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Dancing with Fire
When Reggie Hubbard walks into a room, he is often mistaken for being an NFL tight end—but he delights in breaking the stereotype. The six-foot-two, globally popular, 270-pound yoga and meditation teacher and wellness entrepreneur is a Yale University grad and served from 2017 to 2021 as MoveOn’s senior political strategist and congressional liaison duri…
Menu Change
Something fishy’s going on. If you’re like me, you’ve noticed a lot of cephalopods on restaurant menus lately—octopus, squid, cuttlefish, etc. There’s a reason for that. In recent years, restaurants have been changing what they serve guests, thanks to climate change.
Citadel and BlackRock back project to start a national stock exchange in Texas (CNBC)
TXSE Chairman and CEO James Lee said the Dallas-headquartered group has raised $120 million with the support of more than two dozen investors.
China needs ‘urgent’ response to low population growth challenge: economic adviser (South China Moring Post)
Former senior party official Ma Jiantang suggests changes to family planning laws and birth-friendly policies to address economic challenges. China’s changing demographic structure has already had a huge impact on the economy, and will continue to do so, he says.
Russians Love YouTube. That’s a Problem for the Kremlin (Wired)
YouTube remains the only major US-based social media platform available in Russia. It’s become “indispensable” to everyday people, making a ban tricky. Journalists and dissidents are taking advantage.
Better connected (NewScientist)
How to win friends and influence people? It is a perennial question, but science now has the answer, finds David Robson.
Can artists use their own deepfakes for good? (Vox)
Musician FKA Twigs made a digital clone of herself. Is this the future of celebrity?
Images of climate change that cannot be missed (The New Yorker)
Just as we risk becoming inured to the crisis, a new photo show, Coal + Ice, serves as a “stunning call to action,” says environmentalist Bill McKibben, who previews and shares some of the photographs to be featured in this August exhibit .
Miss USA’s mental health crisis: Why the pageant world needs a wake-up call (The 19th)
Miss USA and Miss Teen USA have both stepped down amid allegations of a toxic work environment, sparking a larger conversation about the mental health of pageant participants.
Zelensky and an American D-Day veteran call each other “hero” (BBC)
The 60-second video clip that went viral this past week, in which an American D-Day veteran spontaneously told Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky that he is "the saviour of the people" when they met at a ceremony in France to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Fighting Trump on the Beaches (The New Yorker)
Biden’s fiery D-Day speech in Normandy warns against the ex-President’s isolationism, while Trump is back home, targeting “the enemy within.”