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Remote work costing Manhattan more than $12 Billion a year, report says

The shift to remote work in Manhattan means the island’s office workers are spending about US$12 billion less every year than they did before the pandemic, according to a new study.

Workers are spending about 30% less time in the office, which has cut their annual near-the-office spending on food, entertainment and the like by an average of nearly US$4,700 per person.

While the same is happening is other big cities, the cost on a per-person basis is more than 50% worse in NYC than anywhere else, Bloomberg found.

The study suggests, nearly three years after New York City’s first COVID case, people simply have not returned to full-time in-office work.

Bloomberg News

A service dog honoured after more than 250 flights

Kaya the service dog is honoured on her last plane ride ever after being on 250-plus flights. Many people wish their dogs could live forever; but, since this is an impossible dream, it makes important to honour the trusty canines in our lives. This is exactly what Marine Corps veteran Cole Lyle has done with his beloved Kaya, a German Shepherd service dog. He gave Kaya a moving tribute aboard her final flight home.

After being diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer, Lyle took her to Texas, the place where she was born and where they met, for her to spend her final days. For Lyle and many others, Kaya was much more than a service dog—she was an ambassador of veteran service dogs, having been the driving force behind the Puppies Assisting Wounded Servicemembers (PAWS) Act.

My Modern Met

Glimpse beneath iconic glacier reveals how it’s adding to sea-level rise

Researchers have dropped a submersible vehicle down a hole in Antarctic ice to get their closest-ever look at the underside of Thwaites Glacier — a massive and increasingly unstable body of ice that has become an icon of climate change — and the first-ever glimpse at the spot where the ice meets the land.

The observations, published in two papers, could help to pin down one of the biggest uncertainties in current projections of rising global sea levels. The studies imply that models of how the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and glacier flow respond to climate change are missing some important details. Incorporating these insights should clarify how and why the ice will change in the future.

Nature

Famous poet Pablo Neruda was poisoned after a coup, according to a new report

International forensic experts delivered a report to justice officials in Chile today regarding the death of the South American country’s famous poet Pablo Neruda — some 50 years ago. A nephew of Neruda tells NPR that scientists found high levels of poison in the poet’s remains.

Scientists from Canada, Denmark and Chile examined bone and tooth samples from Neruda’s exhumed body. Neruda died in 1973, just days after the US-backed coup that deposed his friend President Salvador Allende. Rodolfo Reyes, a nephew of the Nobel Prize winning poet, says scientists found high levels of the bacterium that can cause botulism poisoning.

NPR