America’s vice-president, Kamala Harris, visited the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas the day after the North launched two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea. Ms Harris criticised North Korea’s “provocative nuclear rhetoric” and warned of tough action if Kim Jong Un’s regime conducted its first nuclear test in five years, as some expect. On Thursday North Korea fired two more missiles into the sea. [The Economist]
How science can save the world [The Economist Podcasts]
Building a Culture that Supports Employee Mental Health [Harvard Business Review]
How our eyes can change colour throughout our lives [BBC Future]
Where abortion rights will be on the ballot [Reuters]
Spotlighting Palestinian culture, despite Israeli restrictions — The ‘Stand up Palestine!’ had music, art, comedy, and theatre – and gave Palestinians in Jerusalem a chance to showcase their culture. [AL-Jazeera News]
How the War in Ukraine Might End [The New Yorker]
Buckle up: it’s Techtober time.Today it’s Amazon and Google, Friday it’s Tesla, next week it’s Google again, then Meta, then Microsoft, some Elon/Twitter stuff, Adobe MAX is happening — the next few weeks are going to be wild in the tech world. We previewed all of it (and went deep on scooters and handheld gaming) on today’s Vergecast, so you can get ready for the craziness to come. [The Verge]
What the Electoral Count Reform Act can prevent in the next election — and what it can’t [Vox]
All Facebook and Instagram users in the US can now share NFTs, cross-post between both apps [TechCrunch]
The pandemic created a “perfect storm” for Black women at risk of domestic violence [MIT Technology Review]
Ukrainian military intelligence claims the risk of Russia using nuclear weapons is now 'very high,' report says [Insider]
The Real-Time Reason to Go to the Cloud [LinkedIn] #SAP
Video games introduced me to the Chemical Brothers - now teens find music through Fortnite [The Guardian]
Pentagon Plans to Set Up a New Command to Arm Ukraine, Officials Say — The mission in Germany would streamline a training and assistance system that the United States and its allies created on the fly after Russia’s invasion, officials said. [The New York Times]
Trevor Noah Is Leaving 'The Daily Show' After 7 Years [Huffington Post]
There’s Good Reason for Sports to Be Separated by Sex — If the practice stopped, top-level women’s sport as we know it might cease to exist. [The Atlantic]
How Waffle House Helps Us Respond To Hurricanes [FiveThirtyEight]
How climate change is rapidly fueling super hurricanes [The Washington Post]
Covid-19 : les vaccins adaptés à Omicron disponibles en France dès le 3 octobre [Le Monde]
At a Shrek rave in New York City, a meme comes to life [Mashable]
What Americans Don’t Understand About Teachers and Professors [The Atlantic]
FBI Arrests Former NSA Employee For Trying to Sell Top Secret Documents [VICE News]
Hill TV Censors Segment on Rashida Tlaib’s Description of Israel [The Intercept_]
Neon is making a comeback. Here’s why. [National Geographic]
Research shows oil field flaring emits nearly five times more methane than expected [NPR]
Thousands of California teachers say they are stressed, burned out [CapRadioNews]
Choc sur l’économie mondiale [Le Monde diplomatque]
Russia Is Sending Its Ethnic Minorities to the Meat Grinder [Foreign Policy]
Putin’s Roulette — Sacrificing His Core Supporters in a Race Against Defeat [Foreign Affairs]
Japan Prepares to Intervene in Energy Market Ahead of Winter Demand; Asia Gas Prices Set to Rise Further [The Diplomat]
Biologists Use Genetic Circuits to Program Plant Roots [Quanta Magazine]
What is an accelerator? [CERN_FR]
NASA’s Juno Shares First Image From Flyby of Jupiter’s Moon Europa [NASA]
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The World Cup 2022 Qatar is upon us! What team do you support? Who do you think will win? It’s going to be an interesting watch.
