Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential term expires on May 20th [The Economist]
How has the legalisation of cannabis changed America? [The Economist Podcasts]
What Really Motivates You at Work? [Harvard Business Review]
Hit Me Hard And Soft: What makes Billie Eilish's records 'eco-friendly'? [BBC]
From Tokyo to New York, Stock Markets Are on a Record-Hitting Spree Around the World [Bloomberg]
US-Saudi nuclear deal: how might it work? [Reuters] please fix the Iran-Nuclear-Deal from 2015 first. Calm things down over there, before you complicate things in the Desert.
At least 50 killed in heavy rains, floods in Afghanistan’s Ghor province [AL-Jazeera News]
TOLOnews - 6pm News - 18 May 2024 [YouTube] can’t wait for TOLOnews in English and other European languages #worldwideaudience #Afghanistan
How to Live Forever [The New Yorker]
The EV industry can’t shake its human rights abuse problem / Mining companies face hundreds of allegations of abuse. Car companies are still buying minerals from them. [The Verge]
Did She Do It? Lucy Lerby, a British nurse, was found guilty of killing seven babies. Colleagues reportedly called her an “angel of death,” and the Prime Minister condemned her. But, in the rush to judgment, serious questions about the evidence were ignored. [The New Yorker]
Why the US built a pier to get aid into Gaza [Vox]
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 - Oct 28th - San Francisco, CA [TechCrunch]
Google’s Astra is its first AI-for-everything agent [MIT Technology Review]
LinkedIn says it intercepts the 'majority' of scams on its site — but job hunters say it's not enough [Business Insider]
Neuralink seeks second patient [LinkedIn] you still haven’t paid first patient or patient zero #Neuralink
Supplies arrive in Gaza via new pier but land routes essential, says US aid chief [The Guardian]
Texas Family Finally Learns Fate of Man Held in Syria. Majd Kamalmaz disappeared in Syria in early 2017. American officials recently disclosed to his family that they had intelligence indicating that he was dead. [The New York Times]
Karine Jean-Pierre Addresses White House Invite Status For Chiefs' Harrison Butker [Huffington Post]
Reaganomics Is on Its Last Legs [The Atlantic]
Biden's path to winning the Electoral College runs through the Midwest [FiveThirtyEight]
The new dining reality: Smaller groups and shorter weeks [The Washington Post]
Jean Pisani-Ferry: 'The danger is a growing divergence between the US and Europe on the China issue' [Le Monde]
NASA spacecraft saw something incredible near Jupiter's Great Red Spot [Mashable]
“Resist the Normalization of Evil”: Israeli Reporter Amira Hass on Palestine & the Role of Journalism [Democracy NOW!]
Medical Workers Evacuated From Gaza, But 3 Americans Refuse to Leave [The Intercept_]
Hawaii’s Native language nearly vanished—this is the fight to bring it back [National Geographic]
There's usually no need to panic when planes make emergency landings. Here's why [NPR]
Sacramento City Council OKs plan to replace gas appliances — without stove requirements [CapRadioNews]
La rue avec Gaza, les élites derrière Israël [Le Monde diplomatique] #GazaGenocide #GazaCeasefire #Truce #TwoStateSolution
How to Stave Off a Famine in Gaza [Foreign Policy]
Mexico’s Vote for Autocracy [Foreign Affairs]
Japan and the Philippines Increase Their Focus on Island Defense [The Diplomat]
Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count [Quanta Magazine]
#ThrowbackThursday à 1972, lorsque le spectromètre OMEGA a été mis en service dans la West Area. Plus d’un million de collisions ont été enregistrées dès la première année. [CERN_FR]
NASA to Start Designing More Sustainable Jet Engine Core [NASA]
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