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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
Imagine a Friday night at a busy restaurant, where servers are carrying plates, reciting specials, moving between tables without pausing, and handling complaints with a composure that only comes from years of experience. A competent server may leave a long shift with $150 or $200 in tips tucked into their…
Investment circles are currently experiencing a certain kind of anticipation, but it’s not the hectic, keyboard-pounding kind; rather, it’s the more subdued kind, where serious people are doing serious calculations and trying not to get too excited. Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite business, SpaceX, has secretly submitted an IPO application…
Everyone who has attempted to purchase a home is aware of the particular stress associated with the mortgage process: paperwork arriving at strange hours, rate inquiries that require quick responses, and the nagging worry of not knowing if your application is being processed or is just sitting in a line.…
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View MoreWeek after week, a certain type of show quietly draws in a sizable audience and doesn’t produce the breathless think-pieces or dominate the algorithm-driven conversation. That show is called Tracker. When you take into account the entire 35-day viewing window, Justin Hartley’s Colter Shaw, a survivalist who lives out of…
Most actors never have to deal with the kind of week that occurs when bodycam footage of you getting into a street fight goes viral, the police look into it, the neighbor gives TMZ interviews, and you manage to wrap up post-production on your biggest show and declare it the…
At a gala for gastrointestinal cancer research in Miami in 2024, a woman approached a podium and gave a speech that, at the time, hardly anyone outside the room fully understood. Attorney and patient advocate Yekaterina “Katie” Chudnovsky informed the gathered guests that the couple had contributed to a $23…
Some billionaires are attention-seekers who attend conferences, participate in interviews, and appear to be incapable of withstanding the lure of a camera. Among them was Leonid Radvinsky. For the majority of his adult life, the Ukrainian-American businessman who surreptitiously created one of the most profitable and contentious platforms on the…
A spiral timeline depicting the entire history of human technology was created by Max Roser at Our World in Data. Stone tools at the center mark the beginning of it 3.4 million years ago. The spiral’s rings each stand for 200,000 years. Before our ancestors discovered how to control fire…
On April 3, 2024, a tiny capsule created by a business that most people were unaware of plummeted from the sky over the Utah desert, landing in a dust cloud. There were crystals grown in microgravity that may find use in semiconductors, fiber optic cables with optical qualities impossible to…
Nowadays, you can see them if you go outside on a clear night practically anywhere on Earth, such as a field in rural Saskatchewan, a beach in southern Portugal, or a plateau in the Chilean Atacama where some of the most potent telescopes in the world are aimed at the…
It’s difficult to miss the scope of what’s being constructed when you drive through Sriperumbudur, a dusty industrial town in Tamil Nadu about forty kilometers outside Chennai. With worker dorms still under construction in early 2024, cranes moving against the flat southern sky, and the entire operation humming with a…
It took roughly three weeks for someone to attempt to list stocks on a blockchain at any significant scale. By early May 2021, German and British regulators had had enough of Binance’s April 2021 introduction of tokenized stocks. The item disappeared. Before it collapsed spectacularly in late 2022, FTX was…
Someone declares data science dead every few years. Before the floor completely vanishes, a new tool appears, job titles change, and Reddit threads are filled with people questioning whether they should switch careers. It occurred with the introduction of AutoML. It occurred when basic analyst work began to be replaced…
Observing a disease that can be prevented develops a certain kind of dread. It’s more like watching water seep through a crack you thought you’d sealed years ago than a sudden, sharp alarm. That’s the sentiment that pervades Utah at the moment, as measles has been spreading through unvaccinated communities…
It begins softly. A little weariness that lasts longer than it should. Perhaps a change in bowel habits that is bothersome but not concerning. A 32-year-old is half-listening to a nurse calling names while scrolling through their phone in a packed clinic waiting area. They are not thinking about cancer.…