How to Stay Engaged at Work (Without Burning Out)

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How to Stay Engaged at Work (Without Burning Out)     Research shows that over 50% of Gen Z and younger millennials are more burned out than their older peers, and professionals under 35 are the most disengaged, feeling little connection to their colleagues. What can young professionals do to regain a sense of control over their careers and stay engaged without burning out? Continued here

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Conservatives Are More Open to Seemingly Inferior Products Than Liberals Are     Dartmouth College’s Nailya Ordabayeva and Arizona State University’s Monika Lisjak photographed the purchases of customers at a Boston farmers market and surveyed the shoppers about their political leanings. They rated each person’s items on aesthetics and mapped the results against the survey responses and found a correlation: Conservatives were more likely than liberals to have bought misshapen or blemished produce. Eight subsequent studies found a similar pattern with other goods. The conclusion: Conservatives are more open to seemingly inferior products than liberals are. Continued here

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7 Effective Ways to Deal With a Toxic Workplace Before You Quit Your Job     Before you quit your toxic workplace, implementing these strategies may help. Continued here

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Google Just Disappointed Its Most Loyal Customers. It's Something No Company Should Ever Do     Google is canceling some Pixel Fold pre-orders. Even worse, it's not letting people know. Continued here

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5 Tips for Startups Trying to Revolutionize the Fashion Industry     The future of fashion is green, and startups that recognize and act on this will be the ones that thrive. Continued here

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Neuroscience Says     Neuroscientific research on how to make better decisions faster, break bad habits, and build greater intelligence, focus, and mental agility. Continued here

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The white roofs cooling women's homes in Indian slums     The roof in Pinky's home in western India glistens in the bright sunlight. Covered in white solar reflective paint, it helps to limit the oppressive heat – which can reach 47.8C (118F) in June – from infiltrating her home during the hottest months.Pinky and her four siblings, who are from the Bhil tribe – one of the largest tribes in India – live in a two-room home in Badi Bhil Basti, a slum in Jodhpur, the second largest city in the state of Rajasthan. Both their parents have died. Continued here

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Health Care Systems Need to Better Understand Patients as Consumers     Conventional measures that health systems use to attract and retain patients are inadequate. For instance, hospital NPS and HCAHPS scores are not reliable indicators of what patients will do in the future. Instead, health care systems need to look at what patients actually do and incorporate that information into strategic planning. With the likes of Amazon and CVS moving into their space, health systems must become more sophisticated in the ways they use data to understand patients’ behavior and what drives their decisions. Continued here

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How to Make Leadership Positions More Enticing to Primary Care Physicians     Primary care in the US is being pushed to the brink of collapse due to historic highs of physician stress, burnout, and exhaustion; mass departures from the profession; and the inability to care for vulnerable populations due to an inequitable health system. These problems are compounded due to a lack of effective advocacy to improve primary care on a national scale and a reimbursement system that chips away at time with patients while keeping primary care physicians (PCPs) on a volume-based hamster wheel. The end result is a shortage of doctors who want to practice primary care under these challenging circumstances, which can lead to potentially devastating consequences for the future of healthcare in America. Continued here

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6 Steps Google Says You Must Take to De-Risk Your A.I. System     Following this A.I. safety framework can help ensure your business is secure, according to Google. Continued here

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Why Woke Is Good Business, According to Mark Cuban and Data     Consumers expect brands to be inclusive, so pumping the brakes on inclusive marketing is bad for business. Continued here

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Should You Let Employees Break the Rules to Make Customers Happy?     Some customer service experiences are simple and can be automated. But others, particularly those that involve challenging and complex customer needs, often require creative solutions by frontline employees. In these situations, should employees be empowered to break rules and protocols in order to come to a satisfactory conclusion? Research suggests that certain situations can benefit from this type of employee empowerment, improving not only a brand’s relationship to its customers but also improving frontline workers’ engagement as well. Continued here

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3 Ways to Nail Your Presentation to the Board     The boardroom is a distinct forum that requires a different type of presentation and preparation. In this article, the author outlines three practices every business leader should embrace to enhance their board presentations: 1) Start with a governing thesis: a big idea or perspective that captures the main point of the discussion. Presentations that start this way leave the audience with a compelling message. 2) Understand that the CEO is not the target audience. A board presentation has to provide some quick refreshers on the operating environment and — more importantly — identify the biggest problems that need fixing. 3) Steer the presentation toward getting valuable feedback. Instead of concluding remarks that restate key business results, share two or three important ideas that will drive future success and concerns that could benefit from director input. The goal: Get the board’s validation or critiques of a proposed course of action. The result, invariably, is a mix of candid feedback and intelligent, probing questions that create thoughtful board engagement. Continued here

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How Eventbrite Survived the Pandemic     The platform's co-founder and CEO, Julia Hartz, is afraid of phone calls--but maybe not much else. Continued here

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4 Keys to 'Influencing Up'     Influencing up is a step above managing up, and it can have a big impact. Here are four ways to do it. Continued here

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Wildfires and Smoke Are Harming People's Mental Health. Here's How to Cope     Wildfires can have mental health impacts, both among those who are directly affected and those who find themselves under a blanket of smokeIf you have been in the path of the smoke from wildfires in Canada this month—or if you’ve been caught up in wildfire smoke before—you may have experienced feelings of anxiety and claustrophobia as the skies turned an apocalyptic orange. Continued here

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In a First, Scientists See Neutrinos Emitted by the Milky Way     The disk of our galaxy was long thought to produce these ghostly high-energy particles, but they haven’t been detected until nowFor the first time, scientists have seen neutrinos originating from the central disk of the Milky Way. Continued here

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How Managers Can Make Time for Their Own Development     Managers today must balance their day-to-day work with multiple “ands,” such as delivering on quarterly objectives and thinking strategically. Given these numerous demands, managers tend to deprioritize their own career development. It doesn’t have to be that way. The more managers take control of their development, the better able they’ll be to avoid the common career mistakes that will get in the way of their growth. And the more their team members see the positive impact of investing in their career development, the more likely they are to do the same. Continued here

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The Last 96 Hours of the 'Titan' Tragedy     It would take two and a half hours for Titan and its crew to drop the 13,000 feet to the bottom of the ocean. Having clambered into the submersible's cramped confines, the pilot and four passengers sat awkwardly against the inside of the hull, engineers bolting the craft closed from the outside. From now until the end of their dive, the five of them would be encapsulated, separated completely from the world's water and air.They had departed from the Canadian port city of St. John's, Newfoundland, at 8 am eastern daylight time on June 18, 2023. Now, roughly 375 nautical miles to the east, they were poised to begin their mission: to dive to the Titanic. Riding in the sub were Stockton Rush, president and founder of OceanGate, the exploration company that operated the craft; British billionaire Hamish Harding; French deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet; and British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman. Continued here

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For South Africa's female ride-hailing drivers, customers are the biggest hazards     “Every time I go out, I wonder whether I will be alive to see my children the next day.” That’s how Linda, a single mother of two, describes her experience of working as a Bolt driver in Johannesburg. In the five years that Linda has worked with the ride-hailing company, she has faced everything from casual sexism from customers — comments like “Don’t you have a husband? Surely he would not allow you to do this job.” — to sexual abuse. Once, in 2019, she was attacked by a rider who nearly raped her, she told Rest of World.Linda, who asked to be identified only by her first name as she feared backlash from Bolt, is among the over 1,000 female drivers who work with ride-hailing apps in Johannesburg and are members of the E-hailing Partners Council (EPCO). Rest of World spoke to 20 female drivers in Johannesburg who shared experiences similar to that of Linda, and said they had to brave such challenges every day to earn a living. “If I stay [at home], I may not be able to feed or send [the kids] to school. A woman needs to work too, even in a dangerous industry,” Linda said. Continued here

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The neurons that make us feel hangry     Maybe it starts with a low-energy feeling, or maybe you’re getting a little cranky. You might have a headache or difficulty concentrating. Your brain is sending you a message: You’re hungry. Find food.Studies in mice have pinpointed a cluster of cells called AgRP neurons near the underside of the brain that may create this unpleasant hungry, even “hangry,” feeling. They sit near the brain’s blood supply, giving them access to hormones arriving from the stomach and fat tissue that indicate energy levels. When energy is low, they act on a variety of other brain areas to promote feeding. Continued here

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Humans Are Predators of at Least One Third of All Vertebrate Species     Humans prey on more vertebrate species for use as pets and in medicine and other products than we do for foodHumans have long been successful predators, thanks to our advanced cognition, tools and technology. And now a new study examining human predation’s influence on nature reveals some fresh insights, such as the fact that we capture even more terrestrial vertebrate species for medicine, the exotic pet trade and other uses than we do for food—setting us apart as a highly unusual kind of predator. Continued here

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The Kavli Prize Presents: How Your Brain Maps the World [Sponsored]     John O’Keefe shared The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2014 for discovering that neurons in the hippocampus encode an animal’s location and create a cognitive map for navigation.This podcast was produced for The Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors.Megan Hall: When you release a carrier pigeon into the air, how does it know its way home? How do we navigate city streets without getting lost? John O’Keefe has found the very cells in the brain that help animals and humans know where they are in space. Continued here

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The U.S. Government Is Weighing New Restrictions on the Sale of Chips to China. What Could Go Wrong?     Between supply chain crunches, inflation, and price confusion, small businesses may pay a price if China retaliates against the U.S. Continued here

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Windows 11's AI-powered Copilot (and its Bing-powered ads) enters public preview     Last month, Microsoft announced that it would continue its put-ChatGPT-in-everything adventure with a new Windows 11 feature called Copilot. The company added generative AI to Edge and to the Bing-powered taskbar Search field months ago, but Copilot promises to be the most visible and hard-to-ignore version of Microsoft's big AI push in its most visible and hard-to-ignore product. Continued here

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Air Pollution Is Deadlier Than You Think     Air pollution is responsible for 8 million deaths a year globally, which is as many as tobacco. And air pollution isn't just causing lung cancer, it may cause other cancers too—including neck cancer and mesothelioma—and diseases such as cardiovascular disease, strokes, heart attacks, type 2 diabetes, and neurodegenerative disease. We urgently need public health measures to lower pollution levels.In the lab, we've been studying how air pollution causes lung cancer. Recently, we’ve shown a close association between rising air pollution levels—specifically 2.5 micrometers particles (known as PM 2.5) from diesel exhaust and coal-fired power stations—and increasing incidence of lung cancer in patients who’ve never smoked. We were interested in understanding what the underlying mechanism is for this process. It’s become apparent that it’s very different from the way we normally understood how carcinogens—chemicals in the environment that cause cancer—usually act. Traditionally, we thought that chemicals in the environment caused cancer by mutating DNA. It turns out the air pollution doesn’t mutate DNA. Instead, it creates an inflammatory response in a white cell called a macrophage. This cell releases an inflammatory mediator that can turn certain cells (those with a particular cancer-causing mutation) in the breathing apparatus of the lung into a cancer stem cell. In other words, the cancer-causing mutation and the air pollution work together in the right cell at the wrong time to initiate a cancer. Continued here

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10 Great Deals From REI's Fourth of July Sale     Celebrate America (or a day off work) by visiting its wild areas. Well, you deserve to relax however you feel, but we're using a liberal definition of the Great Outdoors. It could be a remote campsite in that national park you've always wanted to see. Or it could be the backyard that you haven't mowed in a month. However you define it, it's a good time to buy outdoor gear now that REI's Fourth of July Sale is live.REI isn't alone—Backcountry and Moosejaw have introduced their own Independence Day sales as well. If you spot something you like at Moosejaw but it isn't on sale, use the code SPF20 at checkout to get 20 percent off one full-priced item. While you're deal-hunting, be sure to check out Early Prime Day Deals coverage, as it includes discounts that aren't exclusive to Prime subscribers! Continued here

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Cat Noses Contain Twisted Labyrinths That Help Them Separate Smells     Scientists hypothesize that coiled channels inside a cat’s nose may function like a gas chromatographWhen it comes to a keen sense of smell, dogs get all the glory. But cats have a pretty well-developed sniffer, too—and a new study may explain how it works. Continued here

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How Do CPAP Machines Treat Sleep Apnea?     President Joe Biden has been using a CPAP machine to treat his sleep apnea, according to White House officials. What does that mean?President Joe Biden is using a machine to keep his airways clear while sleeping because he has a condition known as sleep apnea, White House officials say. Continued here

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This Hurricane Season Depends on a Showdown in the Atlantic     Like a massive, watery battery, the Atlantic Ocean powers hurricanes. As the ocean warms throughout the summer, it sends moisture into the atmosphere—heat energy that combines with wind to spin up storms. And the surface of the North Atlantic has never been hotter at this time of year—the early stages of hurricane season—at least since routine satellite measurements began in the early 1980s. This year’s temperatures are the thick black line on the graph below, soaring way above previous years. (SST stands for sea surface temperatures.)  Continued here