Innovative solutions to transform luxury travel
You may have arrived in a hotel room to find a chocolate on your pillow or a welcome message on the TV. But imagine checking in and finding the exact pillow you specified, the temperature just right,...
View ArticleWould you like being a manager? Here’s how to decide
Advancement and promotion are central goals that our culture values. There is no surer way to get a lot of positive feedback on LinkedIn than to post your ascension into a new role. And many people...
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Trump has threatened to withhold disaster aid for the L.A. fires. But could...
During the heat of the presidential campaign in September, then-candidate Donald Trump made an extraordinary threat. He vowed that if California suffered a wildfire during his presidency, he’d...
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What’s the Roman salute? Here’s the history of Musk’s controversial hand gesture
How often do you think about the Roman empire? Elon Musk claims to think about it every day. Given his frequent references to Roman antiquity, I think we can take him at his word.From airing his views...
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The GOP blamed the L.A. fires on California’s ‘forest management.’ But that’s...
When the Palisades Fire started near a hiking trail in Los Angeles on January 7—quickly spreading to more than 200 acres in 20 minutes, and nearly 3,000 acres by the end of the day—some critics argued...
View Article5 easy steps for mustering up more courage
Ever wimp out? Leave a situation wishing you’d done or said something different? We all have. If you feel like you lack courage, it’s not due to a personal fault. Protecting your physical and...
View ArticleVenture Global stock sinks on IPO day, indicating lack of investor interest...
Update Friday, 3:30 p.m. Shares of Venture Global sank below their IPO price of $25 after debuting on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, indicating a lack of interest in one of the first...
View ArticleCalifornia Gov. Newsom signs $2.5 billion relief package for L.A. wildfires
California will spend $2.5 billion to help the Los Angeles area recover from recent deadly wildfires under a relief package signed Thursday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.Newsom signed the laws after...
View ArticleHow New Orleans and Atlanta are dealing with the aftermath of a rare winter...
Days after a winter storm dropped ice and record-breaking snow, cleanup efforts were underway Thursday in several major Southern cities such as New Orleans, where crews were removing snow the same way...
View ArticleIRS stimulus check 2025 update: Final payments are trickling in this month,...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced last month that automatic payments are being sent to roughly one million taxpayers who did not claim the 2021 Recovery Rebate Credit on their tax returns....
View ArticleUNICEF reveals nearly 250 million kids missed school in 2024. Here’s why
At least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heat waves, cyclones, flooding, and other extreme weather, the United Nations Children’s Fund said in...
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Giant panda cam livestream: Watch Bao Li and Qing Bao make their National Zoo...
There’s panda-monium in Washington, D.C., and we aren’t talking politics. Two giant pandas are making their public debut at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo on Friday, January 24, giving the nation’s...
View ArticleHow Mark Zuckerberg’s call for more masculine workplaces could stifle innovation
When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on a January 10, 2025, episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, he lamented that corporate culture had become too “feminine,” suppressing its “masculine energy” and...
View ArticleHow the broligarchy is imitating Trump in more ways than one
Sooner or later, the politicians who most admire Donald Trump begin to emulate him. They adopt his populist rhetoric, specific diction, or aggressive tone. If they happen to be men, they might stuff...
View ArticleRetail apocalypse: 15,000 stores could close in 2025, with Party City, Big...
It’s no secret that 2024 was a tough year for many retailers. From home goods stores like LL Flooring, to pharmacy chains like Walgreens, to automotive parts providers like Advance Auto Parts,...
View ArticleCostco shareholders defended DEI hiring against anti-woke attacks and won—for...
With a swath of anti-DEI and other executive orders spilling out of the White House during the first week of Trump’s second term, many companies are likewise changing or rolling back their own DEI...
View ArticleMeta’s Threads is finally getting ads
Threads, Meta’s rival to X and Bluesky, is testing ads with certain brands in the United States and Japan, the company said Friday. “We know there will be plenty of feedback about how we should...
View ArticleHow engineers are creating oxygen for future moon missions from material...
Space engineers now know how to make oxygen on the moon, and they’re working on perfecting the science so that astronauts can live off the lunar base more easily.Lunar soil, or regolith, is filled...
View ArticleHow an AI-generated ‘expert’ sank into media deadlines
Ashley Abramson first came across Sophie Cress in a cold pitch to her work email. Cress was asking to be an expert source for any stories Abramson was working on as a freelance reporter. “I’ve got...
View ArticleDid you show ‘negative sentiment’ for insurance companies after the UHC CEO...
When news broke that the United Healthcare CEO was shot in broad daylight early last month, outrage erupted online. But it wasn’t aimed at the assassin. Instead, it was directed at the broken U.S....
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