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The stock market and consumer spending are presently in a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop; the wealth effect from increasing stock prices is causing the uppermost income brackets to spend more, which only reinforces the earnings of companies that cater to them, which gives rise to further stock appreciation and so on.
You’ve done your research, stalked the org chart like a LinkedIn ninja, and found the perfect person at the company you want to partner with. You could cold email them… but why go in cold when you can get the warm, cozy, blanket-intro treatment? So: how do you engineer a killer intro without looking desperate or annoying?
Research confirms that solo travel is “one of the fastest growing segments in the tourism market.” A 2024 study analyzing the motivations, preferences, and characteristics of women solo travelers showed that they sought meaningful and transformative experiences, rather than simply going on holiday. Here’s why you should solo travel at least once in your life.
On that note, international air travel to the U.S. is declining this year. Many international travelers say tariffs put them off, the administration’s anti-foreigner rhetoric and aggressive immigration enforcement, leading to a tourism slump that’s dragging on local economies.
Lately, when reading news, you might find yourself letting out a series of exasperated “why” questions. But when it comes to human behavior, it can often be more productive and compelling to ask questions that begin with how rather than why.
The most important attributes that patients value are empathy and the ability to engender trust. However, these are precisely the qualities that are decreasing among physicians in the eyes of patients. While we still get high marks in terms of knowledge and technical expertise, those are the attributes that are most threatened by robots and artificial intelligence.
According to a national survey conducted in 2023, over 40% of obstetricians and gynaecologists stated that they felt limited in their ability to provide care after Roe v. Wade was overturned in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
Exercise in nature provides far greater mental benefits than urban and indoor environments, with participants reporting much higher levels of joy, calm, satisfaction, and optimism after working out in the outdoors.
With autumn and winter approaching, while some may turn to sun lamps or vitamin D supplements to combat deficiency, researchers Perkin et al. recently examined whether a different intervention—namely, cardiorespiratory exercise—might help to prevent the decline in vitamin D levels typically seen in winter months.
The pandemic initially snarled supply chains as restaurants were shuttered and consumers suddenly had to prepare three meals at home each day. That was compounded in 2022 by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which raised food prices around the world. Avian flu added to the more recent spike in egg prices. And now tariffs are pushing up the price of imported foods like bananas and coffee.
The life of Starbucks as a self-styled craft coffee brand has always been undercut by its ambition to be an enormous chain with mass appeal. But its recent drift into the world of functional beverages—“protein-maxxing” being its latest experiment—reveals something else about what US coffee drinkers increasingly want in their personalized paper cups.
