{"id":33385,"date":"2024-05-16T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/thursday-headlines-the-truck-stops-here#id33158"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T14:08:00","slug":"thursday-headlines-the-truck-stops-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/thursday-headlines-the-truck-stops-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday headlines: The truck stops here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#39;s worse for disease spread: animal loss, urbanization, or the climate crisis? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2024\/05\/15\/1251036160\/viruses-climate-change-animal-loss-urbanization-infectious-diseases\">The climate crisis.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Goats and Soda<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump allegedly asked big-oil executives last month for $1 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/may\/16\/donald-trump-big-oil-executives-alleged-deal-explained\">in campaign donations.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Guardian<\/span><\/p>\n<p>DNA analysis shows baobab trees first arose in Madagascar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-69012221\">21 million years ago.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ BBC News<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Paul Ford on generative artificial intelligence: &#8220;AI is like having my very own shameless monster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/generative-ai-totally-shameless\/\">as a pet.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ WIRED<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A quick list of improvements in the latest version <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/moreisdifferent\/status\/1790441463819489447\">of ChatGPT.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ X<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Related: OpenAI is framing GPT-4o as a translation service, &#8220;which raises real questions about how it&#39;ll hold up <a href=\"https:\/\/restofworld.org\/2024\/exporter-openai-translation-gpt4o\/\">in widespread use.&#8221;<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ rest of world<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Circular construction&#8221; refers to building new projects in a way that allows raw materials and parts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2024-05-15\/can-the-8-7-billion-demolition-industry-get-a-green-makeover?srnd=citylab&amp;sref=0IejgNtz\">to be reused.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Bloomberg CityLab<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Related: A Seattle company is selling home-building kits based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/real-estate\/luxury-homes\/preb-frank-lloyd-wright-homes-17be9efa?st=uebmd1ieuu9yfja&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\">Frank Lloyd Wright designs.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Wall Street Journal [+]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;perhaps the most-Japanese contest,&#8221; gardeners compete to create seasonal landscapes in the bed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spoon-tamago.com\/2024-kei-truck-gardening-contest\/\">of their trucks.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ Spoon + Tamago<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unrelated: A &#8220;portal&#8221; sculpture, connecting residents in New York and Dublin, is shut down after reports of people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/dublin-new-york-onlyfans-9-11-b2544694.html\">mooning each other.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Telegraph<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The great Alice Munro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/14\/books\/alice-munro-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU0.fNDz.zmhfv73DeRbB&amp;smid=url-share\">dies at 92.<\/a> A tribute to her work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/munrobooks\/p\/C69Ot5GpHbK\/?img_index=1\">from Munro&#39;s Books<\/a>, and a selection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/contributors\/alice-munro\">stories and essays.<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The New York Times [+], Instagram, The New Yorker<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Attention readers: Camp ToB, the Tournament of Books&#39; summer popup event, is coming soon, and we need your help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tournamentofbooks.com\/announcing-camp-tob-2024\">picking the books!<\/a><span style=color:#A9A9A9> \/ The Tournament of Books<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/thursday-headlines-the-truck-stops-here\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    What&#39;s worse for disease spread: animal loss, urbanization, or the climate crisis? 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