mild sleep apnea, opening your mouth makes it much, much worse.”How do you know if you’re mouth breathing at night? How to stop mouth breathingWhen Nestor blocked his nose for science, he experienced an extreme version of mouth breathing. If you’re tackling your nighttime mouth breathing, Park suggested you start by taking care of your nose to minimize congestion. But even if you get your nose to clear, nighttime mouth breathing can be a hard habit to break.

☆ Productivity tips from Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs
▼ + stars: | 2019-09-11 | by ( Taylor Locke | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk eliminates excessive meetingsElon Musk speaks onstage during the E3 conference in Los Angeles on June 13, 2019. Charley Gallay | Getty ImagesElon Musk starts his day with his most critical work and schedules the rest of his day based on priority. Jeff Bezos makes quick decisionsAmazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos Mark Ralston | AFP | Getty ImagesIt's important to make "high-quality, high-velocity" decisions, according to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Steve Jobs knew when to say 'no'Apple Inc.'s former CEO, the late Steve Jobs, announces the new iPad on January 27, 2010 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAs Resume.io points out, Steve Jobs believed a key to productivity is knowing when to say "no."

☆ LaCroix is facing a lawsuit over the mysterious ingredient that has made it a huge hit — here's what we know about it
▼ + stars: | 2018-10-05 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewFor years, LaCroix lovers have been faced with a mystery: What are natural essences? But with the brand claiming the drink contains no calories or artificial flavors, understanding what the phrase actually means can be confusing. A new class-action lawsuit filed against the brand's parent company, Natural Beverages, claims that LaCroix's all-natural claims are false and that these natural ingredients are actually synthetic. "It's all about safety as assessed by experts in nutrition, food science, food toxicology, and medicine." There are no sugars or artificial ingredients contained in, nor added to, these extracted flavors."

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☆ Water's edge: the crisis of rising sea levels
▼ + stars: | 2014-09-04 | by ( Reuters Graphic | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +20 min

But sea levels have been rising for 100 years in Baltimore.”ROCKET SCIENCEThe irony is evident at Wallops Flight Facility. Yet this bastion of climate research has been slow to apply the science of sea level rise to its own operations. Reviewers from state and federal agencies criticized the 348-page document for failing to adequately take rising sea levels into account in the project design and impact, or to temper future plans for expansion. Joshua Bundick, Wallops’s environmental planning manager, explained that he distilled the issues “down to only the highest points,” and sea level rise wasn’t among them. The cost to American taxpayers of repeated destruction of the parking lot and causeway from rising sea levels would only increase, Fish and Wildlife officials said.

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