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What’s the deal with those Strauss decals on MLB batting helmets?

If you’ve been watching the Major League Baseball postseason, you’ve probably been thinking what most of us have: What’s that Strauss decal on the players’ helmets? MLB is historically and notoriously...

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‘It’s very touching’: Hurricane scientist’s ashes released into Milton’s eye

As an award-winning scientist, Peter Dodge had made hundreds of flights into the eyes of hurricanes—almost 400. On Tuesday, a crew on a reconnaissance flight into Hurricane Milton helped him make one...

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Rafael Nadal, 22-time Grand Slam champion, is retiring from tennis

Rafael Nadal’s tennis career will be remembered because of the numbers, yes—the 14 French Open trophies, the 22 Grand Slam titles overall, the nearly two decades in the top 10, and so on—and, without...

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The secret to reading (yes, reading!) podcasts in your inbox

When we talk about email tools, we typically talk about apps or services that help you tame the wild jungle of your ever-overflowing inbox. Today’s tool is a twist. It’s about email, through and...

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Mistakes happen. This is how to reframe getting called out for them

How do we acquire wisdom? We start by acquiring knowledge. But we can’t stop there, any more than we can build a Maserati by simply extracting iron ore from the earth. We acquire wisdom through the...

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Why this personality trait can be one of your best productivity tools

To-do lists, time-blocking, and Pomodoro sprints are all great techniques for getting things done. The best productivity tool, however, may be staring back at you in the mirror. It’s cultivating a...

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Here’s why spaving is probably not the best financial strategy for you

Sometime in the mid 1980s, my stepfather was in need of a 15mm socket. At Sears, he discovered that it would cost about $8 to purchase the specific socket he needed. But a 299-piece socket set cost...

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How to figure out your productivity style

How do you account for the hours in a day? Even when my workday isn’t consumed by meetings, I often look up and feel surprised to find that it’s already afternoon and I don’t have nearly as many...

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Google just designed a crazy infinite donut keyboard you didn’t know you needed

Google Japan has just released a new type of hardware keyboard. It calls it Gboard Double-Sided, aka the “Infinity Keyboard.” I call it the Krispy Kreme because it looks like a donut. The device is...

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What’s behind China’s slump in global exports?

China’s exports slowed sharply in September as global demand weakened, adding to worries over how to recharge growth in the world’s second-largest economy.Exports rose 2.4% in dollar terms from a year...

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Elon Musk is becoming a liability for his own businesses

SpaceX just pulled off an audacious, successful launch of its Starship rocket booster. The event, which occurred Sunday, is a massive moment for Elon Musk’s space exploration firm, and could...

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Casio hacked: What to know about the data breach impacting the Japanese...

Casio, the Japanese maker of watches, calculators, and other electronic goods, is the latest company to fall victim to a major data breach. Last Monday, the company issued a brief statement announcing...

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Former inmate exposes students to clean energy careers

Inside a converted warehouse in one of Philadelphia’s poorest neighborhoods, students circle around Jackie Robinson as he quizzes them about a 1980s furnace. Although they’ll encounter older equipment...

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Employees could see higher quality healthcare benefits as employers get more...

A healthcare spending surge looms in the new year, and Business Group on Health is helping employers understand it. The nonprofit found in a recent survey that large employers expect the cost to treat...

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Appalachian power grids were hit hard by Hurricane Helene. But there’s a...

By the time Hurricane Helene made its way hundreds of miles inland on September 27, it had been downgraded to a tropical storm. But Helene remained unusually expansive and strong, fueled by the warm...

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DJT stock price: Donald Trump’s stock has jumped 84% in the past two weeks....

Fears that shares of Trump Media (Nasdaq: DJT) could collapse, following the end of a lockup period have pretty much vanished. Just weeks after the parent company of Truth Social hit 52-week lows in...

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Trump’s campaign used GoFundMe to raise millions after Butler and Hurricane...

Former President Donald Trump‘s campaign is using GoFundMe to rally its network of deep-pocketed backers and everyday donors around the survivors of his July assassination attempt and Hurricane...

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Lilly Ledbetter, an icon of the equal pay movement, dies at 86

Lilly Ledbetter, a former Alabama factory manager whose lawsuit against her employer made her an icon of the equal pay movement and led to landmark wage discrimination legislation, has died at 86....

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The key local housing market metric to watch heading into 2025

Want more housing market stories from Lance Lambert’s ResiClub in your inbox? Subscribe to the ResiClub newsletter. Heading into 2024, ResiClub noted that the key metric to watch for home price...

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Harris targets Black male voters in new economic proposals

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, concerned about slipping support from Black voters, unveiled new policy proposals aimed at Black men on Monday that include forgivable small business...

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