The five biggest market surprises of 2023 [The Economist]

Update on “The Cage”—part one. Our weekly podcast on China. This week we look back at part one of our investigation into Uyghur repression in China and abroad [The Economist Podcasts]

Man Utd 3-2 Aston Villa: Rasmus Hojlund's first Red Devils goal marks start of new era [BBC Sport]

AI, Metaverse, Chatbots: Workplace Trends to Watch for in 2024 [Bloomberg]

Israel pounds central Gaza, thousands of Palestinians try to escape [Reuters]

As death toll in Gaza mounts, Turkey’s Erdogan compares Netanyahu to Hitler [AL-Jazeera News]

UNESCO Reports Journalists' Deaths in Afghanistan [TOLO News]

The Great Exhaustion - After successive waves of post-pandemic change, worn-out knowledge workers need a fresh start. [The New Yorker]

What If…? season 2 doesn’t get good until it really lets loose [The Verge]

The urgent to-do list awaiting Congress in January [Vox]

Love ’em or hate ’em, NFTs can survive thanks to the communities that drive them [TechCrunch]

Six takeaways from a climate-tech boom [MIT Technology Review]

What loneliness does to your body and brain [Business Insider]

It's here! Microsoft Copilot Wrapped!

8 months ago, we released Copilot for Microsoft 365 to help reduce digital debt and increase productivity so we can focus our time and energy on more creative work.

🥁 Here are the results from Copilot users:

⏰ 70% more productive

📧 64% spent less time processing email

⭐ 68% improvement in the quality of work

✍️ 87% easier to get started on a first draft

💡 68% said it helped jumpstart their creative process

🏃 29% faster at specific tasks (searching, writing, and summarizing)

It's been exciting to work at a company at the forefront of the AI revolution. ✨ #MicrosoftLife [LinkedIn] #Microsoft

What has happened to US soccer’s golden generation? [The Guardian]

California Pushes Electric Trucks as the Future of Freight [New York Times]

Woman Who Set Fire To Wyoming Abortion Clinic Ordered To Pay Nearly $300,000 Fine [Huffington Post]

America Should Be More Like Operation Warp Speed [The Atlantic]

The 25 coolest charts we made in 2023 [FiveThirtyEight]

Donald Trump removed from Maine primary ballot by secretary of state [The Washington Post]

Macron asks Netanyahu for 'lasting ceasefire' in Gaza [Le Monde] #Gaza #GazaUnderAttack #PalestineGenocide #CeaseFire

The Apple Watch ban has been lifted — for now [Mashable]

Ancient Inscribed Bricks Contain Evidence of Mysterious Magnetic 'Anomaly,' Scientists Find [VICE News]

I Calculated How Much of My Money the U.S. Sent to Kill Palestinians. You Can Too. [The Intercept_]

Your body needs whole grains. Here’s how to find the most effective ones. [National Geographic]

Nikki Haley didn't say slavery caused the Civil War. Now she's facing major backlash [NPR] Nikki Haley will never become President due to those comments. She cannot go back in time, she made a drastic mistake, her campaign is over

California is pressing universities to repatriate thousands of Native American remains and artifacts. How two campuses are succeeding. [CapRadioNews]

L’élection américaine de tous les dangers [Le Monde diplomatique]

The Promise and Peril of Geopolitics [Foreign Policy]

The Rebirth of Russian Spycraft: How the Ukraine War Has Changed the Game for the Kremlin’s Operatives—and Their Western Rivals [Foreign Affairs]

US Coast Guard’s Role in the Blue Pacific on the Rise [The Diplomat]

A Close-Up View Reveals the ‘Melting’ Point of an Infinite Graph [Quanta Magazine]

Voici @ALICEexperiment, entouré d'un paysage enneigé. Son détéecteur a pour objectif d'étudier le plasma quark-gluon lors de son expansion et de son refroidissement, en observant comment cela donne naissance aux particules qui constituent aujourd'hui la matière de notre Univers. [CERN_FR]

NASA 2024: Onward and Upward [NASA]

BLOGPOST UPDATE IN PROGRESS

What’s up, everybody! Did you know that the next iteration of Harold & Kumar has been announced? Anyway, here’s an interview with John Cho.

Until Next Time!