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San Francisco, California · San FranciscoLearning and development leaders seeking to build a robust leadership pipeline face a two-fold challenge. Not only must they identify and cultivate employees with leadership potential, but they must also understand what attracts or discourages budding leaders from these roles. While higher pay and other perks can serve as incentives, employees increasingly factor in the perceived risks that a leap to leadership might entail. For L&D leaders, in…See the Story
The leadership scaries — what’s holding back your leadership pool may surprise you
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4 public speaking fixes that can fill you with confidence
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Batavia, Illinois · BataviaIn all of scientific history, no single theory has been tested more robustly — and still stands without a single failure — than the Standard Model of elementary particles and forces. Successfully describing every known species of quantum particle in existence as well as their properties and interactions, the Standard Model was assembled way back in the 1960s as a way of piecing together the fermions (quarks and leptons) that make up matter and a…See the Story
New LHC results refute Fermilab's "hole" in the Standard Model
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Narcissist CEOs are more likely to hire narcissists to top roles
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Artificial Intelligence · San FranciscoChip Bergh remembers the first pair of Levi’s jeans he bought before that make-or-break first day of middle school. Owning and wearing those jeans—making a good first impression among classmates—was so important to him that, when he could not find the brand in any local store, he asked his mother to drive him to a neighboring town to purchase the jeans. “This is a brand that, when I was a kid, was gold,” he reflected to us. Several years later w…See the Story
How Levi’s stitched AI into its iconic jeans
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Northern Lights · San FranciscoHere, in the spring of 2024, Earth’s inhabitants are getting quite a show: the greatest, most widespread, and most vibrant auroral display in more than 20 years. This is caused by an increase in solar activity:
greater numbers of sunspots, larger sunspot size, greater numbers of more powerful solar flares, including those that happen to impact the Earth. As the number of sunspots and the amount of solar activity continues to increase, with NAS…See the Story
The unexpected connection between the northern lights and Hubble’s death
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Paris, France · ParisImagine it’s 2050 and the old countries of Europe are gone. In their place are entities based not on history, language, or ethnicity, but on the type of renewable energy they’re best at producing. A centralized power grid redistributes these variously sourced types of energy throughout the continent to even out temporary gaps and seasonal imbalances. Welcome to Eneropa, Europe’s hypothetical energy utopia, where the power supply is stable, susta…See the Story
Europe remapped: What the energy utopia "Eneropa" would look like in 2050
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Discovered: A "brain-body circuit" that turns inflammation up and down
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