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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><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A New Lawsuit Alleges That Leonard Leo Called for the Arrest of a Pro-Choice Protester</strong> - The court filing claims that the Federalist Society leader, a champion of free speech, urged police to violate the First Amendment rights of a demonstrator near his Maine home. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-new-lawsuit-alleges-that-leonard-leo-called-for-the-arrest-of-a-pro-choice-protester">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Puzzling, Increasingly Rightward Turn of Mario Vargas Llosa</strong> - The writer has shocked many by endorsing Latin America and Spain’s rising authoritarian movements. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-puzzling-increasingly-rightward-turn-of-mario-vargas-llosa">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Day in the Life of Congress’s “Traffic Cop”</strong> - The House Committee on Rules decides which bills go forward. Jim McGovern, the ranking Democrat, has watched a decades-long erosion of the process. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/a-day-in-the-life-of-jim-mcgovern-us-congress">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Wrestling with the Ghost of Boris Johnson</strong> - An election for the seat in Parliament once held by the disgraced former Prime Minister goes down to the wire. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/wrestling-with-the-ghost-of-boris-johnson">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer</strong> - David Remnick talks with Kai Bird, whose biography was the foundation for the new film “Oppenheimer.” Plus, Colson Whitehead; and Greta Gerwig on finding herself as a director. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/the-life-of-j-robert-oppenheimer">link</a></p></li>
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<img alt="Theoretical physicist and physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1930s." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/v7UXxK7EKLhyZceedkkwUznA-aA=/0x0:5500x4125/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/72474198/GettyImages_815208138.0.jpg"/>
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American theoretical physicist and professor of physics J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley | Photo 12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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The so-called “father of the bomb” helped bring us prematurely into the age of existential risk.
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One would be tempted to describe J. Robert Oppenheimer as a tragic figure — that’s certainly how Christopher Nolan portrays him in the biopic <em>Oppenheimer</em>. The father of the atomic bomb who spent the rest of his life agonizing over what he had helped birth; the ultimate insider who was humbled and brought low; the hopeful scientist who started the nuclear arms race. But then, tragic figures don’t generally spend their retirement yachting around the Caribbean. Or maybe he was a tragic figure in the mold of Lord Byron — interestingly dark and mystical, remarkably pretty, and rich as Midas.
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Oppenheimer grew up in privilege, and remained swaddled in it for his whole life. His father immigrated to New York with nothing, and rose up to become a wealthy textile company executive. His parents spoiled their little genius. When he started a childhood rock collection, it grew to cover every surface in their apartment, which itself covered an entire floor overlooking the Hudson River. The Oppenheimers had a chauffeur, a French governess, three live-in maids and three van Gogh paintings. He <a href="https://people.com/oppenheimer-movie-true-story-7563024">corresponded</a> with the New York Mineralogical Club, but when they invited him to speak they were surprised and delighted when he turned out to be only 12. His 16th birthday present was a 28-foot yacht (to go with the family’s 40-foot <em>Lorelei</em>) which he <a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,860615-2,00.html">called</a> <em>Trimethy</em>, after a chemical compound. As Oppenheimer <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/exclusive-behind-scenes-look-los-alamos-lab-where-robert-oppenheimer-created-atomic-bomb-180982336/">remarked</a> when he bought his first holiday home in New Mexico, the state where he would later spearhead the development of the atomic bomb: “hot dog!”
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Oppenheimer was a slightly odd student. He was a nerd at Harvard, excluded for his introversion and, in the intensely antisemitic environment of the 1920s, for his Jewishness. He was a somewhat troubled youth. At Cambridge University, he <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/07/oppenheimer-poison-apple-true-story">once left</a> a poisoned apple on his tutor’s desk; on vacation when a friend told him of his engagement, Oppenheimer tried to <a href="https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disappearing-pod/the-real-tragedy-of-robert-oppenheimer/">strangle</a> him; and in Gottingen, where he was a PhD student, his classmates <a href="https://unherd.com/2023/07/we-wouldnt-want-oppenheimer-today/">presented</a> a petition to get him to stop interrupting seminars.
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However, he began to come out of his shell as a postdoctoral researcher in Leiden and Zurich, and became positively cool when he moved to California in 1929. He cooked nasi goreng — his colleagues <a href="https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/voices/oral-histories/harold-chernisss-interview-part-1/">called</a> it “nasty gory” — and “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Prometheus/jfSn2RJZI9EC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22eggs+a+la+oppie%22&pg=PA96&printsec=frontcover">eggs a la Oppie</a>,” made with lots of Mexican chiles. He had a house with a Picasso on the wall, New Mexican rugs on the floor and a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. He fundraised for Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War and flirted with communism. With his blackboard chalk and his cigarettes, he made significant breakthroughs, inspired his graduate students, and <a href="https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/People/Administrators/robert-oppenheimer.html">built</a> one of the finest theoretical physics departments in the world. And he was lucky: His father’s fortune was unscathed by the Crash of 1929. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Prometheus/jfSn2RJZI9EC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22natalie+raymond%22+and+cezanne&pg=PA91&printsec=frontcover">Once after a crash</a> of Oppenheimer’s own, speeding in his Chrysler while racing a train and knocking unconscious and almost killing his passenger Natalie Raymond, his dad gave her a Cezanne drawing by way of an apology. Hot dog!
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After the war, he got the cushiest job imaginable, as director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. As director, he was given the 265-acre Olden Manor, parts of which dated to 1696. He had no teaching responsibilities, and a $120,000 fund to spend on inviting whoever he liked to spend anything from a few months (T.S. Eliot, whose poem “The Wasteland” Oppenheimer is depicted absorbing onscreen) to the rest of their career (the diplomat George Kennan, he of the <a href="https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/remembering-george-f-kennan#:~:text=The%20Policymaker-,George%20F.,sent%20on%20February%2022%2C%201946.">Cold War containment policy</a>). It sounds like a great gig. And if I had it, I also would have essentially stopped producing research, as Oppenheimer did.
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<q>Oppenheimer spent much of the 50s and 60s in his holiday home at Hawksnest Bay on the Caribbean island of Saint John or on his yacht</q>
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Eventually McCarthyism, red-baiting FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, and Oppenheimer’s own political mistakes came for him, and he lost his security clearance and his political appointments in 1954, events that serve as the framing device for Nolan’s film. But Oppenheimer remained as director of the institute until his death. The sheer ludicrous unfairness of the Republican show-trial security hearing — puppet-mastered by the banker turned atomic energy adviser Lewis Strauss — made him a martyr, and when the Democrats got back into the White House they gave him a special award. Oppenheimer spent much of the 50s and 60s in his holiday home at Hawksnest Bay on the Caribbean island of Saint John (where he imported champagne by the case) or on his yacht.
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By comparison, his brother Frank became a Communist Party member in 1937 while attempting to <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n18/steven-shapin/uncle-of-the-bomb">desegregate</a> his local swimming pool in Pasadena; was an early campaigner at Los Alamos on international arms control; and then was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/02/04/us/frank-oppenheimer-nuclear-physicist-dies.html">blacklisted</a> from academia, denied a passport, and left to spend a decade as a cattle rancher.
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But the central location in Oppenheimer’s life wasn’t the Upper West Side, the Bay Shore mansion on Long Island, his bachelor pad in California, the manor in Princeton, or his Caribbean island. The central location was Los Alamos. This scientific base was built from scratch, up in the hills of northern New Mexico. It was Oppenheimer’s favorite part of the country; indeed, Los Alamos was a day’s horse ride from his holiday home. It was like locating CERN, the massive intergovernmental particle physics lab, in the pleasant English countryside of the Cotswolds.
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Los Alamos during wartime sounds like great fun. Married scientists were permitted to bring their families. There were barn dances or piano recitals on a Saturday night, hikes and horse-riding on a Sunday. It had a local cinema, 15 cents a ticket. It had a local theater group: Oppenheimer even <a href="https://www.nps.gov/thingstodo/los-alamos-see-a-play-at-the-los-alamos-little-theater.htm">played</a> a corpse in the comedy <em>Arsenic and Old Lace</em>. And it had large quantities of booze — Oppenheimer <a href="https://janeliasberg.com/oppenheimers-legendary-martini-or-the-manhattan-project/#:~:text=Owing%20to%20the%20difficulty%20of,well%20as%20lime%20and%20honey.&text=Stir%20the%20gin%20and%20vermouth%20with%20ice%20until%20chilled.">was famous for</a> mixing very strong, very cold martinis, while the tipple of choice for the less well-heeled bachelor scientists was half lab alcohol and half grapefruit juice, chilled with a chunk of smoking dry ice. The <a href="https://ladailypost.com/wartime-baby-boom-left-general-groves-fuming-while-parents-counted-and-counted-and-counted-their-blessings/#:~:text=The%20average%20age%20in%20Los,no%20time%20in%20doing%20so.">average age was 25</a>. And everyone, in between the work of creating the atom bomb, was apparently having sex: 80 children were born the first year, and 10 a month after that. All in all, it makes for a better war than storming beaches in Normandy or Iwo Jima.
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The comforts provided to the scientists and their families have been described as “army socialism.” But the soldiers who emptied the bins and the local Indigenous women who cleaned the houses must have had a pretty clear sense of the pecking order. In the many Manhattan Project memoirs, Los Alamos reminds one far more of the summer camp it was before the war than a top-secret government project to develop a weapon of mass destruction
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<q>Oppenheimer’s chief contribution was as camp counselor of Los Alamos</q>
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Oppenheimer’s historic contribution was as scientific director of Los Alamos. But what was the nature of that contribution to the Manhattan Project? Not the science — the real breakthroughs were from Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, who showed nuclear fission was possible, or specialists like Robert Christy, who designed the plutonium implosion “Christy gadget” successfully tested at Trinity Site near Los Alamos, and later dropped on Nagasaki. And not the direction — 90 percent of Manhattan Project director Gen. Leslie Groves’s <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/the-costs-of-the-manhattan-project/">budget went</a> to the Fordist feats of administration, logistics, and industrial engineering that were the Oak Ridge and Hanford production plants, churning out the plutonium and enriched uranium that fueled the atom bombs. Oppenheimer’s chief contribution was as camp counselor of Los Alamos.
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Oppenheimer encouraged them on, and his charisma cast a sort of spell over the campers. It is no coincidence that much of the serious thinking about the bomb — morally and politically — happened elsewhere, in Chicago under Leo Szilard or in the giant head of the Danish genius Niels Bohr. Oppenheimer whipped them up with a simple message: we need to get the bomb before Hitler.
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As it turns out, this was all mistaken. We now know that the Nazis <a href="http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/wendorff2/#:~:text=Thus%20in%20December%201941%2C%20the,make%20a%20more%20immediate%20impact.">had decided</a> against a nuclear fission program by 1942. Nazi planners needed raw materials and manpower for armaments production, and Nazi scientists thought a bomb couldn’t be delivered in time to affect the war in Europe, which very much proved to be the case. So the Manhattan Project did not in fact deter, and did not need to deter, Hitler from developing and using the bomb. The scientists were working based on a mistake.
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The main effect of the Manhattan Project was to bring forward in time the era of the bomb and the era of the nuclear arms race. The existential risk researcher Toby Ord <a href="https://theprecipice.com/">calls</a> this era “the Precipice”: the first period in which humanity can destroy itself. The US would likely not have “sprinted” to the same extent, <a href="https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL34645.pdf">spending</a> 0.4 percent of GDP, for a peacetime Manhattan Project. And Oppenheimer’s nemesis Lewis Strauss may have been right, if for the wrong reasons, when he accused Oppenheimer of helping the Soviet nuclear program. Quite simply, it would have taken the Soviets years longer if they couldn’t just <a href="https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Events/1942-1945/espionage.htm#:~:text=Soviet%20spies%20penetrated%20the%20Manhattan,development%20of%20the%20Soviet%20bomb.">copy the secrets</a> of the Manhattan Project. Szilard and Albert Einstein, whose 1939 letter prompted President Franklin Roosevelt to begin the US nuclear program, later <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2016-10-11/ty-article/1939-einstein-makes-his-biggest-mistake/0000017f-db72-d3a5-af7f-fbfe922c0000">described</a> their advocacy for the project as the greatest mistake of their life.
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This was not simply an honest mistake. Joseph Rotblat — the only scientist to <a href="https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/rotblat-account/">resign</a> from the Manhattan Project — got a nasty shock in May 1944 when, at a dinner, Groves said, “You realize, of course, that the main purpose of this project is to subdue the Russians.” Later, Groves <a href="https://www.american.edu/ucm/news/20150804-kuznick-hiroshima.cfm#:~:text=%22There%20was%20never%20from%20about,%2C%22%20Groves%20would%20later%20say.">testified</a> that “there was never, from about two weeks from the time I took charge of this Project, any illusion on my part but that Russia was our enemy.” It is hard to reconcile this bloodlessness with Matt Damon’s blithe face as Groves in Christopher Nolan’s film.
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<q>Was the bomb just too “technically sweet” for Oppenheimer to resist?</q>
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How complicit was Oppenheimer? David Hawkins, Oppenheimer’s aide and the Manhattan Project’s official historian, claims that Groves told Oppenheimer at the end of 1943 that the Nazis had abandoned their attempt — and Oppenheimer shrugged. Oppenheimer dominated the ethical discussions among scientists in late 1944, as both the war and the race to the atomic bomb were nearing their end stages, arguing that scientists had no right to a louder voice than other citizens, and that if the war ended without nuclear use, the next war would be fought with nuclear weapons. Was Oppenheimer swept up by the same patriotic fervor that prompted him to have a colonel’s uniform tailored for himself? Was the bomb <a href="https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00007996;jsessionid=ADC81200791B4E377357A86763004BA6">just too</a> “technically sweet” for him to resist? It is unclear. Perhaps the best we can say in his defense was that Oppenheimer was chumped into doing it (to some extent), and inadvertently or not, he chumped the other scientists as well.
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Oppenheimer’s complicity did give him prestige and access. However, he squandered that, and lost four key political battles over the use and future of nuclear weapons: on a demonstration attack, on beginning talks at the Potsdam conference, on arms control proposals after the war, and on not racing for the far more powerful hydrogen bomb.
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The two key issues on the agenda at the May 31, 1945, meeting of the “Interim Committee,” a <a href="https://www.atomicarchive.com/history/manhattan-project/p5s2.html#:~:text=The%20briefing%20summarized%20the%20consensus,Secretary%20of%20State%20James%20F.">government advisory group</a> on atomic research, were how to use the bomb, and how to communicate to the Soviets. Oppenheimer, the vast majority of Los Alamos scientists, and indeed Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, all supported a demonstration attack on an empty island. But Harvard President James Conant instead suggested “a vital war plant … surrounded by workers’ houses.”
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At this crucial decision-making meeting, Oppenheimer did not disagree with the targeting of civilians, instead merely noting the visual effect of a bomb and the feasibility of simultaneous strikes. He also stayed quiet when Groves got approval to purge dissenting scientists like Szilard from the project. Oppenheimer thought that he had traded these betrayals for a commitment that the USSR was to be clearly informed of the bomb and its planned use. These discussions would mean that the Soviets would not be blindsided in a frightening manner that would spur an arms race. But instead, in his meeting with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam conference, just after the successful Trinity test, Truman only casually and vaguely mentioned a new weapon, and had no serious discussion with his opposite number. Oppenheimer had lost on both counts.
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The first time he met Truman, after the atomic bombings of Japan, out of frustration and passion Oppenheimer blurted out, “There is blood on my hands.” Truman would stew on this for years, <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/oppenheimer-truman-disastrous-meeting-18230557.php">retelling and embellishing</a> the anecdote, once claiming he pulled out his handkerchief and said “Well, here, would you like to wipe your hands?” Immediately after he left, Truman called him a “cry baby scientist,” and would never trust him again.
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Oppenheimer’s postwar record was just as bad. He was the main intellectual force behind the <a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/baruch-plans">1946 Acheson-Lilienthal Report</a>, which proposed a single worldwide Atomic Development Agency with a monopoly over all uranium mines, labs, enrichment facilities, and power plants. Control over nuclear technology would be international, rather than national. However, as Oppenheimer later acknowledged, this was infeasible and naive. Stalin would never have agreed to renunciation of sovereignty, to the inspections, or to the depth of cooperation with the capitalist West the plan would have demanded. Bernard Baruch, proposer of the failed <a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/baruch-plans">Baruch Plan</a>, was a convenient scapegoat.
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When the Soviets exploded their first bomb in 1949, Oppenheimer told David Lilienthal, the first chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, that “we mustn’t muff it this time,” meaning the arms race. But they did muff it, and the US stockpile <a href="https://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/235/wallslides.pdf">grew from</a> 50 warheads in 1948 to 300 in 1950. The next fight was on whether to build a “Super” or hydrogen bomb, much more destructive than the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer opposed it on scientific, technical, and moral grounds. But when the decision came to Truman, the president had one question: can the Russians do it? The answer was yes. “In that case,” Truman <a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/12875/chapter-abstract/163201293?redirectedFrom=fulltext">replied</a>, “we have no choice.” The meeting took 7 minutes. The cry baby scientist’s concerns were completely dismissed.
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The two most notable facts about Oppenheimer’s life are that he first sped up the creation of nuclear weapons, and then failed utterly to restrict the nuclear arms race he had helped begin. The arms racers used his scientific credibility to support their reckless buildup, and outplayed him in every important political battle. It would take a further 18 years after his 1954 defrocking before the <a href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/salt#:~:text=Nixon%20and%20Soviet%20General%20Secretary,nuclear%20missiles%20in%20their%20arsenals.">first bilateral arms control agreement on nuclear weapons</a>. This removal of his security clearance can be seen as the final mercy kill of an utterly defanged and defeated political opponent.
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It’s hard to overemphasize how much the authors of <em>American Prometheus, </em>the book on which the film is based, are on Team Oppenheimer. One author, Kai Bird, spent 25 years interviewing Oppenheimer’s friends and family. They spend 88 pages on a minute-by-minute account of the mistrial of his hearing. They refer to him frequently as “Oppie.” And even their assessment is that he “won nothing and acquiesced to everything.”
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How should we remember Oppenheimer: A tragic martyr? Death, the destroyer of worlds? The “American Prometheus” of the title? Another descriptive phrase comes to mind, one that would be more familiar to one of his father’s employees in a New York textile factory: “What a schmuck.”
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<em>Haydn Belfield has been </em><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_HaydnBelfield&d=DwMGaQ&c=7MSjEE-cVgLCRHxk1P5PWg&r=mTM0ruyioL3vFpq5GgUZftnxirsFoCe5-UZtYwnKki8&m=fafNoDRYchktF6CmyLmwtRE1Dt1uZmJeDTqC_-94paSKyG8-WBBDyvzsCPMMphux&s=8wpMbuaRp27Bl2ciP_ieN5e9ac-s3eWypajx66fqlFk&e="><em>academic project manager</em></a> <em>at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk for the past six years. He is also an associate fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.</em>
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Most recently, hybrid work is apparently making it really hard to schedule meetings from 4 to 6 pm, since workers are ducking out slightly early to pick up their kids or get a workout in, according to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/work-office-coworkers-schedule-meetings-2af3f9b0">Wall Street Journal</a>. Some workers make up for the time missed by logging on again in the evening. (Personally, I never got the memo that the 9-to-5 now ends at 6.) In other words, people are trying to find a compromise between their work lives and the rest of their lives.
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Still, some managers are lamenting that these absences make it difficult for their teams to be productive because getting things done at work apparently requires everyone to be present at the same time, right before dinner. But perhaps 4 to 6 pm — the final hours of a long work day when many aren’t at their most clear-headed — was never a good time to schedule a meeting.
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“People tend by that time of day to not be as productive as they were in the morning,” said Caitlin Duffy, a director in Gartner’s HR practice. Plus, there are better ways to encourage productivity, like scheduling meetings when people are<em> </em>alert and available.
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“Even though there’s a sense that you might not be able to predict as well when people are going to be available or people might not be available at the same time, that doesn’t have to mean it’s harder to get things done,” Duffy said. “It just means that you’re not optimizing your approach to hybrid work for your team.”
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Duffy recommends that teams be transparent about their availability so that managers can use that information to set norms around when people are expected to be available for meetings and other collaborative activities.
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“I really hope that we aren’t defining productivity by the number of meetings that we’re in,” Christina Janzer, SVP of research and analytics at <a href="https://www.vox.com/slack">Slack</a>, told Vox. “The first thing I’d challenge is that the number of meetings equals productivity.”
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Her research has found that people are in too many meetings as it is, and that more than 40 percent of them could be deleted without any real consequences. Many meetings could be an email or a Slack conversation instead.
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One important thing to note in this discussion is that productivity in the amorphous world of white-collar work is <a href="https://www.vox.com/technology/23710261/productivity-definition-measures-remote-work-management">incredibly difficult to measure</a>. Many managers have struggled to find new ways to gauge productivity, since the shift to <a href="https://www.vox.com/remote-work">remote work</a> during the pandemic meant they could no longer rely on the time-worn proxy of counting butts in seats. Often, they now look to inputs, like keystrokes or emails sent, rather than outputs, because those are easier to measure. Of course, those measurements can incentivize looking productive rather than being productive.
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What we do know is that about half of employees — it’s higher for women and parents — say they’re more likely to put family, personal life, health, and well-being over work than they were before the pandemic, according to <a href="https://www.vox.com/microsoft">Microsoft</a>’s <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/great-expectations-making-hybrid-work-work">Work Trend Index</a>. And that’s maybe a good thing, both for individuals and for their work.
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The 9-to-5 (or 9-to-6, apparently) never lined up for parents or other caregivers, who were forced to figure out what to do with their children after school, which typically ends earlier than the work day. This incongruity was a huge source of stress for working parents, one that remote and hybrid work has helped alleviate. By making the demands of their lives outside of work more manageable, remote and flexible work has actually been a boon for all employees. And the benefits can also be seen at work. In general, employees equate work flexibility with a whole number of positive outcomes, from higher productivity to less burnout and turnover.
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By shoehorning employees into late-in-the-day meetings, managers are running the risk of lost productivity, not gained. And their companies can become unattractive places to work. Data from hybrid software firm <a href="https://flexindex.substack.com/">Scoop Technologies</a> recently showed that companies offering remote or hybrid work are growing headcount much more quickly than those with strict in-office requirements.
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Making remote or hybrid work work for everyone is going to require some effort, but it’s better than reverting back to the way things used to be. That means managers need to get input from their employees to decide the best times for collaborative or focused work, and then set up norms for people to follow.
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“It may be the mornings are really the magic time with their kids, getting everyone off to school, and it could be that the afternoon is good,” Boston Consulting Group managing director and senior partner Debbie Lovich said.
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“The point is that managers should orchestrate conversations with their teams about when, where, and how work gets done,” she added. “That’s not a muscle managers had needed before.”
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The Earth has never been so hot. The three days of July 3 through July 5 were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/climate/climate-change-record-heat.html">the hottest days on record</a>. Temperatures have <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/relentless-heat-wave-shatters-records/story?id=101391040">topped 100 degrees</a> in Arizona, Florida, Texas, California, Louisiana, and Nevada, with no respite in sight. One-third of Americans were <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/07/15/1187979027/heat-wave-southwest-california-phoenix-las-vegas">under some form of heat watch, advisory, or warning</a> last weekend. It’s not just the US: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/17/europe/europe-weather-second-heatwave-charon-climate-intl/index.html">Italy, Spain, and Greece</a> will see temperatures up to 118 degrees Fahrenheit; at the Persian Gulf International Airport in Iran, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/global-heat-wave-weather-temperatures-07-18-23/h_ae35bce9ab1a896f566a8aa775684bab">it felt like 152 degrees</a> last Sunday.
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Extreme heat is extremely dangerous, and can <a href="https://www.vox.com/22560815/heat-wave-worker-extreme-climate-change-osha-workplace-farm-restaurant">even be deadly</a>. Heat is the <a href="https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-heat-related-deaths">leading weather-related cause of death</a> in the United States. Prolonged exposure to hot temperatures can result in <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/warning.html">heat exhaustion, heat stroke, heat cramps, sunburn, and heat rash</a>. Infants and young children, adults over the age of 65, people who are overweight, and people who are on certain medications — like <a href="https://www.jeffersonhealth.org/your-health/living-well/is-your-medication-putting-you-at-increased-risk-for-heat-stroke">amphetamines and antidepressants</a> — are <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/faq.html">most at risk</a> for heat-related illness. <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/16425-heat-illness">People who work outside</a> and are exposed to the sun and heat also are at greater risk.
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Children <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18347699/">produce more body heat and sweat less than adults</a>, and tend to not stay as hydrated, making them more sensitive to the heat. “Their skin is also vulnerable,” says <a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/joanna-cohen-1">Joanna Cohen</a>, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. “They can get sunburned more easily and sunburns actually increase your body temperature and can contribute to overheating and dehydration as well.”
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Like children, older adults don’t have as rapid or efficient a thermoregulatory response as other adults, explains <a href="https://www.emergencymedicine.columbia.edu/profile/raleigh-w-todman-md">Raleigh Todman</a>, an emergency medicine physician at Columbia University Medical Center. The body doesn’t cool down as quickly as the rest of the population, she says.
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However, everyone should take precautions to stay cool and hydrated during extreme heat. When humidity exceeds 75 percent, the body’s ability to cool off by sweating is not as effective, Todman says, making heat safety all the more important. Here’s what to keep in mind.
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One of the most effective ways to fend off heat-related illness is to <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/features/extremeheat/index.html">stay in an air-conditioned building</a> (even though air conditioning is a <a href="https://www.vox.com/22638093/air-conditioning-worsens-climate-change-ac">contributor to climate change</a>). According to the <a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=52558">2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey</a>, 88 percent of US households use air conditioning. The survey also found that half of households in the Northeast use individual AC units, like window and wall units, mini-splits, and portable units.
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You can lower the temperature in your home by <a href="https://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/how-to-cool-down-a-room-without-ac">closing your shades</a> to prevent the sunlight from heating up the house and <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/features/extremeheat/index.html">avoiding the use of your stove and oven</a>. Electric fans may feel nice, but will <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/faq.html">not prevent heat-related illness</a>. If you have individual air-conditioning units, try to contain the cold air to one area by keeping the doors closed to one room.
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Other <a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/326235#causes-of-feeling-hot">at-home ways of cooling down</a> include avoiding exercise or strenuous activities, taking a cool bath or shower, placing wet cloths or ice on your wrists, neck, and temples, and wearing light-colored, loose-fitting fabrics like cotton and linen — and dressing your children in loose, light clothes as well.
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If your home does not have air conditioning or if you still feel hot, find a cooling center — an air-conditioned indoor location where the public can stay safe from the heat — in your area by calling 211 and asking for information about local cooling centers. Some states have <a href="https://nchh.org/information-and-evidence/learn-about-healthy-housing/emergencies/extreme-heat/cooling-centers-by-state/">lists of cooling centers online</a>. Museums, libraries, movie theaters, cafes, malls, and stores can offer respites from the heat as well. Parents should remember to never leave children and pets unattended in the car. Cohen suggests placing your purse or phone next to your child or pet in the backseat as a double reminder to take them all with you.
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Children may want to take advantage of sunny days outdoors with trips to the park, beach, or pool. Outdoor activities can be safe for children so long as there’s shade and water available, Cohen says, like a pool, beach, or backyard or park with sprinklers. “If they’re going to be doing exercise, like playing soccer outside, they should take frequent breaks and go into the shade,” Cohen says. “If they do start to get overheated, get inside in air conditioning, if you can.”
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Everyone, regardless of age, should take <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/16425-heat-illness">plenty of rest breaks in the shade</a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/even-better/23699060/sunscreen-questions-answered-spf-uv-rays-supergoop-la-roche-posay">wear sunscreen</a> and a hat if you’re spending time outdoors, though Todman suggests avoiding going outside between noon and 4 pm. “If you need to do something and you have your elderly parents and your baby and you need to go get groceries,” Todman says, “if you can possibly do it in the morning before noon, or in the afternoon after 4, that’s your best bet for avoiding the most direct sun and the hottest part of the day.”
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Aside from avoiding the heat in a cool location, staying hydrated is another crucial aspect of hot weather safety because it helps <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/food-nutrition/why-is-water-important#body-temperature">regulate your body temperature</a>. On hot days, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/faq.html">you need to increase your water intake</a>, even if you don’t feel thirsty or aren’t physically exerting yourself. <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/16425-heat-illness">Avoid alcoholic or caffeinated beverages</a>, which can contribute to dehydration. Try to consistently sip water all day and encourage kids to always have a water bottle with them, Cohen says. If your kids are resistant to drinking water, Todman suggests giving them sports drinks or drinks with electrolytes, like Pedialyte, coconut water, and Gatorade, and even milk, which will help replenish the electrolytes lost in sweat. You’ll know if you’re properly hydrated if you <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/01/how-to-properly-hydrate-in-hot-weather-experts.html">use the bathroom every two to three hours and your urine is light yellow</a>; if it’s dark yellow or gold, drink more water. One way to determine if children are dehydrated is by gently pinching their skin. If they’re hydrated, the skin should bounce back, Todman says, if they’re dehydrated, the skin will stay pinched.
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Ideally, everyone should drink 32 ounces of water a day, Todman says, although “I know it’s not easy to convince elderly people or small children to drink that much water.” People who work outside should drink one cup of water <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/mining/userfiles/works/pdfs/2017-126.pdf">every 15 to 20 minutes </a>(and <a href="https://www.vox.com/even-better/23699060/sunscreen-questions-answered-spf-uv-rays-supergoop-la-roche-posay">ensure you’re wearing sunscreen</a>). Cold treats and foods with a high water content, like ice cream and watermelon, can keep you hydrated and cool, Todman says.
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Treat your pets the same way you would a baby, Todman says: Don’t leave them outdoors, keep them in the air conditioning, and always keep their water bowl filled.
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If you, a family member, or a neighbor start to exhibit signs of heat exhaustion or heat stroke, it’s important to r<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/warning.html">ecognize the symptoms and react swiftly</a>.
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The signs of heat exhaustion and heat stroke are the same for both adults and children, Cohen says, but a baby or younger kid may not be able to vocalize how they’re feeling. Ensure children are consistently drinking, urinating frequently, and that they look alert.
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Best practices for dealing with extreme heat are to stay hydrated, avoid strenuous or prolonged activities outdoors, keep your environment as cool as possible, and ensure members of the community are doing the same. Keep in touch with elderly neighbors or folks with young children or pets who may not have access to an air-conditioned location.
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“This sort of neighborly mindfulness,” Todman says, “is something, if possible, to keep in mind.”
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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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>Bangladesh women vs India women third ODI | Indian batswomen stutter as Bangladesh fights back to tie the match</strong> - The three-match ODI series, thus, ended at 1-1 with the hosts winning the first ODI and India bouncing back to win the second in a comprehensive manner.</p></li>
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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>Korea Open Super 500 badminton tournament | Satwiksairaj Rankireddy-Chirag Shetty enter final</strong> - The world number three Indian pair notched up a 21-15 24-22 win over the second seeded Chinese in a 40-minute duel at the Jinnam stadium.</p></li>
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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>After hitting 29th Test ton, Kohli says he’s ‘charged up’ when faced with challenges</strong> - Kohli equalled Sir Don Bradman’s record of 29 Test centuries in India’s commendable first innings score of 438, hitting a polished 121 in 206 balls</p></li>
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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>Lionel Messi scores dramatic game-winning goal in his Inter Miami debut against Cruz Azul</strong> - Lebron James, Serena Williams, Kim Kardashian and many more celebrities came at Messi’s debut match to witness unquestionably the greatest moment so far in Inter Miami’s brief history</p></li>
|
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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>PSG drops Kylian Mbappe from Asian pre-season tour squad, to be put on sale</strong> - According to media reports the Parisian club believe he has already agreed on terms to join Real Madrid for free next summer</p></li>
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|
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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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>Textiles worth lakhs of rupees gutted at Balaji Market in A.P.’s Vizianagaram</strong> -</p></li>
|
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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>Women misusing anti-rape law as weapon against partners: Uttarakhand HC</strong> - Justice Sharad Kumar Sharma made the observation on July 5 while quashing criminal proceedings against a man who was accused of rape by a woman after he refused to marry her. They were having consensual relations since 2005</p></li>
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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>In absence of inflows, KRMB asks TS, AP to utilise available water judiciously</strong> - It orders release of 12.7 tmc ft water from N’sagar to AP, TS for drinking, irrigation needs</p></li>
|
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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>Maharashtra rains | 45 people stranded due to floods in Yavatmal; IAF roped in for rescue</strong> - Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in a tweet said 45 people were stranded due to floods in Anandnagar village of Mahagaon taluka.</p></li>
|
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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>Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi wants influencers to take the Green India concept to children</strong> - Kailash Satyarthi was speaking after planting a sapling at the IIIT campus in Gachibowli on Saturday as a part of inaugurating “Green India Challenge 6.0” along with the Green India Challenger Founder and Rajya Sabha MP, Joginipalli Santosh Kumar</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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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>Europe heatwave: Temperatures to soar in Greece as fires still burn</strong> - Officials warn this could be Greece’s hottest July weekend in 50 years, with temperatures hitting 45C.</p></li>
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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>Jamshid Sharmahd: Iran could execute my dad at any time, says German woman</strong> - An Iranian-German businessman on death row may have made his last phone call, his daughter fears.</p></li>
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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>Russian hardline Putin critic and commander Strelkov detained in Moscow</strong> - A key player in Russia’s Ukraine landgrab in 2014, he has bitterly criticised the flagging campaign.</p></li>
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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>Berlin ‘lioness’: Wild animal probably a boar, authorities say</strong> - Authorities call off a search for a suspected big cat spotted near the German capital.</p></li>
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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>Iraq expels Swedish ambassador as Quran row escalates</strong> - The ambassador is told to leave amid protests that began over the burning of a Quran in Stockholm.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Amazon is getting ready to launch a lot of broadband satellites</strong> - Amazon unveils satellite facility in Florida, may switch prototype launch to Atlas V - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1955951">link</a></p></li>
|
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A promising Internet satellite is rendered useless by power supply issues</strong> - “The mission of providing Internet connectivity in Alaska will be delayed.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1955874">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Zyxel users still getting hacked by DDoS botnet emerge as public nuisance No. 1</strong> - 12 weeks after critical vulnerability was patched, devices are still being wrangled. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1955893">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>This LiDAR-equipped, 30-pound robot dog can be yours for $1,600</strong> - It’s not quite as good as a Boston Dynamics bot, but it is a lot cheaper. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1955810">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release</strong> - IMAX TikTok shows an emulated Palm PDA controlling <em>Oppenheimer’s</em> 600-lb reel. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1955799">link</a></p></li>
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He awkwardly says to the one lady at the pharmacy counter, “Um, this is embarrassing but I have this condition where about once a day I become incredibly aroused and overcome by the desire to have sex with any woman at all. It’s overwhelming! What can you give me for it?”
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“Hmm,” replied the lady, “This is a tough one. I’ll have to confer with my sister.” After talking to her sister she came back and said, “Well, the best we can do is a furnished apartment, $500 a week and half ownership of the pharmacy.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PaperPlaythings"> /u/PaperPlaythings </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1566ft0/a_young_guy_goes_into_a_drug_store_owned_by_two/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1566ft0/a_young_guy_goes_into_a_drug_store_owned_by_two/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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He says to him, “Hey there, does your dog bite?” and the man says “No mate, my dog’s the friendliest creature in the world, you can do anything with him.”
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So he goes to pat the dog and it absolutely goes for him and by the time three other men in the bar manage to get it off him he’s bleeding in half a dozen places and his clothes are torn to shreds. He says to the man at the bar “I thought you said your dog didn’t bite?!”
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“…That’s not my dog,” he answers.
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