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Forest rangers and wildlife managers in the Netherlands report that prey animals such as wild boar and deer on the Veluwe have changed their behavior in response to the presence of wolves. Nature conservation group Natuurmonumenten says unique camera-trap footage supports these observations.
Richard Bronson, once a partner at Jordan Belfort's Stratton Oakmont who served federal prison time for securities fraud, has launched Commissary Club, an AI-powered social platform aimed at helping formerly incarcerated people find jobs and housing. The startup also includes a social networking component for its users.
Colossal Biosciences has revealed the genetic engineering process it used to create living wolf pups carrying about 20 edited DNA segments associated with extinct dire wolves. The company says the underlying technology, rather than the pups themselves, represents the more significant advance, since it can be applied broadly to reconstruct extinct genetic traits in living animals.
A review of roughly twenty properly sampled visual preference surveys conducted since the 1990s, mostly in Britain but also in the US and Canada, finds that ordinary people consistently favor traditional building styles over modernist designs when shown side-by-side comparisons. The research follows decades of commentary from architects and critics alike, including figures like John Summerson and Wolf von Eckardt, who acknowledged modernism's unpopularity even as it became the dominant global style.
Family members W.L. Lyons Brown III and Stuart Brown sent a seven-page letter to over 130 relatives criticizing Brown-Forman's board for rejecting Sazerac's unsolicited $15 billion takeover offer and for pursuing a failed merger with Pernod Ricard instead. Days after the letter circulated, CEO Lawson Whiting announced he would step down, amid a five-year period in which the company's stock has fallen 60%.