The Know Daily - Friday 1 March 2024

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Hello, hello.

It’s Effie here, The Know’s newest member - so excited to be on board! Happy belated birthday to all the leap year babies!

This month, we’re beginning a brand new series, and it’s all about ChatGPT. Okay, bear with me on this - I know that lots of you are probably tired of hearing about AI, but it’s going to be fun, I promise.

We’ll be looking at all the ways we can use ChatGPT to spice up our daily routines - from helping us write emails to planning weekends away - but for now, we’re starting with everyone’s favourite topic: food. Turns out, a chatbot might just offer the meal-planning service of your dreams. I hope you enjoy the read!

Love, 

Effie 
Multimedia Journalist

UK NEWS

🗳️ George Galloway, the leader of the Workers’ party of Britain, secured a “decisive win” over Labour in the “chaotic” Rochdale by-election, a vote which had been “shaped” by the war in Gaza. The Guardian has this explainer.

🏠 The UK housing market is showing “signs of picking up”, with a rise in the number of mortgages being approved.

🤝 Business and politics leaders from across the North are meeting in Leeds to create a “Manifesto for the North”, which aims to boost the economy and help reach net-zero targets.

GLOBAL AFFAIRS

🇮🇷 Iran heads to the polls today for the first elections in the country since the nationwide anti-government protests of 2022. Here’s what to expect.

🇷🇺 Russia’s President Putin warned the West against deeper involvement in Ukraine, in a state-of-the-nation address that comes ahead of an election he is “all but certain to win”. 

🌎 Communities displaced by the climate crisis testified in a first-of-its-kind hearing in the US on Thursday.

CULTURE

🧊 Scientists who were isolated in Antarctica for six months began to develop their own accent, a study revealed.  

✍️ The Merriam-Webster dictionary announced that it’s OK to end a sentence with a preposition in English, despite it long being regarded as a “grammatical no-no”.

📽️ Mary Poppins’ UK age rating was lifted to a PG by the British Board of Film Classification over “discriminatory language”, nearly 60 years after its release.

WORK & INNOVATION

🔌 Apple reportedly cancelled its plans to build electric vehicles, a decade after the tech giant was first rumoured to be working on the project. 

🗣️ Menopause symptoms such as anxiety and low mood could be effectively treated by talking therapy, per a new study.

🇨🇦 Prescription medication will soon be delivered to people living on the Montana First Nation in Canada via drone.

UPLIFTING STUFF

💰 A “transformational” donation of $1bn to a medical school in New York City means that starting this August, no student will have to pay tuition again. 

🇫🇷 France’s upper parliament voted overwhelmingly to enshrine a woman’s right to abortion in the constitution.  

🐘 Critically endangered elephants in Bangladesh received a court order banning their adoption and protecting them from exploitation. 

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📰 Read: “I Think My Husband Is Trashing My Novel on Goodreads!,” which sees The Cut’s Emily Gould answer one reader’s pretty jaw-dropping dilemma. Advice columns seem to be having a moment, and it’s also worth checking out Eva Wiseman’s in British Vogue - maybe starting with this one.

🎧 Listen to: Our co-founder Lynn chatting pay equality, benchmarking salaries and advice on asking for a raise on the The Pension Confident Podcast.

📺 Watch: Perfect Days and Wicked Little Letters (out in cinemas now), Shōgun (Disney+), Dead Hot (Prime Video), The Red Door (Channel 4). 

🍪 Bake: Tahini chocolate chip cookies - they’re nutty, sweet-but-not-too-sweet and can be made vegan without compromising on flavour.

We help you put your career goals first by highlighting purpose-driven jobs, flexible working options, female-founded environments and employers that truly champion mental health.

❤️ Innovation @ Save The Children 
We’re loving: The chance to identify and implement innovative ideas to ensure the long-term growth of this important global charity. 

Other top jobs this week include roles at Pip & Nut, social enterprise startup Beam and The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a non-profit organisation campaigning for a circular economy.

In yesterday’s edition, we debunked an almost universally agreed-upon life-hack: that if you drop your phone in water, you should put it in dry rice. But Apple has announced that rice isn’t the miracle cure we thought it was - and that it could actually end up doing more harm than good. It looks as if you were as surprised by this news as we were…

Have you ever put a wet electronic device in rice?

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yes (70%)  
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ No (18%)
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ I have another method which works better... (12%)

And before you go, help settle a family debate that our co-founder Lynn was having this week:

This completely hypothetical dilemma has been living in our heads rent-free this week. Check back next Friday to see what your fellow readers would rather take on!

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