What to expect from Congress’s lame-duck session [The Economist]
“There’s a sense on both sides that they’ve gone too far to go back”—Iran’s febrile mood [The Economist Podcasts]
U.S. Railroads and the Pitfalls of Systematic Understaffing [Harvard Business Review]
Qatar 2022: The World Cup fans in love with local style [BBC World]
Your Boss Is Debating Whether or Not You Can Watch the World Cup at Work [Bloomberg]
Pictures of the year: Space [Reuters]
Russia-Ukraine updates: US warns of expanding Iran, Russia ties [AL-Jazeera News]
Trump’s 2024 Campaign so Far Is an Epic Act of Self-Sabotage [The New Yorker]
How to watch the end of NASA’s Artemis I mission / Splashdown is scheduled for Sunday, December 11th, in the Pacific Ocean. [The Verge]
The weird Republican turn against corporate social responsibility [Vox]
Microsoft acquires startup developing high-speed cables for transmitting data [TechCrunch]
Babies spend most of their time asleep. New technologies are beginning to reveal why. [MIT Technology Review]
The brother of the ex-US Marine jailed in Russia slams Donald Trump for exploiting his imprisonment to attack President Biden [Insider]
Scaleups! Want the secret for exponential growth? Learn how we help scaleups achieve double-digit revenue gains and drive up valuations. [LinkedIn] #SAP
Japan’s climate policy ‘failed to build on the legacy of Kyoto’ [The Guardian]
Another France Is Possible. Look at Its World Cup Team. [The New York Times]
Dementia Has Turned My Family's World Upside Down, And I Don't Know How Much More I Can Take [Huffington Post]
We’re All Capable of Going ‘Goblin Mode’ [The Atlantic]
Kylian Mbappé Is Having A World Cup For The Ages [FiveThirtyEight]
Opinion: Donald Trump is begging for attention. Nobody cares. [The Washington Post]
Thomas Piketty : « L’Europe doit être au service du mieux-disant social » [Le Monde]
Twitter HQ is putting office supplies up for sale in a big auction [Mashable]
Don’t Watch This Video If You Ever Want to Flush In Peace Again [VICE News]
The Internet’s New Favorite AI Proposes Torturing Iranians and Surveilling Mosques — ChatGPT, the latest novelty from OpenAI, replicates the ugliest war on terror-style racism. [The Intercept_]
Soccer is the world’s most popular sport. But who invented it? [National Geographic]
The first Gen Z member of Congress was denied a D.C. apartment due to bad credit [NPR]
‘I'm meant to be here’: California’s Legislature will have a record number of women, LGBTQ lawmakers [CapRadioNews]
En Amérique latine, football rime avec social [Le Monde diplomatique]
U.S. Plans for a Hypothetical War Limit Aid to a Real One [Foreign Policy]
Putin’s War and the Dangers of Russian Disintegration — The Unraveling of a Fragile Multiethnic State Could Lead to More Violence [Foreign Affairs]
Uyghur Women and Forced Marriages in China [The Diplomat]
Ancient questions, centuries of physics and thousands of theories converge in a single picture of the structure of matter: the Standard Model. [Quanta Magazine]
NASA Sets Coverage of Orion’s Historic Moon Mission Return, Splashdown [NASA]
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