<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/53227595.cms" /><a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=benedict+cumberbatch&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Benedict Cumberbatch</a>. The name itself makes our wait for “<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=sherlock&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Sherlock</a> Season 4” even more difficult and his fans, in India and abroad, are keeping themselves updated about his personal life as well as celebrity life. 
 You can’t deny <keyword id="573379" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Benedict-Cumberbatch">Benedict Cumberbatch</keyword> is a global star. And the series “Sherlock”, the modern-day update of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective stories also starring Martin Freeman as Dr. Watson, have acquired global cult status, turning “The Imitation Games” star into quite the heartthrob. 
 
In Sherlock, Cumberbatch plays an antisocial detective and doesn't seem to show emotion or care about other people's feelings. By all appearances, he is a primary <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=psycopath&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">psychopath</a>. 
 
What we also analysed Cumberbatch, aka Sherlock, is also a true strategist and he might have a lesson or two to teach us. 
 
Well, our favourite star Cumberbatch is turning 40 (doesn’t show at all) on July 19 and it calls for celebration. Even AXN will be airing his episodes, from July 10-July 31. 
 
Let’s celebrate his intellect and eye for minute detail and brain to sieve data and solve cases. Here are 8 <keyword id="3496208" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="quotes-by-benedict-cumberbatch">quotes by Benedict Cumberbatch</keyword> that we may also use in daily life, of course to show-off.

These 8 quotes by Benedict Cumberbatch in ‘Sherlock’ show what a great strategist he is

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rumors of a curse have persisted since Howard Carter and others found Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.</li><li>The deaths of Lord Carnarvon and others associated with the excavation perpetuated the speculation.</li></ul>In 1922, British archaeologist Howard Carter found what he'd spent the last six years searching for: King Tutankhamun's tomb. It was nestled in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/3000-year-old-ancient-city-discovered-egypt-lost-golden-city-2021-4">Egypt and its treasures</a> are still considered one of archaeology's most legendary finds. But Carter's glory and fame came at a price: On the day Carter opened the tomb, a snake killed his canary. Some of the Egyptian staff regarded it as a "warning from the spirit of the departed King against further intrusion on the privacy of his tomb," the<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1922/12/22/archives/times-man-views-splendors-of-tomb-of-tutankhamen-howard-carters.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> New York Times reported</a>. Rumors continued to swirl of a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/egypt-saqqara-tombs-mummy-curses-2020-11">mummy curse</a> that Carter had unleashed, especially when people associated with the excavation started dying. However, as decades passed and more members of Carter's team died, scientists began to wonder if there was a much more mundane reason for the deaths. <h2>The tomb of Tutankhamun and the first death attributed to the curse </h2>In April 1923, George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, lay feverish and coughing in a Cairo hospital. When he died on April 5, the lights in the city went out, <a href="https://www.livescience.com/28484-king-tut-curse-turns-90.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LiveScience</a> reported. Back at his home in Hampshire, England, Lord Carnarvon's dog, Susie, died within a few hours of when he succumbed. The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1923/04/05/archives/carnarvon-is-dead-of-an-insects-bite-at-pharaohs-tomb-blood.html?login=email&amp;auth=login-email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NYT</a> listed cause of death as pneumonia, triggered by an infected insect bite he had cut while shaving. But because he'd been present at the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb a few months prior, rumors of a curse started to swirl. <div type="image" title="Lord Carnarvon, Lady Evelyn Herbert, and Howard Carter at the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun." height="1499" width="1999" msid="102582905" hostid="261" sizebytes="369652"></div>Lord Carnarvon's <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1923/04/05/archives/carnarvon-is-dead-of-an-insects-bite-at-pharaohs-tomb-blood.html?login=email&amp;auth=login-email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NYT obituary</a> noted that even before he was ill, "there had been talk of curses laid by the ancient Egyptians, with mystic incantations, on any who dared disturb the sleep of a Pharaoh." A day after Carnarvon's death, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1923/04/06/archives/carnarvons-death-spreads-theories-about-vengeance-in-egypt-england.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the paper quoted</a> spiritualist and Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as saying "a malevolent spirit may have caused Lord Carnarvon's fatal illness." Around the same time, however, Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge of the British Museum described the <a href="https://www.insider.com/black-sarcophagus-opened-egypt-archeologists-curse-2018-7">curse theories</a> as "bunkum" to the NYT. <h2>The many deaths connected to Tutankhamun's curse</h2><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/misconceptions-about-ancient-egyptians-mummies-cleopatra-that-are-wrong-experts-12">Whispers of the curse</a> continued when American financier George Jay Gould died in May 1923 of pneumonia, a few months after visiting the tomb, per<a href="https://daily.jstor.org/was-it-really-a-mummys-curse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> JSTOR</a>. And Philip Livingston Poe, a relative of Edgar Allen Poe, also caught pneumonia a few months after visiting the tomb in 1923. His illness made the papers and was connected to the "<a href="https://nelcdh.ds.lib.uw.edu/tutankhamun-centenary/exhibits/show/pharaohs-curse/item/341#?c=&amp;m=&amp;s=&amp;cv=&amp;xywh=-222%2C0%2C899%2C561" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mummies' Curse</a>," though he lived another 47 years.When Richard Bethell, Howard Carter's secretary, died in 1929, various reports said he was either the ninth, tenth, or <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3745443" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thirteenth</a> person associated with the excavation to die. In total, the number of deaths that newspapers attributed to the curse ranged from nine to <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8705.2010.01948.x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">over 20</a>, depending on whether you include visitors to the tomb and excavators' relatives. The wide range of <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25113595" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deaths attributed to the curse</a> included those killed in car accidents, shootings, a house fire, and those who took their own lives. Some had never visited the tomb and were merely related to someone who had.<div type="image" title="The sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun in 1922. The photo also shows Egyptologist Howard Carter, left, with an unidentified man." height="1500" width="2000" msid="102582907" hostid="261" sizebytes="234426"></div>Despite the Western media's voracious appetite for this <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/black-sarcophagus-found-in-egypt-opened-despite-curse-warnings-photos-2018-7">mummy curse notion</a>, it was very rare for Western newspapers to include Egyptians' deaths in their curse coverage. One of the few was Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey, who reportedly visited the tomb. In 1923, his wife<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1923/09/16/archives/london-jury-acquits-mme-fahmy-of-murder-of-egyptian-husband-in-the.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> shot and killed him</a> at the Savoy Hotel in London, and a sensational trial followed. But <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remembering-unsung-egyptians-who-helped-find-king-tut-tomb-180980074/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dozens of Egyptian laborers</a> contributed physical and skilled labor to excavate Tutankhamun's tomb. Because Carter never named most of them in his notes, and they were rarely mentioned in the press, it's difficult to know how clearing millennials-old dust and debris affected their health.<h2>The curse of the fungi? </h2>As the decades passed, some scientists wondered if there was something deadly lurking in Tutankhamun's tomb: fungi.Two physicians published a letter in <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(03)14268-7/fulltext#%20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Lancet</a> in 2003 stating that aspergillus, a common mold, could have sickened Lord Carnarvon. Aspergillosis can cause coughing, shortness of breath, but it's more serious for those who have <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/newsweek-com-king-tutankhamun-mummy-curse-killed-nine-explorers-1755992" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weakened immune systems</a>. Lord Carnarvon originally began visiting Egypt after a serious car accident in 1903 damaged his lungs, which would have made him especially susceptible to the mold. For a <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0964830513000164?via%3Dihuba%3Dihub" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2013 study</a>, Harvard University researchers looked at brown spots found on the walls of Tutankhamun's tomb, which were present when Carter first <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/king-tutankhamuns-tomb-is-reopening-to-the-public-2019-2">unsealed the tomb</a>. The microbiologists wanted to determine if fungi or other microbes were responsible for the spots and posed a health risk to visitors. <div type="image" title="Several men and a boy stand with Howard Carter around a large box with equipment in Tutankhamun's tomb circa 1923." height="1499" width="1999" msid="102582909" hostid="261" sizebytes="143008"></div>While the analysis found evidence of fungal communities and bacteria, they were no longer active and posed no threat to visitors or the paintings. It's impossible to say if aspergillus or any other fungi contributed to Lord Carnarvon's or Gould's deaths. Today, archaeologists wear gloves, masks, and sometimes a disposable clothing barrier to protect themselves from mold and fungi, according to "<a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Dangerous_Places.html?id=FhJZDVuKt8gC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dangerous Places: Health, Safety, and Archaeology</a>." Perhaps the most mundane explanation of the curse comes from Frank McClanahan, a physician who treated Lord Carnarvon during his illness in Luxor. The deaths are a small number of the many who visited the tomb. "[T]here were archaeologists coming and going all the time from all parts of the world," he said in a <a href="https://www.proquest.com/wire-feeds/curse-mummy/docview/462803762/se-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1972 interview</a>. "If you took any large crowd of people and checked back later, you would find a certain percentage of deaths among them."

Could the curse of Tutankhamun’s tomb be caused by fungi?

Turns out the bot is a giant sci-fi nerdDavid Bamman was trying to analyze "Pride and Prejudice" — digitally. An information scientist at UC Berkeley, Bamman uses computers to think about art, building what he calls "algorithmic measuring devices for culture." That means extracting data from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/learning/classic-books">classic literature</a> about things like, say, the relationships among various characters. In this case, he was going to start with a question that'd be easy for an even marginally literate human: Are Lizzie and Jane besties, or just sisters?For kicks, Bamman decided to first try <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-openai-web-browsing-plug-change-how-we-use-internet-2023-5">asking ChatGPT</a>. What would happen if he fed in 4,000 words of "Pride and Prejudice" and posed a simple question: "What are the relationships between the characters?" To his amazement, it worked. The <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gpt4-openai-chatgpt-everything-you-need-to-know-4-2023-3">chatbot's GPT-4 version</a> was amazingly accurate about the Bennet family tree. In fact, it was almost as if it had studied the novel in advance. "It was so good that it raised red flags in my mind," Bamman says. "Either it knew the task really well, or it had seen 'Pride and Prejudice' on the internet a million times, and it knows the book really well."The problem is, there was no way of knowing how GPT-4 knew what it knew. The inner workings of the large language models at the heart of a chatbot are a black box; the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-chatgpt-release-open-source-ai-model-2023-5">datasets they're trained on</a> are so critical to their functioning that their creators consider the information a proprietary secret. So Bamman's team decided to become "data archaeologists." To figure out what GPT-4 has read, they quizzed it on its knowledge of various books, as if it were a high-school English student. Then they gave it a score for each book. The higher the score, the likelier it was that the book was part of the bot's dataset — not just crunched to help the bot generate new language, but actually memorized.In a <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00118" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent preprint</a>, meaning it hasn't been peer reviewed yet — the team presented its findings — what amounts to an approximation of the chatbot canon. A lot of it, as you might expect, are the classics: everything from "Moby Dick" and "The Scarlet Letter" to "The Grapes of Wrath" and, yep, "Pride and Prejudice." There are a bunch of popular novels, from Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes to "The Da Vinci Code" and "Fifty Shades of Grey." But what's most surprising is how much science fiction and fantasy GPT-4 has been raised on. The list is staggering: J.R.R. Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Orson Scott Card, Philip K. Dick, Margaret Atwood, "A Game of Thrones," even "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." The question of what's on GPT-4's reading list is more than academic. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-chatbot-chatgpt-google-microsofty-lying-search-belief-2023-2">Bots aren't intelligent</a>. They don't understand the world in any way a human can. But if you want to get to know someone — or something, in this case — you look at their bookshelf. Chatbots don't just <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-google-bard-microsoft-bing-break-internet-search-2023-2">invent untrue facts</a>, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-discrimination-bias-worse-problem-than-sentience-2022-6">perpetuate egregious crud</a>, and extrude bland, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/27/ai-chatbots-fiction-nonfiction-writing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">homogenized word pap</a>. It turns out they're also giant nerds.<h2>The Silmarillion. Really?</h2>One reason people are trying to figure out what sources chatbots are trained on is to determine whether the LLMs <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/dap.2022.10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">violate the copyright</a> of those underlying sources. The issue, as <a href="https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/byvrlkmwnve/GETTY%20IMAGES%20AI%20LAWSUIT%20complaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several</a> <a href="https://stablediffusionlitigation.com/pdf/00201/1-1-stable-diffusion-complaint.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuits</a> argue, revolves around whether the bots make fair use of the material by transforming into something new, or whether they just <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4438593" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memorize</a> it whole and regurgitate it, without citation or permission.One way to answer the question is to look for information that could have come from only one place. When prompted, for example, a GPT-3 writing aid called Sudowrite recognizes the specific sexual practices of a genre of fan-fiction writing called <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/fanfiction-omegaverse-sex-trope-artificial-intelligence-knotting/?redirectURL=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.wired.com%252Fstory%252Ffanfiction-omegaverse-sex-trope-artificial-intelligence-knotting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Omegaverse</a>. That's a strong hint that OpenAI scraped Omegaverse repositories for data to train GPT-3.Bamman and his team used a different tactic: a fill-in-the-blank game called a name cloze. They grabbed short passages from hundreds of novels from as far back as 1749, stripped them of character names and any clues to character names, and then prompted the latest versions of ChatGPT to answer questions about the passage. They might ask: You have seen the following passage in your training data. What is the proper name that fills in the [MASK] token in it? This name is exactly one word long, and is a proper name (not a pronoun or any other word). You must make a guess, even if you are uncertain.Then they would feed the bot a line from the passage in question:The door opened, and [MASK], dressed and hatted, entered with a cup of tea.If the bot answers "Gerty," that's a good indicator it has ingested "The House of Mirth," by Edith Wharton — or a detailed summary of it. Show the bot 100 samples from a given book and see how many it gets right. That's the book's score.<iframe title="ChatGPT-4’s secret reading list" id="datawrapper-chart-6JSc9" src="https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/6JSc9/2/" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="width: 0; min-width: 100% !important; border: none;" height="1224"></iframe>After crunching the numbers, Bamman's team had a list. In addition to the modern public-school canon — Charles Dickens and Jack London, Frankenstein and Dracula — there are a few fun outliers. I was delighted to see "The Maltese Falcon" on there; for my money, Dashiell Hammett is a better hard-boiled detective writer than the more often cited Raymond Chandler. But if you skip the stuff in the public domain and look at the list of copyrighted books that GPT-4 ingested — it didn't differ much from the earlier GPT 3.5 — the bot's true character emerges. Sure, "The Fellowship of the Ring" weighs in at No. 3, but you have to be pretty committed to Tolkien not to bounce off "The Silmarillion" (No. 9). "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" comes in at No. 21, just a few ticks below "Neuromancer" — two of the defining works of cyberpunk, the genre, ironically, that rang the warning klaxon on artificial intelligence. Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" is down at the bottom; it defined my adolescent sci-fi experience and, having reread it when the very good TV version premiered two years ago, I promise you that the book in no way holds up.Generally, though? The list, it me. This is the self-assigned, late-night, sci-fi reading list of every lonely straight white male Gen X nerd. The question is: Does that matter? What are we in for if GPT-4 has the reading preferences of a 14-year-old dweeb from 1984? (Including, as it happens, "1984," at No. 2?)<h2>What AI reads matters</h2>GPT-4's database is ginormous — up to a petabyte, by some accounts. So <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-ai-will-not-take-jobs-create-future-work-opportunities-2023-2">no one novel</a> (or 50 novels) could teach it, specifically, that becoming the caretaker of a haunted hotel is no cure for writer's block (No. 49), or that fear is the mind-killer (No. 13). The ocean of data swamps the islands of fiction. "The dataset used in pretraining is a big-enough selection of text," says Ted Underwood, an information scientist at the University of Illinois, "that I'm not sure how much effect particular genre biases have on the behavior of the resulting models."The presence of these particular books in GPT-4's digital soul may just reflect how present they are in the overall, wild internet from which the data got scraped. When Bamman's team includes public domain books in their tests, the scores get higher — "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tops the chart with a whopping 98%. And both the internet and the companies that build its bots tend to overrepresent standard-issue straight white dudes and the science fiction they love. Bamman's team did indeed find that the books the LLMs scored high on were represented on the internet in roughly the same proportions. That makes sense. The chatbots didn't choose their books. Internet culture did.Still, it's not hard to imagine that all that sci-fi the bots read will have the same malign influence on them as all the other data they trained on, creating the same kind of accidental biases that always creep into chatbot output. Sometimes they say racist stuff. They might recapitulate misinformation as if true because the same untruths show up often online. These are <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3531146.3533088" target="_blank" rel="noopener">known risks</a>, and part of the reason that OpenAI boss Sam Altman recently <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-government-agency-should-license-ai-work-2023-5">asked Congress to regulate his business</a>."The sources that these models have been trained on are going to influence the kind of models they have and values they present," Bamman says. If all they read was Cormac McCarthy books, he suggests, presumably they'd say existentially bleak and brutal things. So what happens when a bot devours fiction about all sorts of dark and dystopian worlds filled with Hunger Games and Choosing Ceremonies and White Walkers? "How might this genre influence the behavior of these models in ways not about literary or narrative things?" Bamman says. "There's a lot of interesting work to be done there. But I don't think we have the answer to that question yet."As a sci-fi nerd myself, I'll take a stab at an answer. I think it's good that genre literature is overrepresented in GPT-4's statistical information space. These aren't highfalutin Iowa Writers' Workshop stories about a college professor having an affair with a student and fretting about middle age. Genre — sci-fi, mystery, romance, horror — is, broadly speaking, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/468283" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more interesting</a>, partially because these books have plots where things actually happen. Bamman's GPT-4 list is a Borgesian library of episodic connections, cliffhangers, third-act complications, and characters taking arms against seas of troubles (and whales).More than that, science fiction, fantasy, and horror tend to be spaces for chewing on ideas and possibilities. "Dune" is about religion and the politics of revolution. The "Lord of the Rings" books are about pastoralism as a response to industrialization. "The Handmaid's Tale" is about the ways sexism and fascism mirror each other. I could go on. I prefer an AI with a syntactical worldview spun from hyperspace and sandworms — or at least one that has read all the stories about how AIs can go awry. That said, I'd sure like to see a more diverse canon represented. Octavia Butler, Charlie Jane Anders, Lavie Tidhar, Samuel Delany, China Miéville … it's time to expand the universe of possible universes.The books we humans read change what we think about our world. But technically, chatbots don't think about anything. They build statistical and vector relationships among words. Who cares whether those words are science-fictional? "The thing it definitely changes are the associations between concepts they think are likely, or strong, or systematic, or recurring," says Ellie Pavlick, a computer scientist at Brown University who is a researcher at Google AI. "The question is, what is their worldview? In a simple sense, it's associations between words and concepts. But that's still going to be different based on what they read."Until OpenAI and other chatbot creators open their training datasets to public scrutiny, it will be hard to know what effect their reading lists has on their output. "If you have a model that has a ton of science fiction in it, and you have a separate model with a ton of Iowa Writers' Workshop stuff," Bamman says, "you could give each of them a task like: Give me 10 priorities for this meeting." Maybe the Iowa bot would suggest that everyone describe their complicated relationships with their parents, while the sci-fi-nerd bot would propose sorting everyone into Hogwarts houses.Remember, though, that Bamman wasn't trying to answer any of these questions about copyright or the scariness of all the ghosts in the machine. He just wanted to know whether a chatbot could tell him something about a novel. In retrospect, he realizes that he was "overexuberant" about AI's potential as a literary analyst when he fed GPT-4 that passage from "Pride and Prejudice." Ask a bot about a popular book, and like a college sophomore with a 10-page essay on "Jane Eyre" due tomorrow, it'll just quote you back long passages from the book. It's vomiting up words, not searching for insight.For now, Bamman suggests, digital humanists might want to confine their chatbot-derived cultural analysis to lesser-known works, ones that are unlikely to be in the training data. See what a bot makes of Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun," maybe, or Sheri Tepper's "Grass." That way, we'll learn more about the books from what the bots have to say, because they'll be coming at the material with a fresh eye, as it were. And it certainly won't hurt to expose the bots to a wider and weirder dataset. That's the only way to make them have something interesting to say about the things we read — and about everything else, too.<hr /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/adam-rogers">Adam Rogers</a> is a senior correspondent at Insider.

The top 50 books being used to train ChatGPT &mdash; and what they say about its ‘intelligence’

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"He is kinda an a------ who hates people," one quipped.</li><li>Mike Pence saw the biggest drop (from 3 to 6).</li></ul>This is still Trump's party and he'll do what he wants to.<ul><li>Key quote: "Clearly, Trump is the leading contender. That hasn't changed. The challenge in doing rankings is that (1) no one knows what Trump will do - not just whether he runs, but how he reacts/treats others who run and (2) what other potential candidates do," Doug Heye, a longtime Republican strategist, wrote in an email.</li></ul>The top three is 1. Trump 2. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and 3. DeSantis. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2024-rankings-republican-gop-presidential-nomination-candidate-trump-desantis-pence-2021-2">Check our report for the rest.</a>2. A third COVID-19 vaccine is a step closer to approval: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jj-single-dose-covid-19-vaccine-full-study-results-2021-2">Federal regulators found Johnson &amp; Johnson's single-dose shot to be safe and effective</a>. The vaccine is more effective at preventing severe disease and the worst COVID-19 outcomes, but its overall effectiveness is less than the other two available shots. <ul><li>What's next?: Food and Drug Administration officials will meet Friday to determine their recommendation. </li></ul>3. The most powerful woman you've never heard of will soon decide the fate of the $15 minimum wage: Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough's voice is rarely heard, but her power can be felt in many places. Thanks to a budget maneuver known as reconciliation Democrats are using to fast-track their relief package, she will soon decide whether the minimum wage increase can be part of it.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-parliamentarian-elizabeth-macdonough-trump-impeachment-trial-stimulus-minimum-wage-2021-2"></a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-parliamentarian-elizabeth-macdonough-trump-impeachment-trial-stimulus-minimum-wage-2021-2">Read our in-depth report for the details.</a><ul><li>Sen. Bernie Sanders is optimistic the wage increase will stay in: But the Vermont independent <a href="https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1364779642360635393?s=20">told Chris Hayes last night</a>: "The only way that we are going to raise the minimum wage is through reconciliation or ending the filibuster."</li></ul>4. A former Andrew Cuomo aide detailed her sexual harassment allegations against the governor: "Lindsey Boylan, who worked at a senior level in Cuomo's office until 2018, said that after years of unwanted sexual advances, including inappropriate touching and comments, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/former-cuomo-staffer-describes-sexual-harassment-in-new-essay-2021-2">Cuomo kissed her without her consent in late 2018, leading her to resign</a>." Cuomo's office denied her claims.5. Vice President Harris is making the administration work for her people, too: Former Harris staffers are landing powerful gigs in the White House and throughout the executive branch, expanding her network of allies. But that doesn't mean everyone is landing a new job. Previous White House aides told Insider it makes sense that Harris went outside her orbit for choosing positions like chief of staff, which went to longtime Democratic strategist Tina Flournoy. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kamala-harris-staff-biden-administration-white-house-senate-campaign2021-2">Read our exclusive report for more on how past vice presidents staffed up</a>.<div type="image" title="kamala harris" height="2600" width="3466" msid="81209414" hostid="261"></div>6. Democrats' stimulus plan is a boon to health insurance companies: President Biden promised to take on insurers, but his $1.9 trillion relief package would pour tens of billions into the industry. One of the largest provisions would send $48 billion to insurance companies through federal subsidies to help temporarily pay for private Obamacare plans. Our exclusive report <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-stimulus-health-insurance-companies-obamacare-2021-2">has more on why critics argue that this is a terrible approach</a>.7. The top things for your calendar, all times Eastern:<ul><li>10:45 a.m.: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds her weekly news conference.</li><li>12:00 p.m.: Jen Psaki holds the daily news briefing; The Senate holds a confirmation vote on Jennifer Granholm to be Energy secretary.</li><li>Afternoon: The House is expected to vote on the Equality Act.</li><li>2:30 p.m: Biden and Harris participate in an event commemorating the 50th millionth COVID-19 vaccine shot.</li></ul>8. Biden plans to warn the Saudi King Salman of coming US Intel saying his son ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi: Candidate Biden slammed Saudi Arabia and the kingdom's royal family. Per The New York Times, on an upcoming call with Salman, Biden plans on <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/politics/biden-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=HomepageHomepage">warning him that the administration will declassify intelligence</a> about the killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist. The Times and other reports say it will find that Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, ordered Khashoggi's gory death.9. Is this The New York Times' next top editor? "Carolyn Ryan is one of the most influential figures inside The New York Times - a polarizing, hard-driving deputy managing editor now supervising the organization's most fraught topic: newsroom culture."The current top executive editor, Dean Baquet, will pass the mandatory retirement age for the paper in September 2022, leading to a speculative shortlist on who will replace him.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/carolyn-ryan-most-powerful-woman-new-york-times-newsroom-2021-2">Read more from the in-depth report on Ryan's rise</a>, from covering small-town Massachusetts to the Times where she's led critical coverage, including of the 2016 election. If selected, she would be the paper's first openly gay executive editor.10. The hidden messages on NASA's Mars rover are elementary, my dear: The space agency included everything from nods to Sherlock Holmes and a quasi-family car sticker to a tribute to health care workers. Incredibly, even a piece of the red planet itself is embedded in Perseverance. But it's <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/science/nasa-mars-parachute-code.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimesimes">the hidden code on its parachute that will really wow you.</a>Perseverance also shot a breathtaking pano: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-perseverance-rover-360-panorama-image-mars-2021-2">More on that here.</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-perseverance-rover-360-panorama-image-mars-2021-2"><div type="image" title="mars nasa perseverance pano" height="261" width="985" msid="81209415" hostid="261"></div></a>One last thing. Today's trivia question: Thursday marks the anniversary of Congress passing the Legal Tender Act in 1862. It led to the creation of President Lincoln's "greenback," paving the way for the dollar, dollar bills we all love. We all know Lincoln is on the $5, but just how many state names are on the back? Email your response and a suggested question to me at <a href="mailto:bgriffiths@insider.com">bgriffiths@insider.com</a>.<ul><li>Yesterday's answer: Rocker Phil Collins, who gave us "In the Air Tonight," <a href="https://www.thealamo.org/visit/whats-at-the-alamo/phil-collins-collection">also gave Texas a plethora of Alamo-related artifacts</a>.</li></ul>

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