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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>In Israel, a Glimpse of a Trumpian Future</strong> - Netanyahu is willing to undermine the rule of law in order to insure his own political survival. Sound familiar? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/in-israel-a-glimpse-of-a-trumpian-future">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Minor Reboot Won’t Save Ron DeSantis’s Toxic Campaign</strong> - Florida’s governor will need to do much more than shake hands with voters at greasy spoons if he wants to beat Donald Trump. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-troubles-of-ron-desantis">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Will Biden’s Meetings with A.I. Companies Make Any Difference?</strong> - Voluntary commitments from the likes of OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google could be a small step toward meaningful A.I. regulations—or a way for Big Tech to write its own rules. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/will-bidens-meetings-with-ai-companies-make-any-difference">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Should Hotel Chains Be Held Liable for Human Trafficking?</strong> - For decades, franchised hotels have been a common scene of sex-trafficking crimes in the U.S. A new legal strategy is targeting the corporations that collect royalties from them. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/should-hotel-chains-be-held-liable-for-human-trafficking">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Prosecutors Might Charge Trump for January 6th</strong> - The Justice Department is reportedly using a civil-rights law that “puts front and center the injury to the American people,” rather than to the government. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/how-prosecutors-might-charge-trump-for-january-6th">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Biden’s $250 billion lure to clean up the dirty legacy of fossil fuels</strong> -
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<img alt="A man stands in front of the ruins of a demolished coal power plant" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/tyMMfm781usk6BYoXO_XiH0k24A=/304x0:5168x3648/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72484963/GettyImages_1245582733.0.jpg"/>
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Twenty-eight-year-old New Jersey coal-fired power plant Logan Generating Station was demolished last year in pursuit of cleaner electricity. | Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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There’s hidden climate potential in overlooked fossil fuel infrastructure.
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The International Energy Agency expects the world to invest about <a href="https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-investment-2023/overview-and-key-findings">a billion dollars</a> a day into solar in 2023, marking the first time the renewable has surpassed global investment in oil production. It’s astonishing growth for an industry that was in its infancy just a decade ago. And Jigar Shah, the director of the Loan Programs Office at the US Department of Energy, thinks his office should get partial credit for kick-starting the solar revolution.
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The technology for solar has been well established for years, but the business case for installing it on a mass scale hasn’t developed as quickly. Around 20 years ago, there wasn’t a single large utility solar project in the US, and it was risky business to be the first. But that’s what the <a href="https://www.energy.gov/lpo/loan-programs-office">Loan Programs Office</a> was created to accomplish in 2005, before being given an expanded mandate in 2009. It filled a gap where the private sector wouldn’t, by providing loans for innovative clean technologies that were not yet implemented on a mass scale.
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“When you think about all the dominoes that fell to get to a billion dollars a day, we started that process,” Shah said in an interview last month with Vox. “We’re the ones who hit the first domino.”
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Shah pointed out that the first five large-scale — 100-megawatt or more — solar plants in the US were all funded by the Loan Programs Office early in the Obama administration. A similar story was true for the rise of electric cars: The DOE office gave a <a href="https://www.energy.gov/lpo/tesla">$465 million loan</a> to <a href="https://www.vox.com/tesla">Tesla</a> in 2010 to produce the successful Model S.
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The Loan Programs Office has been dormant for over a decade. The <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/8/8/23296951/inflation-reduction-act-biden-democrats-climate-change">Inflation Reduction Act</a> along with the bipartisan infrastructure law rescued the office from obscurity but gave it a new challenge to tackle. Now, the Loan Programs Office has an expanded mandate from <a href="https://www.vox.com/congress">Congress</a> to distribute up to $250 billion in loans to “retool, repower, repurpose, or replace energy infrastructure” for the <a href="https://www.energy.gov/lpo/energy-infrastructure-reinvestment">Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment</a> program (EIR).
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It’s a brand-new domino to topple: how to tap the potential of existing fossil fuel infrastructure so it can be put to use in a clean energy transition.
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Giving pipelines and gas stations new life
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The goals of the EIR are different than most of the Inflation Reduction Act’s spending. Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act a year ago to usher in a new era of clean technology and manufacturing aimed at slashing US climate pollution. Billions of dollars of the climate law focuses on what it will build through tax credits, grants, and direct investments, technologies like <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2022/10/8/23387530/home-electrification-heat-pumps-gas-furnace-contractors">heat pumps</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/12/22/23521519/tesla-electric-vehicles-milestones-ira-biden">electric cars</a>, <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/7/28/23281757/whats-in-climate-bill-inflation-reduction-act">solar fields, offshore wind, power lines</a>, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/23771809/nuclear-power-smr-small-modular-reactor-energy-climate-nuscale">modern nuclear power</a>.
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What happens on the other side of the equation — the fossil fuel infrastructure left behind — is less clear. With <a href="https://coal.sierraclub.org/campaign">370 coal-fired power plant retirements</a> announced in the past decade and more to come, this transition is already underway.
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The DOE’s EIR has far-reaching potential to transform what we think of as traditional energy infrastructure, including utilities, power lines, and pipelines, as well as things like gas stations and hospitals. Executed in its full vision, the loans could help to lower climate pollution in the near term, but even more importantly, prove there’s a market for retooling the infrastructure we already have.
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“This is a way that we can upgrade our existing system in a meaningful way, at a much lower cost than would otherwise be possible and move quickly,” RMI’s senior principal of Carbon-Free Electricity <a href="https://rmi.org/people/uday-varadarajan/">Uday Varadarajan</a> said.
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So how would it work? The Loan Programs Office reviews applications for proposals, which are typically in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Unlike other types of loans approved by the office, the technology here does not have to be innovative. All the projects must do is show they are slashing, avoiding, or sequestering carbon dioxide or other kinds of pollution.
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This leaves the potential for a vast number of projects. One of the most direct ways architects of the EIR envisioned the program working would be to fund clean electricity generation that would take the place of retiring coal power plants. That could involve physically converting toxic coal mines into a large array of <a href="https://www.vox.com/solar-energy">solar panels</a> with battery storage, or adding transmission lines that boost interconnection and reliability of the grid.
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<img alt="Jigar Shah speaking." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/_XjcGYb3NAiirEu8RFnChFWMOIM=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24807176/GettyImages_1247941383.jpg"/> <cite>Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg via Getty Images</cite>
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Jigar Shah, director of the Loan Programs Office at the Department of Energy, speaks during 2023 CERAWeek in Houston, Texas, in March.
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Other potential projects that could receive EIR funding <strong>may</strong> include converting old gas pipelines into ones fit to carry <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22973204/hydrogen-energy-power-toyota-mirai-climate-change">hydrogen</a>, a potentially clean fuel whose main waste product is water. Or the funding might be used to retrofit pipelines to be able to transport carbon so it can be stored deep underground and not escape into the atmosphere. Carbon capture and storage received a major boost from the EPA in its <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/2023/5/11/23695884/biden-epa-climate-power-plant-regulation">draft power plant rules,</a> as an option for gas plants to lower their emissions, but this technology is a nonstarter without the infrastructure.
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There are still other, more creative approaches left on the table. RMI’s Varadarajan suggested that even <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/23023671/ev-charging-network-gas-station-fast-charger">abandoned gas stations</a> could be put to new use through the EIR. Old gas stations are notoriously hard to reclaim and put to better use, but with more financing and an interested developer, they could be converted to EV charging stations and part of a distributed virtual power plant network.
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<a href="https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2023/02/doe-loan-programs-office-2023-updates-overview-and-key-insights">Taite McDonald,</a> a partner at the law firm Holland and Knight who helps clients navigate DOE loan program applications, said she sees the most potential for large industrial complexes, like hospitals and college campuses, that have already made public commitments to reaching net zero.
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This list of potential projects shows quite a range in ambition and also raises some critical questions. Will the EIR loans mostly be put to financing large institutions on their journey to net zero or, more ambitiously, to creating an entirely new market for abandoned gas stations and coal mines? The answer will depend on the kinds of applications that start to come in.
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“People are going to start to look at this when the other options start to be expended,” McDonald said. “And because it’s such a new program, we just haven’t really seen a lot of folks start to do that. What the program essentially becomes will remain to be seen.”
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Jigar Shah explained his job involves a lot of “cajoling folks,” and explaining to industries how the DOE could help with low-cost financing for goals they have already committed to publicly.
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“I see this as an economic development program,” Shah explained. “It’s our primary goal to help ensure that we can see investments and opportunity in the clean <a href="https://www.vox.com/economy">economy</a> line up with communities that are currently producing energy. Whether that’s a coal plant that’s scheduled to retire but could become the site of an advanced nuclear power plant, or an interconnection point for a large battery and wind farm to access the grid, there’s a lot of useful infrastructure, local talent, and know-how in the workforce that could be put to good use.”
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Balancing ambition, exhaustiveness, and speed will make all the difference
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The Loan Programs Office can be truly transformative if the full $250 billion is loaned out for slashing carbon footprints. But the history of the office is also a reminder of all the potential pitfalls for this kind of government funding.
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Solyndra was a solar panel manufacturer that received a loan under a different program to fund innovative technologies in 2009, but went bankrupt a few years later. It made for a field day for the Tea Party takeover of the House in 2010, which launched investigations calling the program an example of the government’s wasteful spending and its capacity to pick winners and losers. The House ultimately passed the “<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2012/09/house-passes-no-more-solyndras-081223">No More Solyndras Act</a>” in 2012 to block any more loan approvals (the bill didn’t pass the Senate).
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The Loan Programs Office itself has had some successes, however. The Obama administration approved <a href="https://www.energy.gov/lpo/history">40 projects</a> at a total of $36 billion that included companies such as Tesla and Nissan, which were looking to expand EV manufacturing, and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/beacon-power-declares-bankruptcy-second-loan-guarantee-recipient-to-falter/2011/10/31/gIQACNAaaM_story.html">Beacon Power</a>, a company that would help store power to ensure grid reliability.
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But the political fallout from the Solyndra bankruptcy did permanent damage. For about a decade, the Loan Programs Office went dormant until its first signs of life late in the <a href="https://www.vox.com/trump-administration">Trump administration</a>.
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Both the Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law have given the office its expanded mandate, and one of the most powerful positions in financing a clean energy revolution. Shah, a former clean energy entrepreneur, was tapped to lead the rapidly expanding team.
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However, Shah and his office of 250 can’t afford more scandal — or being too timid, either. The clock is ticking down on the timeline Congress gave the EIR program, which has just until 2026 to approve up to $250 billion in loans, a deadline that will be tough to make.
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Getting the word out and convincing applicants is another challenge. Shah acknowledged that DOE loans might not be “a natural thing for a lot of these applicants to use.”
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While there isn’t a huge market today for retrofitting and repurposing existing fossil fuel sites, the hope is the EIR starts to make it much more commonsense. Shah argues that’s exactly the role the government should play, helping sectors make a leap to becoming no-brainer investments. “If we don’t start that process, there’s no one else,” he said.
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Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. | Universal
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Is Oppenheimercore on the way?
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There’s a moment in <em>Oppenheimer </em>that seems almost like something out of a superhero movie or an <em>Indiana Jones </em>flick. Standing in his office at Los Alamos, J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) puts on a hat and picks up a pipe, each item lingered on by director Christopher Nolan’s camera. Nolan films these actions from behind like Oppenheimer is assuming his armor as he emerges to lead the Manhattan Project, the WWII effort that will result in the development of the atomic bomb. His shoulders are broad. His silhouette is totemic. “A rock star is born,” costume designer Ellen Mirojnick explains. “There’s an elegance, an empowerment, and a strength about who that man has become as he walks out of his office in the totality of this outfit.”
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<em>Oppenheimer </em>the movie<em> </em>is clear that Oppenheimer, the man, is not actually a superhero or a rock star, even if he might at times think of himself as such. Nolan’s film recognizes that its protagonist is both deeply conflicted and the orchestrator of atrocity. At the same time, it also acknowledges that Death, the Destroyer of Worlds, was deeply stylish.
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Greta Gerwig’s <em>Barbie </em>has been dominating the movie fashion conversation this summer with its hot pink ensembles, but for menswear enthusiasts <em>Oppenheimer </em>might actually be the sartorial event of the season. Vogue<em> </em>coined <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/oppenheimercore">Oppenheimercore</a> to note how the boxy tailoring of the physicist has been reflected on runways, while <a href="https://www.vox.com/twitter">Twitter</a> observers speculated that the film might unleash a new level of <a href="https://twitter.com/IanFayArt/status/1676121670036201472">“hat guys.”</a>
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For fashion writers Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, also known as <a href="https://tomandlorenzo.com/">Tom and Lorenzo</a>, a Nolan production always means great suits. “Christopher Nolan is a director after our own hearts, because he makes sure his leading men all know the value of a good suit, from <em>Batman Begins</em> to <em>Inception</em> to <em>Tenet</em>,” Fitzgerald writes in an email. “When we think of those films, we can’t help but picture how great the men looked in them.”
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The fact that Oppenheimer looks so good is not irrelevant to the plot. Nolan depicts him as a ladies’ man — which he was — and as someone who can convene a cult of personality around him. People are drawn to him not just because of his brilliance but because of his general suaveness. Which is all to say, the striking image of Oppenheimer on screen is very much not incidental, according to Mirojnick. “It’s seductive in a way,” she says. “Because what you feel in the silhouette is that you feel the person. His silhouette embraced the body where it needed to be embraced.”
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Oppenheimer’s personal connection to the world of great tailoring is a matter of record. His father, Julius, worked in the world of menswear. According to <em>American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer</em>, the biography on which <em>Oppenheimer </em>is based, Julius has a reputation as “one of the most knowledgeable ‘fabrics’ men in” New York. <em>American Prometheus </em>authors Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin wrote that Julius “dressed to fit the part, always adorned in a white high-collared shirt, a conservative tie, and a dark business suit.”
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In her initial research, Mirojnick was struck that over time Oppenheimer maintained a steady style, despite looking at images that spanned from the ’20s through the ’60s. He shifted his dress a little during his time at Los Alamos, she says, to adapt to the environment of the New Mexico desert — he loses the waistcoat, for instance — but that “silhouette” remains the same. (Mirojnick loves designing for a male “silhouette,” a fact she learned designing the costumes for <em>Wall Street </em>in 1987.)
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<q>Maybe a burst of Oppenheimer-inspired looks are on the horizon — at least when it comes to tailoring</q>
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Oppenheimer’s jacket might look a little large on his frame to the modern viewer, which gets skinnier as time passes; his tie might look a little short; his waistband might look a little high; and his hat might look a little big. (The style of the hat has been called “pork pie” but Mirojnick believes it’s a variation on that with a larger brim.) It’s all a bit “voluminous,” a word that Mirojnick uses, but that’s what makes it actually look “fashionable,” she adds.
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While some men might scoff at a bigger shoulder for fear of looking like Talking Heads-era David Byrne, a little length in that area actually looks good. “When you extend the shoulders like that you get a much more flattering proportion for the male figure because you’re able to build a kind of V-shaped silhouette for the suit,” says Derek Guy of the blog <a href="https://dieworkwear.com/">Die, Workwear!</a> (Guy is probably best known as the <a href="https://twitter.com/dieworkwear?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter menswear dude</a>.)
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Mirojnick notes that she and Nolan weren’t too concerned with making the costumes of <em>Oppenheimer </em>look perfectly period accurate. “We were not one to keep it so strict, that it would take somebody out of the story,” she says. “I had to make it [so] a young audience would be as seduced as an older audience would be.” One key historical inaccuracy: Oppenheimer is one of the only characters to wear a hat. Normally during these eras, everyone would be donning headwear, but Nolan wanted Oppenheimer to stand out among his peers.
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It’s hard to tell how much the influence of <em>Oppenheimer</em>’s costuming will trickle down into everyday life; after all, the suit in <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/9/30/20869237/suits-control-menswear-decline">general has been in decline</a>. (Even Murphy didn’t wear one to <a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/cillian-murphy-attends-a-photocall-for-oppenheimer-in-news-photo/1537043931?adppopup=true">every <em>Oppenheimer </em>event</a>.) High fashion might take notice, however. Vogue’s <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/oppenheimercore">Laia Garcia-Furtado argued</a>: “My guess is the sartorial influence of this movie will be reflected in seasons to come.” Tom and Lorenzo believe that if the cyclical nature of trends accounts for anything, a ’40s revival is on the way.
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“With menswear, we went from a very <em>Mad Men</em>-inspired mid-’60s silhouette for men’s suits for the better part of a decade, then lockdown happened and after that we entered a period of funkiness and minor experimentation as the pants flared and a rainbow of color and print options became trendy again,” Fitzgerald explains. “If you go by the theory that fashion repeats itself, then we’re in roughly 1979 or so, which is right about the time that menswear went through a ’40s-inspired trend period.”
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So maybe a burst of Oppenheimer-inspired looks are on the horizon — at least when it comes to tailoring. It may even filter into women’s looks given how menswear has been a dominant trend <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/taylor-swift-jennifer-lawrence-menswear-style">for female celebrities this summer</a>. (Tom and Lorenzo think the hat has taken too much of a beating from its “M’lady” associations to really weather a comeback.)
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For Mirojnick, there’s a thematic way in which the film reflects modern society. The horrors of today, after all, are very visible in the horrors of the past. “The world that they inhabit and the time periods that they inhabit are not dissimilar to the time periods we live in today,” she says. “So naturally fashion would imitate fashion or costumes would become fashion.” It’s also, as she said before, very seductive. In the context of the movie, that seduction is tinged with the evil Oppenheimer knows he has wrought. In the context of good clothes, that seduction is just, well, hot.
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<li><strong>Birds have co-opted our anti-bird weapons in a genius counterattack</strong> -
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Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there.
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It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in a way that’s meant to deter others. Think of the city benches you see segmented by bars to stop homeless people sleeping there.
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But birds are genius rebels. Not only are they undeterred by evil architecture, they actually use it to their advantage, according to <a href="https://www.hetnatuurhistorisch.nl/fileadmin/user_upload/documents-nmr/Publicaties/Deinsea/Deinsea_21/Deinsea_21_17_25_2023_Hiemstra_et_al.pdf">a new Dutch study</a> published in the journal <em>Deinsea</em>.
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Crows and magpies, it turns out, are learning to rip strips of anti-bird spikes off of buildings and use them to build their nests. It’s an incredible addition to the growing body of evidence about the intelligence of birds, so wrongly maligned as stupid that “bird-brained” is still commonly used as an insult.
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Just take a look at this crow nest from Rotterdam in the Netherlands, built with anti-bird spikes. The crows have cleverly pointed every spike inward so that, instead of harming the birds, the spikes will form a perfect lattice for a nest.
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Magpies also use anti-bird spikes for their nests. In 2021, a hospital patient in Antwerp, Belgium, looked out the window and noticed a huge magpie’s nest in a tree in the courtyard. Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Leiden-based Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the study’s authors, went to collect the nest and found that it was made out of 50 meters of anti-bird strips, containing no fewer than 1,500 metal spikes.
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Magpies are known to build roofs over their nests to prevent other birds from stealing their eggs and young. Usually, they scrounge around in nature for thorny plants or spiky branches to form the roof. But city birds don’t need to search for the perfect branch — they can just use the anti-bird spikes that humans have so kindly put at their disposal.
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“The magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest,” Hiemstra said.
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Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called <a href="https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/city-file/article/face-adversity-saga-parkdale-pigeon">Parkdale Pigeon</a> became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans removed her first nest and installed spikes on her chosen nesting site, the top of an LCD monitor on a subway platform in Melbourne. The avian architect rebelled and built an even better home there, using the spikes as a foundation to hold her nest more securely in place.
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But Hiemstra’s study is the first to show that birds, adapting to city life, are learning to seek out and use our anti-bird spikes as their nesting material. Pretty badass, right?
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The genius of birds — and other animals we underestimate
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Studies like Hiemstra’s are important because they can challenge our conventional views of which animals possess intelligence and to what degree.
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When we attribute a higher degree of intelligence to an animal, we’re more likely to include it in <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/4/18285986/robot-animal-nature-expanding-moral-circle-peter-singer">our moral circle</a>, the imaginary boundary we draw around those we consider worthy of ethical consideration. (Mind you, some would argue that animal intelligence shouldn’t be measured by a human yardstick and that <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22373580/animals-intelligent-smart-orcas-chickens">intelligence shouldn’t be the standard for inclusion in the moral circle</a> anyway — maybe being sentient or even simply being alive is enough.)
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It’s a well-established fact that many bird species are highly intelligent. Members of the corvid family, which includes crows and magpies, are especially renowned for their smarts. Crows can solve complex puzzles, while magpies can pass the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2014/10/15/6960123/consciousness-tests-levels-define-mirror-animals-psychology">“mirror test”</a> — the classic test that scientists use to determine if a species is self-aware.
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<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2517622/">Studies</a> show that some birds have evolved cognitive skills similar to our own: They have amazing memories, remembering for months the thousands of different hiding places where they’ve stashed seeds, and they use their own experiences to predict the behavior of other birds, suggesting they’ve got some theory of mind.
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And, as author Jennifer Ackerman details in <em>The Genius of Birds</em>, birds are brilliant at using tools. Black palm cockatoos use twigs as drumsticks, tapping out a beat on a tree trunk to get a female’s attention. Jays use sticks as spears to attack other birds. New Caledonian crows turn spiny leaves into hooks for fishing grasshoppers, crickets, slugs, and spiders out of crevices. (As far as we know, that ability to make hook tools is shared with only one other animal on the planet: humans. Not even chimps or orangutans can do it.)
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Birds have also been known to use human tools to their advantage. When carrion crows want to crack a walnut, for example, they position the nut on a busy road, wait for a passing car to crush the shell, then swoop down to collect the nut and eat it. This behavior has been <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPGknpq3e0">recorded</a> several times in Japanese crows.
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But what’s unique about Hiemstra’s study is that it shows birds using human tools, specifically designed to thwart birds’ plans, in order to thwart our plans instead. We humans try to keep birds away with spikes, and the birds — ingenious rebels that they are — retort: Thanks, humans!
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Morning Digest | Indian economy to grow at 6.1% in 2023, IMF projects; Opposition for no-trust vote against Narendra Modi government, and more</strong> - Here is a select list of stories to start the day</p></li>
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The husband immediately took her to the local doctor and explained the situation. The doctor thought for a moment and said “Hmm, tricky situation. But I have a solution to the problem if young sir would permit.” The husband being very concerned agreed that the doctor could use whatever method to get the bee out of his wife’s vagina. The doctor said “OK, what I’m gonna do is rub some honey over the top of my penis and insert it into your wife’s vagina. When I feel the bee getting closer to the tip of my penis I shall withdraw it and the bee should hopefully follow my penis out of your wife’s vagina. The husband nodded and gave his approval. The young lady said”Yes, Yes, whatever, just get on with it." So the doctor, after covering the tip of his penis with honey, inserted it into the young lady’s vagina. After a few gentle strokes, the doctor said, “I don’t think the bee has noticed the honey yet. Perhaps I should go a bit deeper.” So the doctor went deeper and deeper. After a while the doctor began shafting the young lady very hard indeed. The young lady began to quiver with excitement. She began to moan and groan aloud. The doctor, concentrating very hard, looked like he was enjoying himself, he then put his hands on the young lady’s breasts and started making loud noises. The husband at this point suddenly became very annoyed and shouted, “Now wait a minute! What the Hell do you think you’re doing?” The doctor, still concentrating, replied, “Change of plan. I’m gonna drown the bastard!”
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