View OriginalAmerican Retail’s Tangled Mess: Too Many Stores, Too Much Product, Too Much InflationA slew of quarterly earnings reports have highlighted too many stores, too much product, and too much inflation.
View OriginalHow America’s Affordable House of the Future FailedThe all-steel Lustron was supposed to be an elixir for many of the housing problems we still face today.
View OriginalCan You Patent a Pizza? Ask the Alleged Inventor of the Stuffed Crust.Anthony Mongiello, who claims to have created the idea, says he never got a slice of the financial pie.
View OriginalHow American News Lost Its NerveIn 2024, it’s harder than ever to get a tough story out in the United States of America.
View OriginalCan Europe Save Forests Without Killing Jobs in Malaysia?The European Union’s upcoming ban on imports linked to deforestation has been hailed as a “gold standard” in climate policy: a meaningful step to protect the world’s forests, which help remove planet-killing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
View OriginalMicrolino electric bubble car review: urban delightThat really happened in one of Amsterdam’s wealthiest neighborhoods, on a street dotted with Range Rovers and a G-Class Merc costing nearly ten times as much as the little BMW Isetta throwback I was driving.
View OriginalWhat Is the Dominant Emotion in 400 Years of Women’s Diaries?Some of the women diarists featured in the new anthology. Top row, left to right: Ada Blackjack, Anne Clifford, Florence Nightingale, Fanny Burney and Anna Dostoyevskaya.
View OriginalI was shocked when a recruiter told me I was too old for another tech job. But now I'm fighting back.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Vern Six, 58, who has worked in tech for over three decades. After getting laid off from a contract job, he updated his LinkedIn profile to indicate he was open to work.
View OriginalIndian judge says billion-dollar ayurvedic company has taken the public 'for a ride'MUMBAI – Imagine if there were a magic pill to ward off COVID-19. Or if you could cure diabetes with vegetable juices and herbal pills instead of controlling it with insulin medication. Or if yoga and breathing exercises were all you need to do to get rid of asthma.
View OriginalThe MacBook Air’s wedge is truly gone — and I miss it alreadyI had mixed feelings when Apple did away with the wedge in favor of a more traditional shape for the M2 MacBook Air. Did it feel a bit like sacrilege? Sure, but at least the wedge wasn’t gone gone. There was still the M1 Air. Except now that the M3 Air is here, it’s been discontinued.
View Original‘Banking as a Service’ startup Griffin riases $24M and attains full banking licenceFounded by former Silicon Valley engineers, UK-based Griffin Bank bills itself as an API-driven ‘Banking as a Service’ platform. After raising $28.
View OriginalThe real scandal in Formula 1 is its attitude toward womenThe Christian Horner alleged sexting scandal isn’t just gossip. It reflects the sport’s systemic misogyny. The line between spectacle and sport has always been blurry.
View OriginalPublishing Models That Rely on Gig Workers Are Bad For EverybodyThere are only two reasons to get into book publishing: the books (that’s how they get us formerly idealistic English majors) and the people (the other weirdos who also got gotten by the books).
View OriginalWhat’s Missing From Railroad Safety Data? Dead Workers and Severed Limbs.As powerful railroad companies race to maximize profits through efficiency, safety is left behind. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.
View OriginalThis Guy Got Shredded by Trusting a New ProcessMark Leruste, 39, is a speaker and leadership coach living in South London. He's the founder of Ministry of Purpose, author of Glow in the Dark, and host of The Unconventionalists podcast.