Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead; The Guardian, December 1, 2025

 Kat Lay , The Guardian; Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead

"Stories of the devastating impact of US, British and wider European aid cuts on the fight against HIV – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa – continue to mount as 2025 comes to an end, and are set out in a series of reports released in the past week.

The Trump administration abruptly cut all overseas aid spending in January, with only piecemeal restorations to funding since then. Other countries, including the UK, have announced their own cuts. It has been estimated that external health assistance over 2025 will be between 30% and 40% lower than it was in 2023."

Jane Goodall, primatologist and friend to chimpanzees, dies at 91; The Washington Post, October 1, 2025

 Emma Brown, The Washington Post ; Jane Goodall, primatologist and friend to chimpanzees, dies at 91: She used her global fame to draw attention to the plight of dwindling chimpanzee populations and, more broadly, to the perils of environmental destruction.

"Dr. Goodall, whose research prompted a transformation in the ways scientists study social behavior across species, has died at 91."

The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013; Harvard Business Review, 12/24/13

Katherine Bell, Harvard Business Review; The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013: "It’s always tempting at this time of year to try to make a definitive list of the best ideas from the past 12 months. But then we end up debating what counts as best — important? useful? original? all three? — and compiling extremely long lists, struggling to shorten them, and over-thinking it all, when the point should just be to gather some really good reading for you for any free time you happen to find over the holiday. So this year, instead, we thought about the pieces that most surprised us or provoked us to think differently about an intractable problem or perennial question in management, we reviewed the whole year of data to remind ourselves what our readers found most compelling, and we looked for patterns in the subjects our authors raised most frequently and independently of our editorial urging. The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. Here’s the list. See what you think... 6. Being nice makes you a better leader and your company more profitable – new research proves it. Amy Cuddy, Matthew Kohut, and John Neffinger answered Machiavelli’s question: is it better to be loved or feared? The best way to influence and lead others, they say, is to begin with warmth. And that’s not all: Generous behavior is associated with higher unit profitability, productivity, efficiency, and customer satisfaction, along with lower costs and turnover rates."