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If cooking is as fundamental to human identity, biology, and culture as the biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham suggests, it stands to reason that the decline of cooking in our time would have a significant impact on modern life, and so 1 it has . Are they all bad? Not at all. Since a large portion of cooking has been outsourced to corporations, women are no longer solely responsible for providing for their families, which 2 allow them to work outside the home and pursue jobs. Numerous household conflicts that were inevitable due to the significant shift in gender roles and family dynamics 3 has been prevented by it. It has relieved other pressures in the household, including 4 extended workdays and overscheduled children, and saved us time that we can now invest in other pursuits. It has also allowed us to diversify our diets substantially, 5 enabling even those with limited resources and no cooking ability to savor a completely new cuisine. The only appliance needed is a microwave.

Emotional intelligence (EI) may benefit from the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace. 1Predictions state that people with strong EI ability will be in high demand as AI gains momentum and replaces workers in jobs at every level. 2Currently, AI computers are unable to replicate the emotional signals that individuals send and respond to during interactions. 3However, the rise of AI-based social media has fundamentally altered how people interact, shaping our perceptions and behaviors in unprecedented ways. 4It's likely that emotional intelligence will continue to be one area of intelligence that puzzles artificial intelligence as we get further into the age of the smart machine. 5This ensures that machines won't replace people in positions requiring emotional intelligence. In a survey, almost three out of four executives see EI as a "must-have" skill for the workplace in the future as the automatizing of routine tasks bumps up against the impossibility of creating effective AI for activities that require emotional skill.

The current "cycling as a lifestyle" ①trend has expressed itself in a rise in the number of active cyclists who ride regularly and in growth of cycling club membership in several European, American, Australian and Asian urban areas. It has also been accompanied by a symbolic reinterpretation of the bicycle. Expensive recreational bicycles or recreationally-inspired commuting bicycles have suddenly become ②desirable goods in urban settings after being linked for many years to poverty. Nowadays, cycling has become a socially significant activity which is also performed for its ③indicative value, its identity-building function and its effectiveness in impressing others and signaling social status. Riding a bicycle has become, in part, a status symbol for the wealthy. Obviously, value-laden consumption behavior is ____ to cycling. In the case of cycling, however, the connection between conspicuous consumption and identity creation has become especially ⑤evident.