By improving accessibility of the workplace for workers that are typically at a disadvantage in the labour market, AI can improve inclusiveness in the workplace.↵
AI-powered assistive devices to aid workers with visual, speech or hearing difficulties are becoming more widespread, improving the access to, and the quality of work for people with disabilities.↵
For example, speech recognition solutions for people with dysarthric voices, or live captioning systems for deaf and hard of hearing people can facilitate communication with colleagues and access to jobs where interpersonal communication is necessary.↵
AI can also enhance the capabilities of low-skilled workers, with potentially positive effects on their wages and career prospects.↵
For example, AI's capacity to translate written and spoken word in real-time can improve the performance of nonnative speakers in the workplace.↵
Moreover, recent developments in AI-powered text generators can instantly improve the performance of lower-skilled individuals in domains such as writing, coding or customer service.

Whales are highly efficient at carbon storage.↵
When they die, each whale sequesters an average of 30 tons of carbon dioxide, taking that carbon out of the atmosphere for centuries.↵
For comparison, the average tree absorbs only 48 pounds of CO2 a year.↵
From a climate perspective, each whale is the marine equivalent of thousands of trees.↵
Whales also help sequester carbon by fertilizing the ocean as they release nutrient-rich waste, in turn increasing phytoplankton populations, which also sequester carbon ― leading some scientists to call them the engineers of marine ecosystems.↵
In 2019, economists from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated the value of the ecosystem services provided by each whale at over $2 million USD.↵
They called for a new global program of economic incentives to return whale populations to preindustrial whaling levels as one example of a nature-based solution to climate change.↵
Calls are now being made for a global whale restoration program, to slow down climate change.

From an organizational viewpoint, one of the most fascinating examples of how any organization may contain many different types of culture is to recognize the functional operations of different departments within the organization.↵
The varying departments and divisions within an organization will inevitably view any given situation from their own biased and prejudiced perspective.↵
A department and its members will acquire tunnel vision which disallows them to see things as others see them.↵
The very structure of organizations can create conflict.↵
The choice of whether the structure is mechanistic or organic can have a profound influence on conflict management.↵
A mechanistic structure has a vertical hierarchy with many rules, many procedures, and many levels of management involved in decision making.↵
Organic structures are more horizontal in nature, where decision making is less centralized and spread across the plane of the organization.

An excellent alternative to calming traffic is removing it.↵
Some cities reserve an extensive network of lanes and streets for bikes, pedestrians, and the occasional service vehicle.↵
This motivates people to travel by bike rather than by car, making streets safer for everyone.↵
As bicycles become more popular in a city, planners can convert more automobile lanes and entire streets to accommodate more of them.↵
Nevertheless, even the most bikeable cities still require motor vehicle lanes for taxis, emergency vehicles, and delivery trucks.↵
Delivery vehicles are frequently a target of animus, but they are actually an essential component to making cities greener.↵
A tightly packed delivery truck is a far more efficient transporter of goods than several hybrids carrying a few shopping bags each.↵
Distributing food and other goods to neighborhood vendors allows them to operate smaller stores close to homes so that residents can walk, rather than drive, to get their groceries.

Every time a new medium comes along ─ whether it's the invention of the printed book, or TV, or SNS ─ and you start to use it, it's like you are putting on a new kind of goggles, with their own special colors and lenses.↵
Each set of goggles you put on makes you see things differently.↵
So when you start to watch television, before you absorb the message of any particular TV show ─ whether it's Wheel of Fortune or The Wire ─ you start to see the world as being shaped like television itself.↵
That's why Marshall McLuhan said that every time a new medium comes along ─ a new way for humans to communicate ─ it has buried in it a message.↵
It is gently guiding us to see the world according to a new set of codes.↵
The way information gets to you, McLuhan argued, is more important than the information itself.↵
TV teaches you that the world is fast; that it's about surfaces and appearances.

While social media attention is potentially an instrument to achieve ends like elite celebrity, some content creators desire ordinary fame as a social end in itself.↵
Not unlike reality television stars, social media celebrities are often criticized for not having skills and talents associated with traditional, elite celebrity, such as acting or singing ability.↵
This criticism highlights the fact that digital content creators face real barriers to crossing over to the sphere of elite celebrity.↵
However, the criticism also misses the point that the phenomenon of ordinary celebrity reconstructs the meaning of fame.↵
The elite celebrity is symbolized by the metaphor of the star, characterized by mystery and hierarchical distance and associated with naturalized qualities of talent and class.↵
The ordinary celebrity attracts attention through regular and frequent interactions with other ordinary people.↵
Achieving ordinary fame as a social media celebrity is like doing well at a game, because in this sphere, fame is nothing more nor less than relatively high scores on attention scales, the metrics of subscribers, followers, Likes, or clicks built into social media applications.

Biologists distinguish two kinds of similarity.↵
Analogous traits are ones that have a common function but arose on different branches of the evolutionary tree and are in an important sense not the same organ.↵
The wings of birds and the wings of bees are both used for flight and are similar in some ways because anything used for flight has to be built in those ways, but they arose independently in evolution and have nothing in common beyond their use in flight.↵
Homologous traits, in contrast, may or may not have a common function, but they descended from a common ancestor and hence have some common structure that indicates their being the same organ.↵
The wing of a bat and the front leg of a horse have very different functions, but they are all modifications of the forelimb of the ancestor of all mammals.↵
As a result, they share nonfunctional traits like the number of bones and the ways they are connected.↵
To distinguish analogy from homology, biologists usually look at the overall architecture of the organs and focus on their most useless properties.

Seawater contains an abundance of dissolved oxygen that all marine animals breathe to stay alive.↵
It has long been established in physics that cold water holds more dissolved oxygen than warm water does ― this is one reason that cold polar seas are full of life while tropical oceans are blue, clear, and relatively poorly populated with living creatures.↵
Thus, as global warming raises the temperature of marine waters, it is self-evident that the amount of dissolved oxygen will decrease.↵
This is a worrisome and potentially disastrous consequence if allowed to continue to an ecosystem-threatening level.↵
Now scientists have analyzed data indicating that the amount of dissolved oxygen in the oceans has been declining for more than a half century.↵
The data show that the ocean oxygen level has been falling more rapidly than the corresponding rise in water temperature.↵
Falling oxygen levels in water have the potential to impact the habitat of marine organisms worldwide and in recent years this has led to more frequent anoxic events that killed or displaced populations of fish, crabs, and many other organisms.

Capuchins ― New World Monkeys that live in large social groups ― will, in captivity, trade with people all day long, especially if food is involved.↵
I give you this rock and you give me a treat to eat.↵
If you put two monkeys in cages next to each other, and offer them both slices of cucumber for the rocks they already have, they will happily eat the cucumbers.↵
If, however, you give one monkey grapes instead ― grapes being universally preferred to cucumbers ― the monkey that is still receiving cucumbers will begin to throw them back at the experimenter.↵
Even though she is still getting paid the same amount for her effort of sourcing rocks, and so her particular situation has not changed, the comparison to another makes the situation unfair.↵
Furthermore, she is now willing to abandon all gains ― the cucumbers themselves ― to communicate her displeasure to the experimenter.↵
─> According to the passage, if the Capuchin monkey realizes the inequality in rewards compared to another monkey, she will reject her rewards to express her feelings about the treatment, despite getting exactly the same rewards as before.