Author: KnowledgeHippo

A lengthy Justice Department report on President Biden’s handling of classified documents contained some startling assessments of his well-being and mental health.Mr. Biden, 81, was an “elderly man with a poor memory” and “reduced abilities” who “didn’t remember when he was vice president,” said special counsel Robert K. Hurr.In conversations recorded in 2017, Mr. Biden was “often painfully slow” and “struggled to recall events and struggled at times to read and communicate his own notebook entries.” Mr. Biden was so weakened that a jury was unlikely to convict him, Mr. Hurr said.Republicans were quick to pounce, some calling the president…

Finns will elect a new president on Sunday in the first national election since the country joined NATO, choosing a leader who will be critical to shaping the country’s role in the alliance at a time of increasingly strained relations with Russia.The election may typically receive little attention beyond the borders of the sparsely populated northern European country of 5.6 million people. But Finland, NATO’s newest member, shares the longest border with Russia — about 830 miles — and its policy has drawn particular interest to its European and American allies as the geopolitical order shifts.US power is being challenged…

But Ms Juszczyk, whose website says she is self-taught and started her business after making Halloween costumes for herself and her husband, doesn’t just have the endorsements of Ms Swift and other celebrities.The fact that Nike was first credited with making Ms. Swift’s jacket reflects the fact that Ms. Juszczyk has, consciously or not, placed herself at the center of a series of macro fashion trends. To say: the buzz around upcycling; the desire to adapt; the transformation of streetwear into luxury. and the increasing convergence of sport and fashion. As one of her followers posted under a photo of…

Listen and Follow “Hard Fork”Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeTwitter spinoff Bluesky is now open for public listings. Can her dreams of decentralization fix social media? We speak with the company’s CEO, Jay Graber. Next, New York Times reporter Erin Griffith on how Adobe’s failure to acquire Figma has spooked tech companies and disrupted Silicon Valley’s startup pipeline. And finally, updates on ancient scrolls and artificial intelligence, Google’s chatbots and the battle between record companies and TikTok.Credits“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Rouse and Casey Newton and are produced by Davis Land and Rachel Conn. This episode has been…

Damian R. Murray, a psychologist at Tulane University, studies how various social conditions and life events affect people’s political views. For example, he recently found that becoming a parent makes a person more socially conservative. On the eve of the Super Bowl, he sat down for an interview with The New York Times to discuss another recent study, which looked at how sports fans’ political perspectives can be changed by their teams’ wins and losses.This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.What inspired this project?These games are so emotionally powerful and people are so emotionally invested. The question is:…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating an outbreak on a luxury cruise ship after more than 150 people reported symptoms of gastrointestinal illness, including diarrhea and vomiting.The ship, Queen Victoria, operated by Cunard Line, departed Southampton, England, on Jan. 11 on a 107-night cruise that included recent stops in Florida and San Francisco, according to the company’s website. The ship is scheduled to arrive in Honolulu on Monday.The CDC said that as of Thursday, 129 passengers and 25 crew members had reported being sick on the ship. The agency said 1,824 passengers and 967 crew members were…

A 6-year-old Palestinian girl and the two rescuers who searched for her nearly two weeks ago were found dead Saturday, the Palestinian Red Crescent said, ending a desperate effort to discover their fate.Two rescuers with the Red Crescent were dispatched by ambulance on the evening of January 29 to find Hind Rajab, who was believed to be trapped in a vehicle in Gaza City with six dead family members. The aid group said they were killed by Israeli fire.A statement by the Red Crescent on Saturday accused Israeli forces of shelling the ambulance as it arrived “a few meters away…

Accusations of plagiarism appear to be the newest weapon in the raging battle for leadership and direction at elite universities.For weeks, William Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager, campaigned on social media against Claudine Gay, who resigned as Harvard president amid accusations of plagiarism by other scholars and that she did not take a strong enough stand against him. anti-Semitism on campus.But that battle hit home after Business Insider, an online publication, published similar allegations of plagiarism against Mr. Ackman’s wife, Neri Oxman, an architect and designer who holds a Ph.D. in design computing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Business…

During a recent dinner at a cozy bar in Upper Manhattan, I was confronted with an age-old question about gender norms. Over bowls of ramen and sips of gin cocktails, my date and I struck up a conversation: Who should pay for a date?My date, a 27-year-old woman I matched with on Hinge, said that gender equality doesn’t mean that men and women should pay the same when going out. Women, she said, earn less than men in the workplace, spend more time getting ready for outings and pay more for reproductive care.When the date was up, we split the…

Before dawn, Paolo Benadi climbed the bell tower of his 16th-century monastery, admired the sunrise over the ruins of the Roman forum, and contemplated a world in flux.”It was a wonderful meditation on what goes on inside,” he said, stepping out into the street in his divination robe. “And outside too.”A lot is going on for Father Benadi, who, as the AI ​​ethicist for both the Vatican and the Italian government, spends his days thinking about the Holy Spirit and ghosts in machines.In recent weeks, the ethics professor, ordained priest and self-proclaimed geek met Bill Gates in a meeting with…