Since we are in December and counting down to the end of the year, I thought I would compile a few books I enjoyed reading.
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Oxford Word of the Year: Rizz
Oxford’s 2023 Word of the Year is “rizz.”
Dictionary publisher Oxford University Press defines the viral term, which is short for charisma, as “someone’s ability to attract another person through style, charm, or attractiveness.”
"Rizz" can also be used as a verb, most commonly in the phrase “rizz up,” which, similarly to "chat up," means “to attract, seduce, or chat up (a person),” per Oxford.
Another popular iteration of the word is “rizzler,” a title given to individuals who, well, possess a lot of "rizz."
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New pathogens are rising due to climate change
The geography of disease is also changing as novel pathogens affecting plants, animals and humans increase their range. New beetles are heading north and devastating Siberian forests, Alaskan mammals are struggling as new ticks arrive and human habitations in northern Norway are infested by new insects.
In Alaska, where winter warming has increased by nearly 4C in 60 years, the whole ecosystem is undergoing change. The sea ice is breaking up earlier than it used to, causing changes in the amount of phytoplankton – the minute organisms that drift around in water currents – at the bottom of the food chain. This has knock-on effects on fish and bird populations. Lakes are changing size, marine heat waves are becoming more frequent and more intense, and mammals must seek new food sources. The author Edward Struzik reports "a plethora of deadly and debilitating diseases" striking reindeer in Scandinavia and Russia, musk oxen on Banks and Victoria islands in Arctic Canada and polar bears and seals off the coast of Alaska. New pathogens are turning up everywhere. They may be strange pests in Malawian maize fields, a novel fungal infection appearing in the ear of a Japanese woman, an unidentified insect killing trees in Russia, or a new bacterium shrivelling the fruit of lemon trees in Florida.
Thought of the Week
“There’s a clarity that comes with great ideas: You can explain why something’s a great business, how and why it’s cheap, why it’s cheap for temporary reasons and how, on a normal basis, it should be trading at a much higher level. You’re never sitting there on the 40th page of your spreadsheet, as Buffett would say, agonizing over whether you should buy or not.”
~ Joel Greenblatt
Video of the Week
A good discussion on the EV landscape.
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