December 28, 2021
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President Biden signed his $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law on Monday, delivering on a major campaign promise that aims to revitalize the nation’s roads, bridges, waterways, and public transit. On Monday night, Mr. Biden then had his first face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Xi, through a translator, said he was happy to see his old friend. “China and the United States should respect each other, coexist in peace, and pursue win-win cooperation,” Xi said.
After the video call, which went longer than expected at 3.5 hours, a senior administration official described it as a “substantial back and forth” that was “respectful and straightforward and it was open,” but the White House reported no major breakthroughs during the conversation.
Earlier Monday in a South Lawn ceremony flanked by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, governors, mayors and business and union leaders, Mr. Biden signed the long-awaited infrastructure bill.
“The world has changed, and we have to be ready. My fellow Americans, today I want you to know, we hear you and we see you,” the president said on the White House South Lawn before signing the legislation. “The bill I’m about to sign into law is proof that despite the cynics, Democrats and Republicans can come together and deliver results. We can do this. We can deliver real results for real people.”
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President Biden signs the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on the South Lawn of the White House on November 15, 2021. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
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December 28, 2021
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Sleeping on the job is one of many benefits LIRR workers enjoy, according to a new court filing from a foreman facing prison time for an audacious overtime scam.
Joseph Balestra, 52, pleaded guilty in September in Manhattan Federal Court to conspiracy to commit federal program fraud as part of a years-long scam to file outrageous amounts of overtime for no-show shifts.
In 2018 alone, Balestra, who worked in the LIRR’s engineering department, filed 2,954 hours of overtime on top of roughly 2,000 regular work hours, court filings show. That would mean he worked eight hours of overtime every single day of the year without any time off. The extra hours bumped Balestra’s pay from roughly $100,000 to $348,000 that year.
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December 28, 2021
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December 27, 2021
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December 26, 2021
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An autodidact is someone who has learned a subject without a teacher or formal education. Famous examples of these self-taught maestros include Leonardo Da Vinci, master of 16 languages; Kató Lomb, a prolific Hungarian interpreter that knew at least 17 languages; and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Now, there may be a new entry on that list: the great cosmos. The universe could be constantly teaching itself how to evolve into a more stable state, according to new research that was recently published to the pre-print server arXiV (meaning the work has not yet been peer-reviewed).
The paper—authored by researchers at Microsoft and scientists at Brown University, among others—explains that all of the laws of physics we can see or measure today are laws that have worked themselves out over time. If we want to grasp how these laws of physics evolved, they say, we ought to apply Darwinian natural selection to cosmology.
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December 26, 2021
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The overwhelming sadness came out of nowhere and in the most inconvenient place: in front of a big display of antibacterial wipes at Target. Bernadette Nally was picking up a few last-minute Christmas gifts last year when she saw the wipes and began to choke back tears.
“My cousin, who I’d been taking care of for 15 years after she had a stroke and was placed in a nursing home, always asked me to bring her boxes of those wipes when I’d visit,” the 67-year-old from Long Island, New York, tells Health. “Seeing the display that day reminded me that I’d never need to buy them for Mary Amelia again. And it brought up a lot of sadness that I had to say goodbye to her via a FaceTime call rather than in person, a few days after she was admitted to the hospital with COVID-19.”
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December 25, 2021
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Can we live a good life without suffering?
Notice that I used the word “good” and not “happy.” It doesn’t make any sense to ask whether we can suffer and be happy at the same time, but can we live a full and meaningful life without certain kinds of suffering? That’s a much harder question.
I just watched an episode of The Twilight Zone that explores this in a way only that show could. It’s about a gangster who dies and wakes up in a place that has all the markings of heaven — or at least what a guy like that would imagine as heaven. He has all the sex and money and power he wants. He loves it at first. But then he grows bored and aimless and starts to hate it. So he asks his guide if he can go to hell instead, and that’s when he learns he’s already there.
A new book by the psychologist Paul Bloom, called The Sweet Spot, says this story captures the strangeness of human psychology about as well as anything can. It’s a deep dive into the relationship between suffering and meaning, and why living a purposeful life means caring about much more than happiness.
The book isn’t pro-suffering, and Bloom is very careful to distinguish “chosen” suffering from “unchosen” suffering, but it is an attempt to explain why we sometimes seek out hardship and struggle, and why the conventional image of humans as purely pleasure-seeking and pain-avoiding isn’t so much wrong as incomplete.
I reached out to Bloom for the latest episode of Vox Conversations. We talk about the role of suffering in human life, the shortcomings of hedonism, and why he would never plug into the Matrix.
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December 25, 2021
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December 24, 2021
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If you know someone who watches Formula 1, give them a hug.
It doesn’t matter which horse they backed on Sunday in the most intense title rivalry in years—challenger Max Verstappen or seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. In the end, the result, victory and a maiden title for 24-year-old Dutchman Verstappen, was effectively decided by the race director.
As the sunset on the Abu Dhabi circuit, Hamilton, 36, a Brit and the first and only Black driver to race in F1, was on the cusp of breaking Michael Schumacher’s record seven F1 championship titles. Before the season finale, Hamilton was cheered on by an impressive roster of supporters, from Malala Yousafzai to Anna Wintour to Justin Bieber. Verstappen, the fast-rising Red Bull star and son of a former F1 driver, had the “orange army” behind him, named after the boisterous fans decked out in his country’s national color. No Dutch had ever won the championship.
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The much-anticipated battle between Red Bull’s Verstappen (foreground) and Mercedes’ Hamilton ended dramatically. Photo: Giuseppe CACACE / AFP
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December 24, 2021
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