Knowing that infection seems almost unavoidable in the current environment and knowing that the risk of Long Covid in vaccinated people is not small means that many will be left with chronic and potentially disabling disease that has no treatment nature.com/articles/s4159…

The stark truth that to shan’t be glossed over by corgi drones and marmalade sandwiches theguardian.com/business/2022/…

New feature on the shifting tactics of union avoidance. Many union busting consultants now market themselves as “diversity trainers.” Captive meeting seminars designed to defeat labor unions are filled with social justice rhetoric. interc.pt/3tGNAlx

"It takes courage to speak truth to the most powerful technology companies in the world. Timnit Gebru is a truth-teller." - written by #CodedBias cast member @SafiyaNoble about the incredibly brave @timnitgebru. time.com/collection/100…

The study showed that those who drank 1.5 to 4.5 cups a day, even with a teaspoon of sugar, were up to 30% less likely to die during a seven-year period than non-coffee drinkers hrvd.me/CoffeeHealth20…

If you want to learn how to learn, these two charts are where you should start. They are the result of a large meta-analysis of study techniques. You should skip the highlighting, summarizing, and rereading. Instead, practice, quiz & explain. Open paper: journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/Z…

Enjoying a rainy day in Geneva

After nearly 30 years, today is Kenneth Roth’s last day as Human Rights Watch’s Executive Director. Ken has led HRW since 1993, taking HRW from a small group of regional “watch committees” to a major international human rights organization with global influence. 1/

worth a listen for top tips to drive inclusion and diversity (in that order) hbr.org/podcast/2021/0…

📌 Just released: UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 shares new data showing that 244 million children and young people are #OutofSchool. See how your country’s doing on the VIEW web platform by Global Education Monitoring Report UNESCO and UNESCO Institute for Statistics 🔗 education-estimates.org

⁦Shandana Khan Mohmand⁩ and Miguel Loureiro break down the failures of governance leading up to Pakistan’s devastating floods ids.ac.uk/opinions/pakis…

🛑 Back-to-back global crises have set back #HumanDevelopment by 5 years. Doubling down on human development will help us navigate the future and unleash people’s potential to affect change for a better future. More insights on #HDR2022 via Al Jazeera English. aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/8/…

“Instead of ‘going public,’ you could say we’re ‘going purpose,’ …Instead of extracting value from nature and transforming it into wealth for investors, we’ll use the wealth Patagonia creates to protect the source of all wealth.” fastcompany.com/90789599/patag…

Everything you think you know about generational differences is a myth. Using them to make decisions in business settings ("We've got to appeal to Gen Z workers!") can lead you astray and introduce biases👇 Paper: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

“A review by the World Health Organization in 2019 concluded that arts could help people experiencing mental illnesses and urged greater collaboration between culture and public health professionals.” theguardian.com/world/2022/sep…

Food crises can have devastating consequences for girls’ education. They are often the first to be taken out of school, and the last to eat when food runs low #HungerCrisis #FoodCrisis

“We had this period where for 10 years average real wages hadn’t been increasing and the last time that happened was when Marx was writing The Communist Manifesto. ... People aren’t running the numbers. But they feel it.” ft.com/content/f1f0a6…

Governments and citizens worldwide need to take urgent action and exercise more, to avoid 500 million of us developing #NCDs like heart disease, obesity and diabetes - The bill for inaction? World Health Organization (WHO) report estimates $27bn news.un.org/en/story/2022/…

Super exciting.

a big deal: Elon Musk, Y. Bengio, S. Russell, ⁦⁦Max Tegmark⁩, V. Kraknova, P. Maes, ⁦Grady Booch, ⁦Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸⁩, ⁦Tristan Harris⁩ & over 1,000 others, including me, have called for a temporary pause on training systems exceeding GPT-4 futureoflife.org/open-letter/pa…