"The fact that this ability is found in diverse animals, from insects to humans, suggests that it arose a long time ago, and its neural basis has interested cognitive scientists for decades.Read: The surprising genealogy of your brainIn 2002, when Nieder was working with the neuroscientist Earl Miller at MIT as a postdoctoral fellow, they published one of the first pieces of evidence that number..."
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"At the same time, the government’s latest report on consumer prices showed that inflation in some areas, particularly health care, apartment rents, restaurant meals and other services, remains persistently high, one reason why Fed Chair Jerome Powell is reluctant to signal that policymakers are prepared to cut rates anytime soon."
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"Not surprisingly, given this sticky muck of bureaucracy, a backlog of more than 16,000 pending petitions has built up—a striking number compared with the fewer than 2,000 pending petitions at the start of Barack Obama’s first term as president or the 452 petitions that President Bill Clinton inherited.Obama granted more than 1,700 commutations, which, unlike a pardon, shorten a sentence while l..."
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"Before the Fed’s latest decision, Redfin’s chief economist called for mortgage rates to fall from around 7%to about 6.6% over the course of next year; the Mortgage Bankers Association predicted rates would fall to 6.1% in the fourth quarter of next year, and Moody’s chief economist, Mark Zandi, said he expected mortgage rates to settle between 5.5% and 6% in the long run."
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"The skit captures the male tendency to bond through ridicule, to avoid the subject of romance at all costs, and to fear that maintaining an adult relationship is antithetical to being one of the boys.And despite the terrible things the three do and say to one another, the fun they have pushing the boundaries of their comedy ever further is palpable.Inevitably, the group’s success has now led to..."
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"“We have not seen any meaningful change in insurer behavior” since Biden issued his executive order in June, Whalen wrote in an email to Fortune Tuesday.Go behind the headlines of the week's biggest business news with the Fortune newsroom every Saturday with The Reader."
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"Instead, the prepaid shipping labels you print out guide most of your returns to third-party facilities like Inmar, where they’re stacked six feet tall in palletized bins known as gaylords, along with thousands of other retaped cardboard boxes and poly mailers, all waiting to be ripped open, eyeballed, and searched by hand.When I arrived at Inmar’s facility, on a sunny morning shortly before Th..."
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"However, as AI and other technologies—like cleantech and synthetic biology—are set to change business and the world, investors should remain prudent: Embracing these technologies will not be sufficient for companies to gain an advantage—rather, unlocking sustainable growth will require identifying an application of these technologies that solves a valuable problem, a unique deployment toward th..."
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"“With California’s annual renewable energy additions exceeding Diablo Canyon’s output, there is zero reason to keep it running,” he added in a statement.Subscribe to Impact Report, a weekly newsletter on the trends and issues shaping corporate sustainability."
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"It’s likely that watching their parents navigate finances as a single adult amid economic crises like the Great Recession or the pandemic shaped younger generations’ attitude towards talking to their partner about money—especially since divorce became more common as zoomers and millennials grew up; spats about finances have even put pressure on boomers who have later-in-life divorces."
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"9, well below analysts’ expectations of around 224,000.Around the TableA round-up of the most important HR headlines.- Cruise, the self-driving taxi business majority owned by GM, is cutting almost one-fourth of its workforce two months after operations were shut down by a pedestrian accident."
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"“With California’s annual renewable energy additions exceeding Diablo Canyon’s output, there is zero reason to keep it running,” he added in a statement.Subscribe to Impact Report, a weekly newsletter on the trends and issues shaping corporate sustainability."
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"Inside long COVID’s war on the body: Researchers are trying to find out whether the virus has the potential to cause cancer Access to modern stoves could be a game-changer for Africa’s economic development–and help cut the equivalent of the carbon dioxide emitted by the world’s planes and ships Melinda French Gates: ‘It’s time to change the face of power in venture capital’ The opinions express..."
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"By now, the outlines of the story are well-known: a staff of 7,500 slashed by 75%; a free-speech absolutism that welcomed banned users back to the platform, along with a surge of hate speech and misinformation; an advertising crisis in which more than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers shut their purses; and a confounding corporate rebrand that replaced Twitter and the familiar tweet with ..."
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"Dueling experts debated whether those adjustments showed that the bank didn’t rely on Trump’s numbers and that he was rich enough to qualify for the loans anyway (as the defense contends) or whether the “haircuts” were essentially standard deductions that didn’t compensate for his alleged inflation (the state’s view)."
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"And it would give Netanyahu the American antagonist he desperately craves, providing the floundering premier with a lifeline he would use to reunite the right behind him.Franklin Foer: Inside Biden’s ‘Hug Bibi’ strategyTo avoid this outcome, Biden has backed Israel’s military campaign, but worked nonstop to shape its contours and limit its fallout on civilians and the rest of the region, tappin..."
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"At the same time, the government’s latest report on consumer prices showed that inflation in some areas, particularly health care, apartment rents, restaurant meals and other services, remains persistently high, one reason why Fed Chair Jerome Powell is reluctant to signal that policymakers are prepared to cut rates anytime soon."
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"However, as AI and other technologies—like cleantech and synthetic biology—are set to change business and the world, investors should remain prudent: Embracing these technologies will not be sufficient for companies to gain an advantage—rather, unlocking sustainable growth will require identifying an application of these technologies that solves a valuable problem, a unique deployment toward th..."
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"Austin, Deltona, Fla., and Phoenix are off 5.5%, 3.2%, and 2.1% respectively, while Phoenix, Las Vegas, Boise, Colorado Springs, Raleigh, and Cape Coral, Fla., all showed smaller declines, meaning that they’ve also widely trailed a consumer price index that’s been running at about 3% since last August."
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"“As the market continues to evolve, it will be essential to monitor these factors closely to gain a comprehensive understanding of the housing landscape in the coming year.”Subscribe to the CFO Daily newsletter to keep up with the trends, issues, and executives shaping corporate finance."
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